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Author : Stanley Green
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Great Clowns of Broadway written by Stanley Green and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Bayes
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 9781559365611
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (656 download)
Download or read book Discovering the Clown, Or the Funny Book of Good Acting written by Christopher Bayes and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have guide for actors both young and old.
Author : Alan Clay
Publisher : Artmedia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780957884410
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Angels Can Fly written by Alan Clay and published by Artmedia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Clay's new book on clown, Angels can Fly, promises a mix of fiction, following the adventures of ten clown characters, some personal clown anecdotes, a total of 50 practical clown exercises, and some theory on the nature of modern clown.
Author : Roy Liebman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476626154
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Broadway Actors in Films, 1894-2015 written by Roy Liebman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Broadway stars appeared in Hollywood cinema from its earliest days. Some were 19th century stage idols who reprised famous roles on film as early as 1894. One was born as early as 1829. Another was cast in the performance during which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. One took her stage name from her native state. Some modern-day stars also began their careers on Broadway before appearing in films. This book details the careers of 300 performers who went from stage to screen in all genres of film. A few made only a single movie, others hundreds. Each entry includes highlights of the performer's career, a list of stage appearances and a filmography.
Author : Foster Hirsch
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
ISBN 13 : 1461698758
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Boys from Syracuse written by Foster Hirsch and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2000-09-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1905 to the crash of 1929, Sam Shubert (1874-1905) and his brothers Lee (1874-1953) and J. J. (1878-1963), despite poor beginnings and near-illiteracy, created a theater monopoly unrivaled in history. Their ruthless business tactics and showmanship made 42nd Street the heart of American popular theater and won them the most sought-after stars of the day, including Al Jolson, Carmen Miranda, Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice, Mae West, and Fred Astaire.
Author : Karin Adir
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786413034
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Great Clowns of American Television written by Karin Adir and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are generations that have never seen Sid Caesar become an automobile tire or Red Skelton stick his thumbs in his armpits and intone, "Two theagulls...," never journeyed with Ernie Kovacs to a surrealistic world of his warped imagination. Here seventeen comic talents are profiled (with photographs): their early years, marriages and personal challenges, anecdotes about them, the characters they created, their styles, and often representative dialogue or sketch descriptions. There is a listing of all television shows in which each comic starred (giving length, network, air dates). The comics include Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Carol Burnett, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Tim Conway, Jackie Gleason, Danny Kaye, Ernie Kovacs, Olsen and Johnson, Martha Raye, Soupy Sales, Red Skelton, Dick Van Dyke, Flip Wilson, Jonathan Winters, and Ed Wynn.
Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521365598
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (655 download)
Download or read book American Studies written by Jack Salzman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-05-25 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.
Author : Stanley Green
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1557837848
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Broadway Musicals written by Stanley Green and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged chronologically beginning with "The Black Crook" in 1866, provides entries for nearly four hundred of the most important productions of American musical theater, covering music and lyrics; cast lists; run dates; songs; and names of producers, directors, and choreographers.
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Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809388578
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (885 download)
Download or read book Unfinished Show Business written by and published by SIU Press. This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fresh approach to musical theatre history, Bruce Kirle challenges the commonly understood trajectory of the genre. Drawing on the notion that the world of the author stays fixed while the world of the audience is ever-changing, Kirle suggests that musicals are open, fluid products of the particular cultural moment in which they are performed. Incomplete as printed texts and scores, musicals take on unpredictable lives of their own in the complex transformation from page to stage. Using lenses borrowed from performance studies, cultural studies, queer studies, and ethnoracial studies, Unfinished Show Business: Broadway Musicals as Works-in-Process argues that musicals are as interesting for the provocative issues they raise about shifting attitudes toward American identity as for their show-stopping song-and-dance numbers and conveniently happy endings. Kirle illustrates how performers such as Ed Wynn, Fanny Brice, and the Marx Brothers used their charismatic personalities and quirkiness to provide insights into the struggle of marginalized ethnoracial groups to assimilate. Using examples from favorites including Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, A Chorus Line, and Les Misérables, Kirle demonstrates Broadway’s ability to bridge seemingly insoluble tensions in society, from economic and political anxiety surrounding World War II to generational conflict and youth counterculture to corporate America and the “me” generation. Enlivened by a gallery of some of Broadway’s most memorable moments—and some amusing, obscure ones as well—this study will appeal to students, scholars, and lifelong musical theatre enthusiasts.
Author : Frank Cullen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415938538
Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Vaudeville old & new written by Frank Cullen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Esther Romeyn
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816645213
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Street Scenes written by Esther Romeyn and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Street Scenes' focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theatre and blackface comedy, Romeyn discloses racial comedy, passing, and masquerade as gestures of cultural translation.
Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521564441
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (644 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new and updated Guide, with over 2,700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the U.S., plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major U.S. cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and puppetry. Highly illustrated, the Guide is supplemented with a historical survey as introduction, a bibliography of major sources published since the first edition, and a biographical index covering over 3,200 individuals mentioned in the text."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195335333
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to the American Musical written by Thomas S. Hischak and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary of short entries on American musicals and their practitioners, including performers, composers, lyricists, producers, and choreographers
Author : Judith S. Goldstein
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081353884X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Inventing Great Neck written by Judith S. Goldstein and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although frequently recognized as home to well-known personalities, Great Neck is also notable for the conspicuous way it transformed itself from a Gentile community, to a mixed one, and, finally, in the 1960s, to one in which Jews were the majority. In Inventing Great Neck, Judith S. Goldstein recounts these histories in which Great Neck emerges as a leader in the reconfiguration of the American suburb. The book spans four decades of rapid change, beginning with the 1920s. First, the community served as a playground for New York's socialites and celebrities. In the forties, it developed one of the country's most outstanding school systems and served as the temporary home to the United Nations. In the sixties it provided strong support to the civil rights movement.
Author : Gerald Martin Bordman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199729700
Total Pages : 1033 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book American Musical Theatre written by Gerald Martin Bordman and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "absolutely the best reference book on its subject" by Newsweek, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle covers more than 250 years of musical theatre in the United States, from a 1735 South Carolina production of Flora, or Hob in the Well to The Addams Family in 2010. Authors Gerald Bordman and Richard Norton write an engaging narrative blending history, critical analysis, and lively description to illustrate the transformation of American musical theatre through such incarnations as the ballad opera, revue, Golden Age musical, rock musical, Disney musical, and, with 2010's American Idiot, even the punk musical. The Chronicle is arranged chronologically and is fully indexed according to names of shows, songs, and people involved, for easy searching and browsing. Chapters range from the "Prologue," which traces the origins of American musical theater to 1866, through several "intermissions" (for instance, "Broadway's Response to the Swing Era, 1937-1942") and up to "Act Seven," the theatre of the twenty-first century. This last chapter covers the dramatic changes in musical theatre since the last edition published-whereas Fosse, a choreography-heavy revue, won the 1999 Tony for Best Musical, the 2008 award went to In the Heights, which combines hip-hop, rap, meringue and salsa unlike any musical before it. Other groundbreaking and/or box-office-breaking shows covered for the first time include Avenue Q, The Producers, Billy Elliot, Jersey Boys, Monty Python's Spamalot, Wicked, Hairspray, Urinetown the Musical, and Spring Awakening. Discussion of these shows incorporates plot synopses, names of principal players, descriptions of scenery and costumes, and critical reactions. In addition, short biographies interspersed throughout the text colorfully depict the creative minds that shaped the most influential musicals. Collectively, these elements create the most comprehensive, authoritative history of musical theatre in this country and make this an essential resource for students, scholars, performers, dramaturges, and musical enthusiasts.
Author : Dan Dietz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786457317
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Off Broadway Musicals, 1910-2007 written by Dan Dietz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite an often unfair reputation as being less popular, less successful, or less refined than their bona-fide Broadway counterparts, Off Broadway musicals deserve their share of critical acclaim and study. A number of shows originally staged Off Broadway have gone on to their own successful Broadway runs, from the ever-popular A Chorus Line and Rent to more off-beat productions like Avenue Q and Little Shop of Horrors. And while it remains to be seen if other popular Off Broadway shows like Stomp, Blue Man Group, and Altar Boyz will make it to the larger Broadway theaters, their Off Broadway runs have been enormously successful in their own right. This book discusses more than 1,800 Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway, showcase, and workshop musical productions. It includes detailed descriptions of Off Broadway musicals that closed in previews or in rehearsal, selected musicals that opened in Brooklyn and in New Jersey, and American operas that opened in New York, along with general overviews of Off Broadway institutions such as the Light Opera of Manhattan. The typical entry includes the name of the host theater or theaters; the opening date and number of performances; the production's cast and creative team; a list of songs; a brief plot synopsis; and general comments and reviews from the New York critics. Besides the individual entries, the book also includes a preface, a bibliography, and 21 appendices including a discography, filmography, a list of published scripts, and lists of musicals categorized by topic and composer.
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Male Musical Theatre Actors written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
