American Musicals 1950–1969: The Complete Books & Lyrics of Eight Broadway Classics: Guys and Dolls / The Pajama Game / My Fair Lady / Gypsy / A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to the Forum / Fiddler on the Roof / Cabaret / 1776 by Joseph Stein, Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove, Jule Styne, Jerry Ross, Richard Bissell, George Abbott, Peter Stone, Fred Ebb, Abe Burrows, Larry Gelbart, Laurence Maslon, Alan Jay Lerner, Arthur Laurents, Frederick Loewe, Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling, Richard Adler, Sherman Edwards, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, John Kander, Joe Masteroff

American Musicals 1950–1969: The Complete Books & Lyrics of Eight Broadway Classics: Guys and Dolls / The Pajama Game / My Fair Lady / Gypsy / A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to the Forum / Fiddler on the Roof / Cabaret / 1776

Joseph Stein, Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove, Jule Styne, Jerry Ross, Richard Bissell, George Abbott, Peter Stone, Fred Ebb, Abe Burrows, Larry Gelbart, Laurence Maslon, Alan Jay Lerner, Arthur Laurents, Frederick Loewe, Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling, Richard Adler, Sherman Edwards, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, John Kander, Joe Masteroff

800 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

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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 the second volume of a landmark tw...

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