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BROADWAY
By Brooks Atkinson
The Macmillan Company, New York: 1970

A SONG IN THE DARK: THE BIRTH OF THE MUSICAL FILM
By Richard Barrios
Oxford University Press, New York: 1995

THE COMPLETE LYRICS IRVING BERLIN
By Irving Berlin and Robert Kimball, Linda Emmet
Alfred A. Knopf, New York: 2001

THE PRODUCERS: HOW WE DID IT
By Mel Brooks and Tom Meehan
Hyperion/Miramax Books, New York: 2001

EVERYTHING WAS POSSIBLE: THE BIRTH OF THE MUSICAL FOLLIES
By Ted Chapin
Knopf, New York: 2003

TERRIBLE HONESTY: MONGREL MANHATTAN IN THE 1920s
By Ann Douglas
The Noonday Press, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York: 1995

FROM THE BOWERY TO BROADWAY: LEW FIELDS AND THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN POPULAR THEATER
By Armond Fields and L. Marc Fields
Oxford University Press, New York: 1993

THE POETS OF TIN PAN ALLEY: A HISTORY OF AMERICA'S GREAT LYRICISTS
By Philip Furia
Oxford University Press, New York: 1990

LYRICS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS
By Ira Gershwin
The Viking Press, New York: 1973

THE SEASON; A CANDID LOOK AT BROADWAY
By William Goldman
Harcourt, Brace and World, Limelight Editions, New York: 1969

RING BELLS! SING SONGS! BROADWAY MUSICALS OF THE 1930s
By Stanley Green
Arlington House, 1971

LYRICS
By Oscar Hammerstein II
Hal Leonard Books, New York: 1985

THE COMPLETE LYRICS OF LORENZ HART
By Lorenz Hart and Robert Kimball
Alfred A. Knopf, New York: 1986

RED HOT & BLUE, A SMITHSONIAN SALUTE TO THE AMERICAN MUSICAL
By Amy Henderson and Dwight Blocker Bowers
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington: 1996

THE NEW AMSTERDAM: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A BROADWAY THEATRE
By Mary C. Henderson
A Roundtable Press Book, Hyperion, New York: 1997

COLORED LIGHTS
By John Kander and Fred Ebb, Greg Lawrence
Faber and Faber, New York: 2003

DANCE WITH DEMONS: THE LIFE OF JEROME ROBBINS
By Greg Lawrence
G.P. Putnam & Sons, New York: 2001

THE STREET WHERE I LIVE
By Alan Jay Lerner
WW Norton and Company, New York: 1978

A CHORUS LINE AND THE MUSICALS OF MICHAEL BENNETT
By Ken Mandelbaum
St. Martin's Press, New York: 1989

OPEN A NEW WINDOW: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL IN THE 1960s
By Ethan Mordden
Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, New York: 2001

CONTRADICTIONS: NOTES ON TWENTY-SIX YEARS IN THE THEATRE
By Hal Prince
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1974

HOT SEAT: THEATRE CRITICISM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES, 1980-1993
By Frank Rich
Random House, New York: 1998

MUSICAL STAGES, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
By Richard Rodgers
Random House, New York: 1975

STEPHEN SONDHEIM: A LIFE
By Meryle Secrest
Alfred A. Knopf, New York: 1998

BROADWAY BABIES SAY GOODNIGHT: MUSICALS THEN AND NOW
By Mark Steyn
Routledge, New York: 1999

INVENTING TIMES SQUARE
By William R. Taylor, editor
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 1991

HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW
By Ethel Waters
Da Capo Press, Inc., New York: 1950, 1992

THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG (Expanded)
By Max Wilk
Da Capo Press, New York: 1991

THE ZIEGFELD TOUCH: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FLORENZ ZIEGFELD, JR.
By Richard Ziegfeld and Paulette & Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson
Harry N. Abrams, Inc, New York: 1993



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