02463cam a2200349 i 4500 123151 20230410124110.0 150612s2016 nyu 001 0 eng 18656689 9780374256920 hardcover 9780374711252 electronic book DLC eng rda DLC DLC pcc n-us--- ML 1711 V665s 2016 782.140973 Viertel, Jack (Theatrical producer) The secret life of the American musical : how Broadway shows are built / Jack Viertel. First edition. New York : Sarah Crichton Books, 2016. xvii, 312 pages ; 24 cm Includes index. Overture -- Curtain up, light the lights : opening numbers -- The wizard and I : the "I want" song -- If I loved you : conditional love songs -- Put on your Sunday clothes : the noise -- Bushwhacking 1 : second couples -- Bushwhacking 2 : villains -- Bushwhacking 3 : the multiplot, and how it thickens -- Adelaide's lament : stars -- Tevye's dream : tent poles -- La vie bohâaeme : curtain: act 1 -- Intermission -- Clambake : curtain up: act 2 -- Suddenly Seymour : the candy dish -- All er nothin' : beginning to pack -- The small house of Joseph Smith, the American Moses : the main event -- I thought you did it for me, momma : the next-to-last-scene -- You can't stop the beat : the end -- Curtain call : how Woodie Guthrie -- of all people -- changed Broadway musicals forever -- Listening to Broadway. "Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In [this book], Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate audiences, and how one landmark show leads to the next"--Dust jacket flap. Musicals United States History and criticism. Musicals United States Analysis, appreciation. Musicales Historia y crítica Estados Unidos. Teatro estadounidense Historia y crítica. Comedia musical. Música estadounidense. lcc bk 70979 70979 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 1 0 ML 1711 V665s 2016 00000116071 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 bk