Item Detail
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Simas, Rick
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The musicals no one came to see : a guidebook to four decades of musical-comedy casualties on Broadway, off-Broadway, and in out-of-town try-out, 1943-1983
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Book
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New York, N.Y.
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1987
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Garland Pub.
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xiii, 639 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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0824088042; 9780824088040
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Musicals--Bibliography.
Music trade--United States. -
Musicals; Broadway
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ML 128 .M78 S5 1987
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Simas, Rick. The Musicals No One Came to See: A Guidebook to Four Decades of Musical Comedy Casualties on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in Out-of-Town Try-out. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1987.
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Guidebook on where to find information on obscure or unpublished musical plays.
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Plays from 1943-1983 which either ran less than 300 performances and/or are not licensed through an agency. Excluded musicals are one-acts, musicals presented in a foreign language, anything written to be performed by puppets, revivals which premiered before the 1943-1944 theatre season unless remarkably different tah n original.
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The work begins with a lengthy introduction explaining the complicated art of musical theatre production and the contents of this reference source, a chapter on original cast albums and bootleg tapes, sheet music and libretti, and discrepancies. The main body of the work then begins, which is divided into the following sections: The Broadway Shows, The Shows That Closed in Try-out or Preview, The off-Broadway Shows and a Selection of off-off-Broadway Shows, and The Shows That Ran Longer Than 300 Performances But Are Currently Unavailable for Production. Entries are arranged alphabetically by title and include the following information: source of adaption, author, lyricist, composer, original producer, original theater, classification production, opening date, length of run, original stars, Theater World reference annotation, Best Plays reference annotation, magazine criticism annotations, New York Times criticism annotations, New york Theatre Critics Reviews, publication data on published scripts, sheet music, and original cast recordings, owners of rights, and location of extant unpublished libretti, piano-conductor score, and orchestrations. It concludes with four indexes: Opening Dates (alphabetical by title), Show Titles, Sources (alphabetical by title), and Source Authors, Librettists, Composers, and Lyricists.
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Addresses and contact information may be outdated.
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BYU Mus Ref
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4287