The Resource The secret life of the American musical : how Broadway shows are built, Jack Viertel
The secret life of the American musical : how Broadway shows are built, Jack Viertel
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The item The secret life of the American musical : how Broadway shows are built, Jack Viertel represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 8 library branches.
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The item The secret life of the American musical : how Broadway shows are built, Jack Viertel represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 8 library branches.
- Summary
- "Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In [this book], 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..."--Dust jacket flap
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 312 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- Overture
- Curtain up, light the lights : opening numbers
- The wizard and I : the "I want" song
- If I loved you : conditional love songs
- Put on your Sunday clothes : the noise
- Bushwhacking 1 : second couples
- Bushwhacking 2 : villains
- Bushwhacking 3 : the multiplot, and how it thickens
- Adelaide's lament : stars
- Tevye's dream : tent poles
- La vie bohème : curtain: act 1
- Intermission
- Clambake : curtain up: act 2
- Suddenly Seymour : the candy dish
- All er nothin' : beginning to pack
- The small house of Joseph Smith, the American Moses : the main event
- I thought you did it for me, momma : the next-to-last-scene
- You can't stop the beat : the end
- Curtain call : how Woodie Guthrie
- of all people
- changed Broadway musicals forever
- Listening to Broadway
- Isbn
- 9780374256920
- Label
- The secret life of the American musical : how Broadway shows are built
- Title
- The secret life of the American musical
- Title remainder
- how Broadway shows are built
- Statement of responsibility
- Jack Viertel
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In [this book], 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..."--Dust jacket flap
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Viertel, Jack
- Dewey number
- 792.60973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- ML1711
- LC item number
- .V37 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Musicals
- Musicals
- Musicals
- Musicals
- United States
- Label
- The secret life of the American musical : how Broadway shows are built, Jack Viertel
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Overture -- Curtain up, light the lights : opening numbers -- The wizard and I : the "I want" song -- If I loved you : conditional love songs -- Put on your Sunday clothes : the noise -- Bushwhacking 1 : second couples -- Bushwhacking 2 : villains -- Bushwhacking 3 : the multiplot, and how it thickens -- Adelaide's lament : stars -- Tevye's dream : tent poles -- La vie bohème : curtain: act 1 -- Intermission -- Clambake : curtain up: act 2 -- Suddenly Seymour : the candy dish -- All er nothin' : beginning to pack -- The small house of Joseph Smith, the American Moses : the main event -- I thought you did it for me, momma : the next-to-last-scene -- You can't stop the beat : the end -- Curtain call : how Woodie Guthrie -- of all people -- changed Broadway musicals forever -- Listening to Broadway
- Control code
- ocn912140643
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 312 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374256920
- Lccn
- 2015023713
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The secret life of the American musical : how Broadway shows are built, Jack Viertel
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Overture -- Curtain up, light the lights : opening numbers -- The wizard and I : the "I want" song -- If I loved you : conditional love songs -- Put on your Sunday clothes : the noise -- Bushwhacking 1 : second couples -- Bushwhacking 2 : villains -- Bushwhacking 3 : the multiplot, and how it thickens -- Adelaide's lament : stars -- Tevye's dream : tent poles -- La vie bohème : curtain: act 1 -- Intermission -- Clambake : curtain up: act 2 -- Suddenly Seymour : the candy dish -- All er nothin' : beginning to pack -- The small house of Joseph Smith, the American Moses : the main event -- I thought you did it for me, momma : the next-to-last-scene -- You can't stop the beat : the end -- Curtain call : how Woodie Guthrie -- of all people -- changed Broadway musicals forever -- Listening to Broadway
- Control code
- ocn912140643
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 312 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374256920
- Lccn
- 2015023713
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
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