{"product_id":"showtime-9780393929065","title":"Showtime","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA definitive, accessible, and comprehensive history of the Broadway musical.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Theater buffs will be delighted to find that this scholarly, definitive work is also a hugely entertaining read.\" -- Publisher's Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\"Large in spirit as well as scope, and as precise, humble, and wise as that Sondheim lyric with which it begins.\" -- Lloyd Rose - The Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a home run: it is by far the best book ever written about Broadway, a magisterial critical history which will be required reading for virtually anyone interested in musical theater.\" -- Kim Kowalke, The Eastman School of Music\u003cbr\u003e\"A substantial work of American music history. Scrupulous but not fussy, learned but not pedantic, Stempel is a fine storyteller who delights in clarity and knows a good joke when he sees one. The precision of his thinking and writing gives the book an aura of authority keenly attuned to the tradition he critiques and celebrates.\" -- Richard Crawford, University of Michigan, emeritus, and author of America’s Musical Life: A History\u003cbr\u003e\"Stempel has hit the trifecta: for academics, it’s a definitive work of scholarship; for students, it’s the perfect textbook; for ordinary lovers of musical theater, it’s a treat to savor at the end of a long day.\" -- Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Brown University","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525174141271,"sku":"9780393929065","price":49.01,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393929065.jpg?v=1731859515","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/showtime-9780393929065","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}