Lying in the Middle by Jake Johnson PAPERBACK 9780252085994

Lying in the Middle\nby Jake Johnson\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jake Johnson\nTitle: Lying in the Middle\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Theatre studies\nPublisher: MO - University of Illinois Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9780252085994\nISBN-10: 025208599X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe local and regional shows staged throughout America use musical theater's inherent power of deception to cultivate worldviews opposed to mainstream ideas. Jake Johnson reveals how musical theater between the coasts inhabits the middle spaces between professional and amateur, urban and rural, fact and fiction, fantasy and reality, and truth and falsehood. The homegrown musical provides a space to engage belief and religionimagining a better world while creating opportuni.