Unfinished Show Business: Broadway Musicals as Works-In-Process

by Bruce Kirle

Book Overview

In this fresh approach to musical theatre history, Bruce Kirle challenges the commonly understood trajectory of the genre. Drawing on the notion that the world of the author stays fixed while the world of the audience is ever-changing, Kirle suggests that musicals are open, fluid products of the particular cultural moment in which they are performed. Incomplete as printed texts and scores, musicals take on unpredictable lives of their own in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809326663
• ISBN13: 9780809326662
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"