The megamusical / Jessica Sternfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sternfeld, Jessica, 1971-

Series:

Profiles in popular music.

Profiles in popular music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musicals--History and criticism.

Musicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A megamusical is an epic, dramatic show featuring recurring melodies in a sung-through score; huge, impressive sets; and grand ideas. These qualities are accompanied by intensive marketing campaigns, unprecedented international financial success, and a marked disjunction between critical reaction and audience reception. Audiences adore megamusicals; they flock to see them when they open, and return again and again, helping long-lived shows to become semi-permanent tourist attractions. Yet generally

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 miserables

"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:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

0-253-11231-1

OCLC:

476101535