The world of musical comedy;: The story of the American musical stage as told through the careers of its foremost composers and lyricists

Abstract

* Foreword by Deems Taylor * Prologue * Victor Herbert * George M. Cohan * Rudolf Friml, Otto Harbach * Sigmund Romberg * Jerome Kern * Irving Berlin * George and Ira Gershwin * Vincent Youmans * Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart * B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson * Cole Porter * Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz, Dorothy Fields * E.Y. Harburg, Vernon Duke, Harold Arlen, Burton Lane * Harold Rome * Kurt Weill * Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II * Leonard Bernstein * Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe * Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green * Frank Loesser, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, Meredith Wilson * Bob Merrill * Stephen Sondheim * Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick * Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, Martin Charnin * Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh, Michael Stewart * Jerry Herman * John Kander and Fred Ebb * Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion Galt Mac Dermot Burt Bacharach and Hal David * Sherman Edwards Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford Gary Geld and Peter Udell Stephen Schwartz * Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey Charlie Smalls Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, Carole Bayer Sager Elizabeth Swados Carol Hall

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