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Anything goes : a history of American musical theatre / Ethan Mordden.

by Mordden, Ethan, 1947-

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Oxford University Press, c2013.

Musicals -- United States -- History and criticism.

9780199892839 (hc.)

0199892830 (hc.)

xii, 346 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Discography: (p. 291-322)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The first age. Source material ; The age of burlesque ; At the turn of the century -- The second age. The witch of the wood and the bamboo tree ; Victor Herbert ; The new music ; The variety show -- The third age. The structure of twenties musical comedy ; The structure of twenties operetta ; Dancing in the dark ; Blue monday blues ; The Rodgers and Hammerstein handbook ; Something to dance about ; After West side story ; The Sondheim handbook -- The fourth age. Devolutions ; That is the state of the art.

"Anything Goes stages a grand revue of the musical from the 1920s through the 1970s, narrated in Mordden's famously witty, scholarly, and conversational style."--Jacket.

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