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 vii  Contents Acknowledgments ix Overture: All Singin’! All Dancin’! All White People? 1 ACT ONE: 1927–1957 1 Only Make Believe: Performing Race in Show Boat 31 2 Playing Cowboys and Indians: Forging Whiteness in Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun 56 3 Trouble in New York City: The Racial Politics of West Side Story and The Music Man 82 ACT TWO: 1967–2012 4 Carbon Copies: Black and Interracial Productions of White Musicals 113 5 A Chorus Line: The Benetton of Broadway Musicals 143 6 Everything Old Is New Again: Nostalgia and the Broadway Musical at the End of the Twentieth Century 167 Exit Music 203 Notes 213 Bibliography 235 Permissions 241 Index 243 ...

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