The secret life of the American musical : how Broadway shows are built /

Title:

The secret life of the American musical : how Broadway shows are built /

Author:

Viertel, Jack, author.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Emerson College

Contents:

Overture -- Curtain up, light the lights : opening numbers -- The wizard and I : the "I want" song -- If I loved you : conditional love songs -- Put on your Sunday clothes : the noise -- Bushwhacking 1 : second couples -- Bushwhacking 2 : villains -- Bushwhacking 3 : the multiplot, and how it thickens -- Adelaide's lament : stars -- Tevye's dream : tent poles -- La vie boheme : curtain: act 1 -- Intermission -- Clambake : curtain up: act 2 -- Suddenly Seymour : the candy dish -- All er nothin' : beginning to pack -- The small house of Joseph Smith, the American Moses : the main event -- I thought you did it for me, momma : the next-to-last-scene -- You can't stop the beat : the end -- Curtain call : how Woodie Guthrie, of all people, changed Broadway musicals forever -- Listening to Broadway.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

Emerson Main Stacks
ML1711 .V37 2016 – Available

• Available Temporarily at Emerson Reserve
  On reserve for TH228 -1: Musical Theatre IV (Theatre: Goldberg)
  On reserve for TH228 -1: Musical Theatre IV (Theatre: Teoplitz)