The secret life of the American musical: how Broadway shows are built

Overture

Curtain up, light the lights : opening numbers

The wizard and I : the "I want" song

If I loved you : conditional love songs

Put on your Sunday clothes : the noise

Bushwhacking 1 : second couples

Bushwhacking 2 : villains

Bushwhacking 3 : the multiplot, and how it thickens

Adelaide's lament : stars

Tevye's dream : tent poles

La vie boháeme : curtain: act 1

Intermission

Clambake : curtain up: act 2

Suddenly Seymour : the candy dish

All er nothin' : beginning to pack

The small house of Joseph Smith, the American Moses : the main event

I thought you did it for me, momma : the next-to-last-scene

You can't stop the beat : the end

Curtain call : how Woodie Guthrie

of all people

changed Broadway musicals forever

Listening to Broadway.