Women in American musical theatre : essays on composers, lyricists, librettists, arrangers, choreographers, designers, directors, producers and performance artists / edited by Bud Coleman and Judith Sebesta.
Will you remember: female lyricists of operetta and musical comedy / Korey Rothman -- Hallie Flanagan and Cheryl Crawford : women pioneer producers of the 1930s / Barbara Means Fraser -- Twentieth-century women choreographers : refining and redefining the showgirl image / Anna Wheeler Gentry -- A composer in her own right : arrangers, musical directors and conductors / Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh -- Working with the boys : women who wrote musicals in the golden age / Gary Konas -- Designing women / Tish Dace -- Helburn, Dalrymple, and Lortel : a triumvirate of great producers / Bud Coleman -- "Open a new window, open a new door" : women directors take the stage / Anne Fliotsos -- Social consciousness and the "search for new directions" : the musicals of Gretchen Cryer, Nancy Ford, and Elizabeth Swados / Judith Sebesta -- The rise of the female director/choreographer on Broadway / Mary Jo Lodge -- From revolution to revelation : women performance artists and the transformation of American musical theatre / Woodrow Hood.
Summary:
"These essays examine the history of women in musical theatre, providing biographical descriptions; interpretations of their productions; and several accounts of how being a woman affected their careers"--Provided by publisher.
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