The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Ballyhoo for Producers....Pages 3-10
Actors Act. Directors Direct. Producers … Produce? Mel Brooks’s The Producers and the Creation of an Archetype....Pages 11-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Tony Pastor: The Father of Vaudeville....Pages 21-28
Adolf Philipp and the German American Musical Comedy....Pages 29-37
George Edwardes: The Guv’nor of Late Victorian Musical Theatre....Pages 39-45
Charles Frohman: King of the Star-Makers....Pages 47-57
Aggressive, Beleaguered, Commercial, Defiant: Marc Klaw and Abraham Erlanger....Pages 59-68
Did the Shuberts Save Broadway? The Corporate Producers....Pages 69-82
Sam Harris: A Producing Patron of Innovation....Pages 83-94
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.’s ‘Simple Idea’: Girls and Music in Tastefully Extravagant Settings....Pages 95-106
Feather-Footed Impresario: The Scandals of George White....Pages 107-118
Alexander A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley: The Smart Sophisticates....Pages 119-125
Coherency: Lew Fields, the Performer-Producer and Experimenter in Integration....Pages 127-135
Firm Foundations: James Cassius Williamson and ‘The Firm’....Pages 137-144
Japanese Women’s Popular Musicals: The Takarazuka Revue....Pages 145-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Refining the Tastes of Broadway Audiences: The Theatre Guild and American Musical Theatre....Pages 153-161
More than a Producer: ‘George Abbott Presents’....Pages 163-172
Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Sound of Money....Pages 173-189
The Nice One: The Productions of Robert Griffith....Pages 191-197
The Sparkplug and the Engineer: Balancing Art and Business in the Collaboration of Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin....Pages 199-205
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Roger L. Stevens: The Great Facilitator....Pages 207-215
‘He Could Get It for You Wholesale’: The Producing Genius of David Merrick....Pages 217-229
Stuart Ostrow: Experiments in Independence....Pages 231-237
Hal Prince: Artistry in Producing....Pages 239-251
Korean Musical Theatre’s Past: Yegrin and the Politics of 1960s Musical Theatre....Pages 253-259
Joseph Papp and the Public Theater....Pages 261-266
Giora Godik: The ‘Showporter’ Turned Artistic Producer....Pages 267-275
The West End (and Broadway) Head East: Tōhō International and Gekidan Shiki....Pages 277-288
Front Matter....Pages 289-289
The Shubert Organization: One Singular Sensation, Now and Forever....Pages 291-301
Emanuel Azenberg’s Life in Theatre: ‘Happiness Is Equilibrium. Shift Your Weight’....Pages 303-310
Cameron Mackintosh: Modern Global Impresario....Pages 311-323
Laying Down the RUG: Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Really Useful Group, and Musical Theatre in a Global Economy....Pages 325-332
‘My American Dream’: Dreaming of Broadway and the West End in the Philippines....Pages 333-342
Trading Globally in Austrian History: Vereinigte Bühnen Wien....Pages 343-349
From Amsterdam With Love: Stage Entertainment’s Global Success....Pages 351-357
West Side Story: The Journey to Lincoln Center Theater....Pages 359-367
Making Musicals that Matter: George C. Wolfe and Oskar Eustis at the Public Theater....Pages 369-375
Broadway-Bound: La Jolla Playhouse as a Laboratory for New American Musical Theatre....Pages 377-383
Our Brand Is Revival: The Roundabout Theatre Company....Pages 385-391
Front Matter....Pages 393-403
Garth Drabinsky’s ‘Grand Moves’: Artistic Ambition and Commercial Illusions in the 1990s....Pages 289-289
Disney Theatrical Productions: Anything Can Happen If You Let It....Pages 405-411
Against All Odds: Kevin McCollum, Creating Communities Through Theatre....Pages 413-426
‘I Am Them’: Tyler Perry’s Black Musical Theatre for the Masses....Pages 427-432
Between Broadway and the Local: Arts Communication International (ACOM), Seol & Company, and the South Korean Musical Industry....Pages 433-439
Performing Like a Concert King or a Queen: Producing Original Filipino Musicals....Pages 441-448
Producing Musicals in Russia at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Navigating Across Socialism, Capitalism, Occidentalism, and Nostalgia....Pages 449-457
David Stone: Defying the Gravity of Expectations....Pages 459-465
ART for ART’s Sake: The American Repertory Theatre....Pages 467-477
Roth and Son: Daryl Roth and Jordan Roth on Broadway....Pages 479-486
Front Matter....Pages 487-496
New Paradigms for Broadway Producers in Popular Culture and Beyond: Smash and the Rise of the Passion Project....Pages 497-497
Back Matter....Pages 499-509
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