Research Catalog

Title

Everything is choreography : the musical theater of Tommy Tune / Kevin Winkler.

Author

Winkler, Kevin

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

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Details

Description

xiii, 282 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"Everything is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune is the first full-scale analysis of the work of Tommy Tune, and his place in a lineage of Broadway's great director-choreographers. The decade of the 1980s was considered a low point for the American musical. Tune's predecessors in the art of complete musical staging like Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Gower Champion, and Michael Bennett were either dead or withdrawn from the Broadway arena. Yet it was the period of Tune's greatest success. The book examines how he adapted to an increasingly corporatized, high-stakes producing and funding environment. It considers how Tune kept the American musical a thriving, creative enterprise at a time when Broadway was dominated by British imports. It investigates Tune's work of the last twenty-five years, when he shifted his attentions to touring and regional productions, far from the glare of Broadway. Unlike his fellow director-choreographers, Tune also maintained a successful performing career, and the book details the deft balancing act that kept him working as a popular singer-dancer-actor while directing a series of striking and influential Broadway musicals"--

Series Statement

Broadway legacies

Uniform Title

Broadway legacies.

Subject

• Tune, Tommy > Criticism and interpretation
• Tune, Tommy
• Musical theater producers and directors > United States
• Choreographers > United States
• Musicals > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism
• Musicals > United States > History and criticism
• Choreographers
• Musical theater producers and directors
• Musicals
• New York (State) > New York
• United States

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Broadway baby -- Gents and working girls -- Double feature -- City of women -- A Gershwin tune -- A great place to make a show -- The Broadway melody of 1991 -- Song and dance man -- Everything is still choreography.

Call Number

*MGYB (Tune) 21-3670

ISBN

• 0190090731
• 9780190090739

LCCN

2021027797

OCLC

1252412852

Author

Winkler, Kevin, author.

Title

Everything is choreography : the musical theater of Tommy Tune / Kevin Winkler.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Broadway legacies

Broadway legacies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Winkler, Kevin. Everything is choreography New York : Oxford University Press, 2021 9780190090753 (DLC) 2021027798

Research Call Number

*MGYB (Tune) 21-3670