Product Description: This wide-ranging, two-volume encyclopedia of musicals old and new will captivate young fans―and prove invaluable to those contemplating staging a musical production.• Offers 700 alphabetically arranged entries related to musicals in theatre, film, and television• Spans the history of musical theatre from Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the late 1800s to the present• Concentrates on musicals that are historically important and/or of mainstream interest, as well as those that might be examined in a high school music, music history, or theatre class• Features a teacher-friendly guide to the most popular musicals performed by high schools, discussing casting/characters, costume needs, notes on the difficulty of the music, and more• Includes a selected bibliography, discography, and videography as well as a chronology capturing key events in the history of the musica...read more