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Culture writer Martin Chilton defines the term "Great American Songbook" as follows: "Tunes of Broadway musical theatre, Hollywood movie musicals and Tin Pan Alley (the hub of songwriting that was the music publishers' row on New York's West 28th Street)". Chilton adds that these songs "became the core repertoire of jazz musicians" during the ...
Pages in category "American musical theatre composers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 341 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Rodgers (left) and Hammerstein (right) watching auditions at the St. James Theatre on Broadway in 1948. Rodgers and Hammerstein was a theater-writing team of composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together created a series of innovative and influential American musicals.
Hamilton: An American Musical is a sung-and-rapped-through biographical musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Based on the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow , the musical covers the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and his involvement in the American Revolution and the political history ...
Musical theatre writer Andrew Lamb notes, "The triumph of American works over European in the first decades of the twentieth century came about against a changing social background. The operatic and theatrical styles of nineteenth-century social structures were replaced by a musical style more aptly suited to twentieth-century society and its ...
Robert Reiniger Meredith Willson [1] (May 18, 1902 – June 15, 1984) was an American flautist, composer, conductor, musical arranger, bandleader, playwright, and writer.He is perhaps best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for the 1957 hit Broadway musical The Music Man [2] and "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" (1951).
Theater of the United States; List of American plays; ... An Outline History of American Drama, 2nd ed., New York: Feedback Theatrebooks/Prospero Press, 1994.