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Coward Revue Sketches

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408177536
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Coward Revue Sketches written by Noël Coward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s and 1930s Noël Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue sketch - short and often topical or satirical stage pieces, many of which were a lead-in to his famous songs. He wrote these sketches for the top revues of the 1920s and 1930s, including London Calling! (1923) and Cochrane's Revue of 1931. This volume collects Coward's best and most witty pieces, including Rain Before Seven, the only sketch he performed with Gertrude Lawrence, and the hilarious parody, Some Other Private Lives, in which Coward burlesques his own famous play, Private Lives. Also included are short one-act plays never before published. The collection includes an Introduction by Coward scholar Barry Day, setting the work in the context of its time and its dramatic form. A forgotten area of Coward's writing is now back in print.

Coward Revue Sketches

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472503368
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Coward Revue Sketches written by Noël Coward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s and 1930s Noël Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue sketch - short and often topical or satirical stage pieces, many of which were a lead-in to his famous songs. He wrote these sketches for the top revues of the 1920s and 1930s, including London Calling! (1923) and Cochrane's Revue of 1931. This volume collects Coward's best and most witty pieces, including Rain Before Seven, the only sketch he performed with Gertrude Lawrence, and the hilarious parody, Some Other Private Lives, in which Coward burlesques his own famous play, Private Lives. Also included are short one-act plays never before published. The collection includes an Introduction by Coward scholar Barry Day, setting the work in the context of its time and its dramatic form. A forgotten area of Coward's writing is now back in print.

Playlets, Additional Sketches and Early Pieces

Author : Noel Coward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Playlets, Additional Sketches and Early Pieces written by Noel Coward and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. Throughout his career, Coward wrote many sketches and playlets that were not part of one of the many revues to which he lent his name to great success. Those works are gathered here, arranged chronologically, from 'What Next', written in 1915 to 'Some other Private Lives' (a parody on Coward's own more famous work), written in 1930.

Noel Coward in His Own Words

Author : Sir Noel Coward
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781306728010
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Noel Coward in His Own Words written by Sir Noel Coward and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of witicisms, bons mots, and hidden gems from private papers.

Words and Music

Author : Noel Coward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Words and Music written by Noel Coward and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'Words and Music' was first presented by Charles B. Cochran at the Adelphi Theatre, London, on 16 September 1932. It ran for 164 performances.

Collected Sketches and Lyrics

Author : Noel Coward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Collected Sketches and Lyrics written by Noel Coward and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Shakespeare Revue

Author : Christopher Luscombe
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871299895
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare Revue written by Christopher Luscombe and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Selected Musical Plays by Noël Coward: A Critical Anthology

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350234710
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Selected Musical Plays by Noël Coward: A Critical Anthology written by Noël Coward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Noël Coward's work as playwright, songwriter and actor has long been celebrated, his contributions to the British musical have largely been forgotten. Selected Musical Plays by Noël Coward: A Critical Anthology rectifies this omission from the musical theatre landscape, demonstrating how Coward's adaptability, creativity, and myriad of styles is imitated in the incredible musicals he authored. From flop shows at Drury Lane with Mary Martin through to his Broadway hits with Elaine Stritch, this anthology chronicles the variety of styles written by Coward, from revue to musical comedy to operetta. The works in this volume provide a contemporary critical introduction that illustrates the breadth and depth of his work, and highlighting the diverse identities of the collaborators and performers with whom he worked. Though the style of these works varies, they are linked together by his creative thread, and his ability to craft barbed and witty observations of his social world. A timely portrait of Coward's oeuvre and its lasting influence on the wider world of the British musical, Selected Musical Plays by Noël Coward contains previously unpublished musical plays by a central figure in theatre history, collected together with critical apparatus for students, scholars, and fans.

The Third Little Show

Author : Noel Coward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book The Third Little Show written by Noel Coward and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'The Third Little Show' was first presented by Dwight Deer Woman at the Music Box Theater, New York, on 1 June 1931. It ran for 136 performances.

Oh Coward!

Author : Noel Coward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book Oh Coward! written by Noel Coward and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pick a Pocket Or Two

Author : Ethan Mordden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190877952
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Pick a Pocket Or Two written by Ethan Mordden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anecdotal and evincing a strong point of view, [this] book covers not only the shows and their authors but the personalities as well--W.S. Gilbert trying out his stagings on a toy theatre, Ivor Novello going to jail for abusing wartime gas rationing during World War II, fabled producer C.B. Cochran coming to a most shocking demise for a man whose very name meant 'classy, carefree entertainment.' ... Mordden is the preeminent historian of the form, and his book will be required reading for readers of all walks, from the most casual of musical theater goers to musical theater buffs to students and scholars of the form"--

Nation and Race in West End Revue

Author : David Linton
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030752097
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Nation and Race in West End Revue written by David Linton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London West End revue constituted a particular response to mounting social, political, and cultural insecurities over Britain’s status and position at the beginning of the twentieth century. Insecurities regarding Britain’s colonial rule as exemplified in Ireland and elsewhere, were compounded by growing demands for social reform across the country — the call for women’s emancipation, the growth of the labour, and the trade union movements all created a climate of mounting disillusion. Revue correlated the immediacy of this uncertain world, through a fragmented vocabulary of performance placing satire, parody, social commentary, and critique at its core and found popularity in reflecting and responding to the variations of the new lived experiences. Multidisciplinary in its creation and realisation, revue incorporated dance, music, design, theatre, and film appropriating pre-modern theatre forms, techniques, and styles such as burlesque, music hall, pantomime, minstrelsy, and pierrot. Experimenting with narrative and expressions of speech, movement, design, and sound, revue displayed ambivalent representations that reflected social and cultural negotiations of previously essentialised identities in the modern world. Part of a wide and diverse cultural space at the beginning of the twentieth century it was acknowledged both by the intellectual avant-garde and the workers theatre movement not only as a reflexive action, but also as an evolving dynamic multidisciplinary performance model, which was highly influential across British culture. Revue displaced the romanticism of musical comedy by combining a satirical listless detachment with a defiant sophistication that articulated a fading British hegemonic sensibility, a cultural expression of a fragile and changing social and political order.

Design for Living

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408191490
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Design for Living written by Noël Coward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The actual facts are so simple. I love you. You love me. You love Otto. I love Otto. Otto loves you. Otto loves me. There now! Start to unravel from there.' Design for Living is a wickedly witty dark romantic comedy by Noel Coward. Initially banned in the UK, this provocative play portrays three amoral, glib and stylish characters and their hopelessly inescapable, if also unconventional, emotional entanglement. From 1930s bohemian Paris to the dizzying heights of Manhattan society, a tempestuous love triangle unravels between a vivacious interior designer, Gilda, playwright Leo and artist Otto - three people unashamedly and passionately in love with each other. They are trapped in what Coward called 'a three-sided erotic hodge podge.' With Coward's trademark piquant style, this lively, funny but also atypical play looks at dazzling, egotistical creatures and their self-destructive dependence on each other. Exploring themes of bisexuality, celebrity, success and self-obsession, Design for Living is a stylish and scandalous comedy.

New York Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1974-03-18 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

At This Theatre

Author : Louis Botto
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1476850283
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book At This Theatre written by Louis Botto and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatregoers' favorite history of Broadway is back in an updated and expanded 2010 edition including more than 500 color production photos, vintage archival photos, and Playbill covers from all forty currently operating Broadway theatres. Thirty-eight of the original chapters have been expanded to cover all the shows that have opened in the ten years since the popular 2000 edition, with two new chapters added to include Broadway theatres recently refurbished and returned to life. This unique chronicle is the first work to present a detailed theatre-by-theatre roundup of players and productions that have enchanted audiences at Broadway's great playhouses from 1900 to 2010. The work is an expanded treatment of “At This Theatre ” the popular feature in Playbill's Broadway theatre programs. “At This Theatre” offers playgoers instant nostalgia by listing notable hits (and some famed fiascos) that have played through the years in the theatre that they are attending. The book also pays tribute to the distinguished impresarios who built and managed these houses, and the brilliant architects and interior designers who created them. The original 1984 edition was created by Playbill senior editor Louis Botto. Botto worked with editor Robert Viagas on the 2000 update. With the third edition, Botto has passed the author torch to Viagas, who founded Playbill.com and the acclaimed Playbill Broadway Yearbook series, and who has written the updates in Botto's style.

Noel & Cole

Author : Stephen Citron
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780634093029
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Noel & Cole written by Stephen Citron and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First time in Paperback! Noel Coward and Cole Porter's fascinating lives celebrated. Fresh on the heels of the popular motion picture based on Cole Porter's life called De-Lovely, Noel and Cole presents a fresh and often surprising portrait of these two geniuses. The author provides insight into both men's private lives - including a frank discussion of their homosexuality - while illuminating their musical achievements. Born an ocean apart - one in Indiana, the other in England - Cole Porter and Noel Coward have come to represent the ultimate in sophistication and urbanity. Noel and Cole will be an essential reference as well as a fascinating dual biography of two men who brought style and dazzle to the art of popular entertainment. * Based on access to previously unpublished manuscripts, lyrics, scores, and letters, plus dozens of interviews * Includes a chronology and a fifty-page section devoted to the analysis of select works

The Illustrated London News

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated London News written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: