Musical Theater: An Appreciation

Contents

• Part I The Antecedents to the Genre of "Musical Theater"
• 1 The Birth of "Staged" Music
• 2 Developing Genres in the Eighteenth Century: Ballad Opera and Singspiel
• 3 Developing Genres in the Eighteenth Century: Opera Buffa and Dramma Giocoso
• 4 The Musical Stage in the American Colonies
• Part II The Musical Stage in the Nineteenth Century
• 5 France and Spain in the Nineteenth Century
• 6 The Serious and the Not-so-Serious: Germany, Italy, and Austria in the Nineteenth Century
• 7 England in the Nineteenth Century: Gilbert and Sullivan
• 8 The United States in the Early Nineteenth Century
• 9 New American Genres of the Later Nineteenth Century
• 10 Operetta in America, 1880-1903
• Part III Diverging Paths in the Twentieth Century
• 11 The Continuing Dominance of Operetta
• 12 Challenges to Operetta
• 13 The Princess Shows
• 14 Increasing Drama on the Stage
• 15 Musical Theater of the Lighter Kind
• Part IV Beginnings of a Golden Age: Synthesis of Style and Substance
• 16 Great Partnerships of the Early Book Musical: Kern and Hammerstein
• 17 Great Partnerships of the Early Book Musical: Rodgers and Hart
• 18 Great Partnerships of the Early Book Musical: The Gershwins (1)
• 19 Great Partnerships of the Early Book Musical: The Gershwins (2)
• 20 Great Solo Acts: Irving Berlin
• 21 Great Solo Acts: Cole Porter and Other Efforts in the 1930s
• Part V A Greater Maturity
• 22 New Achievements from Familiar Names: Rodgers and Hart, Irving Berlin
• 23 A Cole Porter Renaissance and the Rise of Recognition
• 24 Politics and Social Commentary
• Part VI New Partnerships
• 25 Rodgers and Hammerstein: Oklahoma!
• 26 Rodgers and Hammerstein: Carousel and South Pacific
• 27 Rodgers and Hammerstein: The King and I and The Sound of Music
• 28 Lerner and Loewe
• Part VII New Faces of the 1940s and 1950s
• 29 Leonard Bernstein
• 30 Jule Styne and Frank Loesser
• 31 Meredith Willson and Other Faces of the 1950s
• Part VIII New Faces of the 1960s and 1970s
• 32 New Names in Lights in the 1960s
• 33 Sondheim in the 1960s: Flash in the Pan?
• 34 New Partnerships: Bock and Harnick
• 35 New Partnerships: Kander and Ebb
• 36 New Partnerships: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
• 37 Wunderkinder of the 1970s
• 38 Sondheim in the 1970s: The Endless Experiments
• Part IX The Late Twentieth Century-and Beyond
• 39 Andrew Lloyd Webber Without Tim Rice: Cats and Starlight Express
• 40 The Luxuriant Lloyd Webber
• 41 The New Team in Town: Schoenberg and Boublil
• 42 New Names, New Teams in the 1980s
• 43 Stephen Sondheim: Never a Formula
• 44 A Surge of "Soloists"
• 45 Team Efforts-The 1990s and Beyond
• 46 Whither Musical Theater?