Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2017
Abstract
For people around the world, "Broadway'' means the Broadway musical, the epitome of singing and dancing, glamor and dazzle. Although the Broadway musical is customarily perceived as the most distinctively U.S. theatre form - whose national and municipal identity is embedded in its name - it has circumnavigated the globe countless times. As the globalized cultural economy increasingly facilitates the worldwide circulation of multinational theatrical productions, Broadway-style musicals are being manufactured from Hamburg to Shanghai. They are no longer a specifically U.S. form, but a global brand that freely crosses borders, genres, and styles.
Comments
Originally published in Journal of Contemporary Drama in English on April 1, 2017. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2017-0003.