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Download or read book The Best Plays of 1942-1943 written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879101831
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Best Plays of 1993-1994 written by Otis L. Guernsey and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring scenes from the ten best plays"--Jacket.
Author : Bruce D. Mcclung
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199725128
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Lady in the Dark written by Bruce D. Mcclung and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lady in the Dark opened on January 23, 1941, its many firsts immediately distinguished it as a new and unusual work. The curious directive to playwright Moss Hart to complete a play about psychoanalysis came from his own Freudian psychiatrist. For the first time since his brother George's death, Ira Gershwin returned to writing lyrics for the theater. And for ?migr? composer Kurt Weill, it was a crack at an opulent first-class production. Together Hart, Gershwin, and Weill (with a little help from the psychiatrist) produced one of the most innovative works in Broadway history. With a company of 101 and an astronomical budget, Lady in the Dark launched the career of a young nightclub performer named Danny Kaye and starred Gertrude Lawrence in the greatest triumph of her career. With standees at many performances, Lady in the Dark helped establish the practice of advance ticket sales on the Great White Way, while Paramount Pictures' bid for the film rights broke all records. New York Times drama critic Brooks Atkinson hailed the production as "splendid," anointed Kurt Weill 'the best writer of theatre music in the country,' and worshiped Gertrude Lawrence as "a goddess." Though Lady in the Dark was a smash-hit, it has never enjoyed a Broadway revival, and a certain mystique has grown up around its legendary original production. In this ground-breaking biography, bruce mcclung pieces together the musical's life story from sketches and drafts, production scripts, correspondence, photographs, costume and set designs, and thousands of clippings from the star's personal scrapbooks. He has interviewed eleven members of the original company to provide a one-of-a-kind glimpse into the backstage story. The result is a virtual ticket to opening night, the saga of how this musical play came to be, and the string of events that saved the experimental show at every turn. Although America was turned upside down by Pearl Harbor after the production was on the boards, Lady in the Dark played an important role for the war effort and rang up 777 performances in 12 cities. In what may be the most illuminating study of a single Broadway musical, this biography brings Lady in the Dark back to the spotlight and puts readers in the front row.
Author : J. P. Wearing
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810893045
Total Pages : 1133 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The London Stage 1930-1939 written by J. P. Wearing and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 1133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre in London has celebrated a rich and influential history, and in 1976 the first volume of J. P. Wearing’s reference series provided researchers with an indispensable resource of these productions. In the decades since the original calendars were produced, several research aids have become available, notably various reference works and the digitization of important newspapers and relevant periodicals. The second edition of The London Stage 1930–1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel provides a chronological calendar of London shows from January 1930 through December 1939. The volume chronicles more than 4,250 productions at 61 major central London theatres during this period. For each production the following information is provided: Title Author Theatre Performers Personnel Opening and Closing Dates Number of Performances Other details include genre of the production, number of acts, and a list of reviews. A comment section includes other interesting information, such as plot description, first-night reception by the audience, noteworthy performances, staging elements, and details of performances in New York either prior to or after the London production. Among the plays staged in London during this decade were The Barretts of Wimpole Street, French without Tears, George and Margaret, The Greeks Had a Word for It, Laburnum Grove, Lady Precious Stream, The Late Christopher Bean, Love on the Dole, Me and My Girl, Private Lives, and 1066 and All That, as well as numerous musical comedies (British and American), foreign works, operas, ballets, and revivals of English classics. A definitive resource, this edition revises, corrects, and expands the original calendar. In addition, approximately 20 percent of the material—in particular, information of adaptations and translations, plot sources, and comment information—is new. Arranged chronologically, the shows are fully indexed by title, genre, and theatre. A general index includes numerous subject entries on such topics as acting, audiences, censorship, costumes, managers, performers, prompters, staging, and ticket prices. The London Stage 1930-1939 will be of value to scholars, theatrical personnel, librarians, writers, journalists, and historians.
Author : J. P. Wearing
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810892944
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The London Stage 1900-1909 written by J. P. Wearing and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, London theatre has celebrated a rich and influential history, and in 1976, the first volume of J. P. Wearing’s reference series provided scholars and other researchers with an indispensable resource of these productions. In the decades since the original calendars were produced, several research aids have become available, notably various reference works and the digitization of important newspapers and relevant periodicals. The London Stage 1900-1909 A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Second Edition provides a chronological calendar of London shows from January 1900 through December 1909. The volume chronicles more than 3,000 productions at 35 selected, major central London theatres during this period. For each entry the following information is provided: Title Author Theatre Performers Personnel Opening and Closing Dates Number of Performances Other details include genre of the production, number of acts, and references to reviews. A comment section includes other interesting information, such as a plot description, the first-night reception by the audience, noteworthy performances, staging elements, and details of performances in New York either prior to or after the London production. Among the plays staged in London during this decade were Candida, His House in Order, The Only Way, The Playboy of the Western World, Raffles (The Amateur Cracksman), and The Scarlet Pimpernel, as well as numerous musical comedies (British and American), foreign works, operas, and revivals of English classics. A definitive resource, this edition revises, corrects, and expands the original, well-received calendar. In addition, approximately 20 percent of the material—in particular, information of adaptations and translations, plot sources, and comment information—is new. Arranged chronologically, the shows are indexed fully by title, genre, and theatre. A general index also includes numerous subject entries on such topics as acting, audiences, censorship, costumes, managers, performers, prompters, staging, ticket prices, or other relevant subjects. An authoritative reference providing essential details, this work will be of value to scholars, theatrical personnel, librarians, writers, journalists, and historians.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811215275
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennessee Williams wrote to family, friends and fellow artists with equal measures of piety, wit, and astute self-knowledge. Presented with a running commentary to separate Williams' often hilarious, but sometimes devious, counter-reality from the truth, the letters form a kind of autobiography.
Author : John Chapman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The Burns Mantle Best Plays of ... and the Year Book of the Drama in America written by John Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Best Plays of ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert L. McLaughlin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813181011
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Broadway Goes to War written by Robert L. McLaughlin and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American theater was not ignorant of the developments brought on by World War II, and actively addressed and debated timely, controversial topics for the duration of the war, including neutrality and isolationism, racism and genocide, and heroism and battle fatigue. Productions such as Watch on the Rhine (1941), The Moon is Down (1942), Tomorrow the World (1943), and A Bell for Adano (1944) encouraged public discussion of the war's impact on daily life and raised critical questions about the conflict well before other forms of popular media. American drama of the 1940s is frequently overlooked, but the plays performed during this eventful decade provide a picture of the rich and complex experience of living in the United States during the war years. McLaughlin and Parry's work fills a significant gap in the history of theater and popular culture, showing that American society was more divided and less idealistic than the received histories of the WWII home front and the entertainment industry recognize.
Author : Burns Mantle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Burns Mantle Best Plays and the Year Book of the Drama in America written by Burns Mantle and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557830579
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Best Plays of 1988-1989 written by Otis L. Guernsey and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers plays produced in New York, awards, details of productions, prizes, people, and publications, as well as the editors' choices of the ten best plays
Author : Tim Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190665238
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Oklahoma! written by Tim Carter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2007, "Oklahoma!": The Making of an American Musical tells the full story of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Author Tim Carter examines archival materials, manuscripts, and journalism, and the lofty aspirations and mythmaking that surrounded the musical from its very inception. The book made for a watershed moment in the study of the American musical: the first well-researched, serious musical analysis of this landmark show by a musicologist, it was also one of the first biographies of a musical, transforming a field that had previously tended to orient itself around creators rather than creations. In this new and fully revised edition, Carter draws further on recently released sources, including the Rouben Mamoulian Papers at the Library of Congress, with additional correspondence, contracts, and even new versions of the working script used - and annotated - throughout the show's rehearsal process. Carter also focuses on the key players and concepts behind the musical, including the original play on which it was based (Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs) and the Theatre Guild's Theresa Helburn and Lawrence Langner, who fatefully brought Rodgers and Hammerstein together for their first collaboration. The crucial new perspectives these revisions and additions provide make this edition of Carter's seminal work a compulsory purchase for all teachers, students, and lovers of musical theater.
Author : Frederick Winthrop Faxon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Dramatic Index for ... written by Frederick Winthrop Faxon and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for 1912-16, 1919- accompanied by an appendix: The Dramatic books and plays (in English) (title varies slightly) This bibliography was incorporated into the main list in 1917-18.
Author : New York (N.Y.). Board of Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book High Points in the Work of the High Schools of New York City written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Darrell Moulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Choreography in Musical Comedy and Revue on the New York Stage from 1925 Through 1950 written by Robert Darrell Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isaac Landman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia ... written by Isaac Landman and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael R. Steele
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1613210760
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Notre Dame Football Encyclopedia written by Michael R. Steele and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides facts, statistics, player profiles, and analysis of the famed college football team, from their first seasons in the late 1800s to their current roster.
