9780190665210-0190665211-Oklahoma!: The Making of an American Musical, Revised and Expanded Edition (Broadway Legacies)

Oklahoma!: The Making of an American Musical, Revised and Expanded Edition (Broadway Legacies)

ISBN-13: 9780190665210
ISBN-10: 0190665211
Edition: 2
Author: Tim Carter
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 328 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780190665210
ISBN-10: 0190665211
Edition: 2
Author: Tim Carter
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 328 pages

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Oklahoma!: The Making of an American Musical, Revised and Expanded Edition (Broadway Legacies) (ISBN-13: 9780190665210 and ISBN-10: 0190665211), written by authors Tim Carter, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Oklahoma!: The Making of an American Musical, Revised and Expanded Edition (Broadway Legacies) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.01.

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First published in 2007, Oklahoma! The Making of an American Musical tells the full story of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Author Tim Carter examines archival materials, manuscripts, and journalism, and the lofty aspirations and mythmaking that surrounded the musical from its very inception. The book made for a watershed moment in the study of the American musical: the first well-researched, serious musical analysis of the show by a musicologist, it was also the first biography of a musical, transforming a field that had, prior to this, oriented itself around creators rather than creations.

In this new and fully revised edition, Carter draws on newly uncovered sources, including the Rouben Mamoulian Papers at the Library of Congress, which offer new correspondence, contracts, and even new versions of the working script used - and annotated - throughout the show's rehearsal process. Carter also focuses on the key players and concepts behind the musical, including the original play on which it was based (Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs) and the Theatre Guild's Theresa Helburn and Lawrence Langner, who fatefully brought Rodgers and Hammerstein together for their first collaboration. The crucial new perspective these revisions and additions provide make this edition of Carter's seminal work a compulsory purchase for all teachers, students, and lovers of musical theatre.

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