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Book SynopsisThe Broadway musical has greatly influenced both American and world culture. Shows such as Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun are as American as apple pie, while the long runs of imports such as Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Les Misérables have broken records. Shows filled with rock and pop music such as Mamma Mia! and Wicked enthrall audiences, and revivals of beloved shows play an important role in contemporary Broadway culture. Actors Ethel Merman, Yul Brynner, Julie Andrews, Bernadette Peters, and Audra McDonald; composers and lyricists Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Jeanine Tesori; and directors and choreographers George Abbott, Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Tommy Tune, and Susan Stromanto name only a fewhave gained national and international recognition by way of the Broadway musical stage. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Broadwa
Table of ContentsEditor’s Foreword (Jon Woronoff) Preface Chronology Introduction THE DICTIONARY Appendix -- Winners of the Tony Award for Best Musical, 1949-2014 Bibliography About the Authors
