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Article: Place for Us: Essay on the Broadway Musical
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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by D.A. Miller. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 141 pages. $22.
D.A. Miller loves broadway musicals in spite of himself - and the "in spite of himself" is what allows him to write about them without dying, of embarrassment. In fact, he approaches his subject with eyes so narrowed that he begins Place for Us: Essay on the Broadway Musical with what is essentially a repudiation of the form. The book belongs to the same subgenre - whatever it is - as The Queen's Throat, Wayne Koestenbaum's peculiar 1993 rumination on opera and gay men. Miller, who teaches literature at Columbia, writes from the same gay academic perspective, and like Koestenbaum he has an ...
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