Martin Gottfried - More Broadway Musicals

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Conditiegoed [vml. nauwelijks ingekeken exemplaar]Aantal pagina`s224Uitgavejaar1991Uitgegeven doorHarry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New YorkKaftdonkerblauwe linnen hardcover met opdruk op de rug [groot formaat boek]StofomslagjaISBN9780810936218Code [intern]ZOL Beschrijving boekSince 1980.With photographs by Martha Swope and others. More than 200 illustrations, including 75 in full color.In the decade since Martin Gottfried’s bestselling Broadway Musicals was published, a new generation of musical theater has arrived. Characterized by blockbuster shows - among them Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables - many originating in London, and two of the three created by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the new musicals revitalized a form that was thought to be uniquely and exclusively American and one that had fallen on hard times. Recently, perhaps more than ever before, the Broadway musical theater has seen a new vitality and freshness. Introducing new talent and bit new hits, it has put Broadway back on the map.Perhaps no better interlocutor could exist than Martin Gottfried. A theater critic and observer for nearly thirty years, Gottfried not only sees every show that opens in New York, but also knows and maintains contact with the composers, lyricists, librettists, musical arrangers, directors, choreographers, and producers who create them.In this wise, bright, and amusing new book he devotes whole chapters to the key figures of the past decade - to Webber, Stephen Sondheim, director Hal Prince, producer Cameron Mackintosh, and that triple-threat dancer/choreographer/director Tommy Tune. Other chapters focus on the new generation of professional song writers, wordsmiths, and directors and on the ‘different’ shows created by avant-garde performance artists, untraditional musicians, dancers, and comedians.A special chapter, illustrated with intimate photographs by a participant, explores the workshop creation of Tommy Tune’s hit Grand Hotel. Finally, the book salutes those whom the theater has lost in the past decade, a galaxy of greats including Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Alan Jay Lerner, Gower Champion, Bob Fosse, Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, and Michael Bennett - whose A Chorus Line registered a record 6,000 plus performances at closing.Costume sketches, set designs, and informal rehearsal shots abound; stunning photographs in color and black-and-white of each of the great shows of the period, most by the best of Broadway’s chroniclers, Martha Swope, round out a stunning tribute to the musical theater.