Overview

A lively guide to fifty popular musicals from the comedy classics of the 1930s and 1940s
to the frequently produced darlings of modern theater. Broadway musicals are set in a variety of different places and periods of history, so they are filled with references, expressions, names, objects, and slang that might not be familiar to modern audiences.

Author

Thomas Hischak guides us through these oddities of classic musicals in Broadway Decoded.