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by Ethan Mordden

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For Ethan Mordden, the closing night of the hit musical, 42nd St. sounded the death knell of the art form of the Broadway musical. After that, big orchestras, real voices, recognizable books and intelligent lyrics went out the window in favor of cats, helicopters, yodeling Frenchmen, and the roof of the Paris Opera. Mordden takes us through the aftermath of the days of the great Broadway musical. From the long-running Cats to Miss Saigon, Phantom, and Les Miserables, to gems like The Producers, he is unsparing in his look at the remains of the day. Not content to scold the shows' creators, Mordden takes on the critics, too, splaying their bodies across the Great White Way like Sweeney Todd giving a close shave. Once more, it's "curtain going up," but Mordden is not applauding.

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They knew how to write a musical comedy in the 1920s.

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  • Title The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen: The Last Twenty-Five Years of the Broadway Musical
  • Author Ethan Mordden
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Press, New York
  • Publication date 2004-10-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780312239541 / 0312239548
  • Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.52 x 6.42 x 1.05 in (24.18 x 16.31 x 2.67 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Locality: New York, N.Y.
  • Category Performing Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Musicals - United States - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004044304
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.140

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/01/2004, Page 460
  • Choice, 02/01/2005, Page 1031
  • Library Journal, 11/01/2004, Page 86

About the author

Ethan Mordden is the author of many books on the Broadway musical including One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in the 1970's (Palgrave Macmillan).

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