| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 351 pages) : illustrations |
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Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1960 -- The Lily White Boys The Dancing Heiress Follow That Girl Johnny the Priest The Golden Touch Call It Love? Innocent as Hell Joie de Vivre The Princess Mr Burke M.P. Hooray for Daisy! -- 1961-1964 -- 1961: The Three Caskets Belle Wildest Dreams -- 1962: Scapa! Vanity Fair -- 1963: Virtue in Danger Enrico House of Cards Pocahontas -- 1964: Our Man Crichton -- 1965-1966 -- 1965: The Wayward Way Divorce Me, Darling! Four Thousand Brass Halfpennies Passion Flower Hotel Twang! -- 1966: The Match Girls On the Level Strike a Light! Jorrocks Joey Joey Man of Magic -- 1967-1969 -- 1967: Queenie Mrs Wilson's Diary -- 1968: The Dancing Years Mr and Mrs The Young Visiters -- 1969: Two Cities Ann Veronica High Diplomacy The Stiffkey Scandals of 1932 Phil the Fluter -- 1970-1972 -- 1970: 'Erb Mandrake Sing a Rude Song Lie Down, I Think I Love You Isabel's a Jezebel -- 1971: Maybe That's Your Problem Romance! Ambassador His Monkey Wife -- 1972: The Londoners The Maid of the Mountains Tom Brown's Schooldays Trelawny Pull Both Ends Smilin' Through Popkiss Stand and Deliver I and Albert -- 1973-1976 -- 1973: Kingdom Coming The Card The Water Babies -- 1974: Bordello Jack the Ripper -- 1975: Jeeves At the Sign of the Angel Pilgrim Thomas and the King Glamorous Night -- 1976: The Lady or the Tiger Mardi Gras Ride! Ride! Liza of Lambeth -- 1977-1979 -- 1977: Lionel Fire Angel Dean Maggie Drake's Dream -- 1978: Kings and Clowns Big Sin City Bar Mitzvah Boy Troubadour -- 1979: A Day in Hollywood, a Night in the Ukraine Songbook -- 1980-1983 -- 1980: Barnardo Colette The Biograph Girl |
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1981: Eastward Ho! One Night Stand The Mitford Girls Restoration -- 1982: Wild, Wild Women Windy City Andy Capp -- 1983: Marilyn! Bashville Dear Anyone Jean Seberg Poppy Swan Esther -- 1984-1989 -- 1984: Blockheads Peg The Importance The Hired Man -- 1986: The Gambler -- 1987: The Secret Garden Spin of the Wheel Girlfriends -- 1988: Nite Club International Winnie Budgie -- 1989: Metropolis Sherlock Holmes -- 1990-1999 -- 1990: Someone Like You King Bernadette -- 1991: Children of Eden Matador The Hunting of the Snark -- 1992: Moby Dick Valentine's Day Which Witch? -- 1993: Robin, Prince of Sherwood Leonardo Lust -- 1994: Out of the Blue -- 1995: Prisoner Cell Block H -- 1996: The Fields of Ambrosia Disgracefully Yours Voyeurz -- 1997: Always Maddie Stepping Out -- 1998: Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens -- 1999: A Saint She Ain't Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- 2000-2005 -- 2000: Lautrec Hard Times Napoleon -- 2002: Romeo and Juliet -- 2003: Money To Burn -- 2004: Beautiful and Damned Murderous Instincts Oscar Wilde -- 2005: Acorn Antiques The Far Pavilions Behind the Iron Mask -- 2006-2016 -- 2007: Bad Girls -- 2008: Gone With the Wind Marguerite Imagine This -- 2009: Too Close To the Sun -- 2010: Wolf Boy Love Story -- 2011: Betty Blue Eyes Lend Me a Tenor -- 2013: From Here To Eternity Stephen Ward -- 2014: I Can't Sing Made in Dagenham -- 2016: Mrs Henderson Presents The Go-Between -- Appendix: British Musical Flops in London 1960-2016 -- Notes to the Text -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Musical Works -- General Index |
| Summary |
"The ominous announcement Must Close Saturday too often heralded the demise of British musicals. Looking forward from the vantage point of Lionel Bart's spectacularly successful Oliver! in 1960, Adrian Wright's authoritative chronicle of the commercially unsuccessful British musical of the last half a century uncovers a wealth of fascinating material. In the wake of the resurgence that briefly blew through the British musical at the end of the 1950s with verismo works such as Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be and Expresso Bongo, the British musical was shaken by Bart's adaptation of Dickens, but was quickly left floundering in the face of constant critical complaint and financial failure. The first book to deal exclusively with British musical flops, Must Close Saturday presents a rolling panorama of the good, the bad and the ugly, reassessing their place in theatrical history. Wright reveals a consistent striving at invention, with subjects including the electric chair, the Holocaust, the Virgin Mary, social inequality and Trade Unionism, sexual problems and murder, as well as biographical treatments of Hollywood stars, French painters, tragic novelists, royalty, and the Rector of Stiffkey. Discursive and provoking, Must Close Saturday at last prises open the neglected history of the British musical flop up to 2016"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-326) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Musicals -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
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Musicals -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Musicals.
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Musicals
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781787440838 |
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1787440834 |
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