Song and Dance: The Complete Story of Musicals

Each significant twirl in the musical's glorious development is described here with wit and verve, from its original in Europe and the United States to the present. Song & Dance covers 100 years of history of the musical theater in style, with pithy story-lines, special feature treatment for some 35 genre landmarks-from The Belle of New York to Phantom of the Opera-and all-picture spreads of shows that have successfully made the transition from stage to screen. 300 full-color, duotone, and b & w photos Beginning in 1986, Gänzl focused on writing. In that year, he published his two-volume history, The British Musical Theater (Macmillan Press, 1986), followed by his Book of the Musical Theater (Bodley Head/Schirmer) and The Musical: A Concise History (1997). His seminal reference work, The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theater (Blackwell/Schirmer), was published in 1994 and greatly expanded in a second edition in 2001. Gänzl has published over a dozen important books on musical theater