Broadway, the Golden Years

Jerome Robbins and the Great Choreographer-Directors, 1940 to the Present
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-1883-8
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Robert Emmet Long is the editor of our anticipated American Theatre Wing Working in the Theater series
- First edition earned good reviews in the New York Times, Washington Post Book World, Chicago Sun-Times and Time Magazine.

Broadway, the Golden Years, is a wonderfully readable group portrait of the great Broadway choreographer-directors: Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, Gower Champion, Bob Fosse, Michael Bennett, Tonny Tune, Graciela Daniele, and Susan Stroman. The hits generated by two generations of choreographyer-directors define the Broadway stage: Oklahoma!, On the Town; West Side Story; Hello, Dolly!; Fiddler on the Roof; A Chorus Line; Dancin'; Dream Girls; The Producers; and many more.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Long, Robert Emmet

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theater: Technik, Bühnentechnik, Einrichtung
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Ballett, Modern Dance

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part 1: Establishing the Tradition
1 Agnes de Mille
2 Jerome Robbins: Early Fame
3 Jerome Robbins: West Side Story
4 Jerome Robbins: The Later Career
Part 2--Extending the Line
5 Bob Fosse
6 Gower Champion
7 Michael Bennett
8 Tommy Tune
Epilogue: Broadway Today
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Emmet Long is uniquely qualified to write on the lives and careers of Broadway's foremost choreographer-directors. His definitive The Films of Merchant Ivory has gone through two editions. Long is a recognized critic of American and British literature, commentator on the performing arts and author or editor of some 30 books, the subjects of which include Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John O'Hara, Nathanael West, James Thurber and Barbara Pym.