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USEFUL LINKS:
The Internet Broadway Database (statistics about Broadway runs of shows)
Musical Theatre International (a major dramatic licensing agency; they maintain a useful website supporting the shows they license)
Archives of the Tony Awards, presented to Broadway productions by the American Theatre Wing
Archives of the Obie Awards, presented to Off-Broadway productions by the Village Voice
Archives of the Laurence Olivier Awards, presented to West End (London) productions by the Society of London Theatre
USEFUL PRINT SOURCES:
Alpert, Hollis. Broadway: 125 Years of American Musical Theatre. New York: Little, Brown, 1991.
Altman, Rick. The American Film Musical. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Atkinson, Brooks. Broadway. Revised Edition. New York: Limelight Editions, 1974.
Banfield, Stephen. Sondheim's Broadway Musicals. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
Bauch, Marc. The American Musical. Marburg: Tectum Verlag, 2002.
Bauch, Marc. Themes and Topics of the American Musical after World War II. Marburg: Tectum Verlag, 2001.
Beddow, Margery. Bob Fosse's Broadway. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1996.
Bell, Marty. Broadway Stories: A Backstage Journey through Musical Theatre. New York: Limelight, 1993. Also issued as Backstage on Broadway: Musicals and their Makers. London: Nick Hern Books, 1994.
Block, Geoffrey. Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Bloom, Ken. American Song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion, 1900-1984. New York: Facts on File, 1985.
Bordman, Gerald. American Musical Comedy from Adonis to Dreamgirls. New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
_______. American Musical Revue: From The Passing Show to Sugar Babies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
_______. American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. 2nd edition. New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1992.
_______. American Operetta from "HMS Pinafore" to "Sweeney Todd." New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Brahms, Caryl and Ned Sherrin. Song By Song: The Lives and Work of 14 Great Lyric Writers. Egerton, Bolton, U.K.: Ross Anderson Publications, 1984.
Bunnett, Rexton, et al. Collins Guide to Musicals. Glasgow: HarperCollins, 1997. Expanded paperback edition published 2001.
Citron, Stephen. The Musical From the Inside Out. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1992.
_______. Sondheim and Lloyd Webber: The New Musical. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
_______. The Wordsmiths: Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and Alan Jay Lerner. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
DeVenney, David P. The Broadway Song Companion: An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style. Lanham, MD & London: The Scarecrow Press, 1998.
Engel, Lehman. The American Musical Theater: A Consideration. [New York]: Macmillan, 1967. Revised edition published in 1975.
________. The Making of a Musical: Creating Songs for the Stage. 2nd edition. New York: Limelight Editions, 1988.
_______. Their Words are Music: The Great Theatre Lyricists and Their Lyrics. New York: Crown Publishers, 1975.
_______. Words with Music. New York: Schirmer Books, 1972.
Everett, William A. and Paul R. Laird. The Cambridge Companion to the Musical. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Ewen, David. Complete Book of the American Musical Theater. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1958.
Fehl, Fred, William and Jane Stott. On Broadway. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978.
Feuer, Jane. The Hollywood Musical. Second Edition. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Pres, 1993.
Fields, Armond and L. Marc Fields. From the Bowery to Broadway. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Fiske, Roger. English Theatre Music in the Eighteenth Century. London: Oxford University Press, 1973.
Flinn, Denny Martin. Musical!: A Grand Tour. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997.
Forte, Allen. The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Frith, Simon. "Why do songs have words?" Contemporary Music Review 5 (1989): 77-96.
Frommer, Myrna Katz and Harvey Frommer. It Happened on Broadway: An Oral History of the Great White Way. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998.
Furia, Philip. The Poets of Tin Pan Alley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Gänzl, Kurt. Gänzl's Book of the Broadway Musical. New York: Schirmer Books, 1995.
_______. The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre. Second edition. 3 volumes. New York: Schirmer Books / The Gale Group, 2001.
________. The Musical: A Concise History. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.________. Song & Dance: The Complete Story of Stage Musicals. New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1995.
Gagey, Edmond McAdoo. Ballad Opera. New York: Columbia University Press, 1937. Reissued 1965 by Benjamin Blom, Inc.
Gershwin, Ira. Lyrics on Several Occasions: A Selection of Stage & Screen Lyrics Written for Sundry Situations; and Now Arranged in Arbitrary Categories. To Which Have Been Added Many Informative Annotations & Disquisitions on Their Why & Wherefore, Their Whom-For, Their How; and Matters Associative. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
Gilbert, Douglas. American Vaudeville, Its Life and Times. New York: Whtitlesey House, 1940.
_______. Lost Chords: The Diverting Story of American Popular Songs. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1970.
Goldstein, Richard M. "'I Enjoy Being a Girl': Women in the Plays of Rodgers and Hammerstein." Popular Music and Society 13, no.1 (1989): 1-8.
Goodheart, Sandor, editor. Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000.
Gottfried, Martin. Broadway Musicals. New York: Abradale Press/Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1984.
________. More Broadway Musicals Since 1980. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991.
________. Sondheim. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993.
Green, Stanley. Broadway Musicals: Show by Show. Third edition. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, 1990.
_______. Encyclopaedia of the Musical Theatre. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976.
_______. Ring Bells, Sing Songs: Broadway Musicals of the 1930s. New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1971.
_______, editor. Rodgers and Hammerstein Fact Book: A Record of Their Works Together and with Other Collaborators. New York: The Lynn Farnol Group, Inc., 1980.
_______. The World of Musical Comedy. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. South Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1974.
Grout, Donald Jay. A Short History of Opera. Second Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965.
Guernsey, Otis L., Jr., editor. Broadway Song & Story: Playwrights / Lyricists / Composers Discuss Their Hits. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1985.
_______. Playwrights, Lyricists, Composers on Theater: The Inside Story of a Decade of Theater in articles and comments by its authors, selected from their own publication, The Dramatists Guild Quarterly. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1974.
Hamm, Charles. Yesterdays: Popular Song in America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979.
Hammerstein, Oscar, II. Lyrics. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Books, 1985.
Henderson, Amy, and Dwight Blocker Bowers. Red, Hot, and Blue: A Smithsonian Salute to the American Musical. Washington and London: The National Portrait Gallery and The National Museum of American History, in association with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
Hirsch, Foster. Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Hischak, Thomas S. Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim. New York: Praeger, 1991.
Hyland, William G. Richard Rodgers. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998.
Ilson, Carol. Harold Prince From Pajama Game to Phantom of the Opera. Ann Arbor: U.M.I Research Press, 1989.
Jarman, Douglas. Kurt Weill: An Illustrated Biography. London: Orbis Publishing, 1982.
Jasen, David A. Tin Pan Alley: The Composers, the Songs, the Performers and their Times. New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1988.
Kasha, Al, and Joel Hirschhorn. Notes on Broadway: Conversations with the Great Songwriters. Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1985.
Kislan, Richard. Hoofing on Broadway: A History of Show Dancing. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1987.
_______. The Musical: A Look at the American Musical Theater. New, revised, expanded edition. New York & London: Applause Books, 1995.
Lamb, Andrew. 150 Years of Popular Musical Theatre. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000.
Laufe, Abe. Broadway's Greatest Musicals. New, illustrated, revised edition. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1977.
Lerner, Alan Jay. The Musical Theatre: A Celebration. New York: Da Capo Press, 1986.
Lewine, Richard, and Alfred Simon. Songs of the American Theatre. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1973.
Loney, Glenn, editor. Musical Theatre in America: Papers and Proceedings of the Conference on the Musical Theatre in America. (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies, Number 8). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
Mandelbaum, Ken. A Chorus Line and the Musicals of Michael Bennett. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
________. Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
Mast, Gerald. Can't Help Singing: The American Musical on Stage and Screen. New York: Overlook Press, 1987.
Mates, Julian. America's Musical Stage: Two Hundred Years of Musical Theatre. New York: Praeger, 1985. Paperback edition 1987.
Miller, Scott. Deconstructing Harold Hill: An Insider's Guide to Musical Theatre. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2000.
_______. From Assassins to West Side Story: A Director's Guide to Musical Theatre. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1996.
_______. Rebels with Applause: Broadway's Groundbreaking Musicals. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2001.
Mitchell, Ronald E. Opera Dead or Alive: Production, Performance, and Enjoyment of Musical Theatre. Madison: The University of Wisconsin, 1970.
Mordden, Ethan. Beautiful mornin' : the Broadway musical in the 1940s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
_______. Better Foot Forward: The History of American Musical Theatre. New York: Grossman Publishers (A Division of the Viking Press), 1976.
_______. Broadway Babies: The People Who Made the American Musical. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
_______. Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s. New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
_______. Make Believe The Broadway Musical in the 1920s. New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
_______. One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in the 1970s. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
_______. Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
Morley, Sheridan. Spread a Little Happiness: The First Hundred Years of the British Musical. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1987.
Morrow, Lee Alan. The Tony Award Book: Four Decades of Great American Theater. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987.
Porter, Steven. The American Musical Theatre: A Complete Musical Theatre Course. New York: Barclay House, 1987.
Porter, Susan L. With an Air Debonair: Musical Theatre in America, 1785-1815. Washington & London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
Prince, Hal. Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-six Years in the Theatre. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1974.
Riis, Thomas L. Just Before Jazz: Black Musical Theater in New York, 1890-1915. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
_______. More than Just Minstrel Shows: The Rise of Black Musical Theatre at the Turn of the Century. (I.S.A.M. Monographs: Number 33.) Brooklyn: Institute for Studies in American Music, 1992.
Rodgers, Richard. Musical Stages: An Autobiography. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995.
Root, Deane L. American Popular Stage Music, 1860-1880. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1981.
Rosenberg, Bernard, and Ernest Harburg. The Broadway Musical: Collaboration in Commerce and Art. New York & London: New York University Press, 1993.
Rosenberg, Deena. Fascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin. New York: Dutton, 1991. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Sampson, Henry T. Blacks in Blackface: A Source Book on Early Black Musical Shows. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1980.
Sandrow, Nahma. Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977.
Schmidt-Joos, Siegfried. Das Musical. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1965.
Smith, Cecil. Musical Comedy in America. New York: Theatre Arts Books (Robert M. MacGregor), 1950.
Stein, Charles W., editor. American Vaudewille As Seen By Its Contemporaries. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
Steyn, Mark. Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Sturman, Janet L. Zarzuela: Spanish Operetta, American Stage. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Suskin, Steven. Opening Night on Broadway: A Critical Quotebook of the Golden Era of the Musical Theatre, Oklahoma! (1943) to Fiddler on the Roof (1964). New York: Schirmer Books, 1990.
_______. More Opening Nights on Broadway: A Critical Quotebook of the Musical Theatre, 1965-1981. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997.
_______. Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers. Revised and Expanded Third Edition. New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Sutherland, Susan. Teach Yourself About Musicals. Lincolnwood, Illinois: NTC./ Contemporary Publishing, 1998.
Swain, Joseph P. The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey. Second Edition. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Toll, Robert C. Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Traubner, Richard. Operetta: A Theatrical History. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1983.
Walsh, Michael. Andrew Lloyd Webber, His Life and Works: A Critical Biography. Revised and Enlarged Edition. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997.
Wilder, Alec. American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950. London & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972.
Woll, Allen. Black Musical Theatre From Coontown to Dreamgirls. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Zadan, Craig. Sondheim & Co.: The Authorized, behind-the-scenes story of the making of Stephen Sondheim's musicals. Second Edition. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
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