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“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” –Chinese Proverb

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From Adelaide in |Guys and Dolls| to Nina in |In the Heights| and Elphaba in |Wicked,| female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this lively book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theatre--performers, creators, and characters--from the start of the Cold War to the present day, creating a new, feminist history of the genre. The musicals discussed here are among the most beloved in the canon--|West Side Story,| |Cabaret,| |A Chorus Line,| |Phantom of the Opera,| and many others--with special emphasis on the blockbuster |Wicked.| Along the way, Wolf demonstrates how the musical since the mid-1940s has actually been dominated by women--women onstage, women in the wings, and women offstage as spectators and fans.