9780190639532-0190639539-Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America

Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America

ISBN-13: 9780190639532
ISBN-10: 0190639539
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Stacy Wolf
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 400 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780190639532
ISBN-10: 0190639539
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Stacy Wolf
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 400 pages

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Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America (ISBN-13: 9780190639532 and ISBN-10: 0190639539), written by authors Stacy Wolf, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other State & Local (United States History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used State & Local books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.17.

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The idea of American musical theatre conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in local and amateur productions at schools, community theatres, summer camps, and more. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf considers the widespread presence and persistence of musical theatre in U.S. culture, and examines it as a live, pleasurable, participatory experience of creating, watching, and listening. Why does local musical theatre flourish in America? Why do so many Americans passionately engage in a century-old artistic practice that requires intense, person-to-person collaboration? Why do audiences flock to see musicals in their hometowns? How do corporations like Disney and Music Theatre International enable musical theatre's energetic movement through American culture? Touring from Maine to California, Wolf visits elementary schools, a middle school performance festival, afterschool programs, high schools, summer camps, state park outdoor theatres, community theatres, and dinner theatres, and conducts over 200 interviews with practitioners and spectators, licensors and Disney creatives. In Beyond Broadway, Wolf tells the story of musical theatre's abundance and longevity in the U.S. as a thriving, joyful activity that touches millions of lives.

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