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245 04 a| The new American musical :b| an anthology from the end of the century /c| edited and introduced by Wiley Hausam.;

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264 1 a| New York :b| Theatre Communications Group,c| [2003];

300 a| xxiv, 448 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 23 cm;

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520 a| This anthology collects for the first time the work of these artists. In the tradition of such classic musicals as West Side Story and Sweeney Todd, a new generation to composers, lyricists and librettists have extended and transformed the serious musical. Their work bears the influence of composers and authors, such as Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince, and even Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. Yet these artists have fashioned a new, highly personal and challenging form of lyric theater that darkly cuts to the heart of postmodern America. Includes: Floyd Collins, set mostly in the pitch blackness of a cave in rural Kentucky in 1925, this piece, based on real events, presents a soul alone with himself while, above ground, the circus of modern media life unconsciously tries to rob Floyd of his human dignity; Reni, set amidst a gentrification war in New York City's Lower East Side in the mid-1990s, portrays a community of youthful racial diversity and sexual openness brought together, first by the struggle to be an artist in a materialist society and then by the fight to prevent disease from snuffing out their youthful lives and love; Parade juxtaposes anti-Semitism and racism against African-Americans in an Atlanta, Georgia, still haunted in 1913 by the ghosts of the Civil War; and The Wild Party, set near Manhattan's Morningside Heights just before the Crash of 1929, observes sensual and spiritual decadence through show business people desperate to love and be loved.;

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The new American musical : an anthology from the end of the century / edited and introduced by Wiley Hausam.

Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication	New York : Theatre Communications Group, [2003]
Description	xxiv, 448 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects	Musicals--Librettos.

Other author/creator	Hausam, Wiley, editor.
Other author/creator	Guettel, Adam Libretto for (work): Floyd Collins.
Other author/creator	Larson, Jonathan. Libretto for (work): Rent.
Other author/creator	Brown, Jason Robert. Libretto for (work): Parade.
Other author/creator	LaChiusa, Michael John. Libretto for (work): Wild party.
Included Work	Landau, Tina. Floyd Collins.
Included Work	Larson, Jonathan. Rent (Libretto)
Included Work	Uhry, Alfred Parade.
Included Work	LaChiusa, Michael John. Wild party (Libretto)
Contents	Floyd Collins / music & lyrics by Adam Guettel ; book & additional lyrics by Tina Landau -- Rent / book, music & lyrics by Jonathan Larson -- Parade / music & lyrics by Jason Robert Brown ; book by Alfred Uhry -- The wild party / music & lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa ; book by Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe.
Abstract	This anthology collects for the first time the work of these artists. In the tradition of such classic musicals as West Side Story and Sweeney Todd, a new generation to composers, lyricists and librettists have extended and transformed the serious musical. Their work bears the influence of composers and authors, such as Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince, and even Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. Yet these artists have fashioned a new, highly personal and challenging form of lyric theater that darkly cuts to the heart of postmodern America. Includes: Floyd Collins, set mostly in the pitch blackness of a cave in rural Kentucky in 1925, this piece, based on real events, presents a soul alone with himself while, above ground, the circus of modern media life unconsciously tries to rob Floyd of his human dignity; Reni, set amidst a gentrification war in New York City's Lower East Side in the mid-1990s, portrays a community of youthful racial diversity and sexual openness brought together, first by the struggle to be an artist in a materialist society and then by the fight to prevent disease from snuffing out their youthful lives and love; Parade juxtaposes anti-Semitism and racism against African-Americans in an Atlanta, Georgia, still haunted in 1913 by the ghosts of the Civil War; and The Wild Party, set near Manhattan's Morningside Heights just before the Crash of 1929, observes sensual and spiritual decadence through show business people desperate to love and be loved.
Genre/form	Drama.
LCCN	2001027192
ISBN	1559362006 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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