The Sound of Musicals

The Sound of Musicals
ISBN-10
1849433127
ISBN-13
9781849433129
Category
Music
Pages
96
Language
English
Published
2012-06-18
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
Ruth Leon

Description

The world of musicals is beautiful, complex, hilarious, hard-headed, and improbable. It is as hard to make a great musical as it is to fly a spaceship to the moon and there are at least as many moving parts. Why is a great musical as significant a theatrical achievement as, say, King Lear? In this entertaining new title in Oberon Masters Series, Ruth Leon tells all about the composers, the lyricists, the directors and the pioneers of the stage musical on both sides of the Atlantic while trying to reveal the truth behind the eternal question - what are musicals and why do we love them?

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