TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age, Trevor Boffone (2024)

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TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age, Trevor Boffone (2024)
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Source: Studies in Musical Theatre, Volume 19, Issue 1, May 2025, p. 89 - 91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/smt_00184_5
Language: English
- Published online: 09 Jun 2025

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Review of: TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age, Trevor Boffone (2024)

New York: Oxford University Press, 210 pp.,

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