We Have Manhattan The Early Work of Rodgers Hart 1st Edition by Dominic Symonds 9780190216887 0190216883

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ISBN 10: 0190216883
ISBN 13: 9780190216887 
Author: Dominic Symonds

Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are one of the defining duos of musical theater, contributing dozens of classic songs to the Great American Songbook and working together on over 40 shows before Hart’s death. With hit after hit on both Broadway and the West End, they produced many of the celebrated songs of the ’20s and ’30s–such as “Manhattan,” “The Lady is a Tramp,” and “Bewitched”–that remain popular favorites with great cultural resonance today. Yet the early years of these iconic collaborators have remained largely unexamined.We’ll Have Manhattan: The Early Work of Rodgers & Hart provides unprecedented insight into the first, formative period of Rodgers and Hart’s collaboration. Author Dominic Symonds examines the pair and their work from their first meeting in 1919 to their brief flirtation with Hollywood in the early 1930s as they left the theater to explore sound film. During this time, their output was prodigious, progressive, and experimental. They developed their characteristic style and a new approach to musical theater writing that provided the groundwork for the development of the Broadway musical. Symonds also analyzes the theme of identity that runs throughout Rodgers and Hart’s work, how the business side of the theater affected their artistic output, and their continued experimentation with a song’s dramatic role within a narrative.We’ll Have Manhattan goes beyond a biographical or historical look at Rodgers and Hart’s early years–it’s also an accessible but authoritative study of their material. Symonds documents their early shows and provides deft critical and analytical commentary on their evolving practice and its influence on the subsequent development of the American musical. Fans of musical theater and devotees of Rodgers and Hart will find this definitive exploration of their early works to be an essential addition to their Broadway library.

We Have Manhattan The Early Work of Rodgers Hart 1st Table of contents:

Introduction: “We’ll Have Manhattan”

winkle town (1922)

1. The Summer Camps and Varsity Shows

“any old place with you”

camp fire days (1908–1921)

the akron club shows (1920–1921)

the varsity shows (1920–1921)

poor little ritz girl (1920)

the institute of musical art (1920–1923)

the jazz king (1924)

2. The Breakthrough in Revue The Garrick Gaieties (1925, 1926) and Fifth Avenue Follies (1926)

The Fifth Avenue Follies (1926)

The Garrick Gaieties (1926)

3. The Rodgers and Hart Revolution Dearest Enemy (1925)

sweet rebel

dearest enemy

dearest enemy on television (1955)

a revolutionary show?

4. Pleasing the Producers Herbert Fields, Lew Fields, and The Girl Friend (1926)

herbert fields

lew fields

the girl friend (1926)

5. A London Odyssey Lido Lady (1926), One Dam Thing after Another (1927), Ever Green (1930)

lido lady (1926)

one dam thing after another (1927)

ever green (1930)

6. Big Fish Peggy-Ann (1926), Ziegfeld, and a Flop Called Betsy (1926)

peggy-ann (1926)

betsy (1926)

7. A Commercial Success A Connecticut Yankee (1927)

a connecticut yankee (1927)

8. Castration and Integration Chee-Chee (1928)

a failure

the music of chee-chee

the libretto and score of chee-chee

the production

9. Coping with the Crash

spring is here (1929)

heads up! (1929)

simple simon (1930)

and so to hollywood

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