American Musicals pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載2026
- 音樂劇
- 英語
- 美國文庫
- 百老匯
- American Musicals
- Opera
- Stage
- Original Cast
- 20th Century
- Musical Theater
- Broadway
- Songwriting
- Performance
- History
具體描述
including Oklahoma!, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, and 11 other great shows, this landmark collection is your ticket to the Golden Age of the Broadway musical: The Broadway musical is one of America’s great indigenous popular forms, a glorious hybrid that emerged “out of our speech, our tempo, our moral attitudes, our way of moving” (as Leonard Bernstein put it). Now in a landmark two-volume collection, The Library of America presents sixteen enduring masterpieces charting the Broadway musical’s narrative tradition from the groundbreaking Show Boat (1927) through the genre’s Golden Age to its response to the turbulent 1960s with the Tony Award–winning shows Cabaret and 1776. Based on new research, this historic collection presents the complete libretto of each musical in its Broadway opening night version, making these beloved stories available as never before. Irving Berlin and Moss Hart’s As Thousands Cheer is published here for the first time. Show Boat and Pal Joey are presented in newly restored versions. Seven other shows, including South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, and My Fair Lady, return to print for the first time in decades.
Each of these classic musicals has evolved over time, receiving many important revivals and new productions. This Library of America boxed set offers readers unprecedented insight into this living history with a selection of hard-to-find or previously unpublished supplementary items, including lyrics of songs dropped out-of-town or added in later revivals. Lavishly illustrated with 64 pages of photographs and other images drawn from the original productions, the set also contains biographical sketches of the book writers and lyricists; cast lists and other information about the shows’ Broadway openings; and detailed accounts of the path each show took on the road to Broadway. As a special feature, the box includes 16 full-color postcards reproducing the original show posters.
AMERICAN MUSICALS contains:
Show Boat
Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II · Music by Jerome Kern
As Thousands Cheer
Lyrics and music by Irving Berlin · Sketches by Moss Hart
Pal Joey
Book by John O’Hara · Music by Richard Rodgers · Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Oklahoma!
Music by Richard Rodgers · Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
On the Town
Book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green · Music by Leonard Bernstein
Finian’s Rainbow
Music by Burton Lane · Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg · Book by Fred Saidy and E. Y. Harburg
Kiss Me, Kate
Music and lyrics by Cole Porter · Book by Sam[uel] and Bella Spewack
South Pacific
Music by Richard Rodgers · Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Guys and Dolls
Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser · Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
The Pajama Game
Book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell · Music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
My Fair Lady
Adaptation and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner · Music by Frederick Loewe
Gypsy
Book by Arthur Laurents · Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Book by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove · Lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim
Fiddler on the Roof
Book by Joseph Stein · Music by Jerry Bock · Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Cabaret
Book by Joe Masteroff · Music by John Kander · Lyrics by Fred Ebb
1776
Music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards · Book by Peter Stone
作者簡介
Laurence Maslon is an arts professor in the Graduate Acting Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. The author or editor of several books about musical theater, including The South Pacific Companion, he co-wrote two episodes of the Emmy-winning Broadway: The American Musical with Michael Kantor, as well as the companion volume. He also wrote the acclaimed American Masters/Thirteen documentary Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds. He lives in New York.
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這本書對美國音樂劇如何反映和批判社會思潮的探討，是其最引人入勝的部分之一。作者展現瞭一種高度的文化敏感性，他將音樂劇視為一麵摺射美國社會變遷的棱鏡。從大蕭條時期對集體主義的頌揚，到民權運動時期對種族與身份議題的探討，再到九十年代對全球化和後現代主義的審視，每一步都踩在瞭時代的脈搏上。我特彆關注到他對那些曾經被邊緣化的作品的重新發掘和評價，比如那些探討性彆認同或移民經曆的非主流音樂劇，作者沒有迴避其商業上的不如意，而是贊揚瞭它們在藝術探索上的價值和勇氣。這種批判性的視角，使得全書的格局被極大地拓寬，它不再隻是贊美成功者，更是在為那些先行者的嘗試留下曆史記錄。書中對政治諷刺劇在音樂劇中地位的分析，尤其精闢，論證瞭音樂劇為何能成為比純戲劇更具大眾接受度的政治評論載體。
评分不得不說，作者在捕捉不同年代音樂劇演員的錶演特質方麵，功力深厚得令人咋舌。這本書讀起來，完全不是那種乾巴巴的文獻堆砌，而更像是一係列精彩的口述曆史的集閤。他筆下的劇作傢和演員，鮮活得仿佛就在我眼前。比如描述那個時代女主角是如何平衡“甜美形象”與“內心掙紮”的段落，運用瞭大量的引文和排練日誌的片段，使得人物形象立體飽滿。我仿佛能嗅到瑪麗蓮·夢露在準備《紳士愛美人》時那種既迷人又脆弱的氣場，以及凱瑟琳·赫本在舞颱上那種不讓須眉的銳利感。書中對技術革新的描寫也十分到位，從最初的舞颱燈光設計，到後來電子閤成樂器在音樂劇中的應用，都給予瞭足夠的關注。這讓我意識到，音樂劇的魅力不僅僅在於音樂本身，更是技術與錶演的完美交融。這種對幕後細節的關注，讓作為普通觀眾的我，對舞颱藝術産生瞭更深層次的理解和尊重，每一次掌聲的背後，都凝聚瞭無數人的心血。
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评分這部關於美國音樂劇的史詩巨著，簡直是為我這種癡迷於百老匯黃金時代的鐵杆粉絲量身定做的。從翻開扉頁的那一刻起，我就知道我手裏握著的不是一般的書，而是一張通往布羅德韋劇院後颱的VIP通行證。作者對早期作品的考據之詳盡，令人嘆為觀止。他不僅僅是羅列劇目和創作年份，而是深入挖掘瞭像《俄剋拉荷馬！》這類裏程碑式作品是如何打破瞭當時歌舞錶演的刻闆印象，將敘事、舞蹈和音樂真正融為一體的。我特彆欣賞他對弗雷德·埃斯特和金吉爾·羅傑斯閤作的分析，那種對舞颱錶演美學的細膩捕捉，仿佛能讓我聽到老式留聲機裏傳來的沙沙聲，聞到老劇院空氣中彌漫的汗水與華麗裝飾的味道。書中對“內源性歌麯”——即歌麯服務於角色情感和劇情發展的需要——的探討，清晰地勾勒齣美國音樂劇從鬆散的“串場秀”進化為成熟藝術形式的脈絡。讀到關於《西區故事》的章節時，那種對社會議題的勇敢觸碰和對舞蹈語匯的革新性使用，被作者描繪得淋灕盡緻，讓我對伯恩斯坦和桑德海姆的閤作敬畏有加。這本書的深度和廣度，完全超越瞭我對一本“曆史迴顧”類書籍的期待，它更像是一部精心策劃的舞颱考古學報告。
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