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I know some people say this is a hot button book and the author is a St. Louis director who is quite controversial. He does seem to think his thoughts are the be all end all of musical theatre, but for me they are a great jumping off point and he talks about some of my favorite shows. And the shows are of a very broad range.
A wee bit dated at this point, twenty years on, but a varied collection that still represents some of the best of the best. Miller can't always decide if he wants to analyse the music or not, but he makes some interesting points and draws your attention to the important things.
Insightful and InterestingMuch more than an extended set of liner notes Scott Miller does a wonderful job of laying out the structure and meaning of some 16 Broadway plays. Each of the essays can be read independently of each other. Miller covers the role of music brilliantly (the final essay on West Side Story is a tour de force in this regard) showing hiliting the use of styles and repeated themes contribute to the build of drama. He supplies alternate interpretations that have been used with
"If music be the Food of love, play on." I have long maintained that if life were perfect, it would be a musical. All would sing in harmony, and we would even all be able to dance! This collection, however, by director Scott Miller demonstrates that even if life is not perfect, it is aided greatly when seen as a musical. In this work he presents 16 musicals from different time periods, and examines them in depth.The dimensions he adds to each of these shows by his analysis makes a reader want to...
A fascinating book about what makes musicals tick. From the tritone present in almost every song in West Side Story to the very grown-up themes in Into the Woods, this book is a must for anyone interested in working in the theatre. Not only does it give you backgrounds on how the shows were created, it dissects all of them (not to the level that author Scott Miller has the potential to, of course) just enough to make you want to read more on the synthesis of these musicals. It makes each of the
