Audiences for musical theater are predominantly women; yet shows are frequently created and produced by men. Onstage; female characters are depicted as victims or sex objects and lack the complexity of their male counterparts. Offstage; women are under-represented among writers; directors; composers and choreographers. While other areas of the arts rally behind gender equality; musical theater demonstrates a disregard for women and an authentic female voice. If musical theater reflects prevailing societal attitudes; what does the modern musical tell us about the place of women in contemporary America; the UK and Australia? Are women deliberately kept out of musical theater by men jealously guarding their territory or is the absence of women a result of the modernization of the genre? Based on interviews with successful female performers; writers; directors; choreographers and executives; this book offers a unique female viewpoint on musical theater today.
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