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Pursuing the social and historical contexts of a particularly unfinished theatrical genre.

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Sweeping through the twentieth century, Unfinished Show Business offers a new perspective on the function of the American musical and its importance to international theatre. Kirle's book will become a standard study of the form. --Judith Milhous, The CUNY Graduate Center Through personal anecdote, built from his long years working as a musical director on and off Broadway and on the road, and through meticulous research and nuanced analysis, Kirle creates a vibrant, usable past for a form too often approached through tired linear histories and hagiographies. Unfinished Show Business is a must-read for musical theatre fans, scholars, and artists alike. --Jill Dolan, University of Texas at Austin Bruce Kirle reassesses America's most distinctive and popular theatrical form, the Broadway musical, and demonstrates it to be an enormously complex social phenomenon. By analyzing performance conventions--indeed, everything that never makes it into the published libretto or score--he sheds new light on many of the musicals we thought we knew so well. --David Savran, author of A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater Bruce Kirle reassesses America's most distinctive and popular theatrical form, the Broadway musical, and demonstrates it to be an enormously complex social phenomenon. By analyzing performance conventions--indeed, everything that never makes it into the published libretto or score--he sheds new light on many of the musicals we thought we knew so well. --David Savran, author of A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater Sweeping through the twentieth century, Unfinished Show Business offers a new perspective on the function of the American musical and its importance to international theatre. Kirle's book will become a standard study of the form. --Judith Milhous, The CUNY Graduate Center Through personal anecdote, built from his long years working as a musical director on and off Broadway and on the road, and through meticulous research and nuanced analysis, Kirle creates a vibrant, usable past for a form too often approached through tired linear histories and hagiographies. Unfinished Show Business is a must-read for musical theatre fans, scholars, and artists alike. --Jill Dolan, University of Texas at Austin Through personal anecdote, built from his long years working as a musical director on and off Broadway and on the road, and through meticulous research and nuanced analysis, Kirle creates a vibrant, usable past for a form too often approached through tired linear histories and hagiographies. Unfinished Show Business is a must-read for musical theatre fans, scholars, and artists alike. Jill Dolan, University of Texas at Austin Sweeping through the twentieth century, Unfinished Show Business offers a new perspective on the function of the American musical and its importance to international theatre. Kirle s book will become a standard study of the form. Judith Milhous, The CUNY Graduate Center Bruce Kirle reassesses America s most distinctive and popular theatrical form, the Broadway musical, and demonstrates it to be an enormously complex social phenomenon. By analyzing performance conventionsindeed, everything that never makes it into the published libretto or scorehe sheds new light on many of the musicals we thought we knew so well. David Savran, author of A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater Sweeping through the twentieth century, Unfinished Show Business offers a new perspective on the function of the American musical and its importance to international theatre. Kirle's book will become a standard study of the form. --Judith Milhous, The CUNY Graduate Center Through personal anecdote, built from his long years working as a musical director on and off Broadway and on the road, and through meticulous research and nuanced analysis, Kirle creates a vibrant, usable past for a form too often approached through tired linear histories and hagiographies. Unfinished Show Business is a must-read for musical theatre fans, scholars, and artists alike. --Jill Dolan, University of Texas at Austin Bruce Kirle reassesses America's most distinctive and popular theatrical form, the Broadway musical, and demonstrates it to be an enormously complex social phenomenon. By analyzing performance conventions--indeed, everything that never makes it into the published libretto or score--he sheds new light on many of the musicals we thought we knew so well. --David Savran, author of A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater Sweeping through the twentieth century, Unfinished Show Business offers a new perspective on the function of the American musical and its importance to international theatre. Kirle's book will become a standard study of the form. --Judith Milhous, The CUNY Graduate Center Bruce Kirle reassesses America' s most distinctive and popular theatrical form, the Broadway musical, and demonstrates it to be an enormously complex social phenomenon. By analyzing performance conventions-- indeed, everything that never makes it into the published libretto or score-- he sheds new light on many of the musicals we thought we knew so well. -- David Savran, author of A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater Through personal anecdote, built from his long years working as a musical director on and off Broadway and on the road, and through meticulous research and nuanced analysis, Kirle creates a vibrant, usable past for a form too often approached through tired linear histories and hagiographies. Unfinished Show Business is a must-read for musical theatre fans, scholars, and artists alike. -- Jill Dolan, University of Texas at Austin Sweeping through the twentieth century, Unfinished Show Business offers a new perspective on the function of the American musical and its importance to international theatre. Kirle' s book will become a standard study of the form. -- Judith Milhous, The CUNY Graduate Center

Bruce Kirle reassesses America's most distinctive and popular theatrical form, the Broadway musical, and demonstrates it to be an enormously complex social phenomenon. By analyzing performance conventions--indeed, everything that never makes it into the published libretto or score--he sheds new light on many of the musicals we thought we knew so well. --David Savran, author of A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater

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Bruce Kirle is an associate professor of theatre at Roosevelt University in Chicago.

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