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Birthdate: 1932
Date of death: 2011-05-09
Gender: male
Education: University of Pennsylvania (MA - Medieval Literature, PhD - Medieval Literature)
Lafayette College (BA)
Occupations: theatre historian
business executive
producer
Nationality: USA
Places of residence: Wynnefield, Pennsylvania, USA
Kirks Mills, Pennsylvania, USA
Bala, Pennsylvania, USA
Place of death: Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial location: Montefiore Cemetery, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, USA
Associated Place (for map): Pennsylvania, USA

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American musical theatre : a chronicle by Gerald Bordman

Mine is an old edition,but , hailed as "absolutely the best reference book on its subject" by Newsweek, ¨American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle¨ covers now more than 250 years of musical theatre in the United States, from a 1735 South Carolina production of Flora, or Hob in the Well to The Addams Family in 2010. An engaging narrative blends history, critical analysis, and lively description to illustrate the transformation of American musical theatre through such incarnations as the ballad show more opera, revue, Golden Age musical, rock musical, Disney musical, and, with 2010's American Idiot, even the punk musical. show less

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