Dominic Symonds

We'll Have Manhattan

The Early Work of Rodgers & Hart

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Produktbeschreibung

Rodgers and Hart contributed dozens of hits to the Great American Songbook. We'll Have Manhattan focuses on the first twelve years of their collaboration (1919-1931), documenting their little-known early work and providing a critical and analytical commentary on their developing practice and its influence on the American musical.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780190848910
• ISBN-10: 019084891X
• Artikelnr.: 48318831

Autorenporträt

Dominic Symonds is Reader in Drama at the University of Lincoln and founding editor of the journal Studies in Musical Theatre. He is also a director and writer for musical theatre.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: "We'll Have Manhattan"
* Chapter One: The Summer Camps and Varsity Shows
* Chapter Two: The Breakthrough in Revue: the Garrick Gaieties (1925,
1926) and Fifth Avenue Follies (1926)
* Chapter Three: The Rodgers and Hart revolution: Dearest Enemy (1925)
* Chapter four: Pleasing the Producers: Herbert Fields, Lew Fields and
The Girl Friend (1926)
* Chapter Five: A London odyssey: Lido Lady (1926), One Dam Thing After
Another (1927), Ever Green (1930)
* Chapter Six: Big Fish: Peggy-Ann (1926), Ziegfeld and a flop called
Betsy (1926)
* Chapter Seven: A commercial success: A Connecticut Yankee (1927)
* Chapter Eight: Castration and integration: Chee-Chee (1928)
* Chapter Nine: Coping with the Crash
* Epilogue: The end of an era
* Bibliography