CHAPTER 7. Divas or Anti-Divas? The Act and The Woman of the Year

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER 1. Forty-Two Years of Musicals 12
7. CHAPTER 2. The Divinely Decadent Lives of Cabaret 35
8. CHAPTER 3. Chicago Broadway to Hollywood 77
9. CHAPTER 4. Fred Without John and John Without Fred 103
10. CHAPTER 5. Kiss of the Spider Woman: Sex, Politics, and the Diva Musical 150
11. CHAPTER 6. Flops and Second Chances: Flora, the Red Menace; The Happy Time; Zorbá; 70, Girls, 70; The Rink; and Steel Pier 170
12. CHAPTER 7. Divas or Anti-Divas? The Act and The Woman of the Year 229
13. CHAPTER 8. Musicals Abandoned and Imagined 239
14. CHAPTER 9. “A Tough Act to Follow”: Curtains and Three New Shows 258
15. Appendix 307
16. Notes 315
17. Index 345
18. Credits 363