The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Macdonald, Laura; Donovan, Ryan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 626
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429535864
• Artikelnr.: 66764040

Autorenporträt

Laura MacDonald is Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. With William A. Everett, she edited The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers (2017). She writes about long-running musicals on Broadway, in Europe, and in East Asia. Ryan Donovan is Assistant Professor of Theater Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity (Oxford) and Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre (Bloomsbury), and he co-edited the special issue of Studies in Musical Theatre on musical theatre dance.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword

Diane Paulus

Part 1: What

Introduction: On Musicals



San Bao

1. Musical Theater Mobilities: Around the World in Eighty Years




David Savran




2. An American in Tokyo? Musical Theatre Dance's Transnational Movements




Ryan Donovan




3. "How a World Can Seem So Vast": The Craft of Musical Theatre Dramaturgy




Lindsey R. Barr and Laura MacDonald




4. The Singing Voice




Masi Asare




5. "The Song Is You": Song Types and Genres in Musical Theatre




William A. Everett



Part 2: When

Introduction: Dark Primal Energy, Ancestor Memory, and American Exceptionalism



André De Shields with Kenneth J. Cerniglia




6. From Ballad Opera to Minstrelsy and Back: Social Class, Race, and Gender on the North American Musical Stage




Kristin Moriah




7. From the 1870s through World War I: The Spectre and Spectacle of the Human Body




Maya Cantu




8. Boom to Bust: Genre Borders, Color Lines, and Women Stars in the Musical between the World Wars




Todd Decker




9. World War II and the Cold War: Reflections and Refractions of Ourselves, Then and Now




Dominic McHugh




10. Since the 1980s: The Global Musical Theatre Ecology




Kelsey Blair



Part 3: Who

Introduction: Who Makes a Musical?



Georgia Stitt




11. Musical Theatre Training in the Twenty-First Century: A Primer




Amy S. Osatinski and Bud Coleman




12. "Forget About the Boy": Women and Creative Collaborations in Musical Theatre




Arianne Johnson Quinn and Clare Chandler




13. Good Gals Wear Black: Offstage Labor and the Musical




Christine Snyder




14. Mediated Taste: The Role of Critics




Paul R. Laird




15. From Stage Door to Cyberspace: The Digital Evolution of Musical Theatre Fandom




Adam Rush and Stephanie Lim



Part 4: How

Introduction: How Musicals Work: A Press Representative's View



Chris Boneau




16. Fitting the Slipper: The Art of Adaptation for the Musical Stage




William A. Everett




17. Harnessing Technology: The Evolving Labor of Design in Musical Theatre




Virginia Anderson




18. Humming the Scenery: The Aesthetics of Musical Theatre Spectacle




Douglas L. Reside




19. "That's Showbiz, Kid": Casting as Process and Product




Ryan Donovan




20. The Foundation, Function, and Future of the Musical Theatre Director




Mary Jo Lodge and Anne Healy




21. How Dancers and Choreographers Work: The Laboring Bodies of Musical Theatre




Joanna Dee Das




22. "The Name on Everybody's Lips": Marketing Musical Theatre




Laura MacDonald




23. A Critical Guide to Code-Meshing, Multilingualism, and Musicals




Samuel Yates



Part 5: Where

Introduction: Scenes from a Showbiz Couple's Travelogue



Kim Varhola




24. Centers of Musical Theatre




Alex Bádue, Jennifer C.H.J. Wilson, Laura Milburn, Leesi Patrick, and Sir Anril P. Tiatco




25. Pilots and Petticoats: Original Musicals in Continental Europe




Jeroen van Wijhe and Jacek Mikolajczyk




26. The Broadway-Style Musical in/and Global Asias: 1920-2019




Sissi Liu and Rina Tanaka




27. "One of the best ways to please the locals is to go to New York": US American Regional Theatres and New Musical Theatre Development




Claudia Wilsch Case




28. "We're All in This Together": Student and Amateur Performances




Kenneth J. Cerniglia


29. Mediated Musical Theatre




Sam O'Connell



Part 6: Why

Introduction: Into the Theatre



Yilun (Della) Wu




30. Journeys to the Past: The Uses of Memory and Nostalgia in Musical Theatre




Bryan M. Vandevender




31. What's in a Name? The Multiplicities of the Musical




John Koegel




32. Interrogating America's National Myth Onstage: Case Studies on the Individual and the Community in U.S. Musical Theatre




Katie Welsh and Stacy Wolf




33. Translating Race in Musical Theatre




Ji Hon (Kayla) Yuh and Emilio Méndez Rios




34. "Art Isn't Easy" (and Neither is Commerce): The Musical Stays in the Money




Michael Schwartz




35. "World"-Traveling, Diversity, Inclusion, and the Making of Musicals in the Twenty-First Century

Trevor Boffone