Ethan Mordden is a recognized expert on American musical theater and the author of When Broadway Went to Hollywood, Anything Goes, Beautiful Mornin, Coming Up Roses, and Sondheim. His writing has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the New Yorker. He lives in Manhattan.
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In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths-the gleefully subversive character of American musical comedy, the reckless glamour of the big-city newspaper, the mad decade of the 1920s, the work of Bob Fosse and Gwen Ver... SEE MORE