Books written by Ethan Mordden

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  On Streisand: An Opinionated Guide

  " This is followed by a long essay on how Streisand's idiosyncratic self-realization marks her as a unique national treasure, an artist without limits. Then comes the major part of the book, a work-by-work analysis.

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  Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre

  Offers a history of American musical theater from the 1920s through to the 1970s, and includes such famous works as "Oklahoma!," "The Red Mill," and "Porgy and Bess."

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  The Splendid Art of Opera: A Concise History

  Covers the origins of opera in Florence, Venice, Paris, Hamburg, and London, chronicling sociopolitical factors, the influence of the popular arts, and the great singers

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  Buddies: A Continuation of the "Buddies" Cycle

  At the Madcap Heiress', guests are an audience to be charmed and scandalized. All queens are funny: because the only other thing they can be is bitter. But this queen is insightfully ridiculous, like Dali's mustache.

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  A Guide to Orchestral Music: The Handbook for Non-musicians

  Relaxed and accessible in style, this authoritative guide is the first symphony handbook for non-musicians. The book begins with a general introduction to the symphony and short pieces on the...

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  Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre

  ... “Mine,” is a quodlibet, though both melodies are dreary. The show itself wasn't. Cruel and sour, it was a kind of Where do we go after Of Thee I Sing ? Why didn't they write sequels to Anything Goes, Brigadoon , My Fair Lady?

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  Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s

  He also covers illuminating trivia--the spy thriller The Lady Comes Across, whose star got so into her role that she suffered paranoid hallucinations and had to be hospitalized; the smutty Follow the Girls, damned as "burlesque with a ...

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  All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago

  As this text looks back at Chicago's various moving parts, we see how the American theatre serves as a kind of alternative news medium.

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  All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago

  In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths - the gleefully subversive character of American musical comedy, the reckless glamour of the big-city newspaper, the mad decade of the 1920s, the work of Bob ...

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  A Guide to Orchestral Music: The Handbook for Non-musicians

  5 in D Major This work stands out in the Brandenburg series for its harpsichord solo, which is surprisingly prominent in an era that did not ... The third movement, a chummy dance, brings the string band back in for a light finale.

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  Medium Cool: The Movies of the 1960s

  With authorit, and wit, Ethan Mordden explores American film and filmmakers in a crucial decade, the 1960s--the decade in which the way Hollywood made moviews and the way audiences perceived...

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  Pick a Pocket Or Two: A History of British Musical Theatre

  True, The Mikado seems almost entirely an airhead of a show. It even lacks a clear-cut protagonist, the figure who, by definition of the ancient Greek stage, drives the plot. G & S never give us a Phantom Of the Opera, a Matilda: ...

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  All That Glittered: The Golden Age of Drama on Broadway, 1919-1959

  In All That Glittered, Ethan Mordden, long one of Broadway's best chroniclers, recreates the fascinating lost world of its golden age.

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  Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theater

  Offers a history of American musical theater from the 1920s through to the 1970s, and includes such famous works as "Oklahoma!," "The Red Mill," and "Porgy and Bess."

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  The New Book of Opera Anecdotes

  Mordden recounts these stories in his own unique voice, amplifying events for reading pleasure and adding in background material so the opera newcomer can play on the same field as the aficionado.

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  When Broadway Went to Hollywood

  Here's the book that chronicles what happens when stage geniuses come up against the anti-intellectual producers of Hollywood.

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  Opera Anecdotes

  From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this book of stories unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore.

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  Sing for Your Supper: The Broadway Musical in the 1930s

  Innovations in dance were pioneered by Balanchine and others. Scenic advancements made Astaire's The Band Wagon move across the stage in novel ways. Gershwin's revolutionary Porgy and Bess entered the canon of American Classics.

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  All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago

  In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths - the gleefully subversive character of American musical comedy, the reckless glamour of the big-city newspaper, the mad decade of the 1920s, the work of Bob ...

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  Pick a Pocket Or Two: A History of British Musical Theatre

  ' ... Mordden is the preeminent historian of the form, and his book will be required reading for readers of all walks, from the most casual of musical theater goers to musical theater buffs to students and scholars of the form"--