Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater [Hardcover]

Stempel has hit the trifecta: for academics, its a definitive work of scholarship; for students, its the perfect textbook; for ordinary lovers of musical theater, its a treat to savor at the end of a long day.Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Brown UniversityStarred Review. Not just a catalog or reference book, but a highly astute, integrative cultural history.Throughout, as Stempel traces the evolution with exhaustive archival research, he offers a penetrating and illuminating analysis of various musical forms and influences. Many of the 105 carefully selected black-and-white illustrations are surprising and revelatory. Theater buffs will be delighted to find that this scholarly, definitive work is also a hugely entertaining read.The definitive history of the Broadway musical: the shows, the stars, the movers, and the shakers.