Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition

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    Ginell has done a good job of matching the tone of Green's first two editions. The intervening ones — covering roughly through — are not quite so artful.

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    Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition [Stanley Green, Cary Ginell] on www.farmersmarketmusic.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. (Applause Books). Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Stanley Green () was a historian of the American musical theatre, devoting many years to lecturing and writing on .

    One also wonders about decisions to include shows like the influential revival of Cabaret with photos of Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson but merely two lines about the destruction of Henry Miller's Theatre and the suggestion that the reader should look up Hal Prince 's production.

    The new "Broadway Musicals Show by Show" retains its value for readers who want a quick snapshot of more than productions. The next time through, though, the publishers might want to go back and fix up some of the older entries, instead of merely adding on the new.

    They could also, reasonably, rethink some of the show choices. I don't imagine that Stanley — who chose to omit the long-running and highly successful revue Beatlemania — would have seen fit to include the recent, lackluster Rain. And Rock of Ages gets two full pages, while something like the Pulitzer-winning Fiorello! Theatre Communications Group continues to bring us important playscripts.

    This month's offerings include three important new plays by two important young writers. Annie Baker seems to turn out one provocative play after another. Last year's offering, The Flick , won itself a Pulitzer Prize for its production at Playwrights Horizons which commissioned the piece.

    THE BOOK SHELF: Stanley Green's "Broadway Musicals" and Scripts of Provocative, Award-Winning Plays

    The Flick , one expects, will resurface in New York over the next season or so. Also from Playwrights was Samuel D. Hunter's provocative The Whale , which featured Shuler Hensley in a remarkable performance. The playwright can celebrate the publication in style: I was disappointed that some shows are left out of seasons.

    Otherwise, entries give an overview of who was involved and a short synopsis of the show. It includes decent indices. I believe that this publication has the most complete listing of Broadway Musicals. If you love the experience of attending broadway shows and seeing them described here with the entire cast, music scores, you'll love Broadway Musicals. Although Stanley Green is no longer with us, his successors have done an excellent job honoring an American institute, Broadway Musicals.

    I bought the first edition of this book in paperback shortly after it was a handy reference and introduction to Broadway musicals for me to use through high school. I bought this edition for the same purpose in Kindle form and my first disappointment has to be the formatting. The indices are not even located in the contents, so to get to them prior to reading the entire book, you is to go to the section and flip forward from there.

    The other issue with formatting is cross-referencing. Reference books in e-book form should have links to easily jump from one related topic to another ex. With the paperback version I did this easier with the indices and flipping, but as I said, the indices are clunky in e-book for.

    For revivals, it says "see page I like to have all of my books in one place, so reference books that don't have interactive formatting are not going to be high in my list in the future.