Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jones, Chris,

Titel

Rise up! : Broadway and American society from 'Angels in America' to 'Hamilton'

Auflage

First edition

Ort / Verlag

London ; : Methuen Drama,

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

• Bloomsbury Drama Online: Critical Studies and Performance Practice - Annual Update 2021

Beschreibungen/Notizen

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 1. 1993: An Angel Lands -- 2. 1994: The Committed Solo Voice Emerges -- 3. 1996: Paying Rent -- 4. 1997: The Lion King, the Exotic Narrative and the Return of the Family to the Theater -- 5. 1999: The Short-order Cook with the Moral Conscience and the Epic Idea -- 6. 2001 Mythic Healing for a Nation in Pain -- 7. 2002: Urinetown, Spamalot and the Rise of the Meta -- 8. 2002: Edward Albee Roars Again and Brings on Others -- 9. 2007: American Familial Tragedy, Recalibrated for the Now -- 10. 2010: American Idiocy, the Musical Collage and America Walking Together -- 11. 2011: Bloody, Bloody, Self-Awareness -- 12. 2011: Spider-Man, the End of Auteurism and the Great Over-reach -- 13. 2014: The Lorraine Hansberry Renaissance, Broadway Finds Itself at One with the Obama Administration, and Hope Emerges -- 14. 2015: Hamilton, the Game-changer, Only It Wasn't Ever Really a Game.
• "Penned by one of America's best-known daily theatre critics and organized chronologically, this lively and readable book tells the story of Broadway's renaissance from the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, via the disaster that was Spiderman: Turn off the Dark through the unparalleled financial, artistic and political success of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. It is the story of the embrace of risk and substance. In so doing, Chris Jones makes the point that the theatre thrived by finally figuring out how to embrace the bold statement and insert itself into the national conversation - only to find out in 2016 that a hefty sector of the American public had not been listening to what it had to say. Chris Jones was in the theatres when and where it mattered. He takes readers from the moment when Tony Kushner's angel crashed (quite literally) through the ceiling of prejudice and religious intolerance to the triumph of Hamilton, with the coda of the Broadway cast addressing a new Republican vice-president from the stage. That complex performance - at once indicative of the theatre's new clout and its inability to fully change American society for the better - is the final scene of the book."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Also issued in printing.