Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions to Music Third Edition William A. Everett

1 How to Create a Musical: The Case of Wicked

Part I Adaptations and Transformations: Before 1940

2 American Musical Theatre before the Twentieth Century

3 Non-English-Language Musical Theatre in the United States

4 Birth Pangs, Growing Pains and Sibling Rivalry: Musical Theatre in New York, 1900–1920

5 American and British Operetta in the 1920s: Romance, Nostalgia and Adventure

6 Images of African Americans: African American Musical Theatre, Show Boat and Porgy and Bess

7 The Melody (and the Words) Linger On: American Musical Comedies of the 1920s and 1930s

Part II Maturations and Formulations: 1940–1970

8 ‘We Said We Wouldn’t Look Back’: British Musical Theatre, 1935–1969

9 The Coming of the Musical Play: Rodgers and Hammerstein

10 The Successors of Rodgers and Hammerstein from the 1940s to the 1960s

11 Musical Sophistication on Broadway: Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein

Part III Evolutions and Integrations: After 1970

12 Stephen Sondheim and the Musical of the Outsider

13 Choreographers, Directors and the Fully Integrated Musical

14 From Hair to Rent and Beyond: Has ‘Rock’ Ever Been a Four-Letter Word on Broadway?

15 The Megamusical: The Creation, Internationalisation and Impact of a Genre

16 ‘In this England, in these times’: Redefining the British Musical since 1970

17 ‘Tonight I Will Bewitch the World’: The European Musical

18 New Horizons: The Musical at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century

Part IV Legacies and Transformations

19 Why Do They Start to Sing and Dance All of a Sudden? Examining the Film Musical

20 Revisiting Classic Musicals: Revivals, Films, Television and Recordings

21 Big Dreams on the Small Screen: The Television Musical