Part I Adaptations and transformations: before 1940 1
1 American musical theatre before the twentieth century&Katherine K.Preston 3
2 Birth pangs,growing pains and sibling rivalry: musical theatre in New York,1900-1920&Orly Leah Krasner 29
3 Romance,nostalgia and nevermore: American and British operetta in the 1920s&William A.Everett 47
4 Images of African Americans: African-American musical theatre,Show Boat and Porgy and Bess&John Graziano 63
5 The melody (and the words)linger on: American musical comedies of the 1920s and 1930s&Geoffrey Block 77
Part Ⅱ Maturations and formulations: 1940 to 1970 99
6 ‘We said we wouldn't look back': British musical theatre,1935-1960&John Snelson 101
7 The coming of the musical play: Rodgers and Hammerstein&Ann Sears 120
8 The successors of Rodgers and Hammerstein from the 1940s to the 1960s&Thomas L.Riis and Anti Sears with William A.Everett 137
9 Musical sophistication on Broadway: Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein&Bruce d.mcclung and Paul R.Laird 167
Part Ⅲ Evolutions and integrations: after 1970 179
10 Stephen Sondheim and the musical of the outsider&Jim Lovensheimer 181
11 Choreographers,directors and the fully integrated musical&Paul R.Laird 197
12 Distant cousin or fraternal twin? Analytical approaches to the film musical&Graham Wood 212
13 From Hair to Rent: is‘rock’a four-letter word on Broadway?&Scott Warfield 231
14 The megamusical and beyond: the creation,internationalisation and impact of a genre&Paul Prece and William A.Everett 246
Notes 266
Select bibliography 278
Index 290