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For almost a century, People in the usa have been sacrificing their hearts and sacrificing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often starts in stars and reaches its ardent zenith when it comes time for love, matrimony, and children, who'll start the routine all over again. People in the usa love musicals. People in the usa invented musicals. People in the usa perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In The Solution Life of the North american Musical, Jack Viertel needs musicals apart, sets them back collectively, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more uncomfortable shortcomings. Along the way, he invites us to fall season in love all over again by showing us how musicals happen, why is them work, how they captivate audiences, and how one landmark show contributes to the next - by design or unintentionally, by emulation or by rebellion - from Oklahoma! to Hamilton and onward.
