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Contents
- Introduction
- I. Britannia Rules: the Early British Musical and Society
- Chapter 1. Ballad Opera: Commercial Song in Enlightenment Garb
- Berta Joncus
- Chapter 2. Between Opera and Musical: Theatre Music in Early Nineteenth-Century London
- Christina Fuhrmann
- Chapter 3. Comic Opera: English Society in Gilbert and Sullivan
- Carolyn Williams
- Chapter 4. English Musical Comedy, 1890-1924
- Stephen Banfield
- Chapter 5. English West End Revue: World War I and after
- David Linton
- II. British or American: Artistic Differences
- Chapter 6. Musical Comedy in the 1920s and 1930s: Mr. Cinders and Me and My Girl as Class-
- Conscious Carnival
- George Burrows
- Chapter 7. West End Royalty: Ivor Novello and English Operetta, 1917-1951
- Stewart Nicholls
- Chapter 8. The American Invasion: the Impact of Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun
- Dominic Symonds
- Chapter 9. Ordinary People and British Musicals of the Post-War Decade
- John Snelson
- III.
- New Approaches to Form and Subject Matter
- Chapter 10. After Anger: the British Musical of the late 1950s
- Elizabeth Wells
- Chapter 11. I'm Common and I Like 'Em: Representations of Class in the Period Musical after
- Oliver!
- Ben Francis
- Chapter 12. Towards a British Concept Musical: the Shows of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse
- David Cottis
- Chapter 13. The Pop Music Industry and the British musical
- Ian Sapiro
- IV. The British Are Coming!
- Chapter 14. Everybody's Free to Fail: Subsidized British Revivals of the American Canon
- Sarah Browne
- Chapter 15. Les Miserables: from Epic Novel to Epic Musical
- Kathryn M. Grossman and Bradley Stephens
- Chapter 16. Humming the Sets: Scenography and the Spectacular Musical from Cats to The Lord
- of the Rings
- Christine White
- Chapter 17. Billy Elliot and Its Lineage: the Politics of Class and Sexual Identity in British Musicals
- since 1953
- Robert Gordon
- V.
- Trailblazers
- Chapter 18. Noel Coward: Sui Generis
- Dominic McHugh
- Chapter 19. Joan Littlewood: Collaboration and Vision
- Ben Macpherson
- Chapter 20. Lionel Bart: British Vernacular Musical Theatre
- Millie Taylor
- Chapter 21. Tim Rice: the Pop Star Scenario
- Olaf Jubin
- Chapter 22. Cameron Mackintosh: Control, Collaboration and the Creative Producer
- Miranda Lunskaer-Nielsen
- Chapter 23. Andrew Lloyd Webber: Haunted by the Phantom
- David Chandler
- VI. The Art of the Possible: Alternative Approaches to Musical Theatre Aesthetics
- Chapter 24. The Beggar's Legacy: Playing with Music and Drama, 1920-2003
- Bob Lawson-Peebles
- Chapter 25. Mamma Mia! and the Aesthetics of the 21st Century Jukebox Musical
- George Rodosthenous
- Chapter 26. Attracting the Family Market: Shows with Cross-generations Appeal
- Rebecca Warner
- Chapter 27. Genre Counterpoints: Challenges to the Mainstream Musical
- David Roesner
- Chapter 28. Some Yesterdays Always Remain: Black British and Anglo-Asian Musical Theatre
- Ben Macpherson