Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater

Contents

• 1. Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater: an Introduction
• James Leve and Donelle Ruwe
• 2. Beginning with Do Re Mi: Childhood and The Sound of Music
• Ryan Bunch
• 3. Walt Disney, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the Gospel of Ideal Childrearing: Creating Superlative Nuclear Families in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• William A. Everett
• 4. Saving Mr. [Blank]: Rescuing the Father through Song in Children's and Family Musicals
• Raymond Knapp
• 5. Dickensian Discourses: Giving a (Singing) Voice to the Child-Hero in Oliver! and Copperfield
• Marc Napolitano
• 6. Ghetto Chic: Utopianism and the Authentic Child in The Me Nobody Knows (1970)
• Donelle Ruwe
• 7. Little Girls, Big Voices: Annie
• James Leve
• 8. Urchins, Unite: Newsies as an Antidote to Annie
• Marah Gubar
• 9. Agency, Power, and the Inner Child: The "Revolting Children" of Matilda the Musical
• Helen Freshwater
• 10. Children's Musicals for Educational and Community Settings
• Lauren Acton
• 11. Broadway Junior
• Stacy Wolf
• Bibliography of Scholarly Sources