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Adapting The Wizard of Oz: Musical Versions from Baum to MGM and Beyond

Editat de Danielle Birkett, Dominic McHugh
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 dec 2018
One of the most beloved film musicals of all time, The Wizard of Oz represents an enduring family favorite and cultural classic. Yet there is much more to the story than meets the eye, and the MGM movie is just one of many ways in which it has been represented. In this lively and wide-ranging book, editors Danielle Birkett and Dominic McHugh bring together insights from eleven experts into the varied musical forms this great American myth has taken in the past century. Starting with the early adaptations of L. Frank Baum's story, the book also explores the writing, composition and reception of the MGM film, its importance in queer culture, stage adaptations of the movie, cult classic The Wiz, Stephen Schwartz's Broadway blockbuster Wicked, and the cultural afterlife of the iconic Arlen-Harburg songs. What emerges is a vivid overview of how music - on stage and screen - has been an essential part of the story's journey to become a centerpiece of American culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190663186
ISBN-10: 0190663189
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 17 photographs, 5 musical examples, 3 tables
Dimensiuni: 234 x 155 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

The diversity of approaches, methodologies, and topics in Adapting 'The Wizard of Oz' makes it an excellent addition to film and musical theater scholarship.
The book as a whole is readable and useful to anyone interest in Oz, the discussed production, or theatre history more broadly.
Editors Danielle Birkett and Dominic McHugh have selected some first rate scholars to write about the many aspects of the book and its various stage and screen versions so that the book is full of fresh and little-known information.
With a variety of approaches represented throughout the volume, Birkett and McHugh's edited volume offers a valuable contribution to the study of musical adaptations. Additionally, the consistent accessibility of the collection and focus on a beloved film and related works makes this appealing for enthusiasts of the genre and The Wizard of Oz.
Birkett and McHugh have put together a package tour of the capacious land of Oz that leaves nothing to be desired. It has heart, brain, and nerve.
Through the wizardry of Birkett and McHugh and their team of scholars, readers of this wide-ranging collection can follow the yellow brick road with both relevant historical commentary and trenchant criticism.
The famed 'Yellow Brick Road' has wound a devious path through U.S. political, social, and economic history from the first musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum's initial novel through Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Wicked and beyond. It became a cultural icon and a counter-cultural one by way of the 1939 movie, and this splendid set of essays maps its various twists and turns in search of what might still lie somewhere 'Over the Rainbow'.

Notă biografică

Danielle Birkett is Lecturer in Music at Northern Regional College. Her research presents the first full-length study of the 1947 Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow.Dominic McHugh is Senior Lecturer in Musicology and Director of Performance at the University of Sheffield. His publications include the books Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady (2012), Alan Jay Lerner: A Lyricist's Letters (2014) and The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner (2018). He has appeared on BBC TV and radio numerous times, and has acted as a consultant to the Sydney Opera House's production of My Fair Lady, directed by Julie Andrews, as well as the Lincoln Center Theater production of the same musical.