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Gänzl's Book of the Musical Theatre
Essentially a collection of full plot summaries organized under country of origin and preceeded by brief historical introduction. Covers Britain, France, US, Austria-Germany-Hungary, and Spain. Indexed by author/composer/lyricist, and by song title. Includes a discography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre
[V.1.] A-K -- [v.2.] L-Z.
Victorian Vocalists
Victorian Vocalists is a masterful and entertaining collection of 100 biographies of mid- to late-19th-century singers and stars. Kurt Gänzl paints a vivid picture of the Victorian operatic and concert world, revealing the backgrounds, journeys, successes, failures and misdemeanours of these singers. This volume is not only an outstanding reference work for anyone interested in vocalists of the era, but also a compelling, meticulously researched picture of life in the vast shark tank that was Victorian music.
The Complete Aspects of Love
In-depth coverage of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with over 150 lavish photographs and the complete libretto.
Gilbert and Sullivan: The Players and the Plays
Highlights the original cast members--both the well-known and the (until now) wholly unknown--who staged the duo's comic operas in Britain and in America.
Lydia Thompson
This inaugural volume in the Forgotten Stars of the Musical Theatre series sets Lydia Thompson, queen of burlesque, under the spotlight. The series will attempt to resurrect theatre performers and writers who were famous in their era, yet who have since inexplicably faded from popular memory. Outlandish tales of Lydia's touring burlesque company, the British Blondes, and such lurid episodes as her horsewhipping of a Chicago editor, a romance with a Russian Grand Duke and a lesbian attacker have left her with a reputation as a bawdy burlesquer, but Kurt Gänzl argues she was nothing of the kind. Through this biography, the reader will learn the whole and hitherto untold story of this fascinating, multi-dimensional musical-theatre star.
Musicals
This is the third edition of Kurt Ganzl's hugely popular and respected book Musicals, first published in 1995. The stage musical today stands at the center of popular culture once again, with both new musical and fresh revivals of old favorites packing in audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Musicals charts each significant turn in the development of musical theater, with more than 300 photographs and clear, informative text. Fully updated to include recent successes such as The Producers. The text also features musicals that have successfully made the transition from stage to screen, such as West Side Story and My Fair Lady.
The British Musical Theatre: 1915-1984
From the pre-Gilbert and Sullivan 1860s to the 1980s, this important reference surveys more than a century of British light musical theatre, including its writers and composers. Ganzl provides a wealth of information on the book, lyrics, and music of over 800 London musicals, including contemporary reviews, cast lists, performances, plus pertinent notes gleaned from a study of surviving scores and libretti. Volume 1 traces the development of the genre between 1865 and 1914, describing its roots in burlesque and opera-buffe, and discussing the comic opera tradition and the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership, the flowering of the so-called musical comedy under George Edwardes, and the important influence of the British musical theatre around the world, particularly in America. Volume 2 covers, among other topics, the reciprocal influences on the British musical theatre of the American style, the advent of the dance-and-laughter musicals of the 1930s, the rock operas of the 1970s, and the subsequent development of the modern British musical in its second period of international prominence, highlighted by such hits as "Evita" and "Cats."
Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin
This is the first book to reconstruct early popular musical theatre as a transnational and highly cosmopolitan entertainment industry.
The Musical
A rich and colorful history of three centuries of musical theater.
