"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1988."
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Includes index.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Discography: pages 197-238.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Vividly recreating the unique pleasure of experiencing a song-and-dance show, Broadway Babies spotlights the men and women who made a difference in the development of American musical comedy. Mordden's account features such show people as Florenz Ziegfeld, Harold Prince, Bert Lahr, Gwen Verdon, Angela Lansbury, Victor Herbert, Liza Minnelli, and Stephen Sondheim, and such musicals as Sally, Oh Kay!, Anything Goes, Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Follies, Chicago and countless others. It also includes an extensive discography--the first of its kind--which offers a virtually self-contained history of reco.