The theater will rock a history of the rock musical : from Hair to Hedwig /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wollman, Elizabeth L., 1969-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: MacDermot, Galt, Trask, Stephen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2009, c2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • The birth of the rock musical in New York City
  • Interlude 1: rock "authenticity" and the reception of the staged rock musical
  • Hair and its imitators
  • Interlude 2 : audiences
  • Rock concept albums and the fragmented musical of the 1970s
  • Interlude 3 : megamusicals
  • Spectacles of the 1980s
  • Interlude 4 : economics and marketing
  • Rock musicians in the musical theater : the 1990s
  • Interlude 5 : merging aesthetics, making performances
  • Rock-influenced musicals at the millennium : the dawning of the age of-- the revival.