Red Hot & Blue

by Amy Henderson

Described as a wonderful tribute to a unique art form and the people who created it, Red Hot & Blue is a compendium of the musical theatre in America that spans mor e than one generation and contains... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560986980
• ISBN13: 9781560986980
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 12.3"

Customer Reviews

It makes a gorgeous coffee-table book, but it's a lot more.

The development of American musicals is a gift we gave to the world, but how do we begin? This book is a cultural history, focusing on the interweaving history of theater and film musicals. Red, Hot, and Blue brings in the various elements that go into creating a musical movie or play. These include performers, songwriters, directors, choreographers all within the framework of the society in which they work. It presents the atmosphere in which an art form was created.Photographs, posters, sheet music, all help to illustrate this phenomenon called musical theater, which blossomed during the 20th century. It also offers other sources for further information on any of the aspects treated here.-Elizabeth Ahlfors