American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage

Imagining the Working Girl from Irene to Gypsy
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-56145-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

Drawing upon Broadway musicals ranging from Irene (1919) to Gypsy (1959), Maya Cantu considers how Cinderella Broadway musicals from the 1920s through the 1950s adapted and transformed Perrault's fairy tale icon in order to address changing social and professional roles for American women.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cantu, Maya

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Musicals

Über Autor(innen)

Maya Cantu is Dramaturgical Advisor at Off-Broadway's Mint Theater Company, USA. Her essays and reviews have been published in Theatre Journal, Studies in Musical Theatre, New England Theatre Journal, and as part of the New York Public Library's series. She earned her DFA and MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama, USA.