Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1--Establishing the Tradition
1 Agnes de Mille
2 Jerome Robbins: Early Fame
3 Jerome Robbins: West Side Story
4 Jerome Robbins: The Later Career
Part 2--Extending the Line
5 Bob Fosse
6 Gower Champion
7 Michael Bennett
8 Tommy Tune
Epilogue: Broadway Today
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Broadway, the Golden Years, is a wonderfully readable group portrait of the great Broadway choreographer-directors: Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, Gower Champion, Bob Fosse, Michael Bennett, Tonny Tune, Graciela Daniele, and Susan Stroman.
Robert Emmet Long is a recognized critic of American and British literature, and a commentator on the performing arts. He is author or editor of some 30 books and he has contributed over 400 articles to many journals and magazines, including The Nation, Commonweal, and Saturday Review.
"Long-overdue and richly detailed." - Chicago Sun-Times
"Broadway, the Golden Years, is really seven books in one. It
traces a unique and fascinating facet of Broadway history through
mini-biographies of its six foremost practitioners, plus a roundup
of who's working today." - Playbill On-Line
"Taking a fresh approach to that quintessential American form --
musical theater --, Long in his eloquent book examines the
phenomenon of the choreographer, a figure usually low in the
credits of propagation for a show." --Confrontation, Fall
2002/Winter
'This long overdue, richly detailed book is a major addition to the
history of Broadway.' ~ Driffield Leader, Dec 2006
"Good one-stop shopping for material on principal choreographers."
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"Earnest and thorough." - New York Times
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"This fine book will be greeted with applause by the many Broadway
buffs, show-tune collectors and musical mavens." - Publishers
Weekly
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"Deftly depicting the relationships among many diverse artists,
Long warmly conveys his sense of theater history and the craft
tradition as a living chain of gifted individuals who were nurtured
and challenged by those who preceded them." - Washington Post
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