Reviews for Women surviving the Holocaust

The average rating for Women surviving the Holocaust based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-06 00:00:00 Amband Amband John Clum manages to be both thoughtful and entertaining in his overview of the ties between gay men and musical theatre. His readings of particular shows and performers are detailed and trenchant, and I envy him his breadth of theatrical experience. His discography at the end is a valuable resource, even though there have been significant additions to the musical library since the book's publication in 1999. I also wish he could have done a detailed discography of the Ben Bagley Great American Songbook series he mentions favorably in the main text.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-09-18 00:00:00 Luis Venegas Appropriately enough for the subject matter, this essay is a star turn. D. A. Miller's lusciously stylish language, his wittily allusive prose, dances gracefully between autobiographical musings and interpretive panache. Even as Miller illuminates the false hopes of Broadway optimism and critiques the (hetero)normativizing momentum of musical plots and characters, he also animates the desire and abandon of the golden age musical, the raucous belt of Ethel Merman (whose piscine androgyny he explores) and the melancholy longings of the boy Louise in Gypsy. In Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style, Miller established the ironic reserve and sophisticated revenges of the detached narrative voice as the envied hallmarks of queer self-containment and coded superiority. Broadway's satisfactions and distractions are broader, but it is that investment in performative femininity that Miller reveals as its greatest pleasure. An unexpected twist at the end of this tour de force reading is Miller's disappointment in more recent musicals (La cage aux folles, Falsettosthat deal with homosexuality directly--and thus confiningly--rather than dispersing queer allures throughout the spectacle. It is a pleasure to read with him and think with him. This is a show tune to which I would sing along.