Musical theatre is an international form, not just an American one. It can take root anywhere. Few people would realise that such hit standards as "The Glow Worm", "Brazil", "Mack the Knife", "I Will Wait for You" and "El Condor Pasa" came from foreign language musicals. Yet, the late Peter Stone, a former president of the Dramatists Guild and a noted Broadway librettist, once claimed that no musical theatre existed outside of New York City.
A Million Miles from Broadway - Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London explores the work that does exist outside of New York. Not the many franchised versions of Fiddler on the Roof and Grease that have played everywhere from Tel Aviv to Abu Dabi, but indigenous musical theatre created in places other than New York by people other than New Yorkers and drawing on traditions other than just those of Broadway.
- ISBN10 0991695704
- ISBN13 9780991695706
- Publish Date 29 September 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Friendlysong Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 298
- Language English