![]() She has crammed her book full of cultural insights, musical analyses, and biographical summaries, providing a richly detailed picture of the megahits and poperettas, their technical wonders, their composers’ sources of inspiration, and the schemes by which they were marketed. Sternfeld has written a no-nonsense volume that makes a stout-hearted defense of a much-maligned type of popular theater, the modern musical spectacle, especially the blockbuster successes of Andrew Lloyd Webber and his immediate successors, shows that critics love to hate. Courtesy Michael Le Poer Trench / Cameron Mackintosh Ltd. Jacket illustration: The barricade scene from Les Misérables. ![]() Profiles in Popular Music, Jeffrey Magee and Glenn Gass, editors
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