Rise up! : Broadway and American society from Angels in America to Hamilton / Chris Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Chris, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Theater.

Theater and society.

History.

New York (State)--New York.

Theater--New York (State)--New York--History--21st century.

Theater and society--United States--History--20th century.

Theater and society--United States--History--21st century.

Broadway (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century.

Broadway (New York, N.Y.).

Broadway (New York, N.Y.)--History--21st century.

New York (State)--New York--Broadway.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 226 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Methuen Drama, 2019.

Summary:

"Penned by one of America's best-known daily theatre critics and organized chronologically, this lively and readable book tells the story of Broadway's renaissance from the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, via the disaster that was Spiderman: Turn off the Dark through the unparalleled financial, artistic and political success of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. It is the story of the embrace of risk and substance. In so doing, Chris Jones makes the point that the theatre thrived by finally figuring out how to embrace the bold statement and insert itself into the national conversation--only to find out in 2016 that a hefty sector of the American public had not been listening to what it had to say. Chris Jones was in the theatres when and where it mattered. He takes readers from the moment when Tony Kushner's angel crashed (quite literally) through the ceiling of prejudice and religious intolerance to the triumph of Hamilton, with the coda of the Broadway cast addressing a new Republican vice-president from the stage. That complex performance - at once indicative of the theatre's new clout and its inability to fully change American society for the better--is the final scene of the book"-- Amazon.com summary.

Contents:

2016: Prologue

1993: An Angel lands

1994: The emergent power of the solo voice

1996: Fighting urban gentrification and paying Rent

1997: The Lion King roars and the family returns to Broadway

1999: A short-order cook with a long path to Broadway

2001: Grief, metamorphoses, and transformation

2002: The pull of Las Vegas and the rise of meta

2002: Edward Albee, the love of a goat, and the death of off-Broadway

2007: A recession thwarted by an ironic blast from Chicago

2010: A boulevard of broken dream dreams, awakened

2010: Bloody bloody wiki wiki self-awareness

2011: Unlucky : Spider-man and the great Broadway overreach

2014: A dream, no longer deferred

2016: Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [216]-221) and index.

ISBN:

9781350071933

1350071935

OCLC:

1023607045