Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Musical Theatre: He/She/They Could Have Danced All Night

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Price
$161.94
Publisher
Intellect (UK)
Publish Date
Pages
350
Dimensions
6.77 X 9.61 X 0.94 inches | 1.63 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781789386196

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About the Author
Kelly Kessler is professor of media and cinema studies at the College of Communication at De Paul University in Chicago. She has published widely
on television, film, and musical theater and is the author of Broadway in the Box: Television's Lasting Love Affair with the Musical.
Reviews

'In addition to the articles published as part of Studies in Musical Theatre, Kessler has included five other articles in her book to include recent developments and shows: new pieces on Spanish musical theatre performance and fandom; historicity and musical stories told through black female authorship, gender-flipped; non binary; and trans narratives, and the negotiated marketing and queerness on Broadway". [...] Kessler did a fabulous job and presented a technically well-founded book that is very readable. The "Studies in Musical Theater" [journal] itself is also highly recommended.'


'I particularly enjoyed the arc of essays exploring the excesses of the divas (whether stage characters like Ethel Merman's Rose, Angela Lansbury's Mame, and Elaine Stritch's Joanne, or over-thetop female stage personalities like Carol Channing and Tallulah Bankhead) as commentaries on the social constraints placed on women. I appreciated Elizabeth Wollman's analysis of the paradox that even as the adult musical of the 1960s and '70s employed nudity and sexual frankness in the attempt to foster both Gay and Women's Liberation, it relied so heavily on stereotypes and nudity that it devolved into mere exploitation. Likewise, the editor's own survey of how the visibility of LGBT experience in musicals like La Cage aux Folles, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Fun Home, and The Prom was undercut by marketing campaigns that downplayed the shows' queerness. Thus, several of this collection's essays demonstrate just how high toward heaven the musical has allowed gays to kick. '