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Beyond Broadway travels across America to illustrate musical theatre's ubiquitous presence as a thriving national folk practice that touches millions of lives.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Junior Theatre Festival and Broadway Junior
- Chapter 2: Backstage Divas
- Chapter 3: High School Musicals and Into the Woods
- Chapter 4: Community Theatre
- Chapter 5: The Sound of Music at Outdoor Summer Musical Theatres
- Chapter 6: Girls' Jewish Summer Camps in Maine
- Chapter 7: Disney Goes to School
- Chapter 8: Dinner Theatres in Colorado: A Road Trip
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Stacy Wolf is Professor in the Program in Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. She is also the Director of the Program in Music Theater and Director of the Princeton Arts Fellows program. She is the author of A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (2002), Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical (2011), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical (2011).
Summary
Beyond Broadway travels across America to illustrate musical theatre's ubiquitous presence as a thriving national folk practice that touches millions of lives.
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Beyond Broadway takes us thousands of miles from New York City to the heartland of musical theatre in America. Surveying the work of dozens of amateur companies, schools, and summer camps, Stacy Wolf provides gorgeously detailed and revealing portraits of the many devotees across the country who pour their hopes and dreams into the Broadway musical. Her rich analysis of this thriving industry is a model of engaged scholarship while her devotion to the countless people down in the trenches transmutes Beyond Broadway into an act of love.
