Directors and the New Musical Drama

British and American Musical Theatre in the 1980s and 90s

  • Authors
  • Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen
Book

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History book series (PSTPH)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Anglo-American Perspectives
    Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen
    Pages 1-14
  3. Harold Prince in Context
    Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen
    Pages 15-28
  4. From Cabaret to Sweeney Todd: Musical Drama on Broadway
    Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen
    Pages 29-44
  5. Cultural Barricades: Reading the West End Musicals
    Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen
    Pages 45-57
  6. Beyond the Logos: West End Musical Drama
    Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen
    Pages 59-71
  7. New Horizons: Nonprofit Musical Drama
    Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen
    Pages 73-87
  8. Nonprofit Directors in the 1990s
    Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen
    Pages 89-107
  9. Rethinking Revivals
    Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen
    Pages 109-119
  10. Staging the Canon: British Directors and Classic American Musicals
    Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen
    Pages 121-140
  11. The Legacy of the 1980s and 90s
    Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen
    Pages 141-149
  12. Interviews
    Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen
    Pages 151-210
  13. Back Matter
    Pages 211-231
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About this book

Introduction

This is one of the first books to offer a rigorous analysis of the enormous changes in the musical theatre during the 1980s and 90s.  In addition, it focuses on the contribution of well-known, serious theatre directors to the mainstream Musical Theatre and it is the first book to offer a dual Anglo-American perspective on this subject.

Keywords

America drama interpret music musical drama musicals subject theatre

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