Musicals

With book, music, and lyrics by Tony Award®-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, and musical d...

Although Noël Cowards work as playwright, songwriter and actor has long been celebrated, his contributions to the British musical have largely been...

ÊMusic by Richard RodgersÊÞÊLyrics by Oscar Hammerstein IIÊÞÊBook by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua LoganÊÞÊAdapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winnin...

Irene G. Dash explores the influence of Shakespeare on American musical theater through analyses of five important productions from 1938 through 19...

Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the Hi-de-ho chorus of Minnie the Moocher, Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and so...

How do musical theater songs actually get written? What enables some composer and lyricist partnerships to last for decades? Composer David Shire ...

Bette Midler today is a beloved legacy star, best known for her comic witch in Disney's Hocus Pocus (1993) and its 2022 sequel. She has also gained...

Whether they appeared on Broadway or the Strand, the shows appearing in 1924 epitomized the glamor of popular musical theatre. What made this parti...

Playwright, composer, actor, director, and producer George M. Cohan looms large in musical theater legend. Remembered today for classic tunes like ...

Chill and swaggering colorbent Founding Fathers have been blowing away Hamilton audiences since 2015. And there is no doubt that Lin-Manuel Miranda...

Movie soundtrack music is big business. In both film studios and at major record labels, entire divisions focus exclusively on marketing movie musi...

In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics,...

In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics,...

Prepping songs for Musical Theatre auditions can be more stressful and confusing than a bad production of Sweeney Todd... but this book can help. ...

The Music of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings provides an in-depth study of the music of two of the biggest fantasy franchises, focussing on ...

Rida Johnson Young (ca. 1869-1926) was one of the most prolific female playwrights of her time, as well as a lyricist and librettist in the musical...

This book focuses on the aural and musical sphere of fictional audio-visual reconstructions of the Holocaust, a defining event in the history of th...