A review by threeara
American Musicals 1927–1949: The Complete Books & Lyrics of Eight Broadway Classics: Show Boat / As Thousands Cheer / Pal Joey / Oklahoma! / On the Town / Finian's Rainbow / Kiss Me, Kate / South Pacific by Oscar Hammerstein II, Fred Saidy, Richard Rodgers, Laurence Maslon, Leonard Bernstein, John O’Hara, Cole Porter, Betty Comden, Irving Berlin, Samuel Spewack, Bella Spewack, Jerome Kern, Burton Lane, Moss Hart, E.Y. Harburg, Joshua Logan, Lorenz Hart, Adolph Green

5.0

This series is absolutely invaluable -- this one preserves a script (As Thousands Cheer) that has never been published before! Still, there's a conflict for me with the authors presenting only the merits of these texts when they do include period-typical sexism and racism. I don't know how I expect that to be acknowledged, exactly, but some acknowledgement would be appropriate.