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Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s
Beautiful Mornin' The Broadway Musical in the 1940s
Author: Ethan Mordden
"Music and girls are the soul of musical comedy," one critic wrote, early in the 1940s. But this was the age that wanted more than melody and kickline form its musical shows. The form had been running on empty for too long, as a formula for the assembly of spare parts--star comics, generic loves songs, rumba dancers, Ethel Merman. If Rodgers and...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195128512
ISBN-10: 0195128516
Publication Date: 8/27/1999
Pages: 278
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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