{"product_id":"broadway-bodies-ryan-donovan-9780197551080","title":"Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity","description":"Broadway has body issues. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat is a Broadway Body? Broadway has long preserved the ideology of the \"Broadway Body\" the hyper-fit, exceptionally able, triple-threat performer who represents how Broadway musicals favor certain kinds of bodies. Casting is always a political act, situated within a power structure that gives preference to the Broadway Body. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBroadway Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e, author Ryan Donovan explores how ability, sexuality, and size intersect with gender, race, and ethnicity in casting and performance. To understand these intersectional relationships, he poses a series of questions: Why did \u003cem\u003eA Chorus Line\u003c\/em\u003e, a show that sought to individuate dancers, inevitably make dancers indistinguishable? How does the use of fat suits in musicals like \u003cem\u003eDreamgirls\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHairspray\u003c\/em\u003e stigmatize fatness? What were the political implications of casting two straight actors as the gay couple in \u003cem\u003eLa Cage aux Folles \u003c\/em\u003ein 1983? How did deaf actors change the sound of musicals in Deaf West's Broadway revivals? Whose bodies does Broadway cast and whose does it cast aside? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn answering these questions, \u003cem\u003eBroadway Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e tells a history of Broadway's inclusion of various forms of embodied difference while revealing its simultaneous ambivalence toward non-conforming bodies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ryan Donovan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197551084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197551080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 6.13w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2024","brand":"Ryan Donovan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069866766591,"sku":"9780197551080","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_195acd75-73d2-4ad6-b168-7b13b75d771d.jpg?v=1685426963","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/broadway-bodies-ryan-donovan-9780197551080","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}