By examining developments in the British musical since the Second World War, Gordon, Jubin, and Taylor provide a critical context within which to comprehend the contemporary phenomenon. Most
scholarly research on musical theatre has focused on Broadway, they say, and has tended to judge British musicals--indeed those anywhere else in the world--according to Broadway categories and
ideas of craftsmanship. Gordon discusses musicals and social change, Taylor discusses British popular culture and musical theater, and Jubin discusses narrative and story-telling in the British
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