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The idea of American musical theatre conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in local and amateur productions at schools, community theatres, summer camps, and more. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf considers the widespread presence and persistence of musical theatre in U.S. culture, and examines it as a live, pleasurable, participatory experience of creating, watching, and listening. Why does local musical theatre flourish in America? Why do so many Americans passionately engage in a century-old artistic practice that requires intense, person-to-person collaboration? Why do audiences flock to see musicals in their hometowns? How do corporations like Disney and Music Theatre International enable musical theatre's energetic movement through American culture? Touring from Maine to California, Wolf visits elementary schools, a middle school performance festival, afterschool programs, high schools, summer camps, state park outdoor theatres, community theatres, and dinner theatres, and conducts over 200 interviews with practitioners and spectators, licensors and Disney creatives. In Beyond Broadway, Wolf tells the story of musical theatre's abundance and longevity in the U.S. as a thriving, joyful activity that touches millions of lives.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Junior Theatre Festival and Broadway Junior
Chapter 2: Backstage Divas
Chapter 3: High School Musicals and Into the Woods
Chapter 4: Community Theatre
Chapter 5: The Sound of Music at Outdoor Summer Musical Theatres
Chapter 6: Girls' Jewish Summer Camps in Maine
Chapter 7: Disney Goes to School
Chapter 8: Dinner Theatres in Colorado: A Road Trip
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Index
