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Book review: Music of the Night: Religious influences in operetta and musical theatre by Ian Bradley

Book review: Music of the Night: Religious influences in operetta and musical theatre by Ian Bradley

Thursday, February 12, 2026
SADLY, the religious dimensions of operetta and musical theatre have attracted practically no interest among theologians. In 2004, however, Ian Bradley’s book You’ve Got to Have a Dream (2004) broke fresh ground in showing not only that musicals a...