Only one year after the presentation of the first Academy Awards on May 16, 1929, two musicals joined the select group of five films nominated for Best Picture.

A dictionary of short entries on American musicals and their practitioners, including performers, composers, lyricists, producers, and choreographers

Hollywood Musicals offers an insightful account of a genre that was once a mainstay of twentieth-century film production and continues to draw audiences today.

As Hollywood entered the sound era, it was rightly determined that the same public fascinated by the novelty of the talkie would be dazzled by the spectacle of

The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best inte