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The Routledge Companion to ­Musical Theatre
Routledge Companions
By Ryan Donovan (Edited by), Laura MacDonald (Edited by)
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United Kingdom, 30 December 2022

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.

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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.

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Product Details
EAN
9780367202095
ISBN
0367202093
Writer
Ryan Donovan, Laura MacDonald
Publisher
Routledge
Other Information
8 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 22 Halftones, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
24.6 x 17.4 centimeters (0.74 kg)

Table of Contents

Foreword

Diane Paulus

Part 1: What

Introduction: On Musicals

San Bao

  • Musical Theater Mobilities: Around the World in Eighty Years

  • David Savran

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

  • Ryan Donovan

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

  • Lindsey R. Barr and Laura MacDonald

  • The Singing Voice

  • Masi Asare

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

  • William A. Everett

    Part 2: When

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

    André De Shields with Kenneth J. Cerniglia

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

  • Kristin Moriah

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

  • Maya Cantu

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

  • Todd Decker

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

  • Dominic McHugh

  • Since the 1980s: The Global Musical Theatre Ecology

  • Kelsey Blair

    Part 3: Who

    Introduction: Who Makes a Musical?

    Georgia Stitt

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

  • Amy S. Osatinski and Bud Coleman

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

  • Arianne Johnson Quinn and Clare Chandler

  • Good Gals Wear Black: Offstage Labor and the Musical

  • Christine Snyder

  • Mediated Taste: The Role of Critics

  • Paul R. Laird

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

  • Adam Rush and Stephanie Lim

    Part 4: How

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

    Chris Boneau

  • Fitting the Slipper: The Art of Adaptation for the Musical Stage

  • William A. Everett

  • Harnessing Technology: The Evolving Labor of Design in Musical Theatre

  • Virginia Anderson

  • Humming the Scenery: The Aesthetics of Musical Theatre Spectacle

  • Douglas L. Reside

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

  • Ryan Donovan

  • The Foundation, Function, and Future of the Musical Theatre Director

  • Mary Jo Lodge and Anne Healy

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

  • Joanna Dee Das

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

  • Laura MacDonald

  • A Critical Guide to Code-Meshing, Multilingualism, and Musicals

  • Samuel Yates

    Part 5: Where

    Introduction: Scenes from a Showbiz Couple’s Travelogue

    Kim Varhola

  • Centers of Musical Theatre

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

  • Pilots and Petticoats: Original Musicals in Continental Europe

  • Jeroen van Wijhe and Jacek Mikołajczyk

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

  • Sissi Liu and Rina Tanaka

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

  • Claudia Wilsch Case

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

  • Kenneth J. Cerniglia

  • Mediated Musical Theatre

  • Sam O’Connell

    Part 6: Why

    Introduction: Into the Theatre

    Yilun (Della) Wu

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

  • Bryan M. Vandevender

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

  • John Koegel

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

  • Katie Welsh and Stacy Wolf

  • Translating Race in Musical Theatre

  • Ji Hon (Kayla) Yuh and Emilio Méndez Rios

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

  • Michael Schwartz

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

    • Trevor Boffone

    About the Author

    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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