Beyond Broadway The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America
musical theatre in U.S. culture, and examines it as a live, pleasurable, participatory experience of creating, watching, and listening. Why does local musical theatre flourish in America? Why do so many Americans passionately engage in a century-old artistic practice that requires intense,
person-to-person collaboration? Why do audiences flock to see musicals in their hometowns? How do corporations like Disney and Music Theatre International enable musical theatre's energetic movement through American culture? Touring from Maine to California, Wolf visits elementary schools, a middle
school performance festival, afterschool programs, high schools, summer camps, state park outdoor theatres, community theatres, and dinner theatres, and conducts over 200 interviews with practitioners and spectators, licensors and Disney creatives. In Beyond Broadway, Wolf tells the story of musical
theatre's abundance and longevity in the U.S. as a thriving, joyful activity that touches millions of lives.
Publisher Name | Oxford University Press USA |
---|---|
Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
Format | Audio |
Bisac Subject Major | PER |
Language | NG |
Isbn 10 | 0190639520 |
Isbn 13 | 9780190639525 |
Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
Dimensions | 00.93" H x 00.06" L x 20.00" W |
Page Count | 392 |
Stacy Wolf is Professor in the Program in Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. She is also the Director of the Program in Music Theater and Director of the Princeton Arts Fellows program. She is the author of A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American
Musical (2002), Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical (2011), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical (2011).