Musical Theatre - Softcover

Kenrick, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826430139 ISBN 13: 9780826430137

Publisher: Continuum, 2010

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive history of stage musicals from the 1840s all the way up to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Broadway as it we know it today. Wide-ranging in content, it covers Europe, the UK, and North American traditions and developments.

About this title

Review:

'The Archbishop of Canterbury has written a book on Dostoevsky which illuminates the real operations of religion in human minds.... We need a guide who combines the gifts of a literary critic and a trained theologian to work out how far the novels of Dostoevsky can be used as vehicles for such explorations. We also need a guide who is deeply versed in the ethos and spiritual traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church to place Dostoevsky, and the tormented exchanges of his characters, within some intelligible historical framework. Luckily the Archbishop of Canterbury combines all these qualities, and more' --A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

A native New Yorker and life-long fan of the Musical, John Kenrick is in great demand as an expert on the subject. His Web site www.musicals101.com gets more than 150,000 hits a month.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0826430139
• ISBN 13: 9780826430137
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424