Books in the Broadway Legacies series

With an innovative historical framework, Carol J. Oja explores the emergence during World War II of Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green.

Rodgers and Hart contributed dozens of hits to the Great American Songbook. We'll Have Manhattan focuses on the first twelve years of their collaboration (1919-1931), documenting their little-known early work and providing a critical and analytical commentary on their developing practice and its influence on the American musical.

From The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas to My One and Only and Grand Hotel, Tommy Tune helpeddevelop and realize some of the most memorable Broadway shows of the late 20th century. Based onaccess to Tune's inner circle and interviews with Tune himself, Everything is Choreography: TheMusical Theater of Tommy Tune covers the career of this celebrated dancer, singer, actor,choreographer, and director in full.

Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical draws on exhaustive archival research to tell the story of how Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and a host of directors, choreographers, producers, and performers - among them Paul Robeson - made and remade the most important musical in Broadway history.

Sweet Mystery provides a new look into early twentieth century American theatre through one of its most prolific playwrights. The story of Rida Johnson Young (ca. 1869-1926) is told here in full by author Ellen Peck, who uses original typescripts, correspondence, reviews, and other archival materials to contextualize her work and its influence on her time and ours.

The Shubert name has been synonymous with Broadway for almost as long as Broadway entertainment itself. In The Shuberts and Their Passing Shows: The Untold Tale of Ziegfeld's Rivals, author Jonas Westover investigates beyond the Shuberts' business empire into their early revues and the centrifugal role they played in developing American theatre as an art form.

This book explores the Broadway legacy of choreographer Agnes de Mille. Six 1940s musicals are discussed in depth - Oklahoma!, One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, and Allegro. Drawing on interviews with cast members, letters, sketches, and videos, the book describes Mille's unique contributions to original Broadway productions.

Pal Joey: The History of a Heel presents a behind-the-scenes look at the genesis, influence, and significance of Rodgers and Hart's classic musical comedy Pal Joey (1940).

This ground-breaking book considers one of the most popular musicals of all time, Lerner and Loewe's "My Fair Lady." Using previously-unpublished letters and documents, author Dominic McHugh presents a completely new behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the show, revealing the tensions that went into the making of this beloved musical.

South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how Rodgers and Hammerstein diluted the radical social and political content of the musical South Pacific between its conception and its Broadway opening in order to ensure its commercial success, resulting in a work that remained edifying but that did not offend its audiences.

Bob Fosse is one of the most significant figures in the post-World War II American musical theater. Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical is a fascinating look at the evolution of Fosse as choreographer and director. It traces is early dance years, the influence of mentors George Abbott and Jerome Robbins, and the impact of his three marriages-all to dancers-on his career.

In this new and fully revised edition of Oklahoma! The Making of an American Musical, author Tim Carter brings newly uncovered sources, including correspondence and rehearsal scripts from the Rouben Mamoulian Papers, to bear in telling the story of the making of Rodgers and Hammerstein's beloved musical.