Directors and the New Musical Drama

British and American Musical Theatre in the 1980s and 90s
2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-60129-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 231 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 367 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

This is one of the first books to offer a rigorous analysis of the enormous changes in the musical theatre during the 1980s and 90s.  In addition, it focuses on the contribution of well-known, serious theatre directors to the mainstream Musical Theatre and it is the first book to offer a dual Anglo-American perspective on this subject.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lundskaer-Nielsen, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Challenge from Within: Harold Prince in Context * The Prince Legacy: Musical Drama on Broadway * Cultural Barricades: British Musicals in the Eighties and Nineties * Beyond the Logos: West End Musical Drama * New Horizons: Musical Drama in the Non-Profit Theatre * Expanding Boundaries: Non-profit Directors in the Nineties * British Directors and the Classic American Musicals * Afterlife: Reinterpreting the Canon

Über Autor(innen)

Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen is a founding producer of the New York Musical Theatre Festival and a Senior Lecturer in Drama at Bath Spa University, England.