 Open a new window: the Broadway musical in the 1960s.
Author: Mordden, Ethan Published: 2001 Broadway musicals of the 1960s glittered, with a long list of hits which made the 60s the decade with the largest group of classic musicals. These included Bye Bye Birdie, How to Succeed in Business, She Loves Me, Hello Dolly!, Mame, Man of La Mancha, Fiddler on the Roof, 1776, and Sweet Charity, with star performers such as Barbra Streisand, Robert Preston, Zero Mostel, Angela Lansbury, Carol Channing, Gwen Verdon, and Barbara Cook, and choreographers including Bob Fosse, Gower Champion, Jerome Robbins. In Open a new window the witty, smart, and opinionated Ethan Mordden continues his history of the Broadway musical by looking at this sparkling decade. |
