Review for Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater (College Edition) : This book is incredible, I have never been so frightened reading a book and yet so riveted that I couldn't stop reading. I loved this book. It grabbed me from the first page and I had trouble putting it down. Read it, you won't be disappointed.
Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater (College Edition) info
A definitive, accessible, and comprehensive history of the Broadway musical. Here for the first time is the whole history of the musical, on Broadway and off. Stempel combines original research―including a wealthy of primary sources and archival holdings―with deft and insightful analysis, and explores the rich strands of musical theater by genre and type, looking at not only how musicals work but also how they serve as barometers of social concerns and bearers of cultural values.
Beginning with the scandalous Astor Place Opera House riot of 1849, Stempel traces the growth of musicals from minstrel shows and burlesques, through the golden age of Show Boat and Oklahoma!, to such groundbreaking works as Company and Rent. Stempe
