Preface to the First Edition 1
NOTES Preface to the First Edition 1. The Rodgers and Hammerstein Song Book (New York: Simon & Schuster and Williamson Music, 1956); Six Plays by Rodgers and Hammerstein (New York: Modern Library Association, 1959). 2. Like other Broadway-loving families, especially those residing on the west side of the coun- try, it took the release of the West Side Story movie with Natalie Wood for us to become fully cognizant of this show. 3. “The World of Stephen Sondheim,” interview, “Previn and the Pittsburgh,” channel 26 tele- vision broadcast, March 13, 1977. 4. A chronological survey of Broadway texts from the 1950s to the 1980s might include the fol- lowing: Cecil Smith, Musical Comedy in America; Lehman Engel, The American Musical Theater; David Ewen, New Complete Book of the American Musical Theatre; Ethan Mordden, Better Foot Forward; Abe Laufe, Broadway’s Greatest Musicals (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1977); Martin Gottfried, Broadway Musicals; Stanley Green, The World of Musical Comedy; Richard Kislan, The Musical (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980); Gerald Bordman, American Musical Comedy, American Musical Theatre, American Musical Revue, and American Operetta; Alan Jay Lerner, The Musical Theatre: A Celebration; and Gerald Mast, Can’t Help Singin.’ 5. See Gerald Bordman, American Musical Comedy, American Musical Revue, and American Oper- etta, and Lehman Engel, The American Musical Theater. 6. Miles Kreuger, “Show Boat”: The Story of a Classic American Musical; Hollis Alpert, The Life and Times of “Porgy and Bess.” The literature on Porgy and Bess contains a particularly impres- sive collection of worthwhile analytical and historical essays by Richard Crawford, Charles Hamm, Wayne Shirley, and Lawrence Starr (see the Selected Bibliography).
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