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Women in American musical theatre : essays on composers, lyricists, librettists, arrangers, choreographers, designers, directors, producers and performance artists
- Title
- Women in American musical theatre : essays on composers, lyricists, librettists, arrangers, choreographers, designers, directors, producers and performance artists / edited by Bud Coleman and Judith Sebesta.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2008.
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- Description
- x, 282 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "These essays examine the history of women in musical theatre, providing biographical descriptions; interpretations of their productions; and several accounts of how being a woman affected their careers"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Will you remember: female lyricists of operetta and musical comedy / Korey Rothman -- Hallie Flanagan and Cheryl Crawford : women pioneer producers of the 1930s / Barbara Means Fraser -- Twentieth-century women choreographers : refining and redefining the showgirl image / Anna Wheeler Gentry -- A composer in her own right : arrangers, musical directors and conductors / Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh -- Working with the boys : women who wrote musicals in the golden age / Gary Konas -- Designing women / Tish Dace -- Helburn, Dalrymple, and Lortel : a triumvirate of great producers / Bud Coleman -- "Open a new window, open a new door" : women directors take the stage / Anne Fliotsos -- Social consciousness and the "search for new directions" : the musicals of Gretchen Cryer, Nancy Ford, and Elizabeth Swados / Judith Sebesta -- The rise of the female director/choreographer on Broadway / Mary Jo Lodge -- From revolution to revelation : women performance artists and the transformation of American musical theatre / Woodrow Hood.
- Call Number
- MWED 08-5265
- ISBN
- 9780786433827 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786433825 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008009206
- OCLC
- 212908898
- Title
- Women in American musical theatre : essays on composers, lyricists, librettists, arrangers, choreographers, designers, directors, producers and performance artists / edited by Bud Coleman and Judith Sebesta.
- Imprint
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Coleman, Bertram E., 1956-Sebesta, Judith, 1966-
- Research Call Number
- MWED 08-5265