When Broadway went to Hollywood

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The work When Broadway went to Hollywood represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

When Broadway went to Hollywood

Statement of responsibility

Ethan Mordden

Creator

• Mordden, Ethan, 1947-

Author

• Mordden, Ethan, 1947-

Subject

• Los Angeles- Hollywood
• PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video
• MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Musicals
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Broadway & Musicals
• PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Broadway & Musicals
• Goria, A
• MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Musicals
• Musical films -- United States -- History and criticism
• PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video
• Filmmusical
• Motion picture music
• Musical films
• Broadway
• United States
• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
• Motion picture music -- United States -- History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

By the late 1920s, Broadway was thriving, and New York had produced dozens of prodigious songwriting talents: Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Frank Loesser, and Jerry Herman, to name a few. When The Jazz Singer became the first film to integrate synchronized music in 1927, many ambitious pioneers of the Great White Way were enticed westward by the studios' promises of national exposure and top dollar success. But what happens when writers native to the business of Broadway run into the very different business of Hollywood? Hollywood had its producer despots, its stacking of writing teams on a single project, its use of five or six songs per story where Broadway fit in a dozen, and it was uncomfortable with characters bursting into song on the street, your living room, or "a cottage small by a waterfall." Did the movies give theatre writers a chance to expand their art, or did mass marketing ruin the musical's quintessential charm? Is it possible to trace the history of the musical through both stage and screen manifestations, or did Broadway and Hollywood give rise to two wholly irreconcilable art forms? And, finally, did any New York writer or writing team create a film musical as enthralling and timeless as their work for the stage? In When Broadway Went to Hollywood, writer and celebrated steward of musical theatre Ethan Mordden directs his unmistakable wit and whimsy to these challenging questions and more

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

791.43/6

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

ML2075

LC item number

.M652 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography