The World of Musicals: An Encyclopedia of Stage, Screen, and Song

Gr 9 Up—Authored by a performance arts educator, this set for high school, college, and professional collections focuses specifically on U.S. musicals, including more than 500 television, Broadway, and movie titles, close to 200 individuals, and affiliated organizations, topics and more. Whether readers are looking for information on The Wizard of Oz (the movie or the play), Jim Henson, the Tony Awards, or the TKTS Booth, this volume will provide enough information to satisfy basic research needs as well as offer a jumping-off point for further exploration. Entries for titles include the date of production; the network, studio, or theater associated with it; writers, composers, lyricists; directors and choreographers; cast; songs; plot, history; information on securing performance rights; and a bibliography. Also included are a lengthy introduction with a history of the American musical and 10 appendixes offering lists of the most popular musicals performed by high schools, musical suggestions for schools looking for a challenge, audition songs, theatrical-rights licensing agencies, Broadway theaters, songs that have won the Academy Award, and longest-running Broadway musicals. Well researched and well documented, this book is an excellent addition to theater collections, whether for professionals or for the general public wanting to know more about American musicals, past and present.—Sara Marcus, Queensborough Community College Library, Bayside, NY