Everett, William A.
The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers
1. A Ballyhoo for Producers
Laura MacDonald, William A. Everett
2. Actors Act. Directors Direct. Producers … Produce? Mel Brooks’s
Kathryn Edney
3. Tony Pastor: The Father of Vaudeville
Gillian M. Rodger
4. Adolf Philipp and the German American Musical Comedy
John Koegel
5. George Edwardes: The Guv’nor of Late Victorian Musical Theatre
William A. Everett
6. Charles Frohman: King of the Star-Makers
Brian D. Valencia
7. Aggressive, Beleaguered, Commercial, Defiant: Marc Klaw and Abraham Erlanger
Marlis Schweitzer
8. Did the Shuberts Save Broadway? The Corporate Producers
Anthony Vickery
9. Sam Harris: A Producing Patron of Innovation
Alisa Roost
10. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.’s ‘Simple Idea’: Girls and Music in Tastefully Extravagant Settings
Todd Decker
11. Feather-Footed Impresario: The
Maya Cantu
12. Alexander A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley: The Smart Sophisticates
Jennifer Ashley Tepper, William A. Everett
13. Coherency: Lew Fields, the Performer-Producer and Experimenter in Integration
Dominic Symonds
14. Firm Foundations: James Cassius Williamson and ‘The Firm’
Frank Straten
15. Japanese Women’s Popular Musicals: The Takarazuka Revue
Nobuko Anan
16. Refining the Tastes of Broadway Audiences: The Theatre Guild and American Musical Theatre
Claudia Wilsch Case
17. More than a Producer: ‘George Abbott Presents’
Paul R. Laird
18. Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Sound of Money
Valerie M. Joyce
19. The Nice One: The Productions of Robert Griffith
Michael Schwartz
20. The Sparkplug and the Engineer: Balancing Art and Business in the Collaboration of Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin
Dominic McHugh
21. Roger L. Stevens: The Great Facilitator
Karen Patricia Heath
22. ‘He Could Get It for You Wholesale’: The Producing Genius of David Merrick
Ryan McKinney
23. Stuart Ostrow: Experiments in Independence
Elissa Harbert
24. Hal Prince: Artistry in Producing
Paul R. Laird
25. Korean Musical Theatre’s Past: Yegrin and the Politics of 1960s Musical Theatre
Ji Hyon (Kayla) Yuh
26. Joseph Papp and the Public Theater
Elizabeth L. Wollman
27. Giora Godik: The ‘Showporter’ Turned Artistic Producer
Shiraz Biggie
28. The West End (and Broadway) Head East: Tōhō International and Gekidan Shiki
Kevin J. Wetmore
29. The Shubert Organization: One Singular Sensation, Now and Forever
Mark E. Swartz
30. Emanuel Azenberg’s Life in Theatre: ‘Happiness Is Equilibrium. Shift Your Weight’
Sarah Taylor Ellis
31. Cameron Mackintosh: Modern Global Impresario
Jessica Sternfeld
32. Laying Down the RUG: Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Really Useful Group, and Musical Theatre in a Global Economy
Kyle A. Thomas
33. ‘My American Dream’: Dreaming of Broadway and the West End in the Philippines
Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco
34. Trading Globally in Austrian History: Vereinigte Bühnen Wien
Laura MacDonald
35. From Amsterdam With Love: Stage Entertainment’s Global Success
Sanne Thierens
36. West Side Story: The Journey to Lincoln Center Theater
Doug Reside
37. Making Musicals that Matter: George C. Wolfe and Oskar Eustis at the Public Theater
Donatella Galella
38. Broadway-Bound: La Jolla Playhouse as a Laboratory for New American Musical Theatre
Claudia Wilsch Case
39. Our Brand Is Revival: The Roundabout Theatre Company
Bryan M. Vandevender
40. Reclaiming, Restoring, and Reviving the American Musical: City Center
Bryan M. Vandevender
41. Garth Drabinsky’s ‘Grand Moves’: Artistic Ambition and Commercial Illusions in the 1990s
Todd Decker
42. Disney Theatrical Productions: Anything Can Happen If You Let It
Amy S. Osatinski
43. Against All Odds: Kevin McCollum, Creating Communities Through Theatre
Chris McCoy
44. ‘I Am Them’: Tyler Perry’s Black Musical Theatre for the Masses
Rashida Z. Shaw
45. Between Broadway and the Local: Arts Communication International (ACOM), Seol & Company, and the South Korean Musical Industry
Hyunjung Lee
46. Performing Like a Concert King or a Queen: Producing Original Filipino Musicals
Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco
47. Producing Musicals in Russia at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Navigating Across Socialism, Capitalism, Occidentalism, and Nostalgia
Art Babayants
48. David Stone: Defying the Gravity of Expectations
David Carlyon
49. ART for ART’s Sake: The American Repertory Theatre
Stuart J. Hecht
50. Roth and Son: Daryl Roth and Jordan Roth on Broadway
Laura MacDonald
51. New Paradigms for Broadway Producers in Popular Culture and Beyond:
Mary Jo Lodge
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre Direction and Production, Theatre Industry, Performing Arts, Theatre History, Genre
- Editor
- Everett, William A.
- MacDonald, Laura
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 18 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137433084
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-44029-7