The World of Musicals: An Encyclopedia of Stage, Screen, and by Mark Robinson

By Mark Robinson

This wide-ranging, two-volume encyclopedia of musicals outdated and new will captivate younger fans—and end up important to these considering staging a musical production.

• deals seven-hundred alphabetically prepared entries relating to musicals in theatre, movie, and television

• Spans the historical past of musical theatre from Gilbert and Sullivan operettas within the past due 1800s to the present

• Concentrates on musicals which are traditionally vital and/or of mainstream curiosity, in addition to those who can be tested in a highschool track, track heritage, or theatre class

• encompasses a teacher-friendly advisor to the most well-liked musicals played via excessive colleges, discussing casting/characters, gown wishes, notes at the hassle of the track, and more

• contains a chosen bibliography, discography, and videography in addition to a chronology taking pictures key occasions within the background of the musical

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