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Synopsis
An authorized companion to the popular musical, published to coincide with its 2008 return to Broadway, is a lavishly illustrated collection of memorabilia and historical trivia that celebrates the contributions of its creators, its numerous awards, and its stage and screen productions. 75,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Laurence Maslon is an associate arts professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He is the coauthor, with Michael Kantor, of the acclaimed companion volume to the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary series Broadway: The American Musical, for which he also cowrote two episodes. He also wrote the American Masters documentary on Richard Rodgers and was senior consultant on the fortieth-anniversary DVD release of The Sound of Music. He lives in New York City and on Long Island with his wife, Genevieve, and their dog, Ruby.
From Booklist
Maslon’s brilliantly sympathetic Sound of Music Companion (2007) is a tough act to follow, and sure enough, his similar treatment of one of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s most highly esteemed efforts doesn’t measure up. Still, South Pacific mavens shouldn’t grouse too much. Maslon illuminates the show’s sources as thoroughly as he did Sound’s, invaluably including chapter-by-chapter synopses of James A. Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific (1947) as well as plenty of exposition on the South Pacific campaign in World War II and the work of the Seabees in it. His placing of the show’s development and performance history in the context of its creators’ busy schedules is also keenly gratifying. He concentrates on the original Broadway production almost to the exclusion of the by-most-lights inferior movie version (which yet, Maslon points out, used two songs dropped before the Broadway opening), and his discussion of South Pacific’s antiracist political impact never gloats. So what’s to carp at? The uncorrected color of the movie-derived illustrations, shot through special filters during musical scenes, and inadequate typo correcting, that’s what. --Ray Olson
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- PublisherTouchstone
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1416573135
- ISBN 13 9781416573135
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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