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Author:   Maya Cantu
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9780472076574

ISBN 10:   0472076574
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   16 January 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION The Enduring Myth of 42nd Street and the “Forgotten Melody” of Bradford Ropes INTERLUDE The Stories of Ropes’s Backstage Trilogy ONE Peering Back at “Proper Boston” TWO Drag Reveals and “Strange Interludes”: Billy Bradford’s Dances on Broadway THREE “This is Not a Book to Give to a Maiden Aunt”: The Influence of Backstage Novels and “Pansy Craze” Novels FOUR “Light-Hearted and Damned”: Anti-Gay Discrimination and Camp Defiance in Ropes’s Backstage Novels FIVE “Your Blood Responds More Eagerly to the Lure of the Theatre”: The Backstage Trilogy, the Puritan Ethos, and the Myth of “The Show Must Go On” SIX Bringing Back Bradford Ropes Notes Bibliography Index

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"""A well-researched and thorough illumination of a writer who deserves to be better known. For fans, performers, and creators of musical theater.""--Library Journal (1/26/2024 12:00:00 AM)"

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Maya Cantu is a dramaturg, interdisciplinary scholar, and historian who teaches on the Drama Faculty of Bennington College. She is also the author of American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage: Imagining the Working Girl from “Irene” to “Gypsy”.

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