The megamusical / Jessica Sternfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sternfeld, Jessica, 1971-

Series:

Profiles in popular music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musicals--History and criticism.

Musicals.

Physical Description:

xi, 441 pages : music ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006]

Summary:

A provocative and critical look inside the phenomenon of the megamusical

Contents:

"Why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land?" : Jesus Christ Superstar

"Humming the scenery" : the megamusical ascending

"Well, the theatre is certainly not what it was" : Cats

"To love another person is to see the face of God" : Les misérables

"The angel of music sings songs in my head" : The phantom of the Opera

"A model of decorum and tranquility" : other megamusicals in the 1980s

"New music" : the megamusical in the 1990s

"Everything is show biz" : the megamusical and Broadway in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-434) and index.

ISBN:

0253347939

9780253347930

OCLC:

67922073

Publisher Number:

9780253347930