 The happiest corpse I've ever seen: the last 25 years of the Broadway musical.
Author: Mordden, Ethan Published: 2004 On the night of August 25, 1980, at the end of the first night of Gower Champion's 42nd Street, the show's producer stepped before the audience to announce that Champion had died a few hours earlier. This marked the end of the era of the classic Broadway musical - big orchestras, real voices, recognisable books and intelligent lyrics went out the window, and in came a string of stupendous flops. However, the burial has not yet taken place, and in The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen, Ethan Mordden takes a witty and acerbic look at the condition of the corpse. |
