Breaking into Song: Why You Shouldn't Hate Musicals

“This book is a fascinating cri de coeur and made me question
everything I think about musicals”

Alan Cumming

A book for those who can’t stand musicals, those who love them, and every theatregoer, academic, practitioner and student in between. Breaking Into Song explores theatre’s most divisive genre, and asks the fundamental questions:

• What makes a musical?
• Why are they so polarising?
• And why have we allowed a form so full of possibility to become so repetitive and restrictive?

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