The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows are Built poetry Looking back

Looking back

occult conspiracies and the angel of death

embroidered within a myriad of pop- culture and "post-Mennonitism

and the nature of logic and truth

The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows are Built poetry Looking backby Jack Viertel For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in a darkened theater, grows into something more serious for high school actors, and reaches its passionate zenith when it comes time for love, marriage, and children, who will start the cycle all over again. Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals.