CMU School of Drama


Friday, December 18, 2009

American musicals' comeback

Variety: "If the '00s have not been a golden age of American musicals, they most certainly represent a comeback.
The Broadway musical had always been synonymous with the American musical. But those tuner tracks diverged in the 1980s when Andrew Lloyd Webber followed 'Evita' with the double whammy of 'Cats' and 'The Phantom of the Opera.' Added to this British mix of sung-through tuners were Cameron Mackintosh's productions of Schonberg and Boublil's 'Les Miserables' and 'Miss Saigon.'"

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