The Broadway Musical: Collaboration in Commerce and Art.

First edition of this acclaimed study of the American musical theater as a collaborative art and business. Octavo, original half-cloth with gilt titles to the spine. From the collection of the Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Strouse and his wife, choreographer Barbara Siman, with his ownership stamp to the front free endpaper. Over his fifty-year career, Charles Strouse wrote the music for such iconic musical theater hits as Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, and Annie, as well as the theme song for the classic sitcom All in the Family, “Those Were the Days.” His partnership with Martin Charnin on Annie produced one of Broadway’s most successful scores ever, with “Tomorrow” and other songs becoming enduring American standards, and his honors include three Tony Awards and induction into both the Songwriters and Theater Halls of Fame. In fine condition. A fitting copy, a history of the Broadway musical from the library of one of its master composers. The Broadway Musical: Collaboration in Commerce and Art (1993) is a wide-ranging study of the American musical theater by the sociologist Bernard Rosenberg and Ernest Harburg, examining the musical as the product of collaboration among composers, lyricists, writers, directors, producers, and financiers. Drawing on extensive interviews with figures of the theater, it treats the form as both a commercial enterprise and a serious art. Ernest Harburg was the son of the celebrated lyricist E.Y. ?Yip? Harburg, who wrote the words to ?Over the Rainbow? and the score of Finian?s Rainbow. …