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For Those Musicals About To Rock by Rob Weinert-Kendt

I've got an essay in the program for the Ahmanson Theatre's West Coast premiere of American Idiot, a show I quite like. A sample:Blame it on Rodgers and Hammerstein...The match between rock and the musical would most certainly have been easier if the likes of Oklahoma! and South Pacific had never come along. Consider the state of Broadway musicals in the 1920s and '30s: With few exceptions, they were dashed-off diver…

SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 7:44am on March 21, 2012 ☆ ⚑

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