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The Stage Directions Guide to Directing

Author : Stephen Peithman
Publisher : Drama
ISBN 13 : 9780325001128
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Stage Directions Guide to Directing written by Stephen Peithman and published by Drama. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every director, from the beginner to the most experienced, will find in this book invaluable information to make their direction more effective. Following a general overview of the director's role, the book focuses on how the director shapes and guides a production - from preproduction meetings to curtain calls. Veteran directors and actors in community, regional, and academic theatre offer their expertise on a range of topics, including: selecting the right play things to look for in an audition criticizing effectively basics of directing a musical staging a big show with a small cast blocking tips managing rehearsal and schedules and much more. Directors may be an unseen presence in stage productions, but their influence is everywhere to be seen - and heard. Stage Directions Guide to Directing provides welcome support to directors charged with unlocking the full potential of their productions.

The Stage Directions Guide to Musical Theater

Author : Stephen Peithman
Publisher : Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Stage Directions Guide to Musical Theater written by Stephen Peithman and published by Drama. This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from the columns and archives of Stage Directions magazine and adding new material and introductions that put the information into perspective, the editors focus on five main areas of responsibility in musical theater.

Play Readings

Author : Rob Urbinati
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138841284
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Play Readings written by Rob Urbinati and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play Readings: A Complete Guide for Theatre Practitioners demystifies the standards and protocols of a play reading, demonstrating how to create effective and evocative readings for those new to or inexperienced with the genre. It examines all of the essential considerations involved in readings, including the use of the venue, pre-reading preparations, playwright/director communication, editing/adapting stage directions, casting, using the limited rehearsal time effectively, simple "staging" suggestions, working with actors, handling complex stage directions, talkbacks, and limiting the use of props, costumes, and music. A variety of readings are covered, including readings of musicals, operas, and period plays, for comprehensive coverage of this increasingly prevalent production form.

Directing in Musical Theatre

Author : Joe Deer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136246703
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Directing in Musical Theatre written by Joe Deer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide, from the author of Acting in Musical Theatre, will equip aspiring directors with all of the skills that they will need in order to guide a production from beginning to end. From the very first conception and collaborations with crew and cast, through rehearsals and technical production all the way to the final performance, Joe Deer covers the full range. Deer’s accessible and compellingly practical approach uses proven, repeatable methods for addressing all aspects of a production. The focus at every stage is on working with others, using insights from experienced, successful directors to tackle common problems and devise solutions. Each section uses the same structure, to stimulate creative thinking: Timetables: detailed instructions on what to do and when, to provide a flexible organization template Prompts and Investigations: addressing conceptual questions about style, characterization and design Skills Workshops: Exercises and ‘how-to’ guides to essential skills Essential Forms and Formats: Including staging notation, script annotation and rehearsal checklists Case Studies: Well-known productions show how to apply each chapter’s ideas Directing in Musical Theatre not only provides all of the essential skills, but explains when and how to put them to use; how to think like a director.

Music Direction for the Stage

Author : Joseph Church
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199993432
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Music Direction for the Stage written by Joseph Church and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theater music directors must draw on a remarkably broad range of musical skills. Not only do they conduct during rehearsals and performances, but they must also be adept arrangers, choral directors, vocal coaches, and accompanists. Like a record producer, the successful music director must have the flexibility to adjust as needed to a multifaceted job description, one which changes with each production and often with each performer. In Music Direction for the Stage, veteran music director and instructor Joseph Church demystifies the job in a book that offers aspiring and practicing music directors the practical tips and instruction they need in order to mount a successful musical production. Church, one of Broadway's foremost music directors, emerges from the orchestra pit to tell how the music is put into a musical show. He gives particular attention to the music itself, explaining how a music director can best plan the task of learning, analyzing, and teaching each new piece. Based on his years of professional experience, he offers a practical discussion of a music director's methods of analyzing, learning, and practicing a score, thoroughly illustrated by examples from the repertoire. The book also describes how a music director can effectively approach dramatic and choreographic rehearsals, including key tips on cueing music to dialogue and staging, determining incidental music and underscoring, making musical adjustments and revisions in rehearsal, and adjusting style and tempo to performers' needs. A key theme of the book is effective collaboration with other professionals, from the production team to the creative team to the performers themselves, all grounded in Church's real-world experience with professional, amateur, and even student performances. He concludes with a look at music direction as a career, offering invaluable advice on how the enterprising music director can find work and gain standing in the field.

The Perfect Stage Crew

Author : John Kaluta
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1581159404
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Stage Crew written by John Kaluta and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an indispensable, nuts-and-bolts guide to putting on a stunning, low-budget show in less than 40 days! The Perfect Stage Crew explains the pitfalls to avoid and provides solutions to the most common as well as most complex stage performance problems. Readers without Broadway-size budgets and resources will learn the low-cost, low-tech approaches to painting scenery, building sets, hanging lights, setting cues, and operating sound. They’ll also find crucial guidance for generating publicity, preparing tickets, technical rehearsals, and more.

Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice

Author : Lisa Porter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351130811
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice written by Lisa Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice offers theory and methodology for developing a unique stage management style, preparing stage managers to develop an adaptive approach for the vast and varied scope of the production process, forge their own path, and respond to the present moment with care and creativity. This book provides tactile adaptive strategies, enabling stage managers to navigate diverse populations, venues, and projects. Experiential stories based on extensive experience with world-renowned artists exemplify the practices and provide frameworks for self-reflection, synthesis, and engagement with theory-guided practice. This book empowers stage managers to include the ‘How You’ with ‘How To’ by flexing collaborative muscles and engaging tools to guide any collaborative project to fruition with creativity, curiosity, and the drive to build connections. Exploring topics such as group dynamics, ethics, culture, conflict resolution, and strategic communication, Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice: Cultivating a Creative Approach is an essential tool for advanced stage management students, educators, and professionals.

Fences

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593087585
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Fences written by August Wilson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less. This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. Now an Academy Award-winning film directed by and starring Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amateur Theatricals

Author : John Kenrick
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440650489
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amateur Theatricals written by John Kenrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one and only book on successfully staging amateur productions. In this book, drama teachers and community directors are given everything they need to know about picking the right show; licensing, casting, and budgeting; organizing a schedule; costumes, makeup, staging, lighting, and music; tickets, fundraising, programs, cast parties, and more. Illustrated with help plans and photos from actual productions. • Perfect for nonprofit organizations’ fundraising theater events and community theater groups • Complete with an extensive resource section • Illustrated with help plans and great photos from actual productions

A Teacher’s Guide to Musical Theatre

Author : Kenneth Pickering
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350213950
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Teacher’s Guide to Musical Theatre written by Kenneth Pickering and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a teacher of musical theatre who struggles to plan and construct lessons? Are you looking for a structured approach to teaching musical theatre to students of all abilities? Do you know your Ivor Novello from your Stephen Sondheim? Despite being one of the most popular forms of performance study, Musical Theatre is often the most difficult to teach due to its part-practical and part-academic approach. With few books on the market directly aimed at teachers, it can be a challenging and daunting task to devise a course of study that takes in the history of the form as well as considering the wider aspects that come together to make a successful musical. A Teacher's Guide to Musical Theatre enables teachers to plan and deliver courses in Musical Theatre with confidence and flair. The unique structure of the chapters guides teachers through key facts and concepts in musical theatre history and offers practical in-class activities for students. From topics for class discussion and essay assignments to journal entries and portfolios to sample test questions, this book is full of practical advice from experienced teachers in the field which make it the idea companion for teachers and instructors on diploma and degree-level courses, as well as those devising courses in part-time performing arts schools. Devised to provide sufficient engaging and inspirational material for an initial term or semester, the book establishes the principles of teaching this relatively new subject and encourages teachers to extend much further into the subject. From The Mikado to Hamilton and everything in between, this book breaks down decades of history into appropriately sized lessons, designed to give students a rounded survey of the subject and an understanding of how musicals work. Offering expert guidance to those with varied fields of expertise and practical experience but limited teaching experience, this book is the only existing guide to structured and stimulating practice.

Stage Money

Author : Tim Donahue
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643360752
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Stage Money written by Tim Donahue and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades roughly 80 percent of commercial Broadway productions have failed to recoup their original investments. In light of this shocking and harsh reality, how does the show go on? Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson answer this question and many others in this updated edition of their popular, straightforward guide to understanding professional theater finances and the economic realities of theater production. This revised edition of Stage Money not only includes the latest financial information and illuminating examples of key concepts; it has been enhanced with a discussion of the stagehands' union plus a new chapter on marketing for the theater. These new elements combined with the essentials of the first edition create an expansive overview of the contemporary theater business. Stage Money is designed for theater enthusiasts and professionals interested in understanding the inner workings of this industry today and its challenges for the future. Ken Davenport, two-time Tony Award winner, Broadway and Off Broadway theater producer, blogger, writer, and owner of Davenport Theatrical Enterprises writer, offers a foreword.

The Musical

Author : William Everett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135848076
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Musical written by William Everett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The musical, whether on stage or screen, is undoubtedly one of the most recognizable musical genres, yet one of the most perplexing. What are its defining features? How does it negotiate multiple socio-cultural-economic spaces? Is it a popular tradition? Is it a commercial enterprise? Is it a sophisticated cultural product and signifier? This research guide includes more than 1,400 annotated entries related to the genre as it appears on stage and screen. It includes reference works, monographs, articles, anthologies, and websites related to the musical. Separate sections are devoted to sub-genres (such as operetta and megamusical), non-English language musical genres in the U.S., traditions outside the U.S., individual shows, creators, performers, and performance. The second edition reflects the notable increase in musical theater scholarship since 2000. In addition to printed materials, it includes multimedia and electronic resources.

Bibliographic Guide to Music

Author : New York Public Library. Music Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Music written by New York Public Library. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stage Managing and Theatre Etiquette

Author : Linda Apperson
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 146172497X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Stage Managing and Theatre Etiquette written by Linda Apperson and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a practical, accessible introduction to one of the most complex jobs in theatre. Linda Apperson clearly and concisely leads the reader through the procedures and responsibilities of stage management, from auditions to closing night. What is “blocking”? How do you “call” a show? Who is the technical director, and why do you want him or her as your best friend? How can you tame (or endure) a prima donna? When is the best time to offer advice to the actors? Ms. Apperson answers these and countless other questions in a resource book that will become a constant companion for both the novice and the experienced theatre person. Especially useful is her attention to personal relationships among actors and crew. She insists that working to create an atmosphere of respect backstage will improve the show onstage, and she shows precisely how this is done, based upon her years of experience in managing the stage. Stage Managing and Theatre Etiquette includes samples of prompt scripts and other essential stage manager’s tools.

Notes on the Writing of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Author : Robert L. Freedman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493055992
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Notes on the Writing of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder written by Robert L. Freedman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most frequently asked question about writing musicals is, "Which comes first, the music or the lyrics?" As anyone on Broadway will tell you, the answer is, "The book." Tony-winning book writer Robert L. Freedman takes you through the process of writing a new musical, including story structure, song placement, dialogue, character development, and more that led to the creation of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, the 2014 Best Musical Tony winner. With candor and insight, Freedman describes the challenging and rewarding growing pains of what the critics called "Hilarious!" and "Ingenious!" and said "Ranks among the most inspired and entertaining new musical comedies I've seen in years."

Between the Lines

Author : Jodi Picoult
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451635818
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Between the Lines written by Jodi Picoult and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.

Tears of a Tiger

Author : Sharon M. Draper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442489138
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Tears of a Tiger written by Sharon M. Draper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.