American Musicals: The Complete Books and Lyrics of Eight Broadway Classics 1950 -1969 (LOA #254): Guys and Dolls / The Pajama Game / My Fair Lady / Gypsy / A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum / Fiddler on the Roof / Cabaret / 1776

The Broadway musical is one of America’s great indigenous popular forms, a glorious hybrid that emerged “out of our speech, our tempo, our moral attitudes, our way of moving” (as Leonard Bernstein put it). Now in the second volume of a landmark two-volume collection, The Library of America presents eight enduring masterpieces charting the Broadway musical’s narrative tradition from the genre’s Golden Age to its response to the turbulent 1960s with the Tony Award–winning shows Cabaret and 17...