Donovan, Ryan - Broadway Bodies

Broadway Bodies offers a new telling of Broadway history, exploring how ability, sexuality, and size intersect with gender, race, and ethnicity in casting and performance. Author Ryan Donovan unpacks Broadway's inclusion of various forms of embodied difference while exposing its simultaneous ambivalence toward non-conforming bodies.

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CONTENTS

Part I: Broadway Bodies
Introduction: The Broadway Body
1. I Saw What They Were Hiring: Casting and Recasting A Chorus Line
Part II: Size
2. Dreamgirls, Size, and the Body Politics of Padding
3. Must Be Heavyset: Casting Fat Women in Broadway Musicals
Part III: Sexuality
4. La Cage aux Folles and Playing Gay
5. Keeping It Gay on The Great White Way
Part IV: Ability
6. Deaf West's Awakening of Broadway
7. Musicals, Physical Difference, and Disability
Epilogue: Recasting Broadway
Bibliography
Index