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Beautiful Mornin'

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BEAUTIFUL MORNIN'

THE BROADWAY MUSICAL IN THE 1940S

ETHAN MORDDEN

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Oxford University Press

1999

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Mordden, Ethan

Beautiful rnornin' : the Broadway musical in the 1940s

/ Ethan Mordden.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 0-19-512851-6

1. Musicals—New York (State)—New York—History and criticism.

2. Broadway (New York)—History. 3. Popular music—New York

(State)—New York—1941-1950—History and criticism. I. Title.

ML 17I1.8.N3M768 1999

782.1'4'0973—dc21 99-10088

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