Title: Good Finale to the Series
Review: Ethan Mordden can now rest. The author has taken the musical, in a decade by decade series, from the twenties and into the current crop of shows. The last volume to be published in this series is Sing for Your Supper, the Broadway musical in the 1930s. It is an improvement over the last two volumes and a return to the good work of the previous editions. The two problems with the book, though, are the author's need to spend as much time on an Encores version of a thirties show as the original show itself and, at times, the author's boredom with the thirties as a time of no particular historical interest for the historian of Broadway musicals. When an author seems to lose interest on occasion, it makes it harder for the reader to maintain his. Still, it is a satisfying concluding volume with all of the author's wit, insight, opinions, and general knowledge well-displayed, mixed in with little gems of trivia for the musical fan.
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