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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777848403321

Autore

Block Geoffrey Holden <1948->

Titolo

Richard Rodgers [[electronic resource] /] / Geoffrey Block

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2003

ISBN

1-281-74097-7

9786611740979

0-300-12754-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

Yale Broadway masters

Disciplina

782.1/4/092

B

Soggetti

Compositeurs - Biographies - États-Unis

MUSIC / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

From apprentice to musical dramatist -- A tale of two Connecticut Yankees -- Hits, long runs, and a musical comedy of errors -- World War II, the musical : South Pacific -- Broadway comes to television : the three Cinderellas -- After Hammerstein.

Sommario/riassunto

Richard Rodgers was an icon of the musical theater, a prolific composer whose career spanned six decades and who wrote more than a thousand songs and forty shows for the American stage. In this absorbing book, Geoffrey Block examines Rodgers's entire career, providing rich details about the creation, staging, and critical reception of some of his most popular musicals. Block traces Rodgers's musical education, early work, and the development of his musical and dramatic language. He focuses on two shows by Rodgers and Hart (A Connecticut Yankee and The Boys from Syracuse) and two by Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific and Cinderella), offering new insights into each one. He concludes with the first serious look at the five neglected and often maligned musicals that Rodgers composed in the 1960's and 1970's, after the death of Hammerstein.