Research Catalog

Title

Boy loses girl : Broadway's librettists / Thomas S. Hischak.

Author

Hischak, Thomas S.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2002.

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Details

Description

x, 277 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Librettists > New York (State) > New York
• Musicals > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-249) and index.

Contents

The American idea : George M. Cohan -- Oh, boy! Oh, lady! : Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse -- High jinks and pipe dreams : Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II -- Strike up the band : George S. Kaufman and fellow wits -- Blossom time : Dorothy Donnelly and other early librettists -- Hooray for anything red, hot and blue! : Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse -- Charley, Flora, Fiorello, and the Yankees : George Abbott and company -- The New Yorkers : the Fields family -- Flahooley's rainbow : E.Y. Harburg and fellow conspirators -- Applause on the town : Betty Comden and Adolph Green -- On a clear day : Alan Jay Lerner -- Flying high, taking a chance : B.G. De Sylva and others in the 1930s and 1940s -- Hallelujah, Gypsy! : Arthur Laurents -- Guys and dolls and stockings : Abe Burrows and others in the 1950s -- To the forum, in the park, into the woods : Stephen Sondheim's collaborators -- Carnival on the roof : Michael Stewart, Joseph Stein, and Peter Stone -- Getting an act together : Gretchen Cryer and others in the 1960s and 1970s -- The kiss of ragtime : Terrence McNally -- The producers : the 1980s, 1990s and beyond.

Call Number

JMD 03-3

ISBN

0810844400 (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002007340

OCLC

vendor

Author

Hischak, Thomas S.

Title

Boy loses girl : Broadway's librettists / Thomas S. Hischak.

Imprint

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-249) and index.

Research Call Number

JMD 03-3