Boy Loses Girl: Broadway's Librettists
- Author: Hischak, Thomas S.
A major achievement is the recognition the book gives to writers heretofore ignored, e.g. Otto Harbach, Peter Stone, George Furth, Michael Stewart, and to the lengthy careers of Joseph, Herbert,... — More…
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Contents
- Chapter 1 Writing Little Books: an introduction
- Chapter 2 CHAPTER ONE The American Idea: George M. Cohan
- Chapter 3 CHAPTER TWO Oh, Boy! Oh, Lady! Guy Bolton and P.G. Woodhouse
- Chapter 4 CHAPTER THREE High Jinks and Pipe Dreams: Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II
- Chapter 5 CHAPTER FOUR Strike Up the Band: George F. Kaufman and Fellow Wits
- Chapter 6 CHAPTER FIVE Blossom Time: Dorothy Donnelly and Other Early Librettists
- Chapter 7 CHAPTER SIX Hooray for Anything Red, Hot, and Blue! Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
- Chapter 8 CHAPTER SEVEN Charley, Flora, Fiorello, and the Yankees: George Abbott and Company
- Chapter 9 CHAPTER EIGHT The New Yorkers: The Fields Family
- Chapter 10 CHAPTER NINE Flahooley's Rainbow: E.Y. Harburg and Fellow Conspirators
- Chapter 11 CHAPTER TEN Applause on the Town: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
- Chapter 12 CHAPTER ELEVEN On a Clear Day: Alan Jay Lerner
- Chapter 13 CHAPTER TWELVE Flying High, Taking a Chance: B.G. De Sylva and Others in the 1930s and 1940s
- Chapter 14 CHAPTER THIRTEEN Hallelujah, Gypsy! Arthur Laurents
- Chapter 15 CHAPTER FOURTEEN Guys and Dolls and Stockings: Abe Burrows and Others in the 1950s
- Chapter 16 CHAPTER FIFTEEN To the Forum, in the Park, into the Woods: Stephen Sondheim's Collaborators
- Chapter 17 CHAPTER SIXTEEN Carnival on the Roof: Michael Stewart, Joseph Stein, and Peter Stone
- Chapter 18 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Getting an Act Together: Gretchen Cryer and Others in the 1960s and 1970s
- Chapter 19 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Kiss of Ragtime: Terrence McNally
- Chapter 20 CHAPTER NINETEEN The Producers: The 1980s, 1990s, and Beyond
- Chapter 21 Bibliography
- Chapter 22 Index
- Chapter 23 About the Author