Books By William A. Everett, Paul R. Laird - Author

William A. Everett is Curators’ Professor of Musicology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance, where he teaches courses ranging from medieval music to musical theater. He has written books about operetta composers Sigmund Romberg and Rudolf Friml, and with Paul R. Laird, he is coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to the Musical. Paul R. Laird is Professor of Musicology at the University of Kansas, where he teaches course in music history and musical theater and directs the Instrumental Collegium Musicum. He is the author of The Baroque Cello Revival: An Oral History (2004), Wicked: A Musical Biography (2011), and The Musical Theater of Stephen Schwartz: From Godspell to Wicked and Beyond (2014).