Table Of Contents
Forward
Introduction
Overture: What Is A Broadway Musical?
Prologue: Before Broadway
Act I: The Genesis Era
Chapter 1: Yearning To Breathe Free -The Immigrants Who Invented The Broadway Musical
Chapter 2: Forgotten Forefathers (and Foremothers) - The Black Artists Who Invented the Broadway Musical
Chapter 3: The Queer Artists Who Invented Broadway
Chapter 4: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better - The Founding Mothers of Broadway
Act II: The Silver Age Of Broadway
Chapter 5: All That Jazz - The Silver Age of Broadway, part 1: The 1920s
Chapter 6: Old Man Trouble, I Don't Mind Him - The Silver Age of the Broadway Musical, part 2: The 1930s
Act III: The Golden Age Of Broadway
Chapter 7: By Your Pupils You'll Be Taught: A Broadway Legacy Chain From Harbach, to Hammerstein, to Sondheim, to Miranda
Chapter 8: Something's Coming, Something Good - The Golden Age of Broadway, part 1
Chapter 9: Another Openin' of Another Show!: The Golden Age of Broadway, part 2: the 1940s
Chapter 10: Open A New Window - The Golden Age of Broadway, part 3
Part IV: The Modern Era of Broadway
Chapter 11: Let The Sunshine In - The Modern Era of Broadway, part 1: The Multiple Revolutions of the 1970s
Chapter 12: Do You Hear The People Sing?: Cameron Mackintosh & The British Invasion (or Sondheim vs the Poperetta) - The Modern Era of Broadway, part 2
Act V: The Principal Themes of the Broadway Musical
Chapter 13: Principal Themes of The Broadway Musical #1 - Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better: The Trials and Triumphs of Transgressive Women
Chapter 14: Principal Themes of The Broadway Musical #2 - Make Them Hear You: Equity, Social Justice, and Inclusion.
Chapter 15: Principal Themes Of The Broadway Musical #3 - We Know We Belong To The Land: The Vital Importance of Community
Chapter 16: Defying Gravity: Broadway in the Twenty-first Century - The Modern Era, part 3.
Selected Bibliography