Author: Lerner, Alan Jay,
Title: The Musical Theatre: a celebration.
Description: NY, McGraw-Hill, (1986). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ ex-library. 150 years of the musical theatre by one of the great legends of Broadway. No one knew the musical theatre, or the composers,. lyricists, and performers better than Alan Jay Lerner. Filled with inside stories and backstage anecdotes about such figures as Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Lorenz Hart, Leonard Bernstein, and George and Ira Gershwin. It fascinating development had its origins in Offenbach's Vienna, came to Gilbert and Sullivan's London, and finally landed in America. Lerner takes us through the golden years of theatre and such musicals as My Fair Lady and Brigadoon right up to Cats and A Chorus Line. Library markings.

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