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Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical. By bruce d. mcclung. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. - Oklahoma!: The Making of an American Musical. By Tim Carter. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. - South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten. By Jim Lovensheimer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. - Wicked: A Musical Biography. By Paul R. Laird. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
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1 Engel, Lehman, The American Musical Theater: A Consideration (New York: Macmillan, 1967)Google Scholar, is fundamental to the field, as is Bordman, Gerald, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978; 4th ed. with Richard Norton, 2011)Google Scholar.
2 Central to Mordden's commentary on Broadway are the half-dozen books surveying the musical decade by decade from the 1920s to the 1970s, starting with his Make Believe: the Broadway Musical in the 1920s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). Grant, Mark N., The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical (Boston, Northeastern University Press, 2004)Google Scholar, and Stempel, Larry, Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010)Google Scholar, also stand out among recent publications.
3 See, for example, Kim Kowalke's comments on problems in the performance materials for Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. Kowalke, Kim, Review of A Chronology of American Music Theater by Richard C. Norton, et al., The Journal of the American Musicological Society 60 (2007): 693, n11Google Scholar.
4 The chief exception to this lack of critical editions of musicals in full score is the ongoing Kurt Weill Edition. Kurt Weill, The Firebrand of Florence, ed. Joel Galand, The Kurt Weill Edition, ser. I: Stage, v. 18 (New York: Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, 2002), was the first Broadway show to be issued in a true critical edition. For a discussion of the problem of definitive editions of Broadway musicals, see Warfield, Scott, Review of Kurt Weill, The Firebrand of Florence, Notes 62/2 (2005): 481–86CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and “Communications,” Notes 62/4 (2006): 1076–77.
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