Editors:
Provides a wide ranging and highly accessible analysis of some of the biggest names within musical theatre production over the course of the genre's eventful history
Offers an exciting international and globalised perspective, highlighting commercial and non-commercial musical theatre ventures worldwide
Presents the first collection dedicated to the analysis of the work of the oft-misrepresented and undervalued role of the musical theatre producer
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Table of contents (51 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Act 1. To the 1940s
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Front Matter
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Act 2. From the 1940s through the 1970s
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Front Matter
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About this book
Keywords
- Broadway
- West End
- theatre industry
- professional reputation
- popular portrayals
- musical comedy
- music hall
- vaudeville
- theatre traditions
- revue shows
- megamusicals
- theatre marketing
- revivals
- commercial theatre
- The Producers
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Rodgers and Hammerstein
- Ziegfeld Follies
- Theatre Guild
- Public Theater
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Media and Performing Arts, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Laura MacDonald
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Conservatory of Music and Dance, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA
William A. Everett
About the editors
Laura MacDonald is Senior Lecturer in Musical Theatre at the University of Portsmouth, UK, where she teaches musical theatre, dramaturgy, and critical theory. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Studies in Musical Theatre, The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, New England Theatre Journal, Theatre Research International, the SDC Journal, Theatre Journal and Theatre Survey.
William A. Everett is Curators’ Professor of Musicology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance, USA, where he teaches courses on a variety of subjects, including musical theatre and nineteenth-century music. He is author, editor, or co-editor of numerous books on musical theatre and various other topics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers
Editors: Laura MacDonald, William A. Everett
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43308-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-44029-7Published: 25 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-43308-4Published: 25 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 559
Topics: Theatre Direction and Production, Theatre Industry, Theatre and Performance Arts, Theatre History, Genre Studies