Description: Since the latter part of the 19th century, the Broadway musical has remained one of the most popular genres in entertainment and its history is related in detail in The A to Z of the Broadway Musical. Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and 900 diction...
Brief description: Paul R. Laird is Professor of Musicology at the University of Kansas, USA. He has published widely on the American musical theatre, including co-editing three editions of The Cambridge Companion to the Musical with William A. Everett. He is also the author of West Side Story, Gypsy, and the Art of Broadway Orchestration (2022).