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The Shuberts and Their Passing Shows : The Untold Tale of Ziegfeld's Rivals.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Broadway Legacies SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190219246
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Shuberts and Their Passing ShowsDDC classification:
  • 792.609747/1
LOC classification:
  • ML1711.5.W478 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Series -- The Shuberts and Their Passing Shows -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Musical Examples -- A List of Passing Show Personages -- Foreword by Geoffrey Block -- Acknowledgments -- About the Companion Website -- Introduction -- 1. A Twelve-​Hour Show Squeezed into Three: The Creative Forces Behind The Passing Shows -- 2. A Matchless Mélange of Mirth and Melody: The Stars of The Passing Shows -- 3. The Hebrew Messenger Boy and the Thespian:  The Howard Brothers -- 4. A Downpour of Talent, A Niagara of Beauty:  Chorus Girls and Chorus Boys -- 5. The Mastodon of Musical Extravaganza:  Song, Dance, and Scenic Effects -- 6. A Sure Cure for the Blues: Creating The Passing Show of 1914 -- 7. A Carnival of Travesty: Textual and Musical References in The Passing Shows -- 8. America's Foremost Musical Institution: The Shuberts, Ziegfeld, and Their Battle for Supremacy -- 9. As New, Bright, and Welcome as the Morning Sun:  The Birth of a Legend and the Demise of a Genre -- Postscript -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: The Shubert name has been synonymous with Broadway for almost as long as Broadway entertainment itself. In The Shuberts and Their Passing Shows: The Untold Tale of Ziegfeld's Rivals, author Jonas Westover investigates beyond the Shuberts' business empire into their early revues and the centrifugal role they played in developing American theatre as an art form.
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Cover -- Series -- The Shuberts and Their Passing Shows -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Musical Examples -- A List of Passing Show Personages -- Foreword by Geoffrey Block -- Acknowledgments -- About the Companion Website -- Introduction -- 1. A Twelve-​Hour Show Squeezed into Three: The Creative Forces Behind The Passing Shows -- 2. A Matchless Mélange of Mirth and Melody: The Stars of The Passing Shows -- 3. The Hebrew Messenger Boy and the Thespian:  The Howard Brothers -- 4. A Downpour of Talent, A Niagara of Beauty:  Chorus Girls and Chorus Boys -- 5. The Mastodon of Musical Extravaganza:  Song, Dance, and Scenic Effects -- 6. A Sure Cure for the Blues: Creating The Passing Show of 1914 -- 7. A Carnival of Travesty: Textual and Musical References in The Passing Shows -- 8. America's Foremost Musical Institution: The Shuberts, Ziegfeld, and Their Battle for Supremacy -- 9. As New, Bright, and Welcome as the Morning Sun:  The Birth of a Legend and the Demise of a Genre -- Postscript -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Shubert name has been synonymous with Broadway for almost as long as Broadway entertainment itself. In The Shuberts and Their Passing Shows: The Untold Tale of Ziegfeld's Rivals, author Jonas Westover investigates beyond the Shuberts' business empire into their early revues and the centrifugal role they played in developing American theatre as an art form.

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