Description: The first ever edited collection on the musicals produced by the Viennese powerhouse production company the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien, whose German-language works have been successfully exported all around the world.
Brief description: Nils Grosch is Head of Department of Art History, Musicology and Dance Studies at PLUS. He has published widely on musical theatre, music and migration as well as on popular music, including The Routledge Handbook on Music and Migration (2023) and Stimme - Körper - Medien: Gesang im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert (Laaber 2021).
Review Quotes:
"A landmark contribution to musical theatre studies, this volume illuminates the artistic strategies and the global reach of the "Viennese Musical." By situating the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien within international performance culture, the book redefines how we understand the transnational flows of contemporary popular theatre. Written with scholarly depth and cultural insight the authors discuss a repertoire too long overlooked particularly in anglophone academia." --Professor David Roesner, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich
"This new collection makes a valuable and timely addition to the growing research that acknowledges the vital role of European heritage in forming and sustaining the musical's status as a global art form." --Dr John Snelson, author of Reviewing the Situation: The British Musical from Noël Coward to Lionel Bart "For me, the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien is a place of artistic precision and genuine passion for musical theater. The work here is on a par with Broadway and the West End-but with its own distinctive Viennese approach. I am particularly impressed by the courage to develop new Austrian material and to constantly breathe new life into the genre." --Andreas Gergen