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Summer stock! : an American theatrical phenomenon / Martha Schmoyer LoMonaco ; foreword by Marian Seldes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- LoMonaco, Martha Schmoyer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Summer theater--United States--History--20th century.
- Summer theater.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 293 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Summary:
- A delightful history of summer stock theater in America
- Contents:
- 1 Of Entertainment and Art: The Parallel Roads to Summer Stock 15
- 2 The Pioneers 37
- 3 Broadway in a Barn 61
- 4 The Men and Women in the Straw Top Hat 81
- 5 Judy and Mickey Join the Union: The Regulation of Summer Stock 105
- 6 The Barn's New Cash Cow 129
- 7 Musicals, Tents, and Terrell 155
- 8 A New Definition of the Small Summer Barn 183
- 9 Still Here: Summer Stock in the Twenty-First Century 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403965420
- OCLC:
- 53324850
- Online:
- Publisher description
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