Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity
- Author: Donovan, Ryan
Donovan's well-analyzed arguments on unresolved problems of access and his profound understanding of the form lead the way. This treatise has much to offer and raises the prospect of a similar... — More…
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Contents
- Part I: Broadway Bodies
- Introduction: The Broadway Body
- 1. I Saw What They Were Hiring: Casting and Recasting A Chorus Line
- Part II: Size
- 2. Dreamgirls, Size, and the Body Politics of Padding
- 3. Must Be Heavyset: Casting Fat Women in Broadway Musicals
- Part III: Sexuality
- 4. La Cage aux Folles and Playing Gay
- 5. Keeping It Gay on The Great White Way
- Part IV: Ability
- 6. Deaf West's Awakening of Broadway
- 7. Musicals, Physical Difference, and Disability
- Epilogue: Recasting Broadway
- Bibliography
- Index