- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Enchanted Evenings
- Chapter One Introduction: Setting the Stage
- Chapter Two Show Boat: In the Beginning
- Chapter Three Anything Goes: Songs Ten, Book Three
- Chapter Four Porgy and Bess: Broadway Opera
- Chapter Five On Your Toes and Pal Joey: Dance Gets into the Act and “Sweet Water from a Foul Well”
- Chapter Six The Cradle will Rock: A Labor Musical for Art's Sake
- Chapter Seven Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus: The Broadway Stranger and His American Dreams
- Chapter Eight Carousel: The Invasion of the Integrated Musical
- Chapter Nine Kiss Me, Kate: The Taming of Cole Porter
- Chapter Ten Guys and Dolls and The Most Happy Fella: The Greater Loesser
- Chapter Eleven My Fair Lady: <i>From</i> Pygmalion <i>to Cinderella</i>
- Chapter Twelve West Side Story: The Very Model of a Major Musical
- Chapter Thirteen Happily Ever After West Side Story with Sondheim
- Appendix A: Sources, Published Librettos, and Vocal Scores
- Appendix B: Long Runs
- Appendix C: The Forty Longest Running Book Musicals on Broadway
- Appendix D: Show Boat
- Appendix E: Anything Goes
- Appendix F: Porgy and Bess: <i>Songs, Arias, and Themes</i>
- Appendix G: On Your Toes: <i>Broadway 1936 and Broadway Revival 1983</i>
- Appendix H: <i>Pal Joey</i> Broadway 1940 and Broadway Revival 1952
- Appendix I: The Cradle Will Rock: <i>Broadway 1937</i>
- Appendix J: Lady in the Dark: <i>Broadway 1941</i>
- Appendix K: One Touch of Venus: <i>Broadway 1943</i>
- Appendix L: Carousel: <i>Broadway 1945</i>
- Appendix M: Kiss Me, Kate: <i>Broadway 1948</i>
- Appendix N: Guys and Dolls: <i>Broadway 1950</i>
- Appendix O: The Most Happy Fella: <i>Broadway 1956</i>
- Appendix P: My Fair Lady: <i>Broadway 1956</i>
- Appendix Q: West Side Story: <i>Broadway 1957</i>
- Appendix R: Follies: <i>Broadway 1971 and London Revival 1987</i>
- Select Bibliography
- Index
The Cradle will Rock: A Labor Musical for Art's Sake
The Cradle will Rock: A Labor Musical for Art's Sake
- Chapter:
- (p.115) Chapter Six The Cradle will Rock: A Labor Musical for Art's Sake
- Source:
- Enchanted Evenings
- Author(s):
Geoffrey Block
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Marc Blitzstein (1905–64) remains an obscure figure. With few exceptions his music either was never published or is currently out of print. Historians and Broadway enthusiasts relatively unfamiliar with either Blitzstein or The Cradle Will Rock may nevertheless know something of the circumstances behind this work's extraordinary premiere on June 16, 1937 (directed by Orson Welles). As reported on the front page of the New York Times the next day—and almost invariably whenever the work is mentioned for the next sixty years—the show, banned from a padlocked Maxine Elliot theater, its government sponsorship revoked, moved its forces and its assembled audience twenty blocks uptown to the Venice Theater. Once there, in conformance to the letter (if not the spirit) of the prohibitions placed upon its performance, cast members sang their parts from the audience while Blitzstein took the stage with his piano.
Keywords: Broadway musicals, musical theater, Marc Blitzstein, Orsen Welles
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Enchanted Evenings
- Chapter One Introduction: Setting the Stage
- Chapter Two Show Boat: In the Beginning
- Chapter Three Anything Goes: Songs Ten, Book Three
- Chapter Four Porgy and Bess: Broadway Opera
- Chapter Five On Your Toes and Pal Joey: Dance Gets into the Act and “Sweet Water from a Foul Well”
- Chapter Six The Cradle will Rock: A Labor Musical for Art's Sake
- Chapter Seven Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus: The Broadway Stranger and His American Dreams
- Chapter Eight Carousel: The Invasion of the Integrated Musical
- Chapter Nine Kiss Me, Kate: The Taming of Cole Porter
- Chapter Ten Guys and Dolls and The Most Happy Fella: The Greater Loesser
- Chapter Eleven My Fair Lady: <i>From</i> Pygmalion <i>to Cinderella</i>
- Chapter Twelve West Side Story: The Very Model of a Major Musical
- Chapter Thirteen Happily Ever After West Side Story with Sondheim
- Appendix A: Sources, Published Librettos, and Vocal Scores
- Appendix B: Long Runs
- Appendix C: The Forty Longest Running Book Musicals on Broadway
- Appendix D: Show Boat
- Appendix E: Anything Goes
- Appendix F: Porgy and Bess: <i>Songs, Arias, and Themes</i>
- Appendix G: On Your Toes: <i>Broadway 1936 and Broadway Revival 1983</i>
- Appendix H: <i>Pal Joey</i> Broadway 1940 and Broadway Revival 1952
- Appendix I: The Cradle Will Rock: <i>Broadway 1937</i>
- Appendix J: Lady in the Dark: <i>Broadway 1941</i>
- Appendix K: One Touch of Venus: <i>Broadway 1943</i>
- Appendix L: Carousel: <i>Broadway 1945</i>
- Appendix M: Kiss Me, Kate: <i>Broadway 1948</i>
- Appendix N: Guys and Dolls: <i>Broadway 1950</i>
- Appendix O: The Most Happy Fella: <i>Broadway 1956</i>
- Appendix P: My Fair Lady: <i>Broadway 1956</i>
- Appendix Q: West Side Story: <i>Broadway 1957</i>
- Appendix R: Follies: <i>Broadway 1971 and London Revival 1987</i>
- Select Bibliography
- Index