American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage : Imagining the Working Girl from Irene to Gypsy /: Imagining the Working Girl from Irene to Gypsy. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Maya Cantu.
• Authors: Dr, Cantu, Maya
• Contents: Introduction: Glass Slippers and Glass Ceilings in the Twenty-First Century, or Cinderella Returns to Broadway; 1. "Who Are These American Cinderellas?:" Working Girls, Chorus Girls, and American Dreams for Women in the 1920s; 2. Merman Was a Lady: The 1930s Cinderella-Broad and Burlesquing the Genteel Tradition; 3. "Make Up Your Mind:" Boss Ladies and Enchantresses in the 1940s Broadway Musical; 4. "Twentieth-Century Fairy Tales:" Princesses, Prostitutes, and the Feminine Mystique in the Broadway Musicals of the 1950s; 5. Coda: Rewriting the Broadway Cinderella Story; Bibliography
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages), (11 illustrations)
• Subjects: Gender Studies; Theater/Broadway & Musical Revue; Theatre direction & production; Theatre studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137534606; 1137534605
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.