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Denkert, Darcie. A Fine Romance: Hollywood & Broadway. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2005.

Dietz, Robert James. “Marc Blitzstein and the ‘Agit-Prop’ Theatre of the 1930’s.” Yearbook for Inter-American Musical Research 6 (1970): 51–66.

———. “The Operatic Style of Marc Blitzstein in the American ‘Agit-Prop’ Era.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 1970.

Drew, David. “Kurt Weill and His Critics.” Times Literary Supplement, October 3, 1975, 1142–44; October 10, 1975, 1198–1200.

———. “Weill, Kurt (Julian).” The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 1980. Vol. 20, 300–310.

———. “Reflections on the Last Years: Der Kuhhandel as a Key Work.” In A New Orpheus: Essays on Kurt Weill, ed. Kim Kowalke, 217–67. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.

———. Kurt Weill: A Handbook. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Dudar, Helen. “George Abbott Dusts Off a Broadway Classic.” New York Times, March 6, 1983, sec. 7, 30.

Edler, Horst (see Kowalke).

Eells, George. The Life That Late He Led: A Biography of Cole Porter. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1967.

Emmet, Linda (see Kimball).

Engel, Lehman. The American Musical Theater: A Consideration. New York: Collier, 1967; rev. ed., 1975.

———. Words with Music: The Broadway Musical Libretto. New York: Schirmer Books, 1972; Updated and rev. by Howard Kissel as Words with Music: Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto. New York: Applause, 2006.

Evans, Peter William (see Babington).

Everett, William A. (see also Prece). The Musical: A Research and Information Guide. New York: Routledge, 2004.

———. Sigmund Romberg. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Everett, William A., and Paul R. Laird, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Musical. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Ewen, David. “He Passes the Ammunition for Hits.” Theatre Arts 40/5 (May 1956): 73–75, 90–91.

———. Richard Rodgers. New York: Henry Holt, 1957.

———. George Gershwin: His Journey to Greatness. New York: Ungar, 1970; 2nd enl. ed., 1986.

———. New Complete Book of the American Musical Theater. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.

Fordin, Hugh. Getting to Know Him: A Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II. New York: Ungar, 1977; Da Capo, 1995.

Forte, Allen. The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924–1950. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

———. Listening to Classic American Popular Songs. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

Freedman, Samuel G. “After 50 Years, ‘Porgy’ Comes to the Met as a Certified Classic.” New York Times, February 3, 1985, sec. 2, 1+.

Furia, Philip. Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America’s Great Lyricists. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

———. Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Furia, Philip, with the assistance of Graham Wood. Irving Berlin: A Life in Song. New York: Schirmer, 1998.

Gänzl, Kurt. The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre. 2nd ed., 3 vols. New York: Schirmer, 2000.

Gänzl, Kurt, and Andrew Lamb. Gänzl’s Book of the Musical Theatre. London: Bodley Head, 1988.

Gates, Henry Louis Jr. “‘Authenticity,’ or the Lesson of Little Tree.” New York Times Book Review, November 24, 1991, 1+.

Gershwin, George. “Rhapsody in Catfish Row: Mr. Gershwin Tells the Origin and Scheme for His Music in That New Folk Opera Called ‘Porgy and Bess.’” New York Times, October 20, 1935, sec. 10, 1–2; reprinted as “Rhapsody in Catfish Row, George Gershwin, ed. Merle Armitage, 72–77. New York: Longmans, Green, 1938.

Gershwin, Ira. Lyrics on Several Occasions. New York: Knopf, 1959.

Gilbert, Steven E. The Music of Gershwin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

Goldberg, Isaac. George Gershwin: A Study in American Music. New York: Simon &Schuster, 1931; reprinted with an extended supplement by Edith Garson. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1958.

Goldman, William. The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969; Limelight, 1984.

Goldstein, Malcolm. The Political Stage: American Drama and Theater of the Great Depression. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Goodhart, Sandor, ed. Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays. New York: Garland, 2000.

Gordon, Eric A. Mark the Music: The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein. New York: St. Martin’s, 1989.

Gordon, Joanne. Art Isn’t Easy: The Theatre of Stephen Sondheim. New York: Da Capo, 1992.

Gordon, Joanne, ed. Stephen Sondheim: A Casebook. New York: Garland, 1997.

Gottfried, Martin. Broadway Musicals. New York: Abrams, 1979.

———. More Broadway Musicals since 1980. New York: Abrams, 1991.

———. Sondheim. New York: Abrams, 1993.

Gottlieb, Jack. “The Music of Leonard Bernstein: A Study of Melodic Manipulations.” DMA dissertation, University of Illinois, 1964.

———. Funny, It Doesn’t Sound Jewish: How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood. Albany: State University of New York in association with the Library of Congress, 2004.

Gradenwitz, Peter. Leonard Bernstein: The Infinite Variety of a Musician. New York: Berg, 1987.

Grant, Mark. The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004.

Green, Benny, ed. A Hymn to Him: The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner. New York: Limelight, 1987.

Green, Jesse, “Sondheim Dismembers ‘Sweeney.’” New York Times, December 16, 2007.

Green, Stanley. Broadway Musicals of the 30s. New York: Da Capo, 1971.

———. Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre. New York: Da Capo, 1980.

———. Rodgers and Hammerstein Fact Book: A Record of Their Works Together and with Other Collaborators. New York: Lynn Farnol Group, 1980.

———. The World of Musical Comedy: The Story of the American Musical Stage as Told through the Careers of Its Foremost Composers and Lyricists. San Diego: A. S. Barnes, 1980; 4th ed., rev. and enl. New York: Da Capo, 1986.

———. Encyclopedia of the Musical Film. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Green, Stanley. Broadway Musicals Show by Show. Milwaukee, Wisc.: Hal Leonard, 1985.

———. Hollywood Musicals Year by Year. Milwaukee, Wisc.: Hal Leonard, 1990.

Green, Stanley, ed. Rodgers and Hammerstein Fact Book. New York: Lynn Farnol Group, 1980.

Greenberg, Rodney. George Gershwin. London: Phaidon, 1998.

Guernsey, Otis L. Jr. Curtain Times: The New York Theater 1965–1987. New York: Applause, 1987.

Guernsey, Otis L. Jr., ed. Playwrights, Lyricists, Composers, on Theatre. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1974.

———. Broadway Song & Story: Playwrights / Lyricists / Composers Discuss Their Hits. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1985.

Gussow, Mel. “The Phantom’s Many Faces over the Years.” New York Times, January 30, 1988.

———. “‘West Side Story’: The Beginnings of Something Great.” New York Times, October 21, 1990, sec. 2, p. 5.

Hamm, Charles. Yesterdays: Popular Song in America.