"Why aren't they talking?" : the sung-through musical from the 1980s to the 2010s /
In the American musical theater, the most typical form of structuring musicals has been the book musical, in which songs interrupt spoken dialogue and add means to depict characters and dramatic situations. After 1980, a form of structuring musicals that expands upon the aesthetic conventions of the...
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Cambridge :
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2022.
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in musical theatre
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Opera or Broadway musical: The Human Comedy
- 3. "You hear it sung...and the world seems different": William Finn's sung-through scores
- 4. Nearly sung-through
- 5. "Maid for Broadway": the sung-through structure of Caroline, or Change
- 6. "We sing it anyway": the sung-through musical in the early twenty-first century
- Epilogue: "What's this cheery singing all about?"
- References.