The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built by Vierte
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- Condition
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Intended Audience
- Adult
- Inscribed
- NO
- ISBN
- 9780374536893
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374536899
ISBN-13
9780374536893
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221966767
Product Key Features
Book Title
Secret Life of the American Musical : How Broadway Shows Are Built
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Genres & Styles / Musicals, Theater / Broadway & Musicals, Drama, Printed Music / Musicals, Film & TV
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Music, Performing Arts
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
792.60973
Table Of Content
Tuning Up: or, How I Came to Write This Book A Note About the Shows Discussed-and a Few Other Items 1. Overture 2. Curtain Up, Light the Lights: Opening Numbers 3. The Wizard and I: The "I Want" Song 4. If I Loved You: Conditional Love Songs 5. Put On Your Sunday Clothes: The Noise 6. Bushwhacking 1: Second Couples 7. Bushwhacking 2: Villains 8. Bushwhacking 3: The Multiplot, and How It Thickens 9. Adelaide's Lament: Stars 10. Tevye's Dream: Tent Poles 11. Coming Up Roses: Curtain: Act 1 12. Intermission 13. Clambake: Curtain Up: Act 2 14. Suddenly Seymour: The Candy Dish 15. All er Nothin': Beginning to Pack 16. The Little House of Joseph Smith, the American Moses: The Main Event 17. I Thought You Did It for Men Mama: The Next-to-Last Scene 18. You Can't Stop the Beat: The End 19. How Woody Guthrie-of All People- Changed Broadway Musicals Forever: Curtain Call Listening to Broadway Acknowledgments Index
Synopsis
A New York Times Bestseller For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in a darkened theater, grows into something more serious for high school actors, and reaches its passionate zenith when it comes time for love, marriage, and children, who will start the cycle all over again. Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In The Secret Life of the American Musical , Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate audiences, and how one landmark show leads to the next--by design or by accident, by emulation or by rebellion--from Oklahoma to Hamilton and onward. Structured like a musical, The Secret Life of the American Musical begins with an overture and concludes with a curtain call, with stops in between for "I Want" songs, "conditional" love songs, production numbers, star turns, and finales. The ultimate insider, Viertel has spent three decades on Broadway, working on dozens of shows old and new as a conceiver, producer, dramaturg, and general creative force; he has his own unique way of looking at the process and at the people who collaborate to make musicals a reality. He shows us patterns in the architecture of classic shows and charts the inevitable evolution that has taken place in musical theater as America itself has evolved socially and politically. The Secret Life of the American Musical makes you feel as though you've been there in the rehearsal room, in the front row of the theater, and in the working offices of theater owners and producers as they pursue their own love affair with that rare and elusive beast--the Broadway hit., A New York Times Bestseller For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in a darkened theater, grows into something more serious for high school actors, and reaches its passionate zenith when it comes time for love, marriage, and children, who will start the cycle all over again. Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In The Secret Life of the American Musical , Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate audiences, and how one landmark show leads to the next--by design or by accident, by emulation or by rebellion--from Oklahoma! to Hamilton and onward. Structured like a musical, The Secret Life of the American Musical begins with an overture and concludes with a curtain call, with stops in between for "I Want" songs, "conditional" love songs, production numbers, star turns, and finales. The ultimate insider, Viertel has spent three decades on Broadway, working on dozens of shows old and new as a conceiver, producer, dramaturg, and general creative force; he has his own unique way of looking at the process and at the people who collaborate to make musicals a reality. He shows us patterns in the architecture of classic shows and charts the inevitable evolution that has taken place in musical theater as America itself has evolved socially and politically. The Secret Life of the American Musical makes you feel as though you've been there in the rehearsal room, in the front row of the theater, and in the working offices of theater owners and producers as they pursue their own love affair with that rare and elusive beast--the Broadway hit.
LC Classification Number
ML1711.V37 2017
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