7 Blockbuster Musicals in the Age of Obama: The Book of Mormon and Hamilton

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the Second Edition ix
4. Overture All Singin’! All Dancin’! All White People? 1
5. ACT ONE 1927–1957
6. 1 Only Make Believe: Performing Race in Show Boat 31
7. 2 Playing Cowboys and Indians: Forging Whiteness in Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun 55
8. 3 Trouble in New York City: The Racial Politics of West Side Story and The Music Man 81
9. ACT TWO 1967–2019
10. 4 Carbon Copies: Black and Interracial Productions of White Musicals 111
11. 5 A Chorus Line: The Benetton of Broadway Musicals 144
12. 6 Everything Old Is New Again: Nostalgia and the Broadway Musical at the End of the Twentieth Century 167
13. 7 Blockbuster Musicals in the Age of Obama: The Book of Mormon and Hamilton 201
14. Exit Music 225
15. Acknowledgments 235
16. Notes 239
17. Bibliography 265
18. Permissions 273
19. Index 275
20. About the Author 287