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The Secret Life of the American Musical

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by Jack Viertel

Herbert, Victor

  “Here in My Arms”

  “Here’s to Us”

  Here’s Where I Belong

  Herman, Jerry

  “He’s a Rebel”

  “Hey, Look Me Over!”

  “Hey There”

  hip-hop, see rap (hip-hop)

  “History Has Its Eyes on You”

  Hitchcock, Alfred

  Holiday, Bob

  Hollander, Jane

  Holloway, Stanley

  Hollywood, Calif.

  Holzman, Winnie

  “Honey Bun”

  House of Flowers

  Houston Grand Opera

  How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

  Hwang, David

  “Hymn to Him, A”

  Hytner, Nick

  “I Cain’t Say No”

  “I Can’t Get Started”

  “Ice Cream”

  “I Could Have Danced All Night”

  “If I Loved You”

  “If I Were a Bell”

  “If I Were a Rich Man”

  “I Got Life”

  “I Hope I Get It”

  “I Know Where I’ve Been”

  “I’ll Know”

  “I’m an Ordinary Man”

  “Impossible Dream, The”

  intermission

  In the Good Old Summertime (film)

  In the Heights

  Into the Light

  Into the Woods

  “It Ain’t Necessarily So”

  Italy

  “It Couldn’t Please Me More”

  It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman

  “It’s Hot up Here”

  “It Takes a Woman”

  “I’ve Got Your Number”

  “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face”

  “I’ve Never Been in Love Before”

  “I Want” songs; conditional love songs merged with; as opening numbers

  “I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight”

  Jackman, Hugh

  Jazz Age

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jelly’s Last Jam

  Jersey Boys

  “Jet Song”

  jitterbug

  Joel, Billy

  “Johanna”

  John, Elton

  Johns, Glynis

  Johnson, Susan

  Jones, Dean

  Joplin, Janis

  “Joseph Smith American Moses”

  Jovanovich, Brandon

  “Jubilation T. Cornpone”

  Judaism

  Jujamcyn Theaters

  Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)

  Kander, John

  Karnilova, Maria

  Kaufman, George S.

  Kay, Hershy

  Kaye, Danny

  Kaye, Stubby

  “Keep It Gay”

  Kelly, Glen

  Kelton, Pert

  Kennedy, John F.; assassination of

  Kern, Jerome

  Kert, Larry

  King, Carole

  King and I, The; original cast and album of; story and characters of

  Kingston Trio

  Kinky Boots

  Kirkwood, James

  “Kiss the Girl”

  “Kiss Me”

  Kiss Me, Kate

  Kleban, Edward

  Klugman, Jack

  Kostal, Irwin

  Kushner, Tony, xn

  Kyd, Thomas

  Lacamoire, Alex

  LaChiusa, Michael John

  “Ladies Who Lunch, The”

  Lady, Be Good!

  Lambeth Walk

  Landesman, Rocco

  Lane, Burton

  Lane, Nathan

  Lang, Harold

  Lansbury, Angela

  Lapine, James

  Larson, Jonathan

  Lasky, Floria

  “Last Midnight, The”

  László, Miklós

  Lauper, Cyndi

  Laurents, Arthur

  Lavin, Linda

  Lawrence, Gertrude

  Lee, Gypsy Rose

  Legally Blonde

  Leigh, Carolyn

  Lennon, John

  Lenya, Lotte

  Lerner, Alan Jay

  “Let Me Entertain You”

  Levene, Sam

  Levin, Harry

  Lewis, Jerry Lee

  Liberatti, Alessandro

  Libin, Paul

  Lieberson, Goddard

  Life

  lighting

  Light in the Piazza, The

  Li’l Abner

  Liliom (Molnár)

  Lillie, Beatrice

  Lincoln Center

  Lincoln Center Theater

  lindy hop

  Lion, Margo

  Lion King, The

  Lion King, The (film)

  Lithgow, John

  “Little Girls”

  Little Lord Fauntleroy (Burnett)

  Little Me

  Little Mermaid, The (film)

  Little Night Music, A; original cast album of; story and characters of

  “Little Old Lady Land”

  “Little Priest, A”

  Little Shop of Horrors; characters and story of; music and lyrics of; original cast album of

  Little Shop of Horrors (film)

  Loesser, Frank

  Loewe, Frederick

  “Lonely Room”

  Look

  “Look What Happened to Mabel”

  Lopez, Robert

  “Lot’s Wife”

  Loudon, Dorothy

  “Love Is in the Air”

  “Lovely”

  “Lover, Come Back to Me”

  “Luck Be a Lady”

  Luker, Rebecca

  LuPone, Patti

  M*A*S*H (TV series)

  Mack and Mabel

  Mackintosh, Cameron

  “Make Believe”

  “Mama, I’m a Big Girl Now”

  Mame

  Mamma Mia!

  Manhattan Transfer

  Man of La Mancha

  Mark Taper Forum

  Marmorstein, Gary

  “Marry the Man Today”

  Marshall, Rob

  Martin, Mary

  Martin, Virginia

  Marx Brothers

  Massey, Daniel

  Masteroff, Joe

  “Matchmaker, Matchmaker”

  “Maybe”

  Mayer, Michael

  “May We Entertain You”

  Mazzie, Marin

  M. Butterfly

  McArdle, Andrea

  McCartney, Paul

  McCollum, Kevin

  McDonald, Audra

  McGlinn, John

  McKee, Robert

  McMartin, John

  Me and My Girl

  Meehan, Thomas

  melodrama

  melody

  Memphis

  Mendes, Sam

  Menken, Alan

  Menzel, Idina

  Mercer, Johnny

  Merman, Ethel

  Merrick, David

  Merrill, Bob

  Merrily We Roll Along

  Meyer, Danny

  Midler, Bette

  Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare)

  Miller, Ann

  Miller, Roger

  Minnelli, Liza

  Miranda, Lin-Manuel

  Misérables, Les

  Miss Saigon

  Mitchell, Brian Stokes

  Molnár, Ferenc

  “More I Cannot Wish You”

  Morison, Patricia

  Mormonism

  Morse, Robert

  Mostel, Zero

  Most Happy Fella, The; original cast and album of; story and characters of

  Mother Courage and Her Children (Brecht)

  “Motherhood March”

  “Mr. Goldstone”

  Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)

  Murphy, Donna

  musical comedy

  musical scores; orchestrat
ions of

  Music Man, The; music and lyrics of; opening number of; original cast album of; story, theme, and characters of

  “Mutual Admiration Society”

  Myers, Pamela

  My Fair Lady; music and lyrics of; original cast album of; story and characters of; structure of

  “My Hometown”

  “My Lord and Master”

  “My Shot”

  My Sister Eileen (McKenney)

  My So-Called Life (TV series)

  “My Time of Day”

  Nadel, Norman

  Nashville (film)

  National Endowment for the Arts

  National Theatre

  National Theatre of Great Britain

  Naughton, James

  New Age of Broadway

  New Amsterdam Theatre

  New Moon, The

  “New Town Is a Blue Town, A”

  New York, N.Y.; Broadway in; Times Square in

  New York City Ballet

  New York City Center: Encores! concert musical series at

  New York Theatre Workshop

  New York Times; Arts and Leisure section of

  Next to Normal

  Nicholaw, Casey

  Nichols, Mike

  Nine

  “No Life”

  Noll, Christiane

  “No One Mourns the Wicked”

  Normand, Mabel

  Nunn, Trevor

  “N.Y.C.”

  Obama, Barack

  O’Brien, Jack

  Ockrent, Mike

  off-Broadway shows; transfers to Broadway of

  “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’”

  O’Hara, Kelli

  Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad (Kopit)

  Oklahoma!; characters and story of; music and lyrics of; national tour of; opening number of; original cast album of; revivals of; revolutionary nature of

  “Oklahoma”

  “Old Fashioned Wedding, An”

  Oliver

  Once in a Lifetime (Kaufman and Hart)

  “One Hundred Easy Ways”

  O’Neill, Eugene, xn

  “One Short Day”

  “On the Steps of the Palace”

  “On the Street Where You Live”

  On the Town

  On the Twentieth Century

  “Ooh, My Feet”

  opening numbers; danced; duet; importance of; “I Want” songs as; solo; two forms of; writing of

  operas

  operettas

  original cast albums; London cast albums vs.; studio albums vs.

  Ostrow, Stuart

  Our Town (Wilder)

  “Over the Rainbow”

  overtures; as medleys; setting the tone with; writing of

  Pacific Overtures

  Paint Your Wagon

  Pajama Game, The

  Pal Joey

  Parker, Trey

  “Part of Your World”

  Passing Strange

  “Past My Prime”

  Patinkin, Mandy

  Pennebaker, D. A.

  “People Will Say We’re in Love”

  performance anxiety

  Peter Pan

  Peters, Bernadette

  Phantom of the Opera

  Philadelphia, Pa.

  Piano Lesson, The (Wilson)

  pianos

  “Pick-a-Little, Talk-a-Little”

  Pinkins, Tonya

  Pinter, Harold

  Pinza, Ezio

  Pipe Dream

  Plautus

  plays; light; musical; plays within

  Playwrights Horizons

  “Poor Unfortunate Souls”

  pop charts

  pop culture

  Porgy and Bess

  Porter, Cole

  Presley, Elvis

  Press, Red

  Preston, Robert

  Prince, Faith

  Prince, Harold; directing of

  producers

  Producers, The; original cast album of; story and characters of

  Producers, The (film)

  production numbers

  Promises, Promises

  Public Theater

  Puccini, Giacomo

  Pulitzer Prize

  “Put On a Happy Face”

  “Put On Your Sunday Clothes”

  “Putting It Together”

  Pygmalion (Shaw)

  “race” music

  radio

  Rado, James

  Ragni, Gerome

  Ragtime

  Ragtime (Doctorow)

  “Rain in Spain, The”

  Raitt, Bonnie

  Raitt, John

  Ramin, Sid

  rap (hip-hop)

  record business

  Reilly, Charles Nelson

  Rent

  “Revenge”

  Revolutionary War

  rhymes

  rhythm

  rhythm and blues (R&B)

  “Ribbons Down My Back”

  Rich, Frank

  Richardson, Natasha

  Riggs, Lynne

  Rivera, Chita

  Robards, Jason

  Robbins, Jerome

  Roberts, Flora

  Rockabye Hamlet

  rock-and-roll; folk; musicals; pop; punk

  “Rock Island”

  Rock of Ages

  Rockwell, Norman

  Rodgers, Richard

  Rodgers and Hammerstein

  Rodgers and Hart

  Rolling Stones

  Romberg, Sigmund

  “Rosabella”

  “Rose’s Turn”

  Ross, Jerry

  Roth, Jordan

  Royal Family, The

  Rudin, Scott

  “Run and Tell That!”

  Runyon, Damon

  “Runyonland”

  Sahl, Mort

  St. James Theatre

  Saratoga

  Sater, Steven

  Sauter, Eddie

  Sauter-Finegan Orchestra

  Schneider, Anne Kaufman

  Schwartz, Stephen

  Season, The (Goldman)

  second acts; entr’actes before; finales of; penultimate scenes in; showpieces in; “trouble” in

  Seeger, Pete

  Segal, Vivienne

  Selden, Al

  Sennett, Mack

  Sesame Street (TV show)

  set design

  Seurat, Georges

  1776

  “Seventy-six Trombones”

  Shaiman, Marc

  Shakespeare, William

  “Shall We Dance?”

  Shaw, George Bernard

  Sheik, Duncan

  She Loves Me; music and lyrics of; original cast album of; story and characters of

  Shelton, Reid

  Shepard, Sam

  Shepard, Thomas Z.

  Shevelove, Burt

  “Shipoopi”

  “Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo.”

  Shop Around the Corner, The (film)

  Shore, Dinah

  Show Boat

  Show Boat (Ferber)

  show business

  “Show Me”

  Shroud of Turin

  “Side by Side by Side”

  Simon, Neil

  Simon, Paul

  “Simple Joys of Maidenhood, The”

  Simpsons, The (TV show)

  Sinatra, Frank

  “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat”

  Sklar, Matt

  “Small House of Uncle Thomas, The”

  “Small World”

  Smile

  Smile (film)

  Smiles of a Summer Night (film)

  Smith, Joseph

  “Soliloquy”

  “Some Enchanted Evening”

  “Someone Is Waiting”

  “Some People”

  “Something’s Coming”

  “Somewhere That’s Green”

  Sondheim, Stephen; complete lyrics published
by; expansion of the musical form by; lyrics-only shows of; rhyming of

  “song plot”

  songs: as ballads; blues; “book”; character; charm; commentary on action in; hit; integration of story and; interludes in; internal monologues in; list; as production numbers; protest; remembrance of; reprise of; second; second-couple; sheet music of; showstopper; solo; as star vehicles; tent-pole; third or fourth; title; Top 40; villain; see also conditional love songs; “I Want” songs; opening numbers

  Sound of Music, The

  “Sound of Music, The”

  Sousa, John Philip

  South Pacific; characters and story of; opening number of; original cast album of; overture to

  South Park (TV show)

  “So What?”

  Spanish Tragedy, The (Kyd)

  special effects

  Spialek, Hans

  Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

  “Spooky Mormon Hell Dream”

  Spring Awakening

  Spring Awakening (Wedekind)

  “Springtime for Hitler”

  Stadlen, Lewis J.

  stage directions

  stage sets

  “Standing on the Corner”

  Starobin, Michael

  “Star-Spangled Banner, The”

  “Steam Heat”

  Stein, Joseph

  “Step On Up”

  Sting

  Stone, Matt

  Stone, Peter

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher

  Streisand, Barbra

  Stritch, Elaine

  Stroman, Susan

  “Strongest Man in the World, The”

  Strouse, Charles

  Strunsky, Michael

  Styne, Jule

  “Suddenly Seymour”

  “Sue Me”

  Sullivan, Jo

  Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte, A (Seurat)

  Sunday in the Park with George; music and lyrics of; original cast album of; reviews of; story and characters of

  Swan Lake (ballet)

  Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street; book of; characters and story of; music and lyrics of; original cast album of

  Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Bond)

  Sweet Charity

  “Sweet Thursday”

  Swenson, Swen

  Szot, Paulo

  “Take Back Your Mink”

  Taylor, Elizabeth

  Taymor, Julie

  Te Kanawa, Kiri

  television

  “Tennis Song, The”

  Tesori, Jeanine

  “Tevye’s Dream”

  “Then I’d Be Satisfied with Life”

  “There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame”

  “This Land Is Your Land”

  “This Nearly Was Mine”

  “This Was a Real Nice Clambake”

  Thompson, Amir “Questlove”

  Thompson, Eric

  Thousand Clowns, A (Gardner)

  Threepenny Opera

  Time and Again (Finney)

  “Time Heals Everything”

  Titanic

  “Together, Wherever We Go”

  “To Life”

  “Tom, Dick or Harry”

  “Tom Dooley”

  “Tomorrow”

  “Tomorrow Is a Latter Day”

  “Tonight”

  “Tonight Quintet”

  Tony Awards

  “Too Darn Hot”

  Tootsie (film)

  “Totally Fucked”

  Towers, Constance

  “Tradition”

 

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