Broadway Babies Say Goodnight

Musicals Then and Now

Mark Steyn

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781136685088
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Theatre

The glorious tradition of the Broadway musical from Irving Berlin to Jerome Kern and Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. And then... Cats and Les Miz. Mark Steyn's Broadway Babies Say Goodnight is a sharp-eyed view of the whole span of Broadway musical history, seven decades of brilliant achievements the best of which are among the finest works American artists have made. Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, Gypsy, and more. In an energetic blend of musical history, analysis, and backstage chat, Mark Steyn shows us the genius behind the 'simple' musical, and asks hard questions about the British invasion of Broadway and the future of the form. In this delicious book he gives us geniuses and monsters, hits and atomic bombs, and the wonderful stories that prove show business is a business which -- as the song goes --there's no business like.

Index

ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), 102

A Nagymama, 153

Abba, 184

Abbot, Russ, 287

Abbott, George, 4, 13, 27, 63, 67, 71, 98, 100, 179, 180, 181–2, 189, 198, 205, 237, 246, 307–17

Abbott, Joy, 315, 317

Abbott, George, Theatre (New York), 307

Abdul, Paula, 182

Abie’s Irish Rose, 84, 309

‘Abode of Madame La Mode, The’, 34

Academy Awards, 165, 191

Actors’ Equity Association, 269, 271, 287, 297

Adam and the Ants, 221

Adams, Bryan, 227

Adamson, Harold, 213

‘Adelaide’s Lament’, 100

Adelphi Theatre (London), 228, 262

Adler, Richard, 27, 311

Adonis, 39

‘After The Ball’, 48, 106–7, 222, 224

Agate, James, 170

‘Agony’, 143

‘Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life’, 221

Ain’t Misbehavin’, 116, 299

‘Ain’t Misbehavin”, 177

Akeidas Izchok, 78

Aladdin, 165

Alarums and Excursions, 301

Aleichem, Sholom, 15, 126

Alessandrini, Gerard, 135

‘Alexander’s Ragtime Band’, 221, 222

‘All Alone’, 84

‘All I Ask Of You’, 45

‘All I Know’, 294

All Quiet on the Western Front, 309

All that Jazz, 182, 224

‘All That Jazz, 19, 20

‘All The Things You Are’, 41, 115, 226

Allah Be Praised!, 264

Allen, Peter, 4–6, 8

Allen, Woody, 77, 312

‘Almost Like Being In Love’, 110–11

Alvin Theatre (New York), 1...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Overture
• Act One
• Intermission
• Act Two
• Exit Music
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Index