The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations

Contents

• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• About the Companion Website
• Introduction
• Part I: An introduction to the Stage-to-Screen Adaptation
• CHAPTER 1
• And I'll Sing Once More: A Historical Overview of the Broadway Musical on the Silver Screen
• DOMINIC McHUGH
• CHAPTER 2
• From Novel to Stage to Screen: Adapting Roberta
• GEOFFREY BLOCK
• CHAPTER 3
• Getting Real: Stage Musical vs. Filmic Realism in Film Adaptations from Camelot to Cabaret
• RAYMOND KNAPP
• CHAPTER 4
• The Party's Over: On the Town, Bells are Ringing, and the Problem of Adapting Postwar New York
• MARTHA SHEARER
• CHAPTER 5
• Into the Woods from Stage to Screen
• MARK EDEN HOROWITZ
• Part II: The Politics of Adaptation
• CHAPTER 6
• Li'l Abner from Comic Strip to Hollywood
• JAMES LOVENSHEIMER
• CHAPTER 7
• Fidelity vs. Freedom in Milos Forman's film version of Hair
• ANDREW BUCHMAN
• CHAPTER 8
• An Elegant Legacy: The Aborted Cartoon Adaptation of Finian's Rainbow
• DANIELLE BIRKETT
• CHAPTER 9
• Little Shop of Horrors: Breaking the Rules all the Way to the Big (Enormous, 12-inch) Screen
• JONAS WESTOVER
• CHAPTER 10
• The Fascinating Moment of Godspell: Its Cinematic Adaptation in the Shadow of Jesus Christ Superstar and Leonard Bernstein's Mass
• PAUL LAIRD
• Part III: Biography and Identities: Race, Sexuality, and Gender
• CHAPTER 11
• Adapting Pal Joey: Post-War Anxieties and the Playmate
• JULIANNE LINDBERG
• CHAPTER 12
• Too Darn Hot: Reimagining Kiss Me, Kate for the Silver Screen
• HANNAH ROBBINS
• CHAPTER 13
• A Humane, Practical, and Beautiful Solution: Adaptation and Triangulation in Paint Your Wagon
• MEGAN WOLLER
• CHAPTER 14
• A Great American Service: George M. Cohan, the Stage, and the Nation in Yankee Doodle Dandy
• ELIZABETH CRAFT
• CHAPTER 15
• Cole Porter's List Songs on Stage and Screen
• CLIFF EISEN
• Part IV: Stars and Adaptation
• CHAPTER 16
• Loud, Pretty, Strong, White [Repeat]: The Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy Operettas at MGM (1935-1942)
• TODD DECKER
• CHAPTER 17
• Brigadoon and its Transition to MGM Musical: Adapting a Stage Show for Star Dancers
• SUSAN SMITH
• CHAPTER 18
• Is this the right material, girl?: How Madonna Makes Us Like Eva But Not Necessarily Evita
• RICHARD ALLEN
• CHAPTER 19
• The Streisand adaptations
• DOMINIC McHUGH
• Part V: Multiple Adaptations of a Single Work
• CHAPTER 20
• The Shifting Sand of Orientalism: The Desert Song on Stage and Screen
• WILLIAM A. EVERETT
• CHAPTER 21
• You Will Know That She is Our Annie: Comparing Three Adaptations of a Broadway Classic
• IAN SAPIRO
• CHAPTER 22
• The Three Faces of Rio Rita
• JOHN GRAZIANO
• Part VI: Audiences, Producers, Studios
• CHAPTER 23
• Lost in Translation: The Strange Case of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel
• TIM CARTER
• CHAPTER 24
• Carol Burnett and the Ends of Variety: Parody, Nostalgia, and Analysis of the American Musical
• ROBYNN STILWELL
• CHAPTER 25
• Flamboyance, Exuberance, and Schmaltz: Half a Sixpence and the Broadway Adaptation in 1960s Hollywood
• AMANDA McQUEEN
• CHAPTER 26
• The Producers and Hairspray: The Hazards and Rewards of Recursive Adaptation
• DEAN ADAMS
• CHAPTER 27
• Rescoring Anything Goes in 1930s Hollywood
• ALLISON ROBBINS
• Bibliography
• Index