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Pursuing the social and historical contexts of a particularly unfinished theatrical genre.

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Author:   Bruce Kirle
Publisher:   Southern Illinois University Press
Imprint:   Southern Illinois University Press
Edition:   Annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780809326662

ISBN 10:   0809326663
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   20 October 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Bruce Kirle reassesses America's most distinctive and popular theatrical form, the Broadway musical, and demonstrates it to be an enormously complex social phenomenon. By analyzing performance conventions--indeed, everything that never makes it into the published libretto or score--he sheds new light on many of the musicals we thought we knew so well. --David Savran, author of A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater

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Bruce Kirle is a lecturer in music theatre at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and a former associate professor of theatre at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He has published on the reflexive relationship between Broadway musicals and the shifting perceptions of American identity in Theatre Journal, and he received the Monette-Horwitz Dissertation Prize for 2001 - 2002 from CLAG (Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies). Before earning his doctorate, Kirle was a professional musical director. He began his career composing musicals at La MaMa in New York.

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