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The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre

Edited By Laura MacDonald, Ryan Donovan Copyright 2023
    626 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    626 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    Global in scope and featuring thirty-five chapters from more than fifty dance, music, and theatre scholars and practitioners, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre introduces the fundamentals of musical theatre studies and highlights developing global trends in practice and scholarship.

    Investigating the who, what, when, where, why, and how of transnational musical theatre, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre is a comprehensive guide for those studying the components of musical theatre, its history, practitioners, audiences, and agendas. The Companion expands the study of musical theatre to include the ways we practice and experience musicals, their engagement with technology, and their navigation of international commercial marketplaces. The Companion is the first collection to include global musical theatre in each chapter, reflecting the musical’s status as the world’s most popular theatrical form. This book brings together practice and scholarship, featuring essays by leading and emerging scholars alongside luminaries such as Chinese musical theatre composer San Bao, Tony Award-winning star André De Shields, and Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus.

    This is an essential resource for students on theatre and performance courses and an invaluable text for researchers and practitioners in these areas of study.

    Foreword

    Diane Paulus

    Part 1: What

    Introduction: On Musicals

    San Bao

    1. Musical Theater Mobilities: Around the World in Eighty Years

      2. David Savran

    2. An American in Tokyo? Musical Theatre Dance’s Transnational Movements

      3. Ryan Donovan

    3. "How a World Can Seem So Vast": The Craft of Musical Theatre Dramaturgy

      4. Lindsey R. Barr and Laura MacDonald

    4. The Singing Voice

      5. Masi Asare

    5. "The Song Is You": Song Types and Genres in Musical Theatre

      6. William A. Everett

      Part 2: When

      Introduction: Dark Primal Energy, Ancestor Memory, and American Exceptionalism

      André De Shields with Kenneth J. Cerniglia

    6. From Ballad Opera to Minstrelsy and Back: Social Class, Race, and Gender on the North American Musical Stage

      7. Kristin Moriah

    7. From the 1870s through World War I: The Spectre and Spectacle of the Human Body

      8. Maya Cantu

    8. Boom to Bust: Genre Borders, Color Lines, and Women Stars in the Musical between the World Wars

      9. Todd Decker

    9. World War II and the Cold War:　Reflections and Refractions of Ourselves, Then and Now

      10. Dominic McHugh

    10. Since the 1980s: The Global Musical Theatre Ecology

      11. Kelsey Blair

      Part 3: Who

      Introduction: Who Makes a Musical?

      Georgia Stitt

    11. Musical Theatre Training in the Twenty-First Century: A Primer

      12. Amy S. Osatinski and Bud Coleman

    12. "Forget About the Boy": Women and Creative Collaborations in Musical Theatre　

      13. Arianne Johnson Quinn and Clare Chandler　

    13. Good Gals Wear Black: Offstage Labor and the Musical

      14. Christine Snyder

    14. Mediated Taste: The Role of Critics

      15. Paul R. Laird

    15. From Stage Door to Cyberspace: The Digital Evolution of Musical Theatre Fandom

      16. Adam Rush and Stephanie Lim

      Part 4: How

      Introduction: How Musicals Work: A Press Representative’s View

      Chris Boneau

    16. Fitting the Slipper: The Art of Adaptation for the Musical Stage

      17. William A. Everett

    17. Harnessing Technology: The Evolving Labor of Design in Musical Theatre

      18. Virginia Anderson

    18. Humming the Scenery: The Aesthetics of Musical Theatre Spectacle

      19. Douglas L. Reside

    19. "That’s Showbiz, Kid": Casting as Process and Product

      20. Ryan Donovan

    20. The Foundation, Function, and Future of the Musical Theatre Director

      21. Mary Jo Lodge and Anne Healy

    21. How Dancers and Choreographers Work: The Laboring Bodies of Musical Theatre

      22. Joanna Dee Das

    22. "The Name on Everybody’s Lips": Marketing Musical Theatre

      23. Laura MacDonald

    23. A Critical Guide to Code-Meshing, Multilingualism, and Musicals

      24. Samuel Yates

      Part 5: Where

      Introduction: Scenes from a Showbiz Couple’s Travelogue

      Kim Varhola

    24. Centers of Musical Theatre

      25. Alex Bádue, Jennifer C.H.J. Wilson, Laura Milburn, Leesi Patrick, and Sir Anril P. Tiatco

    25. Pilots and Petticoats: Original Musicals in Continental Europe

      26. Jeroen van Wijhe and Jacek Mikołajczyk

    26. The Broadway-Style Musical in/and Global Asias: 1920-2019

      27. Sissi Liu and Rina Tanaka

    27. "One of the best ways to please the locals is to go to New York": US American Regional Theatres and New Musical Theatre Development

      28. Claudia Wilsch Case

    28. "We’re All in This Together": Student and Amateur Performances

      29. Kenneth J. Cerniglia

    29. Mediated Musical Theatre

      30. Sam O’Connell

      Part 6: Why

      Introduction: Into the Theatre

      Yilun (Della) Wu

    30. Journeys to the Past: The Uses of Memory and Nostalgia in Musical Theatre

      31. Bryan M. Vandevender

    31. What’s in a Name? The Multiplicities of the Musical

      32. John Koegel

    32. Interrogating America’s National Myth Onstage: Case Studies on the Individual and the Community in U.S. Musical Theatre

      33. Katie Welsh and Stacy Wolf

    33. Translating Race in Musical Theatre

      34. Ji Hon (Kayla) Yuh and Emilio Méndez Rios

    34. "Art Isn’t Easy" (and Neither is Commerce): The Musical Stays in the Money

      35. Michael Schwartz

    35. "World"-Traveling, Diversity, Inclusion, and the Making of Musicals in the Twenty-First Century

    Trevor Boffone


     

    Biography

    Laura MacDonald is Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. With William A. Everett, she edited The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers (2017). She writes about long-running musicals on Broadway, in Europe, and in East Asia.

    Ryan Donovan is Assistant Professor of Theater Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity (Oxford) and Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre (Bloomsbury), and he co-edited the special issue of Studies in Musical Theatre on musical theatre dance.

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