Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s by Ethan Mordden

Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s

History of the Broadway Musical #3

Ethan Mordden

288 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous challenging slow-paced
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"Music and girls are the soul of musical comedy," one critic wrote, early in the 1940s. But this was the age that wanted more than melody and kickline form its musical shows. The form had been running on empty for too long, as a formula for the as...

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