Closer than Ever Rosenblum, Joshua Hardback Theatre Studies

Closer than EverThe Unique Six-Decade Songwriting Partnership of Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire\nAuthor(s): Joshua Rosenblum\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197758236, 978-0197758236\nSynopsis\nHow do musical theater songs actually get written? What enables some composer and lyricist partnerships to last for decades?\n\nComposer David Shire and lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr., two of the most gifted songwriters of our time, are revered among musical theater lovers for their ground-breaking off-Broadway revues Starting Here, Starting Now and Closer Than Ever, as well as for the Broadway musicals Baby and Big. Rosenblum sets out to increase appreciation for Maltby and Shire's large and impressive body of work and establish their place in musical theater history. This book chronicles their sixty-six-year (and counting) partnership, giving full behind-the-scenes accounts of their musicals, inter.