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Intellect is pleased to announce that Studies in Musical Theatre 13.3 is now available! 

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Aims & Scope

Studies in Musical Theatre provides a forum to debate a wide range of texts that articulate the musical together with the theatrical. This peer-reviewed journal brings together a variety of critical approaches to contribute to the discussion surrounding live performance, the development and form of musical theatre and its value as a cultural product in theory and practice. Here, you will find a wealth of writing encompassing everything from opera to film musical to pop video.

Issue 13.3

Editorial

DOMINIC SYMONDS AND GEORGE BURROWS 

Articles

‘Something Bad [was] Happening’: Falsettos as an historical record of the AIDS epidemic

VIRGINIA ANDERSON

Whitewashed Usnavi: Race, power and representation in In the Heights 

TREVOR BOFFONE

Embodying history: Casting and cultural memory in 1776 and Hamilton 

ELISSA HARBERT

Soft Power: Hwang and Tesori’s reappropriation of The King and I in representing twenty-first-century diplomacy and the dystopic reality of contemporary America

ARNAB BANERJI

Introduction to the ‘Bruce Kirle Panel for Emerging Scholars’ at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Orlando, Florida, August 2019 

PAUL R. LAIRD

A Brechtian perspective on London Road: Class representations, dialectics and the ‘gestic’ character of music from stage to screen 

EVI STAMATIOU

‘The first black battalion’: Casting in Hamilton 

ANNE POTTER

‘Don’t feed the plants!’: Monstrous normativity and disidentification in Little Shop of Horrors

CHRISTEN MANDRACCHIA

Kaspar Holten’s production of Szymanowski’s King Roger: A test of ‘fidelity’ 

MICHAEL EWANS

The mental health of musical theatre students in tertiary education: A pilot study 

JOEL NICHOLAS CURTIS 

Performance Review

Fiddler Afn Dakh (Fiddler on the Roof), music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein, Yiddish translation by Shraga Friedman, directed by Joel Grey 

AMY S. OSATINSKI 

Book Reviews

What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing, Brian Seibert (2015) and America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk, Megan Pugh (2015) 

RAY MILLER

The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner, Dominic McHugh and Amy Asch (eds) (2018)

SCOTT WARFIELD

When Broadway Went to Hollywood, Ethan Mordden (2016) 

ANNETTE THORNTON

Building Character: The Art and Science of Casting, Amy Cook (2018) 

AMANDA ROSE VILLARREAL