When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way - George a

When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way - George a

This book is about the transition that musicals went through when they traveled from the stage to the screen. While the approach is critical, the style is reada

As Hollywood entered the sound era, it was rightly determined that the same public fascinated by the novelty of the talkie would be dazzled by the spectacle of

Describes the history of the screen adaptations of Broadway musicals from Showboat to Grease and tells the story of the composers, stars, and directors