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Author:   Ethan Mordden (, New York City)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780190227937

ISBN 10:   0190227931
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   09 July 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction THE FIRST AGE 1. Source Material 2. The Age of Burlesque 3. At the Turn of the Century THE SECOND AGE 4. The Witch of the Wood and the Bamboo Tree 5. Victor Herbert 6. The New Music 7. The Variety Show THE THIRD AGE 8. The Structure of the Twenties Musical Comedy 9. The Structure of the Twenties Operetta 10. Dancing in the Dark 11. Blue Monday Blues 12. The Rodgers and Hammerstein Handbook 13. Something to Dance About 14. After West Side Story 15. The Sondheim Handbook THE FOURTH AGE 16. Devolutions 17. That Is the Stae of the Art FOR FURTHER READING DISCOGRAPHY INDEX

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Anything Goes offers the surest description of the musical, and represents Mordden's own revised conclusions after almost forty years of considering these issues. * The Gay and Lesbian Review * Simply the best one-volume cronicle of the art-form. * Stage Direction Magazine * For four decades he has been entertaining and enlightening readers with mind-boggling regularity and with perspective, perspicacity, and pizzazz. Now with Anything Goes Mordden miraculously manages to stylishly convey in an indispensable single volume, the uncanny and encyclopedic breadth of his knowledge-and the complexity of this enchanted American art form. * Geoffrey Block, author of Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber, and Series Editor of Oxford's Broadway Legacies * [O]bviously the best-ever history of the musical and likely to remain so for a very long time. Individual shows and even numbers leap to life in Mordden's colorful prose, both in the main text and the hefty bibliographical and discographical essays that propel the volume to a hilarious final bon mot. * Booklist (starred review) * Mordden remains an undisputed heavyweight in his field; his output is impressively comprehensive and his enthusiasm inexhaustible. * Washington Independent Review of Books * More journalistic than academic, Anything Goes has a relaxed spryness. ( Oklahoma! in Mordden memorable formulation, is a musical comedy undergoing psychoanalysis. ) It's the work of an expert who is also an unabashed fan, an inveterate theatergoer who can deconstruct a score and reel off sparking backstage anecdotes all in the same paragraph. * Los Angeles Times * [T]he book takes us to present day, Mr. Mordden has a lot of ground to cover, but his high-energy style carries us along amiably, and it soon becomes obvious that he hasn't set out to write a reference work but... a survey of an art form seen through the eyes of a breathless and opinionated host. * The Wall Street Journal *

[T]he book takes us to present day, Mr. Mordden has a lot of ground to cover, but his high-energy style carries us along amiably, and it soon becomes obvious that he hasn't set out to write a reference work but... a survey of an art form seen through the eyes of a breathless and opinionated host. The Wall Street Journal More journalistic than academic, Anything Goes has a relaxed spryness. ( Oklahoma! in Mordden memorable formulation, is a musical comedy undergoing psychoanalysis. ) It's the work of an expert who is also an unabashed fan, an inveterate theatergoer who can deconstruct a score and reel off sparking backstage anecdotes all in the same paragraph. Los Angeles Times Mordden remains an undisputed heavyweight in his field; his output is impressively comprehensive and his enthusiasm inexhaustible. Washington Independent Review of Books [O]bviously the best-ever history of the musical and likely to remain so for a very long time. Individual shows and even numbers leap to life in Mordden's colorful prose, both in the main text and the hefty bibliographical and discographical essays that propel the volume to a hilarious final bon mot. Booklist (starred review) For four decades he has been entertaining and enlightening readers with mind-boggling regularity and with perspective, perspicacity, and pizzazz. Now with Anything Goes Mordden miraculously manages to stylishly convey in an indispensable single volume, the uncanny and encyclopedic breadth of his knowledge-and the complexity of this enchanted American art form. Geoffrey Block, author of Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber, and Series Editor of Oxford's Broadway Legacies Simply the best one-volume cronicle of the art-form. Stage Direction Magazine Anything Goes offers the surest description of the musical, and represents Mordden's own revised conclusions after almost forty years of considering these issues. The Gay and Lesbian Review

"""[T]he book takes us to present day, Mr. Mordden has a lot of ground to cover, but his high-energy style carries us along amiably, and it soon becomes obvious that he hasn't set out to write a reference work but... a survey of an art form seen through the eyes of a breathless and opinionated host."" --The Wall Street Journal ""More journalistic than academic, Anything Goes has a relaxed spryness. (""Oklahoma!"" in Mordden memorable formulation, ""is a musical comedy undergoing psychoanalysis."") It's the work of an expert who is also an unabashed fan, an inveterate theatergoer who can deconstruct a score and reel off sparking backstage anecdotes all in the same paragraph."" --Los Angeles Times ""Mordden remains an undisputed heavyweight in his field; his output is impressively comprehensive and his enthusiasm inexhaustible."" --Washington Independent Review of Books ""[O]bviously the best-ever history of the musical and likely to remain so for a very long time. Individual shows and even numbers leap to life in Mordden's colorful prose, both in the main text and the hefty bibliographical and discographical essays that propel the volume to a hilarious final bon mot."" --Booklist (starred review) ""For four decades he has been entertaining and enlightening readers with mind-boggling regularity and with perspective, perspicacity, and pizzazz. Now with Anything Goes Mordden miraculously manages to stylishly convey in an indispensable single volume, the uncanny and encyclopedic breadth of his knowledge-and the complexity of this enchanted American art form.""--Geoffrey Block, author of Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from ""Show Boat"" to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber, and Series Editor of Oxford's Broadway Legacies ""Simply the best one-volume cronicle of the art-form."" --Stage Direction Magazine ""Anything Goes offers the surest description of the musical, and represents Mordden's own revised conclusions after almost forty years of considering these issues."" --The Gay and Lesbian Review"

Author Information

Ethan Mordden is a recognized authority on the American musical, and the author of such books as Make Believe: The Broadway Musical in the 1920s, Beautiful Mornin: The Broadway Musical in the 1940s, and Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s. He lives in Manhattan.

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