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  • All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago

    In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths - the gleefully subversive character of American musical comedy, the reckless glamour of the big-city newspaper, the mad decade of the 1920s, the work of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon...
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  • All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago

    Author: Ethan MorddenISBN-10: 1665221283ISBN-13: 9781665221283Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2018Format: CD
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  • Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre

    Ethan Mordden has been hailed as "a sharp-eared listener and a discerning critic," by Opera News, which compares his books to "dinner with a knowledgeable, garrulous companion." The "preeminent historian of the American musical" (New York Times), he "brings boundless energy and enthusiasm buttressed...
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  • Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s

    "Music and girls are the soul of musical comedy," one critic wrote, early in the 1940s. But this was the age that wanted more than melody and kickline form its musical shows. The form had been running on empty for too long, as a...
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  • Broadway Babies: The People Who Made the American Musical by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Broadway Babies: The People Who Made the American Musical

    Vividly recreating the unique pleasure of experiencing a song-and-dance show, Broadway Babies spotlights the men and women who made a difference in the development of American musical comedy. Mordden's account features such show people as Florenz Ziegfeld, Harold Prince, Bert Lahr, Gwen Verdon, Angela...
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  • Buddies: A Continuation of the Buddies Cycle by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Buddies: A Continuation of the Buddies Cycle

    What unites us, all of us, surely is brotherhood, a sense that our friendships are historic, designed to hold Stonewall together, muses on character in Ethan Mordden's Buddies. This need for friendship, for nonerotic affection, for buddies, shines forth as an American obsession from...
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  • Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s

    The 1950s saw an explosion in the American musical theater. The Broadway show, catapulted into the limelight in the 20s and solidified during the 40s thanks to Rodgers and Hammerstein, now entered its most revolutionary phase, brashly redefining itself and forging a new kind...
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  • Everybody Loves You: A Continuation of the Buddies Cycle by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Everybody Loves You: A Continuation of the Buddies Cycle

    A gay ghost, a talking dog, and a street kid who thinks he's an elf-child join our narrator Bud, best friend Dennis Savage, eternally young Little Kiwi, devastating hunk Carlo, and the other characters from I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore and...
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  • Gays on Broadway by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Gays on Broadway

    A fascinating look at the gay and lesbian influence on the American stage by an internationally-recognized authority on the topic From the genteel female impersonators of the 1910s to the raucous drag queens of La Cage Aux Folles, from the men of The Normal...
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  • How's Your Romance?: Concluding the Buddies Cycle by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    How's Your Romance?: Concluding the Buddies Cycle

    For a generation, Ethan Mordden's tales about a tightly knit circle of friends who live within the shifting confines of gay Manhattan have entertained tens of thousands of readers and devoted fans. Now Mordden returns to his best-loved characters - the ultimate hunk Carlo;...
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  • I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore: The Buddies Cycle by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore: The Buddies Cycle

    We have traded tales, my buddies and I; of affairs, encounters, secrets, fears, self-promotion-of fantasies that we make real in the telling. In this, the first volume in Ethan Mordden's acclaimed trilogy on Manhattan gay life, he introduces a small group of friends-Dennis Savage,...
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  • Love Song: The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Love Song: The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya

    Noted historian of the Broadway musical chronicles the braided lives of two of the twentieth century's most influential artists For the first time, Ethan Mordden chronicles the romance of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya in Love Song, a dual biography that unfolds against the...
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  • On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide

    In On Sondheim, renowned author Ethan Mordden takes the reader on a tour of Stephen Sondheim's work, arguing for the importance and appeal of the composer-lyricist in American theater and, even more, in American culture. Over the course of eighteen shows, Mordden demonstrates that...
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  • On Streisand: An Opinionated Guide by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    On Streisand: An Opinionated Guide

    She said, "I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress," but Barbra Streisand not only became both but revolutionized the two professions. Her music transformed the smooth, uninflected style of the Frank Sinatras and Ella Fitzgeralds into an engine of...
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  • Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s

    In the 1960s, the Broadway musical underwent a revolution. What was once a form of entertainment characterized by sentimental standards, such as Camelot and Hello, Dolly became one of brilliant and bittersweet masterpieces, such as Cabaret and Fiddler on the Roof. In Open a...
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  • Opera Anecdotes by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Opera Anecdotes

    From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this book unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore, alternately hilarious, poignant, and wise. Ethan Mordden has mined the literature for "the best stories" and retells them in the fresh and...
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  • Pick a Pocket or Two: A History of British Musical Theatre by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Pick a Pocket or Two: A History of British Musical Theatre

    From Gilbert and Sullivan to Andrew Lloyd Webber, from Julie Andrews to Hugh Jackman, from Half a Sixpence to Matilda, Pick a Pocket Or Two is the story of the British musical: where it began and how it developed. In Pick a Pocket Or...
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  • Some Men Are Lookers: A Continuation of the Buddies Cycle by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Some Men Are Lookers: A Continuation of the Buddies Cycle

    Some Men Are Lookers, Ethan Mordden's much lauded fourth volume in his Buddies cycle, follows the exploits of his best-loved characters-Dennis Savage, Little Kiwi, Carlo, the 'elf-child' Cosgrove, and narrator Bud. Mordden lays bare the emotional landscape of the city within a city that...
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  • The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen: The Last Twenty-Five Years of the Broadway Musical by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen: The Last Twenty-Five Years of the Broadway Musical

    For Ethan Mordden, the closing night of the hit musical, 42nd St. sounded the death knell of the art form of the Broadway musical. After that, big orchestras, real voices, recognizable books and intelligent lyrics went out the window in favor of cats, helicopters,...
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  • The Hollywood Studios: House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    The Hollywood Studios: House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies

    Hollywood in the years between 1929 and 1948 was a town of moviemaking empires. The great studios were estates of talent: sprawling, dense, diverse. It was the Golden Age of the Movies, and each studio made its distinctive contribution. But how did the studios,...
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  • The New Book of Opera Anecdotes by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    The New Book of Opera Anecdotes

    Building on the long-established success of Ethan Mordden's Opera Anecdotes, The New Book Of Opera Anecdotes continues where the original left off, bringing into view the new corps of major singers that arose after the first book's publication in 1985 -- artists such as...
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  • The Passionate Attention of an Interesting Man by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    The Passionate Attention of an Interesting Man

    In this new collection of fiction, a porn star turns up pouring cocktails in a small town's only gay bar, as the queens gape and gossip and the local auto mechanic lures the bartender into elaborate rituals of tough love and rough sex. Two...
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  • When Broadway Went to Hollywood by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    When Broadway Went to Hollywood

    When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way - George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart, among many others - were enticed westward by...
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