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Informationen zum Autor Kat Sherrell is a conductor, pianist, and writer. Her work in New York has included Broadway shows In the Heights, Bring It On and The Book of Mormon and NBC's Smash, as well as many new musicals in various stages of development, including Sweethearts of Swing, for which she is the lyricist-composer. Klappentext Sherrell explores American musical theater, beginning with the early-twentieth-century shift from European-influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works and thus provides listeners with the tools and background necessary to gain an understanding of the highly variegated structure and character of Broadway music. Zusammenfassung Sherrell explores American musical theater! beginning with the early-twentieth-century shift from European-influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works and thus provides listeners with the tools and background necessary to gain an understanding of the highly variegated structure and character of Broadway music. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: A Great Big Broadway Show: WickedChapter 2: The Roots of American Musical Theater: The Great ZiegfeldChapter 3: The Beginnings of Integration: Very Good Eddie, Shuffle Along, and Show BoatChapter 4: The Great Depression and The Great American Songbook: Anything Goes and Porgy & BessChapter 5: A Golden Age of Broadway: Rodgers and HammersteinChapter 6: Rock on Broadway: HairChapter 7: Concept Musicals: Sondheim: The Birthday Concert and A Chorus LineChapter 8: Mega-Musicals: Andrew Lloyd Webber: Gold Album and Les MisérablesChapter 9: Musicals for the MTV Generation: Rent and Spring AwakeningChapter 10: Diversity and Integration: Hamilton
