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title: "Words with Music: Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto (Applause Books)"
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# Words with Music: Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto (Applause Books)

**Brand:** lehman engel
**Price:** € 32.26
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- **What is this?** Words with Music: Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto (Applause Books) by lehman engel
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Words with Music: Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto (Applause Books)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book is time tested.
*by J***Y on June 13, 2021*

A must for anyone studying the American musical form.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Masterpiece Revised and Updated
*by J***K on May 17, 2006*

Written by legendary musical director Lehman Engel in 1972, this book has been long out of print with copies selling for high amounts when you could find one at all. Now Howard Kissel, theater critic for the New York Daily News, has updated the book by applying the same analysis techniques to several modern shows such as 'A Chrous Line,' 'Rent,' 'Phantom,' 'Les Miz,' and 'Wicked.'To be sure, styles change over time as the modern audiences grew in a more rock oriented environment that Lloyd Webber was able to capture in his list of successful hits. But as the music has evolved, the basic rules of musical theater plot lines and character development have remained almost fixed.It is the current fashion to lament the passing of the musical, to look back to a supposed 'Golden Age' of the musical that is long past. This book ends with a quotation, 'The era of sterling drama and talented actors is in the past, perhaps never to return.' This came from a guidebook to New York that was published in 1868.The musical is not dead. And the same rules still apply when Mr. Engle wrote them in 1970. To be sure, most of the musicals put on Broadway are not so very good, but then one comes along ... And it is likely to have followed Mr. Engel's basic rules.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A little dated both in information and attitude, but ...
*by J***N on July 17, 2015*

A little dated both in information and attitude, but still informative. Concentrates primarily on musicals prior to the Sondheim era.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Words with Music: Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto (Applause Books)
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- Writing The Broadway Musical

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