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Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America
Contributor(s): Nordlinger, Romy (Read by), Wolf, Stacy (Author)
ISBN: 1665176768     ISBN-13: 9781665176767
Publisher: HighBridge Audio
OUR PRICE:   $22.49  
Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats
Published: August 2020
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- Performing Arts | Theater - Broadway & Musicals
- Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism
- Music | Genres & Styles - Musicals
 
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The idea of American musical theatre often conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in amateur productions at high schools, community theatres, afterschool programs, summer camps, and dinner theatres. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf looks at the widespread presence and persistence of musical theatre in US culture, and examines it as a social practice--a live, visceral experience of creating, watching, and listening. Why does local musical theatre flourish in America? Why do so many Americans continue to passionately engage in a century-old artistic practice that requires intense, person-to-person collaboration? And why do audiences still flock to musicals in their hometowns? Touring American elementary schools, a middle school performance festival, afterschool programs, high schools, summer camps, state park outdoor theatres, community theatres, and dinner theatres from California to Tennessee, Wolf illustrates musical theatre's abundance and longevity in the US as a thriving social activity that touches millions of lives.