TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mordden,Ethan
TI  - Anything goes: a history of American musical theatre 
SN  - 9780199892839 (hbk.) :
U1  - 782.1'4'0973 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Musicals
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Music
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - After six volumes on the musical's history, decade by decade from the 1920s through the 1970s, Ethan Mordden takes an entirely fresh look at the musical, from 'The Beggar's Opera' to 'Wicked'. In his trademark style that is at once scholarly, witty, and conversational, Mordden emphasizes not only the writing of musicals but the performing of them, taking the reader virtually into the theatre to experience what a great show is like, whether Victor Herbert's 'The Red Mill' or Stephen Sondheim's 'Follies'
ER  -