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American Cinderellas on Broadway musical stage : imagining the working girl from Irene to Gypsy
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American Cinderellas on Broadway musical stage : imagining the working girl from Irene to Gypsy / Maya Cantu.
ISBN
9781137561459
1137561459
Publication
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
xiv, 276 pages ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 17, 2015
Series
Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Glass slippers and glass ceilings in the twentieth century, or Cinderella returns to Broadway
Who are these American Cinderellas? : working girls, chorus girls, and American dreams for women in the 1920s
Merman was a lady : the 1930s Cinderella-broad and burlesquing the genteel tradition
Make up your mind : boss ladies and enchantresses in the 1940s Broadway musical
Twentieth-century fairy tales : princesses, prostitutes, and the feminine mystique in the Broadway musicals of the 1950s
Coda : Rewriting the Broadway Cinderella story.
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