No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance A History of the American Musical Theater

"NO JOKES, NO LEGS, NO CHANCE" TABLE OF CONTENTS OVERTURE BEGINNING IN THE MIDDLE Chapter One Oklahoma! PART I ANCESTORS AND ANTECEDENTS Chapter Two Ancestors: Opera and French and Viennese Operetta Chapter Three Beginning Song Forms Antecedents: The Minstrel Show, Variety/Vaudeville, The Black Crook and British Burlesque Chapter Four Ancestors: Ballad Operas and English Operetta, or Gilbert and Sullivan Chapter Five Antecedents: American Burlesque, Farce-Comedy The Early 1890s: Tin Pan Alley, A Gaiety Girl and Florodora The Late 1890s: Burlesque-Extravaganzas PART II EARLY AMERICAN MUSICAL COMEDIES, OPERETTAS AND REVUES: 1901-1924 Chapter Six Early American Musical Comedies: George M. Cohan American Operettas: Victor Herbert Revues: Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. Chapter Seven 1901-1911: From Babes in Toyland to "Alexander's Ragtime Band" Chapter Eight Irving Berlin Jerome Kern and the Princess Musicals Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg 1912-1918: From The Firefly to Yip-Yip-Yaphank Chapter Nine Vincent Youmans Ziegfeld's Imitators 1919-1923: From The Scandals of 1919 to the Cotton Club Chapter Ten George and Ira Gershwin 1924: Lady, Be Good! to Rose-Marie PART III THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE BROADWAY SONG: 1925-1939 Chapter Eleven More on Song Forms Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Herbert Fields Ray Henderson, B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown 1925-1927: The Garrick Gaieties to Strike Up the Band Chapter Twelve Show Boat Chapter Thirteen Cole Porter Crooners 1928-1929: The New Moon to The Little Show Chapter Fourteen The Gershwins and Irving Berlin in the 30s The Intimate Revue - The Bandwagon Chapter Fifteen Kern in the 30s Rodgers and Hart and George Abbott Porter in the 30s Chapter Sixteen The Rise of Big Bands and Swing 1930-1934 Marc Blitzstein and Kurt Weill 1935-1939 PART IV THE TRANSITIONAL YEARS: 1940-1945 Chapter Seventeen Movie Musicals 1940-1941: Pal Joey to Lady in the Dark Chapter Eighteen 1942-1945: The War Years This Is the Army to Carousel PART V THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE BROADWAY MUSICAL: 1945-1964 Chapter Nineteen The Last Half of the 40s, Part 1 1946 to 1947: Annie Get Your Gun to Brigadoon Chapter Twenty The Last Half of the 40s, Part 2 1947 to 1949: Kiss Me Kate to South Pacific Chapter Twenty-One 1950 to 1954: Guys and Dolls to Peter Pan Chapter Twenty-Two The Last Half of the 50s, Part 1 1955-1956: Damn Yankees to My Fair Lady Chapter Twenty-Three The Last Half of the 50s, Part 2 1957-1959: West Side Story to The Sound of Music Chapter Twenty-Four The First Half of the 60s, Part 1 1960-1962: Bye Bye Birdie to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Chapter Twenty-Five The First Half of the 60s, Part 2 1963-1964: She Loves Me to Fiddler on the Roof PART VI FADE OUT-FADE IN: 1965-1969 Chapter Twenty-Six The Last Half of the 60s, Part 1 1965-1966: Kelly to Cabaret Chapter Twenty-Seven The Last Half of the 60s, Part 2 1967-1969: Hair to 1776 PART VII THE SPLINTERING OF THE FORM: 1970-1999 Chapter Twenty-Eight Stephen Sondheim 1970-1971: Company to Jesus Christ Superstar Chapter Twenty-Nine Director/Choreographers 1972-1975: Grease to A Chorus Line Chapter Thirty 1976-1979: Pacific Overtures to Evita Chapter Thirty-One The 1980s, Part 1 1980-1982: 42nd Street to Cats Chapter Thirty-Two The 1980s, Part 2 1983-1989: La Cage aux Folles to City of Angels Chapter Thirty-Three The 1990s Assassins to Ragtime Chapter Thirty-Four Exit MusicPatinkin, Sheldon is the author of 'No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance A History of the American Musical Theater', published 2007 under ISBN 9780810119949 and ISBN 0810119943.