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Title: ENCHANTED EVENINGS
THE BROADWAY MUSICAL FROM 'SHOW BOAT' TO SONDHEIM AND LLOYD WEBBER
By: Professor Geoffrey Block
Format: Paperback

List price: £27.99


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ISBN 10: 0195384008
ISBN 13: 9780195384000
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
Pub. date: 1 October, 2009
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Pages: 480
Synopsis: This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals. Readers will find such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Phantom of the Opera. Geoffrey Block provides a documentary history of each of the musicals, showing how each work took shape and revealing, at the same time, how the American musical evolved from the 1920s to today, both on stage and on screen. The book's particular focus is on the music, offering a wealth of detail about how librettist, lyricist, composer, and director work together to shape the piece. Block also includes trenchant social commentary and lively backstage anecdotes. Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Kurt Weill, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and other luminaries emerge as hardworking craftsmen under enormous pressure to sell tickets without compromising their dramatic vision.The second edition includes a greatly expanded chapter on Sondheim, a new chapter on Lloyd Webber, and two new chapters on the film adaptations of the main musicals featured in the text (including such hard to find films as the original 1936 version of Anything Goes and the 1959 film adaptation of Porgy and Bess). Packed with information, including a complete discography and plot synopses and song-by-song scenic outlines for each of the fourteen shows, Enchanted Evenings is an essential reference as well as a riveting history. A solid and fascinating work that should become a model of how to investigate and report on the evolution of a musical. Block's research is persuasive and his writing vivid...Indispensable for anyone who cares to know more about Broadway musicals than Playbill can provide." -Steven Bach, The Los Angeles Times Book Review
Illustrations: 15 black and white halftones, 64 line illustrations
Publication: US
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Returns: Non-returnable
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