Andrew Lloyd Webber is the most famous-and most controversial-composer of musical theater alive today. Hundreds of millions of people have seen his musicals, which include Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Starlight Express, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and Sunset Boulevard.
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Kay Swift (1897-1993) was one of the few women composers active on Broadway in the first half of the twentieth century. Her show Fine and Dandy (1930) was the first complete Broadway musical written by a woman. This fascinating book discusses her music and her extraordinary life.
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He sang and danced in the rain, proclaimed New York to be a wonderful town, and convinced a group of Parisian children that they had rhythm. One of the most influential and respected entertainers of Hollywood's golden age, Gene Kelly revolutionized film musicals with his innovative and timeless choreography.
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Four autobiographies of early twentieth-century actors and playwrights are presented in English translation, with substantive chapters on the Parsi theatre, and strategies for reading autobiography in the Indian context.
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