This is one of the first books to offer a rigorous analysis of the enormous changes in the musical theatre during the 1980s and 90s. In addition, it focuses on the contribution of well-known, serious theatre directors to the mainstream Musical Theatre and it is the first book to offer a dual Anglo-American perspective on this subject.

Autorentext
Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen is a founding producer of the New York Musical Theatre Festival and a Senior Lecturer in Drama at Bath Spa University, England.

Inhalt
Challenge from Within: Harold Prince in Context The Prince Legacy: Musical Drama on Broadway Cultural Barricades: British Musicals in the Eighties and Nineties Beyond the Logos: West End Musical Drama New Horizons: Musical Drama in the Non-Profit Theatre Expanding Boundaries: Non-profit Directors in the Nineties British Directors and the Classic American Musicals * Afterlife: Reinterpreting the Canon