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Enchanted Evenings by Geoffrey Block, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Geoffrey Block

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Enchanted Evenings by Geoffrey Block, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Enchanted Evenings by Geoffrey Block, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Geoffrey Block

Enchanted Evenings by Geoffrey Block, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals. Readers will find such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Phantom of the Opera. Geoffrey Block provides a documentary history of each of the musicals, showing how each work tookshape and revealing, at the same time, how the American musical evolved from the 1920s to today, both on stage and on screen. The book's particular focus is on the music, offering a wealth of detail about how librettist, lyricist, composer, and director work together to shape the piece. Block alsoincludes trenchant social commentary and lively backstage anecdotes. Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Kurt Weill, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and other luminaries emerge as hardworkingcraftsmen under enormous pressure to sell tickets without compromising their dramatic vision. The second edition includes a greatly expanded chapter on Sondheim, a new chapter on Lloyd Webber, and two new chapters on the film adaptations of the main musicals featured in the text (including such hardto find films as the original 1936 version of Anything Goes and the 1959 film adaptation of Porgy and Bess).Packed with information, including a complete discography and plot synopses and song-by-song scenic outlines for each of the fourteen shows, Enchanted Evenings is an essential reference as well as a riveting history. | Enchanted Evenings by Geoffrey Block, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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