Description During the Twenties, the Great White Way roared with nearly 300 book musicals.
Luminaries who wrote for Broadway during this decade included Irving Berlin, George M.
Cohan, Rudolf Friml, George Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Lorenz Hart, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg, and Vincent Youmans, and the era's stars included Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, and Marilyn Miller.
Light-hearted Cinderella musicals dominated these years with such hits as Kern's long-running Sally, along with romantic operettas that dealt with princes and princesses in disguise.
Plots about bootleggers and Prohibition abounded, but there were also serious musicals, including Kern and Hammerstein's masterpiece Show Boat.
In The Complete Book of 1920s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz examines in detail every book musical that opened on Broadway during the years 1920-1929.
The book discusses the era's major successes as well as its forgotten failures.
The hits include A Connecticut Yankee; Hit the Deck ; No, No, Nanette; Rose-Marie; Show Boat; The Student Prince; The Vagabond King; and Whoopee, as well as ambitious failures, including Deep River; Rainbow; and Rodgers' daring Chee-Chee.
Each entry contains the following information: -Plot summary -Cast members -Names of creative personnel, including book writers, lyricists, composers, directors, choreographers, producers, and musical directors -Opening and closing dates -Number of performances -Plot summary -Critical commentary -Musical numbers and names of the performers who introduced the songs -Production data, including information about tryouts -Source material -Details about London productions Besides separate entries for each production, the book offers numerous appendixes, including ones which cover other shows produced during the decade (revues, plays with music, miscellaneous musical presentations, and a selected list of pre-Broadway closings).
Other appendixes include a discography, filmography, a.
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