| ISBN13: | 9781032394107 |
| ISBN10: | 1032394102 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 626 pages |
| Size: | 246x174 mm |
| Weight: | 1160 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 23 Illustrations, black & white; 22 Halftones, black & white; 1 Line drawings, black & white; 8 Tables, black & white |
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The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre
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Global in scope and featuring thirty-five chapters from more than fifty dance, music, and theatre scholars and practitioners, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre introduces the fundamentals of musical theatre studies and highlights developing global trends in practice and scholarship.
Global in scope and featuring thirty-five chapters from more than fifty dance, music, and theatre scholars and practitioners, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre introduces the fundamentals of musical theatre studies and highlights developing global trends in practice and scholarship.
Investigating the who, what, when, where, why, and how of transnational musical theatre, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre is a comprehensive guide for those studying the components of musical theatre, its history, practitioners, audiences, and agendas. The Companion expands the study of musical theatre to include the ways we practice and experience musicals, their engagement with technology, and their navigation of international commercial marketplaces. The Companion is the first collection to include global musical theatre in each chapter, reflecting the musical?s status as the world?s most popular theatrical form. This book brings together practice and scholarship, featuring essays by leading and emerging scholars alongside luminaries such as Chinese musical theatre composer San Bao, Tony Award-winning star André De Shields, and Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus.
This is an essential resource for students on theatre and performance courses and an invaluable text for researchers and practitioners in these areas of study.
Foreword
Diane Paulus
Part 1: What
Introduction: On Musicals
San Bao
- Musical Theater Mobilities: Around the World in Eighty Years
- An American in Tokyo? Musical Theatre Dance?s Transnational Movements
- "How a World Can Seem So Vast": The Craft of Musical Theatre Dramaturgy
- The Singing Voice
- "The Song Is You": Song Types and Genres in Musical Theatre
- From Ballad Opera to Minstrelsy and Back: Social Class, Race, and Gender on the North American Musical Stage
- From the 1870s through World War I: The Spectre and Spectacle of the Human Body
- Boom to Bust: Genre Borders, Color Lines, and Women Stars in the Musical between the World Wars
- World War II and the Cold War:?Reflections and Refractions of Ourselves, Then and Now
- Since the 1980s: The Global Musical Theatre Ecology
- Musical Theatre Training in the Twenty-First Century: A Primer
- "Forget About the Boy": Women and Creative Collaborations in Musical Theatre?
- Good Gals Wear Black: Offstage Labor and the Musical
- Mediated Taste: The Role of Critics
- From Stage Door to Cyberspace: The Digital Evolution of Musical Theatre Fandom
- Fitting the Slipper: The Art of Adaptation for the Musical Stage
- Harnessing Technology: The Evolving Labor of Design in Musical Theatre
- Humming the Scenery: The Aesthetics of Musical Theatre Spectacle
- "That?s Showbiz, Kid": Casting as Process and Product
- The Foundation, Function, and Future of the Musical Theatre Director
- How Dancers and Choreographers Work: The Laboring Bodies of Musical Theatre
- "The Name on Everybody?s Lips": Marketing Musical Theatre
- A Critical Guide to Code-Meshing, Multilingualism, and Musicals
- Centers of Musical Theatre
- Pilots and Petticoats: Original Musicals in Continental Europe
- The Broadway-Style Musical in/and Global Asias: 1920-2019
- "One of the best ways to please the locals is to go to New York": US American Regional Theatres and New Musical Theatre Development
- "We?re All in This Together": Student and Amateur Performances
- Mediated Musical Theatre
- Journeys to the Past: The Uses of Memory and Nostalgia in Musical Theatre
- What?s in a Name? The Multiplicities of the Musical
- Interrogating America?s National Myth Onstage: Case Studies on the Individual and the Community in U.S. Musical Theatre
- Translating Race in Musical Theatre
- "Art Isn?t Easy" (and Neither is Commerce): The Musical Stays in the Money
- "World"-Traveling, Diversity, Inclusion, and the Making of Musicals in the Twenty-First Century
David Savran
Ryan Donovan
Lindsey R. Barr and Laura MacDonald
Masi Asare
William A. Everett
Part 2: When
Introduction: Dark Primal Energy, Ancestor Memory, and American Exceptionalism
André De Shields with Kenneth J. Cerniglia
Kristin Moriah
Maya Cantu
Todd Decker
Dominic McHugh
Kelsey Blair
Part 3: Who
Introduction: Who Makes a Musical?
Georgia Stitt
Amy S. Osatinski and Bud Coleman
Arianne Johnson Quinn and Clare Chandler?
Christine Snyder
Paul R. Laird
Adam Rush and Stephanie Lim
Part 4: How
Introduction: How Musicals Work: A Press Representative?s View
Chris Boneau
William A. Everett
Virginia Anderson
Douglas L. Reside
Ryan Donovan
Mary Jo Lodge and Anne Healy
Joanna Dee Das
Laura MacDonald
Samuel Yates
Part 5: Where
Introduction: Scenes from a Showbiz Couple?s Travelogue
Kim Varhola
Alex Bádue, Jennifer C.H.J. Wilson, Laura Milburn, Leesi Patrick, and Sir Anril P. Tiatco
Jeroen van Wijhe and Jacek Mikołajczyk
Sissi Liu and Rina Tanaka
Claudia Wilsch Case
Kenneth J. Cerniglia
Sam O?Connell
Part 6: Why
Introduction: Into the Theatre
Yilun (Della) Wu
Bryan M. Vandevender
John Koegel
Katie Welsh and Stacy Wolf
Ji Hon (Kayla) Yuh and Emilio Méndez Rios
Michael Schwartz
Trevor Boffone
