Agnes de Mille

Quand l'intime se mêle au politique ou au pouvoir médiatique : sept portraits de femmes blondes audacieuses, puissantes, parfois sombres, qui font démentir tous les préjugés imbéciles attachés à la blondeur.
Dans ce deuxième livre, Agnès Grossmann s'intéresse aux femmes blondes et célèbres.
Pourquoi ? De tout temps, la blondeur a été synonyme de beauté et de noblesse, mais aussi de fragilité, de faiblesse de caractère, voire de bêtise. On ne pouvait pas être belle et intelligente à la fois. …

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! was first performed in 1943, and was a significant turning point in the history of musical theatre. It was the first musical to put drama and plot to the fore, portrayed by rounded, believable characters. It swept aside traditions that had their roots in vaudeville – star turns, comic sketches, and endless lines of high-kicking chorus girls. Oklahoma! does feature dance, but in the hands of the choreographer, Agnes de Mille, this was idiomatic to the plot, and revolutionary in terms of the fifteen-minute dream-sequence ballet at the close of Act I. The first collaboration between composer and writer, the show was a hit, running for more than five years on Broadway, and paving the way for their masterpieces to come.