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The New American Musical: An Anthology from the End of the 20th Century - Paperback

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by Wiley Hausam (Editor)

FLOYD COLLINS by Adam Guettel and Tina Landau

"This is the original and daring musical of our day...a powerhouse." -John Simon, New York Magazine

RENT by Jonathan Larson

"Reinventing Broadway. A raw and riveting milestone in musical theater." --Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

PARADE by Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry

"A defining moment in Broadway musical theater." --Clive Barnes, New York Post

THE WILD PARTY by Michael John La Chiusa and George C. Wolfe

"The first musical triumph of the 21st Century." --Finton O'Toole, Daily News

This anthology collects for the first time the groundbreaking work of these innovative artists. In the tradition of such classic musicals as West Side Story and Sweeney Todd, a new generation of composers, lyricists and librettists have extended and transformed the serious musical. Their work bears the influence of composers and authors, such as Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince, and even Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. Yet these artists have fashioned a new, highly personal and challenging form of lyric theater that darkly cuts to the heart of postmodern America.

Includes: Floyd Collins, set mostly in the pitch blackness of a cave in rural Kentucky in 1925, this piece, based on real events, presents a soul alone with himself while, above ground, the circus of modern media life unconsciously tries to rob Floyd of his human dignity; Rent, set amidst a gentrification war in New York City's Lower East Side in the mid-1990s, portrays a community of youthful racial diversity and sexual openness brought together, first by the struggle to be an artist in a materialist society and then by the fight to prevent disease from snuffing out their youthful lives and love; Parade juxtaposes anti-Semitism and racism against African-Americans in an Atlanta, Georgia, still haunted in 1913 by the ghosts of the Civil War; and The Wild Party, set near Manhattan's Morningside Heights just before the Crash of 1929, observes sensual and spiritual decadence through show business people desperate to love and be loved.

Author Biography

Wiley Hausam (editor) is the executive director of the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University. For seven years, he was an associate producer at The Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, supervising musical theater, and for four years was artistic director of the acclaimed Songbook Series at the Public's Joe's Pub. He has consulted for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Santa Fe Opera and the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York City.

Number of Pages: 450
Dimensions: 1.17 x 9.05 x 6 IN
Publication Date: August 01, 2001
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