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"This is a chronological review of both the plays and the people that brought the world of homosexuals, bisexuals, transexuals, metrosexuals, and the ...
Building on the continued success of Ethan Mordden's Opera Anecdotes, The New Book of Opera Anecdotes continues where the original left off, bringing ...
An Opinionated Guide
She said, "I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress," but Barbra Streisand not only became both but revolutionized the two professi...
Hollywood in the years between 1929 and 1948 was a town of moviemaking empires. The great studios were estates of talent: sprawling, dense, diverse. I...
A History of British Musical Theatre
"Anecdotal and evincing a strong point of view, [this] book covers not only the shows and their authors but the personalities as well--W.S. Gilbert tr...
The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
Noted historian of the Broadway musical chronicles the braided lives of two of the twentieth century's most influential artists For the first time, Et...
The Broadway Musical in the 1940s
In the 1940s, it found its soul."--BOOK JACKET....
A History of American Musical Theatre
After six volumes on the musical's history, decade by decade from the 1920s through the 1970s, Ethan Mordden takes an entirely fresh look at the music...
The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago
In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths - the gleefully subversive character of American musical comedy, the ...
Giving each of Stephen Sondheim's musicals its own chapter, Ethan Mordden applies fresh insights and analysis to consider Sondheim's place in modern a...
A Novel
Greek-American opera singer Adriana Grafanas is the most famous opera singer of her time and her scandals, temperament, and cancellations were the stu...
The Broadway Musical in the 1950s
A lively look at Broadway's most exciting decade, "Coming Up Roses" celebrates the explosion of musicals that hit the American stage in the 1950s....
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Here is a consumer guide, an opera appreciation course, and a history of recording techniques and lore, all rolled into one and enlivened by the incom...
The Handbook for Non-musicians
This authoritative guide gives the non-musician the fundamentals of orchestral music. It begins with a general introduction to the symphony and variou...
The Broadway Musical in the 1960s
In the 1960s, the Broadway musical was revolutionized from an entertainment characterized by sentimental standards, such as Camelot and Hello, Dolly!,...
A Continuation of the "Buddies" Cycle
"What unites us, all of us, surely is brotherhood, a sense that our friendships are historic, designed to hold Stonewall together," muses on character...
Concluding the "Buddies" Cycle
Mordden explores a tricky moral universe in which emotional loyalty is exalted but sexual fidelity is not assumed...There is a sense of real pain amid...
Presents a fitness program devised by Pooh and his forest friends that includes many new (and unusual) exercises and competitions....
The Broadway Musical in the 1970s
Ethan Mordden's new entry in his history of the Broadway musical looks at an era that brought us not only the gritty reality of "A Chorus Line" and th...
The Last Twenty-Five Years of the Broadway Musical
For Ethan Mordden, the closing night of the hit musical, 42nd St. sounded the death knell of the art form of the Broadway musical. After that, big orc...
Further adventures in Gay Manhatten, and the final in the trilogy of Mordden's portrait of gay life from Stonewall to the advent of the AIDS crisis. S...
The Broadway Musical in the 1930s
In the 1930s, Broadway's lights still burned brightly. Ethan Mordden completes his history of the Broadway musical by taking a look at this forgotten ...
The author takes readers on a tour of the 1960s, the "Golden Age" of musicals, from Camelot to Cabaret....
How Manhattan Defined American Sophisticationโfrom the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's Ball
From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Manhattan was America's beacon of sophistication. From the theatres of Broadway to the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel...
I'VE A FEELING WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE...
The Movies of the 1960s
With authorit, and wit, Ethan Mordden explores American film and filmmakers in a crucial decade, the 1960s--the decade in which the way Hollywood made...
Looks at each musical created by the famous team, and discusses cast, music, theme, and critical reception....
The Broadway Musical in the 1920s
Describes the transition decade during which the Broadway musical was turning away from its vaudeville roots and taking on more elaborate sets, tumult...
House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies
The History of American Musical Theatre
History of the American musical from the 1920's to the 1970's....
Traces and analyzes the colorful history development of the American film musical from its beginning in the 1920s to the latest releases of the 1980s...
This book is a dictionary of theatre knowledge, providing information about playwrights, plays, specific genres of theater and other aspects of the ar...
An Idiosyncratic Social History of the American Twenties
A Look at the Women who Made Hollywood
From Theda Bara to Mary Pickford to Jane Fonda and Meryl Streep, women stars have dominated films and thereby the popular imagination of America. By t...