Rhinegold Musicals Music In Focus
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Musicals in Focus is your essential guide to this exciting and popular genre. It investigates what is meant by 'a musical', looks at how they are constructed, their most common features and why they have become such a well-loved form of entertainment.
Key features:
- NEW second edition
- Fully-revised
- Full-colour images throughout
- New entries on the latest musicals
- Brand new index and glossary.
This book explores precursors to the musical, from The Beggar's Opera, through operetta to works such as No, No, Nanette. It then takes you through the development of the genre, looking at changes in style during its 80-year history, and shows why a series of significant works have become so influential.
This book offers a series of case studies, with examples drawn from the more popular and familiar works, including Show Boat, Anything Goes, Porgy and Bess, Oklahoma!, West Side Story, Cabaret and Jesus Christ Superstar.
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