Ganzl's Book of Musical Theatre - Hardcover

Ganzl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0028719417 ISBN 13: 9780028719412

Publisher: Schirmer Books, 1989

Synopsis

Ganzl and Lamb have written a guide to such light musical theatre genres as opera-comique, operetta, the musical comedy and the comic opera. Their book is a companion to "Kobbe's Complete Opera Book" and presents summaries of the libretti and songs of some 300 of the best and most popular musical shows from the contemporary and bygone repertoires of the English, French, German and Hungarian language stages. "Les Miserables", "Chess", "The Beggar's Opera" and "Robin Hood" are included. There are historical notes on the various traditions of the musical theatre and details of the principal productions of the shows discussed. An index of song titles provides a ready means of placing a song in its original context, and an appendix of recorded music gives the armchair listener easy access to the scores. Kurt Ganzl also wrote "The British Musical Theatre" which was awarded the Roger Machell Prize as best book on the performing arts in 1986. Andrew Lamb has written "Jerome Kern in Edwardian London".

About this title

Synopsis:

Essentially a collection of full plot summaries organized under country of origin and preceeded by brief historical introduction. Covers Britain, France, US, Austria-Germany-Hungary, and Spain. Indexed by author/composer/lyricist, and by song title. Includes a discography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this edition

• Publisher: Schirmer Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0028719417
• ISBN 13: 9780028719412
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1353