This book is the answer to the question 'What is musical?', covering all aspects of the most recent genre of music theatre and describing, in an international context and for the first time in this great detail, the development, the heyday, the huge business, the flops and the chances of the musical. From The Black Crook and the Ziegfeld Follies via George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim to The Producers, from the American Operetta to the Concept Musical, ...

• Was ist Musical? Versuch einer Antwort aus deutscher Sicht
• Hinweise zur Benutzung
• Verzeichnis der Abkürzungen
• Musicals A-Z
• Chronologie
• Literatur
• Internetadressen
• Verlage
• Musicaltitel nach Themen- und Motivgruppen
• Musicalgenres
• Musicaltänze
• Glossar
• Bildquellennachweise
• Werktitel- und Personenregister