List of Examples and Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Michael Buchler and Gregory J. Decker Part 1: Chapters that engage multiple works Chapter 1. "Was It Ever Real?": Tonic Return via Stepwise Modulation in Broadway Songs Nathan Beary Blustein (American University) Chapter 2. Sondheim's Dissonant Tonality Drew Nobile (University of Oregon) Chapter 3. Topical Interpretive Strategies in American Musical Theatre: Three Brief Case Studies Gregory J. Decker (Bowling Green State University) Chapter 4. A Phenomenological Approach to Music Theater Rhyme Richard Plotkin (New York, NY) Chapter 5. The Changing Rhythms of Bridges and Ends Rachel Short (Shenandoah Conservatory) Part 2: Chapters that engage a single work, organized chronologically Chapter 6.

Three Notions of Long-Range Form in Guys and Dolls Michael Buchler (Florida State University) Chapter 7. Style, Tonality, and Sexuality in The Rocky Horror Show Nicole Biamonte (McGill University) Chapter 8. Music, Time, and Memory in Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years Jonathan De Souza (University of Western Ontario) Chapter 9. Lesbian Desire in Fun Home Rachel Lumsden (Florida State University) Chapter 10. The Hip-Hop History of Hamilton Robert Komaniecki (University of Iowa) Chapter 11. "Isn't it queer?": The Kinsey Sicks and the Art of Broadway Parody J. Daniel Jenkins (University of South Carolina) List of Contributors Index.