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Big Parade: Meredith Willson's Musicals from the Music Man to 1491

by Big Parade: Meredith Willson's Musicals from the Music Man to 1491

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In the 1950s, Meredith Willson's The Music Man became the third longest running musical after My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music: a considerable achievement in a decade that saw the premieres of other popular works by Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe, not to mention Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls and Bernstein and Sondheim's West Side Story. The Music Man remains a popular choice for productions and has been parodied or quoted on television shows ranging from Family Guy to Grace and Frankie.

Though Willson is best remembered for The Music Man, there is a great deal more to his career as a composer and lyricist. In The Big Parade, author Dominic McHugh uses newly uncovered letters, manuscripts, and production files to reveal Willson's unusual combination of experiences in his pre-Broadway career that led him to compose The Music Man at the age of 55. McHugh also gives an in depth look at the reception of The Music Man and examines the strengths and weaknesses of Willson's other three musicals, with his sustained commitment to innovation and novelty. The Big Parade is packed with new revelations about the processes involved in writing these works, as well as the trials and tribulations of working in the commercial theatre.

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  • Oxford University Press, Brand
  • May 17, 2021 Pub Date:
  • 9780197554739 ISBN-13:
  • 0197554733 ISBN-10:
  • 288 Pages
  • English Language
  • 9.3 in * 6.2 in * 1 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: