The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre

Global in scope and featuring thirty-five chapters from more than fifty dance, music, and theatre scholars and practitioners, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre introduces the fundamentals of musical theatre studies and highlights developing global trends in practice and scholarship.

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Laura MacDonald is Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. With William A. Everett, she edited The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers (2017). She writes about long-running musicals on Broadway, in Europe, and in East Asia.

Ryan Donovan is Assistant Professor of Theater Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity (Oxford) and Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre (Bloomsbury), and he co-edited the special issue of Studies in Musical Theatre on musical theatre dance.

Inhalt

Foreword

Diane Paulus

Part 1: What

Introduction: On Musicals

San Bao

1. Musical Theater Mobilities: Around the World in Eighty Years ** David Savran

2. An American in Tokyo? Musical Theatre Dance's Transnational Movements ** Ryan Donovan

3. "How a World Can Seem So Vast": The Craft of Musical Theatre Dramaturgy ** Lindsey R. Barr and Laura MacDonald

4. The Singing Voice ** Masi Asare

5. "The Song Is You": Song Types and Genres in Musical Theatre William A. Everett ** Part 2: When

   Introduction: Dark Primal Energy, Ancestor Memory, and American Exceptionalism ** André De Shields with Kenneth J. Cerniglia

6. From Ballad Opera to Minstrelsy and Back: Social Class, Race, and Gender on the North American Musical Stage ** Kristin Moriah

7. From the 1870s through World War I: The Spectre and Spectacle of the Human Body ** Maya Cantu

8. Boom to Bust: Genre Borders, Color Lines, and Women Stars in the Musical between the World Wars ** Todd Decker

9. World War II and the Cold War: Reflections and Refractions of Ourselves, Then and Now ** Dominic McHugh

10. Since the 1980s: The Global Musical Theatre Ecology Kelsey Blair ** Part 3: Who

    Introduction: Who Makes a Musical? ** Georgia Stitt

11. Musical Theatre Training in the Twenty-First Century: A Primer ** Amy S. Osatinski and Bud Coleman

12. "Forget About the Boy": Women and Creative Collaborations in Musical Theatre ** Arianne Johnson Quinn and Clare Chandler

13. Good Gals Wear Black: Offstage Labor and the Musical ** Christine Snyder

14. Mediated Taste: The Role of Critics ** Paul R. Laird

15. From Stage Door to Cyberspace: The Digital Evolution of Musical Theatre Fandom Adam Rush and Stephanie Lim ** Part 4: How

    Introduction: How Musicals Work: A Press Representative's View ** Chris Boneau

16. Fitting the Slipper: The Art of Adaptation for the Musical Stage ** William A. Everett

17. Harnessing Technology: The Evolving Labor of Design in Musical Theatre ** Virginia Anderson

18. Humming the Scenery: The Aesthetics of Musical Theatre Spectacle ** Douglas L. Reside

19. "That's Showbiz, Kid": Casting as Process and Product ** Ryan Donovan

20. The Foundation, Function, and Future of the Musical Theatre Director ** Mary Jo Lodge and Anne Healy

21. How Dancers and Choreographers Work: The Laboring Bodies of Musical Theatre ** Joanna Dee Das

22. "The Name on Everybody's Lips": Marketing Musical Theatre ** Laura MacDonald

23. A Critical Guide to Code-Meshing, Multilingualism, and Musicals Samuel Yates ** Part 5: Where

    Introduction: Scenes from a Showbiz Couple's Travelogue ** Kim Varhola

24. Centers of Musical Theatre ** Alex Bádue, Jennifer C.H.J. Wilson, Laura Milburn, Leesi Patrick, and Sir Anril P. Tiatco

25. Pilots and Petticoats: Original Musicals in Continental Europe ** Jeroen van Wijhe and Jacek Miköajczyk

26. The Broadway-Style Musical in/and Global Asias: 1920-2019 ** Sissi Liu and Rina Tanaka

27. "One of the best ways to please the locals is to go to New York": US American Regional Theatres and New Musical Theatre Development ** Claudia Wilsch Case

28. "We're All in This Together": Student and Amateur Performances ** Kenneth J. Cerniglia

29. Mediated Musical Theatre Sam O'Connell ** Part 6: Why

    Introduction: Into the Theatre ** Yilun (Della) Wu

30. Journeys to the Past: The Uses of Memory and Nostalgia in Musical Theatre ** Bryan M. Vandevender

31. What's in a Name? The Multiplicities of the Musical ** John Koegel

32. Interrogating America's National Myth Onstage: Case Studies on the Individual and the Community in U.S. Musical Theatre ** Katie Welsh and Stacy Wolf

33. Translating Race in Musical Theatre ** Ji Hon (Kayla) Yuh and Emilio Méndez Rios

34. "Art Isn't Easy" (and Neither is Commerce): The Musical Stays in the Money ** Michael Schwartz

35. "World"-Traveling, Diversity, Inclusion, and the Making of Musicals in the Twenty-First Century
    Trevor Boffone