Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America
The idea of American musical theatre often conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in amateur productions at high schools, community theatres, afterschool programs, summer camps, and dinner theatres. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf looks at the widespread presence and persistence of musical theatre in U.S. culture, and examines it as a social practice--a live, visceral experience of creating, watching, and listening. Why does local musical theatre flourish in America? Why do so many Americans continue to passionately engage in a century-old artistic practice that requires intense, person-to-person collaboration? And why do audiences still flock to musicals in their hometowns? Touring American elementary schools, a middle school performance festival, afterschool programs, high schools, summer camps, state park outdoor theatres, community theatres, and dinner theatres from California to Tennessee, Wolf illustrates musical theatre's abundance and longevity in the U.S. as a thriving social activity that touches millions of lives.
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Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America
The idea of American musical theatre often conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in amateur productions at high schools, community theatres, afterschool programs, summer camps, and dinner theatres. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf looks at the widespread presence and persistence of musical theatre in U.S. culture, and examines it as a social practice--a live, visceral experience of creating, watching, and listening. Why does local musical theatre flourish in America? Why do so many Americans continue to passionately engage in a century-old artistic practice that requires intense, person-to-person collaboration? And why do audiences still flock to musicals in their hometowns? Touring American elementary schools, a middle school performance festival, afterschool programs, high schools, summer camps, state park outdoor theatres, community theatres, and dinner theatres from California to Tennessee, Wolf illustrates musical theatre's abundance and longevity in the U.S. as a thriving social activity that touches millions of lives.
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Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America

Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America

by Stacy Wolf
Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America
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Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America

by Stacy Wolf

Overview

The idea of American musical theatre often conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in amateur productions at high schools, community theatres, afterschool programs, summer camps, and dinner theatres. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf looks at the widespread presence and persistence of musical theatre in U.S. culture, and examines it as a social practice--a live, visceral experience of creating, watching, and listening. Why does local musical theatre flourish in America? Why do so many Americans continue to passionately engage in a century-old artistic practice that requires intense, person-to-person collaboration? And why do audiences still flock to musicals in their hometowns? Touring American elementary schools, a middle school performance festival, afterschool programs, high schools, summer camps, state park outdoor theatres, community theatres, and dinner theatres from California to Tennessee, Wolf illustrates musical theatre's abundance and longevity in the U.S. as a thriving social activity that touches millions of lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780190639556
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Stacy Wolf is Professor in the Program in Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. She is also the Director of the Program in Music Theater and Director of the Princeton Arts Fellows program. She is the author of A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (2002), Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical (2011), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical (2011).

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: The Junior Theatre Festival and Broadway Junior Chapter 2: Backstage Divas Chapter 3: High School Musicals and Into the Woods Chapter 4: Community Theatre Chapter 5: The Sound of Music at Outdoor Summer Musical Theatres Chapter 6: Girls' Jewish Summer Camps in Maine Chapter 7: Disney Goes to School Chapter 8: Dinner Theatres in Colorado: A Road Trip Epilogue Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Index
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