| Portion of title |
Companion to musical theatre |
| Portion of title |
Musical theatre |
| Contents |
Foreword / Diane Paulus -- Introduction / Laura MacDonald and Ryan Donovan with William A. Everett -- Part I: what. Introduction: on musicals / San Bao, translated by Li Bo -- Musical theatre mobilities: around the world in eighty years / David Samran -- An American in Tokyo? Musical theatre dance's transnational movements / Ryan Donovan -- "How a world can seem so vast": the craft of musical theatre dramaturgy / Lindsey R. Barr and Laura MacDonald -- The singing voice / Masi Asare -- "The song is you": song types and genres in musical theatre / William A. Everett -- Part II: when. Introduction: dark primal energy, ancestor memory, and American exceptionalism / André de Shields, in conversation with Kenneth J. Cerniglia -- From ballad opera to minstrelsy and back: social class, race, and gender on the North American musical stage / Kristin Moriah -- From the 1870s through World War I: the spectre and spectacle of the human body / Maya Cantu -- Boom to bust: genre borders, color lines, and women stars in the musical between the world wars -- World War II and the Cold War: reflections and refractions of ourselves, then and now / Dominic Broomfield-McHugh -- Since the 1980s: the global musical theatre ecology / Kelsey Blair -- Part III: who. Introduction: who makes a musical? / Georgia Stitt -- Musical theatre training in the twenty-first century: a primer / Amy S. Osatinski and Bud Coleman -- "Forget about the boy": women and creative collaborations in musical theatre / Arianne Johnson Quinn and Clare Chandler -- Good gals wear black: offstage labor and the musical / Christine Snyder -- Mediated taste: the role of critics / Paul R. Laird -- From stage door to cyberspace: the digital evolution of musical theatre fandom / Adam Rush and Stephanie Lim -- Part IV: how. Introduction: how musicals work: a press representative's view / Chris Boneau -- Fitting the slipper: the art of adaptation for the musical stage / William A. Everett -- Harnessing technology: the evolving labor of design in musical theatre / Virginia Anderson -- Humming the scenery: the aesthetics of musical theatre spectacle / Douglas L. Reside -- "That's showbiz, kid": casting as process and product / Ryan Donovan -- The foundation, function, and future of the musical theatre director / Mary Jo Lodge and Anne Healy -- How choreographers and dancers work: the laboring bodies of musical theatre / Joanna Dee Das -- "The name on everybody's lips": marketing musical theatre / Laura MacDonald -- A critical guide to code-meshing, multilingualism, and musicals / Samuel Yates -- Part V: where. Introduction: scenes from a showbiz couple's travelogue / Kim Varhola -- Centers of musical theatre / Alex Bádue, Jennifer C. H. J Wilson, Laura Milburn, Leesi Patrick, and Sir Anril P. Tiatco -- Pilots and petticoats: original musicals in continental Europe / Jeroen van Wijhe and Jacek Mikolajczyk -- The Broadway-style musical in/and global Asias: 1920-2019 / Sissi Liu and Rina Tanaka -- "One of the best ways to please the locals is to go to New York": US American regional theatres and new musical theatre development / Claudia Wilsch Case -- "We're all in this together": student and amateur musical theatre performances / Kenneth J. Cerniglia -- Mediated musical theatre / Sam O'Connell -- Part VI: why. Introduction: into the theatre / Yilun (Della) Wu -- Journeys to the past: the uses of memory and nostalgia in musical theatre / Bryan M. Vandevender -- What's in a name? The multiplicities of the musical / John Koegel -- Interrogating America's national myth onstage: case studies on the individual and community in US musical theatre / Katie Welsh with Stacy Wolf -- Translating race into musical theatre / Ji Hyon (Kayla) Yuh and Emilio Méndez -- Art isn't easy (and neither is commerce): the musical stays in the money / Michael Schwartz -- "World"-traveling, diversity, inclusion, and the makings of musicals in the twenty-first century / Trevor Boffone -- Appendix: towards a taxonomy of music theatre genres, A-Z / assembled by John Koegel. |
| Abstract |
Global in scope and featuring thirty-five chapters from more than fifty dance, music, and theatre scholars and practitioners, this book introduces the fundamentals of musical theatre studies and highlights developing global trends in practice and scholarship. Investigating the who, what, when, where, why, and how of transnational musical theatre, it is a comprehensive guide for those studying the components of musical theatre, its history, practitioners, audiences, and agendas. The book expands the study of musical theatre to include the ways we practice and experience musicals, their engagement with technology, and their navigation of international commercial marketplaces. It is the first collection to include global musical theatre in each chapter, reflecting the musical's status as the world's most popular theatrical form. This book brings together practice and scholarship, featuring essays by leading and emerging scholars alongside luminaries such as Chinese musical theatre composer San Bao, Tony Award-winning star Andre De Shields, and Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus. This is an essential resource for students on theatre and performance courses and an invaluable text for researchers and practitioners in these areas of study. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9780367202095 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0367202093 (hardcover) |
