Red, hot & blue : [electronic resource] a Smithsonian salute to the American musical / Amy Henderson and Dwight Blocker Bowers.
Material type: TextPublication details: Washington : National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of American History in association with the Smithsonian Institution Press, c1996.Description: xix, 268 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cmISBN:- 1560986980 (alk. paper)
- 9781560986980 (alk. paper)
- Red, hot, and blue
- 782.1/0973/074753 20
- ML141.W3 N38 1996
- 24.22
"An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, October 25, 1996, through July 6, 1997"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-253), discography (p. 254-261), and index.
A fine romance -- Setting the stage: street scene, 1866-1906 -- Curtain up: the rise of the Impresario, 1907-1927 -- Light the lights: Broadway and Hollywood, 1927-1942 -- The heights: Broadway and Hollywood, 1943-1959 -- Side by side by side: redefinition and revival, 1960-present.
A survey of the Hollywood and Broadway musical from vaudeville to today's major revivals.
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