Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now
by Steyn, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG+/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0571162029
- ISBN 13
- 9780571162024
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. 2.4.6.8.10.9.7.5.3.1.* Date of Publication: 1997 * Publisher: Faber & Faber.* Binding and cover condition: Scarlet cloth, Silver title to spine. Slight bump to bottom back edge, no rubs, very slight lean to spine. VG+* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £20-00, colour photographic cover, some minor ruffling to top & bottom edges, very small tear (no loss) to base of front flap fold. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, crisp & tight. Tendency to paper tanning throughout. No annotations. Previous owners name and address with sale price in pen to f.e.p. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 318 pp. text. xxviii pp. Acknowledgements, bibliography and Index at rear.* Description:- The Broadway musical was never simply a jazzed-up form of Viennese or English operetta, Mark Steyn argues in this book; it always set its own terms and conditions. At some time during the 1970s or '80s, though, the Broadway musical hit the buffers, which coincided with the arrival of the "British Broadway musical". With "Miss Saigon", "Aspects of Love" and "The Phantom of the Opera", the British musical in the West End is in rude health, attracting serious directing and acting talent, and serious money. Steyn asks the question: "Whither the musical?". Are the current successes in the great tradition of musical theatre established by Cole Porter, Rogers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, or is there too much emphasis on "production value", spectacular effects for effect's sake, and never mind the story-line? Is the musical still a valid form, or has it become fatally self-conscious? *NEAR VG+ copy with only minor shelf wear and inscription to reduce it to VG.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 448
- Title
- Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now
- Author
- Steyn, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG+/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571162029
- ISBN 13
- 9780571162024
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 250
- Date Published
- 1997-01-01
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