| Playing Time |
051629 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 75845 KB; MP3 file size: 148602 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Performer |
Read by Kim Criswell. |
| Note |
Duration: 5:16:29. |
| Summary |
A major production for Naxos Audiobooks and a unique audiobook, this bold and entertaining undertaking traces the musical from its origins in classical music (Gay's The beggar's opera, Offenbach's operettas and Gilbert and Sullivan) through to its flowering in America: Showboat, Anything goes, High society, Guys and dolls, Oklahoma, West side story, The sound of music, Oliver, Cabaret, A little night music, The Rocky Horror show, The phantom of the opera -- the list is endless. So are the stars who made the musicals live. The composers: Kern, Porter, Gershwin, Bernstein, Lloyd Webber; the famous partnerships such as Rogers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe; the performers Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Howard Keel, Julie Andrews ... and the tempestuous creative background to the productions themselves. |
| Subject |
Musicals -- History and criticism. -- Sound recordings.
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Musicals -- Analysis, appreciation. -- Sound recordings.
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Musicals -- Excerpts. -- Sound recordings.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Criswell, Kim.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9789626342275 (OCoLC)48647653 |
| ISBN |
(sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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