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Ruth Leon
The Sound of Musicals [EPUB ebook]

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The world of musicals is beautiful, complex, hilarious, hard-headed, and improbable. It is as hard to make a great musical as it is to fly a spaceship to the moon and there are at least as many moving parts. Why is a great musical as significant a theatrical achievement as, say, King Lear?
In this entertaining new title in Oberon Masters Series, Ruth Leon tells all about the composers, the lyricists, the directors and the pioneers of the stage musical on both sides of the Atlantic while trying to reveal the truth behind the eternal question – what are musicals and why do we love them?

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Format EPUB ● Pages 96 ● ISBN 9781849433129 ● Publisher Oberon Books ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5483939 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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