James Leve is a Professor of Musicology at Northern Arizona University. Donelle Ruwe is Professor and Chair of English at Northern Arizona University.

• 1. Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater: an IntroductionJames Leve and Donelle Ruwe 2. Beginning with Do Re Mi: Childhood and The Sound of Music Ryan Bunch 3. Walt Disney, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the Gospel of Ideal Childrearing: Creating Superlative Nuclear Families in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks William A. Everett 4. Saving Mr. [Blank]: Rescuing the Father through Song in Children’s and Family Musicals Raymond Knapp 5. Dickensian Discourses: Giving a (Singing) Voice to the Child-Hero in Oliver! and Copperfield Marc Napolitano 6. Ghetto Chic: Utopianism and the Authentic Child in The Me Nobody Knows (1970) Donelle Ruwe 7. Little Girls, Big Voices: Annie James Leve8. Urchins, Unite: Newsies as an Antidote to Annie Marah Gubar 9. Agency, Power, and the Inner Child: The "Revolting Children" of Matilda the Musical Helen Freshwater 10. Children’s Musicals for Educational and Community Settings Lauren Acton 11. Broadway Junior Stacy Wolf Bibliography of Scholarly Sources

James Leve is a Professor of Musicology at Northern Arizona University. Donelle Ruwe is Professor and Chair of English at Northern Arizona University.

• 1. Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater: an IntroductionJames Leve and Donelle Ruwe 2. Beginning with Do Re Mi: Childhood and The Sound of Music Ryan Bunch 3. Walt Disney, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the Gospel of Ideal Childrearing: Creating Superlative Nuclear Families in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks William A. Everett 4. Saving Mr. [Blank]: Rescuing the Father through Song in Children’s and Family Musicals Raymond Knapp 5. Dickensian Discourses: Giving a (Singing) Voice to the Child-Hero in Oliver! and Copperfield Marc Napolitano 6. Ghetto Chic: Utopianism and the Authentic Child in The Me Nobody Knows (1970) Donelle Ruwe 7. Little Girls, Big Voices: Annie James Leve8. Urchins, Unite: Newsies as an Antidote to Annie Marah Gubar 9. Agency, Power, and the Inner Child: The "Revolting Children" of Matilda the Musical Helen Freshwater 10. Children’s Musicals for Educational and Community Settings Lauren Acton 11. Broadway Junior Stacy Wolf Bibliography of Scholarly Sources

James Leve is a Professor of Musicology at Northern Arizona University. Donelle Ruwe is Professor and Chair of English at Northern Arizona University.

• 1. Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater: an IntroductionJames Leve and Donelle Ruwe 2. Beginning with Do Re Mi: Childhood and The Sound of Music Ryan Bunch 3. Walt Disney, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the Gospel of Ideal Childrearing: Creating Superlative Nuclear Families in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks William A. Everett 4. Saving Mr. [Blank]: Rescuing the Father through Song in Children’s and Family Musicals Raymond Knapp 5. Dickensian Discourses: Giving a (Singing) Voice to the Child-Hero in Oliver! and Copperfield Marc Napolitano 6. Ghetto Chic: Utopianism and the Authentic Child in The Me Nobody Knows (1970) Donelle Ruwe 7. Little Girls, Big Voices: Annie James Leve8. Urchins, Unite: Newsies as an Antidote to Annie Marah Gubar 9. Agency, Power, and the Inner Child: The "Revolting Children" of Matilda the Musical Helen Freshwater 10. Children’s Musicals for Educational and Community Settings Lauren Acton 11. Broadway Junior Stacy Wolf Bibliography of Scholarly Sources