Unfinished Show Business: Broadway Musicals as Works-In-Process

(Part of the Theater in the Americas Series)

by Bruce Kirle

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In this fresh approach to musical theatre history, Bruce Kirle challenges the commonly understood trajectory of the genre. Drawing on the notion that the world of the author stays fixed while the world of the audience is ever-changing, Kirle suggests that musicals are open, fluid products of the particular cultural moment in which they are performed. Incomplete as printed texts and scores, musicals take on unpredictable lives of their own in the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0809326663

ISBN13:9780809326662

Release Date:October 2005

Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Broadway & Musicals Humor & Entertainment Music Performing Arts State & Local Theater

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