A Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical

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Introduction
Chapter 1 The Birth of (the Popular Culture of) a Nation: Stage Entertainment in a New Land
Chapter 2 The Civil War Era to the Gilded Age
Chapter 3 The Early 20th Century
Chapter 4 The Great Depression to World War II
Chapter 5 World War II to 1960
Chapter 6 We've Surely Got Trouble: The 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 7 The Megamusical to Hamilton
Chapter 8 Other Angles: Different Approaches to the American Stage Musical Putting It Together: A Step-By-Step Look At Musicals from the Page to the Stage, by Robert Meffe (San Diego State University, USA) Making Musicals for Serious Pleasure, by Stacy W
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This Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical provides the perfect introductory text for students of theatre, music and cultural studies. It traces the history and development of the industry and art form in America with a particular focus on its artistic and commercial development in New York City from the early 20th century to the present. Emphasis is placed on commercial, artistic and cultural events that influenced the Broadway musical for an ever-renewing, increasingly broad and diverse audience: the Gilded Age, the Great Depression, the World War II era, the British invasion in the 1980s and the media age at the turn of the twenty-first century. Supplementary essays by leading scholars provide detailed focus on the American musical’s production and preservation, as well as its influence on daily life on the local, national, and international levels. For students, these essays provide models of varying approaches and interpretation, equipping them with the skills and understanding to develop their own analysis of key productions.

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Particularly useful for those just embarking on study of theater, A Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical takes a fresh look at the Broadway musical, a unique art form ... This book is meant as further illumination of the numerous extant works on musical theater history. In the last of the eight sections, "Critical Perspectives," Wollman offers five essays, written by contemporary scholars, that shed further light on the forces behind commercial musical theater, thus providing the reader with additional voices and opinions about the development she outlines in the main body of the text. The detailed notes, index, and bibliography offer further opportunity for researchers to connect with a greater body of writing. This compact book provides a vast wealth of information. Summing Up: Highly recommended

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