Musicals : The Complete Illustrated Story of the World's Most Popular Live Entertainment by Kurt Ganzl

Musicals : The Complete Illustrated Story of the World's Most Popular Live Entertainment by Kurt Ganzl

Hardcover, ISBN 9780747523819
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1995

Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The cover have some very limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated glazed boards. Folio. 11½'' x 9½''. ISBN 0747523819. Contains vi, 240 printed pages of text with colour monochrome illustrations throughout. 

Kurt-Friedrich Gänzl (born 15 February 1946) is a New Zealand writer, historian and former casting director and singer best known for his books about musical theatre.

After a decade-long playwriting, acting and singing career, and a second career as a casting director of West End shows, Gänzl became one of the world's most important chroniclers of musical theatre history. According to Christophe Mirambeau of Canal Académie, "Kurt Gänzl is an institution. No one interested in musicals and operetta can ignore that. He is the world reference – with some few others, like Gerald Bordman, Ken Bloom, or Andrew Lamb – for that subject." He has written more than a dozen books on musical theatre topics and blogs about musicals, light opera and people, especially of the Victorian era, involved with the musical stage.