Twenty-First Century Musicals: From Stage to Screen

Contents

• FOREWORD
• Barry Keith Grant
• Introduction
• George Rodosthenous
• 1. Drag, rock, authenticity and in-betweenness: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) DOMINIC SYMONDS (University of Lincoln)
• 2. All That Jazz: the difficult journey of Chicago (2002) from stage to screen ROBERT GORDON (Goldsmiths)
• 3. Ready for His Close-Up: From Horror to Romance in The Phantom of the Opera (2004) JESSICA STERNFELD (Chapman)
• 4. "Bohemia is Dead": Rent (2005) celebrating life in the face of death MARK SHIELDS (RCSSD)
• 5. Where did we go right (and wrong)? Success and failure in adaptations of The Producers (2005) from and to the screen JULIAN WOOLFORD (GSA)
• 6. "Big, as in Large, as in Huge": Dreamgirls and Difference in the Performance of Gender, Blackness, and Popular Music History TODD DECKER (Washington in St Louis)
• 7. At the Intersection of Music, Sexuality and Race: Hairspray's Generic and Aesthetic Variances LINDA MOKDAD (University of Michigan)
• 8. "With a Bit of Rock Music, Everything is Fine": MAMMA MIA! (2008) and the Camp Sensibility on screen HELEN LEWIS (Boston Conservatory)
• 9. 81/2 to Nine to Nine: Evolutions of a Cinema Classic ARTHUR PRITCHARD (University of Leeds)
• 10 'You wanna hear the real story?': (Mis)remembering masculinity in Clint Eastwood's adaptation of Jersey Boys (2014) SARAH WHITFIELD (University of Wolverhampton)
• 11. The Ethical Exculpation of Moral Turpitude: Representations of Violence and Death in Sweeney Todd and Into The Woods TIM STEPHENSON (University of Leeds)
• 12. The Last Five Years (2014): Medium, Mode and the Making of Cathy. SARAH BROWNE (University of Wolverhampton)
• 13. The Trouble with "Little Girls": Annie on the big (and small) screen OLAF JUBIN (Regent's)
• 14. London Road: the 'irruption of the real' and haunting utopias in the verbatim musical. DEMETRIS ZAVROS (University of Wolverhampton)