| Contents |
Introduction: striking the right note / Glenn Loney -- Keynote address. The condition of the American musical today / Lehman Engel -- The beginnings: Recreating the eighteenth-century American musical. Overture / Cynthia Adams Hoover -- London's stepchild finds a home / Phyllis T. Dircks -- Good musical paste: getting the acts together in the eighteenth century / William Brooks -- Acting techniques of the eighteenth century / Howard Scammon -- The musical in the nineteenth century. Overture / Deane L. Root -- Early minstrel show music, 1843-1852 / Robert B. Winans -- Lotta Crabtree and John Broughman: Collaborating pioneers in the development of American musical comedy / Irene Forsyth Comer -- Edgar Stillman Kelley and the American musical theatre, 1880-1900 / Leonard L. Rivenburg -- Art dancing on Broadway: Loie Fuller in A Trip to Chinatown / Camille Hardy -- Themes and values in Afro-American librettos and book musicals, 1898-1930 / Helen Armstead-Johnson -- The musical in the twentieth century: variety and revue formats. Overture: American musical revues / Stanley Green -- The Greenwich Village Follies of 1919 / Ginnine Cocuzza -- The American revue costume / John E. Hirsch -- Denishawn in vaudeville and beyond / Jane Sherman -- The story of Sing for Your Supper: the Broadway revue produced by the Federal Theatre Project / Ned Lehac -- A tab show: the stepchild of musical comedy / Caroline Schaffner -- The musical in the twentieth century: the book musical. Sentimental songs, rags, and transformations: the emergence of the black musical, 1895-1910 / John Graziano -- George M. Cohan's Little Johnny Jones / Stephen M. Vallillo -- Watch Your Step: Irving Berlin's 1914 musical / Margaret Knapp -- Winning the battle and losing the war: the 1927 Strike Up the Band / Joan Pirie -- Cole Porter, 1944-1948: Don't Fence Me In / John Johnson -- Kurt Weill and Broadway opera / Marc A. Roth -- Dance in the American musical theatre. Preserving American theatre dance: the work of the American dance machine / Lee Theodore -- The French connection: ballet comes to America / Maureen Needham Costonis -- Celestial queen of the dumb shows / Mary Grace Swift -- Black dance and the American musical theatre to 1930 / Lynne Emery -- The ballet girl: graceful, ungraceful, or disgraceful? / Barbara Barker -- Welcome to "Laceland": an analysis of a chorus number from The Ziegfeld Follies of 1922, as staged by Ned Wayburn / Barbara Naomi Cohen-Stratyner -- Black influences on choreography of the American musical theatre since 1930 / Richard A. Long -- Jerome Robbins and his contribution to the theatre of musical comedy / Christena L. Schlundt -- Putting it all together: the synthesis of a musical as a work of art / Glenn Loney, moderator ; David Black, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Joe Layton, Oliver Smith, Charles Strouse, Gwen Verdon, panelists -- Preserving the heritage: the written and visual record / Robert Kimball, moderator ; Richard M. Buck, Carol G. Baxter, Irene Heskes, Lenore Coral, panelists -- The Federal Theatre Project's musical productions / Carol G. Baxter -- The Hebrew publishing company collection: an introductory report / Irene Heskes -- Wisconsin's Tams-Witmark holdings / Lenore Coral -- Preserving the heritage: the aural record / J. Peter Bergman, moderator ; Ben Bagley, Stanley Green, Jo Sullivan Loesser, Thomas Z. Shephard, Martin Williams, panelists -- Preserving the heritage: the living record / Richard M. Buck, moderator ; Paulette Attie, Jerry Bell, Gerald Bordman, Michael Price, panelists -- Summing it up / Gerald Bordman ; Selected bibliography / Linford Carey, compiler. |
| Abstract |
A notable addition to the literature on the American musical and especially its history, this collection of essays and edited panel discussions is diverse and rich in its scope. Based on the combined efforts of theater and dance specialists, musicologists, librarians and archivists, and professional musical theater practitioners, this volume attempts to cover aspects of the American musical from its 18th-century beginnings to the synthesizing of the contemporary musical as a work of art. In between there are sections on the musical in the 19th century, 20th-century variety and revue formats, the book musical of this century, dance in the musical, and various methods of preserving the musical theater heritage. |
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