One measure of a show’s success is how long it runs on Broadway. Oklahoma!, which ran more than five years (2,212 performances), led the list in the 1940s. Now it ranks a mere 32nd. Today the top thirty shows are all musicals, and include popular titles such as The...
Hamilton has been a hot ticket since it debuted in 2015. But what possessed composer-lyricist-playwright-original star Lin-Manuel Miranda to write a musical about the first Secretary of the Treasury and his Founding Father contemporaries, and set their history to a...
Ten musicals have been honored with the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, from the Gershwins’ Of Thee I Sing in 1931 to Lin- Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton in 2015. Each in its own way has been “a distinguished play … dealing with American life.” This talk examines the ten shows...
A history of the most universally beloved musical which began under a cloud of doubt by its creative team — the composer-lyricist team of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, as well as adapter Joseph Stein — who wondered whether this tale of a Russian dairyman...
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