Everything is choreography : the musical theater of Tommy Tune / Kevin Winkler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winkler, Kevin, author.

Contributor:

Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company.

Series:

Broadway legacies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tune, Tommy.

Musical theater producers and directors--United States.

Musical theater producers and directors.

Choreographers--United States.

Choreographers.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Musicals--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.

Musicals.

New York (State)--New York.

Musicals--United States--History and criticism.

Tune, Tommy--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 282 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Everything is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune is the first full-scale analysis of the work of Tommy Tune, and his place in a lineage of Broadway's great director-choreographers. The decade of the 1980s was considered a low point for the American musical. Tune's predecessors in the art of complete musical staging like Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Gower Champion, and Michael Bennett were either dead or withdrawn from the Broadway arena. Yet it was the period of Tune's greatest success. The book examines how he adapted to an increasingly corporatized, high-stakes producing and funding environment. It considers how Tune kept the American musical a thriving, creative enterprise at a time when Broadway was dominated by British imports. It investigates Tune's work of the last twenty-five years, when he shifted his attentions to touring and regional productions, far from the glare of Broadway. Unlike his fellow director-choreographers, Tune also maintained a successful performing career, and the book details the deft balancing act that kept him working as a popular singer-dancer-actor while directing a series of striking and influential Broadway musicals"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Broadway Baby

2. Gents and Working Girls

3. Double Feature

4. City of Women

5. A Gershwin Tune

6. A Great Place to Make a Show

7. The Broadway Melody of 1991

8. Song and Dance Man.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company.

Other Format:

Online version: Winkler, Kevin. Everything is choreography

ISBN:

9780190090739

0190090731

OCLC:

1252412852

Publisher Number:

99989258867