Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America

Awards:   Winner of Finalist for Outstanding Book of 2020 from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Author:   Professor Stacy Wolf (Professor, Program in Theater & Director, Princeton Art Fellows, Professor, Program in Theater & Director, Princeton Art Fellows, Princeton University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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Pages:   392
Publication Date:   15 January 2020
Format:   Paperback
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  • Winner of Finalist for Outstanding Book of 2020 from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

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The idea of American musical theatre conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in local and amateur productions at schools, community theatres, summer camps, and more. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf considers the widespread presence and persistence of musical theatre in U.S. culture, and examines it as a live, pleasurable, participatory experience of creating, watching, and listening. Why does local musical theatre flourish in America? Why do so many Americans passionately engage in a century-old artistic practice that requires intense, person-to-person collaboration? Why do audiences flock to see musicals in their hometowns? How do corporations like Disney and Music Theatre International enable musical theatre's energetic movement through American culture? Touring from Maine to California, Wolf visits elementary schools, a middle school performance festival, afterschool programs, high schools, summer camps, state park outdoor theatres, community theatres, and dinner theatres, and conducts over 200 interviews with practitioners and spectators, licensors and Disney creatives. In Beyond Broadway, Wolf tells the story of musical theatre's abundance and longevity in the U.S. as a thriving, joyful activity that touches millions of lives.

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Author:   Professor Stacy Wolf (Professor, Program in Theater & Director, Princeton Art Fellows, Professor, Program in Theater & Director, Princeton Art Fellows, Princeton University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780190639532


ISBN 10:   0190639539
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   15 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: The Junior Theatre Festival and Broadway Junior Chapter 2: Backstage Divas Chapter 3: High School Musicals and Into the Woods Chapter 4: Community Theatre Chapter 5: The Sound of Music at Outdoor Summer Musical Theatres Chapter 6: Girls' Jewish Summer Camps in Maine Chapter 7: Disney Goes to School Chapter 8: Dinner Theatres in Colorado: A Road Trip Epilogue Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Index

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Beyond Broadway takes us thousands of miles from New York City to the heartland of musical theatre in America. Surveying the work of dozens of amateur companies, schools, and summer camps, Stacy Wolf provides gorgeously detailed and revealing portraits of the many devotees across the country who pour their hopes and dreams into the Broadway musical. Her rich analysis of this thriving industry is a model of engaged scholarship while her devotion to the countless people down in the trenches transmutes Beyond Broadway into an act of love. * David Savran, The Graduate Center, City University of New York * In Beyond Broadway, Stacy Wolf, one of the foremost scholars of Broadway musicals, takes a fascinating journey across America to explore how enthusiastic youth and adults put on shows all over the place: in schools, summer camps, community theaters, dinner theaters, and countless off-the-beaten track venues. She reveals a vibrant amateur scene that runs parallel to - and ultimately sustains - top-flight Broadway productions. Lively, incisive, brimming with good will and brilliant commentary, this book will appeal to a span of readers as broad and inclusive as the productions it chronicles. * Carol J. Oja, author of Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War *


In Beyond Broadway, Stacy Wolf, one of the foremost scholars of Broadway musicals, takes a fascinating journey across America to explore how enthusiastic youth and adults put on shows all over the place: in schools, summer camps, community theaters, dinner theaters, and countless off-the-beaten track venues. She reveals a vibrant amateur scene that runs parallel to -- and ultimately sustains -- top-flight Broadway productions. Lively, incisive, brimming with good will and brilliant commentary, this book will appeal to a span of readers as broad and inclusive as the productions it chronicles. -- Carol J. Oja, author of Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War Beyond Broadway takes us thousands of miles from New York City to the heartland of musical theatre in America. Surveying the work of dozens of amateur companies, schools, and summer camps, Stacy Wolf provides gorgeously detailed and revealing portraits of the many devotees across the country who pour their hopes and dreams into the Broadway musical. Her rich analysis of this thriving industry is a model of engaged scholarship while her devotion to the countless people down in the trenches transmutes Beyond Broadway into an act of love. -- David Savran, The Graduate Center, City University of New York


Author Information

Stacy Wolf is Professor in the Program in Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. She is also the Director of the Program in Music Theater and Director of the Princeton Arts Fellows program. She is the author of A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (2002), Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical (2011), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical (2011).

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