The story of how Chicago won the "Vaudeville Wars" only to see its theater industry collapse. A history of Chicago's stage industry where the American comic operas and musical extravaganzas were first nurtured, from the minstrel shows to the little theater movement with an analysis of why Chicago never obtained the position that it thought it would in national theater.
Pages
331
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
December 14, 2014
Chicago's Theater Industry: A Quest for World Class
The story of how Chicago won the "Vaudeville Wars" only to see its theater industry collapse. A history of Chicago's stage industry where the American comic operas and musical extravaganzas were first nurtured, from the minstrel shows to the little theater movement with an analysis of why Chicago never obtained the position that it thought it would in national theater.