Broadway bodies: a critical history of conformity

Part I : Broadway bodies. Introduction : the Broadway body ; "I saw what they were hiring" : casting and recasting A chorus line

Part II : Size. Dreamgirls, size, and the body politics of padding ; "Must be heavyset" : casting fat women in Broadway musicals

Part III : Sexuality. La Cage aux folles and playing gay ; "Keeping it gay" on the great white way

Part IV : Ability. Deaf West's awakening of Broadway ; Musicals, physical difference, and disability ; Epilogue : recasting Broadway.