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Musical Theater: Joanna Das, Ryan Donovan, Liza Gennaro, Jeffrey Magee, Liz Wollman PMBiP 2025-09-10

During this roundtable, musical theater scholars will provide overviews of their books in progress and discuss the ways their work contributes to the interdisciplinary subfield of musical theater studies. Popular Music Books in Process Series: https://iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popu... Their projects are as follows: Joanna Dee Das’s Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America, due out in November 2025, is the first comprehensive history of the Branson entertainment industry, which Joanna situates in the context of America’s long culture wars; throughout, she examines how this out-of-the-way Ozarks town developed a booming live performance industry and why it became so important to the political right and its vision for America. Ryan Donovan’s manuscript, Virtuosos: How Performance Remade the Musical, is a materialist history tracing the rise of “triple-threat” performers on Broadway in the 1970s; the book examines how “triple threats” reshaped commercial musicals, audience expectations and the physical and professional demands of Broadway performers. Liza Gennaro is at work on an as-yet-untitled memoir-biography about her father, acclaimed Broadway dancer and choreographer Peter Gennaro. Jeff Magee’s book in progress, Gypsy and the American Dream, draws from archival sources and interviews with key figures involved in the original production of what has come to be regarded as one of the greatest stage musicals ever written; the book also documents the history and impact of Broadway revivals of Gypsy in the past half-century. And Liz Wollman is at work on a manuscript tentatively titled The C Word: Corporatizing Broadway at the Millennium, which examines how the American commercial theater industry globalized by intersecting with the film, television/cable and music industries following the wave of federal deregulation at the end of the 20th century. Joanna Dee Das is Associate Professor in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis and an affiliate of the Program in American Culture Studies, African and African American Studies and History. Her book Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press in November 2025. She is the author of the award-winning Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora (Oxford 2017). She has book chapters in volumes including The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical, The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in America’s City of Second Chances and A Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical, among others. Ryan Donovan is the author of Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity (Oxford), winner of the 2024 Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education; Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre (Methuen Drama); and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre. His current scholarship focuses on musical theatre performance and virtuosity. He is Assistant Professor of Theater Studies at Duke University and a co-founder of the International Society for the Study of Musicals. Liza Gennaro is the Dean of Musical Theatre at Manhattan School of Music, as well as a choreographer, educator and writer. Her book Making Broadway Dance (Oxford University Press, 2021) was awarded the 2023 Kurt Weill Book Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on Music Theater. She has contributed to numerous handbooks and collected volumes about musicals. On Broadway, Liza choreographed the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of The Most Happy Fella and the Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress starring Sarah Jessica Parker. Jeffrey Magee is Professor of Music at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of two books, The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz and Irving Berlin’s American Musical Theater, both published by Oxford University Press. His research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and recognized with awards from ASCAP, the Society for American Music, the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, and the Kurt Weill Foundation. Liz Wollman is professor of music at Baruch College, CUNY, and a member of the doctoral faculty in theater at the CUNY Graduate Center. She specializes in the American stage musical and is the author of numerous articles and chapters about the contemporary stage musical, as well as the books The Theater Will Rock: A History of the Rock Musical, From Hair to Hedwig (University of Michigan Press, 2006), Hard Times: The Adult Musical in 1970s New York City (Oxford University Press, 2012) and A Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical (Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama, 2017). With Jessica Sternfeld, she was co-editor of The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical (2020) and is outgoing co-editor of the journal Studies in Musical Theatre.