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Musical Theatre Script and Song Analysis Through the Ages

Author : James Olm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350199354
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Musical Theatre Script and Song Analysis Through the Ages written by James Olm and published by . This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How many times have you experienced a musical that was fabulous or just didn't work at all, but you had no idea how to communicate why? How do you differentiate between a flaw in the performance portrayal of a character to a structural flaw in the musical itself? How do you analyse musical theatre songs that are so subjective in its very nature? Is there even a common link of analysis between musicals from the Golden Age and musicals from the present day? Musical Theatre Script and Song Analysis Through the Ages answers these questions and gives students of musical theatre the tools they need to understand and articulate how musicals work. At the heart of any musical lie its music and lyrics, yet it is this area that is least understood. This book offers a brand new terminology of analysis that gets to the core of what holds a musical together: the libretto, music, and lyrics. Through identifying methods of lyric and musical analysis and applying these to ten different musicals throughout history, students are able to ask questions such as: why does this song sound this way?; what is this lyric doing to identify character purpose?; and how is a character communicating this feeling to an audience? From classroom analysis through to practical application, this text guides readers through a structured approach to understanding, disseminating and more importantly, articulating how a musical works. A perfect tool for students of musical theatre, its practical benefits of understanding the form, and realizing that it can be applied to any age musical, will benefit any theatre person in helping articulate all of those abstract feelings that are inherent in this art form. It offers a roadmap to the musical's innermost DNA."--

Musical Theatre Script and Song Analysis Through the Ages

Author : James Olm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350199362
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Musical Theatre Script and Song Analysis Through the Ages written by James Olm and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many times have you experienced a musical that was fabulous or just didn't work at all, but you had no idea how to communicate why? How do you differentiate between a flaw in the performance portrayal of a character to a structural flaw in the musical itself? How do you analyse musical theatre songs that are so subjective in its very nature? Is there even a common link of analysis between musicals from the Golden Age and musicals from the present day? Musical Theatre Script and Song Analysis Through the Ages answers these questions and gives students of musical theatre the tools they need to understand and articulate how musicals work. At the heart of any musical lie its music and lyrics, yet it is this area that is least understood. This book offers a brand new terminology of analysis that gets to the core of what holds a musical together: the libretto, music, and lyrics. Through identifying methods of lyric and musical analysis and applying these to ten different musicals throughout history, students are able to ask questions such as: why does this song sound this way?; what is this lyric doing to identify character purpose?; and how is a character communicating this feeling to an audience? From classroom analysis through to practical application, this text guides readers through a structured approach to understanding, disseminating and more importantly, articulating how a musical works. A perfect tool for students of musical theatre, its practical benefits of understanding the form, and realizing that it can be applied to any age musical, will benefit any theatre person in helping articulate all of those abstract feelings that are inherent in this art form. It offers a roadmap to the musical's innermost DNA.

Acting in Musical Theatre

Author : Joe Deer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135978417
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Acting in Musical Theatre written by Joe Deer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-09 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting in Musical Theatre is the only complete course in approaching a role in a musical. It is the first to combine acting, singing and dancing into a comprehensive guide, combining what have previously been treated as three separate disciplines. This book contains fundamental skills for novice actors, practical insights for professionals, and even tips to help veteran musical performers refine their craft. Drawing on decades of experience in both acting and teaching, the authors provide crucial advice on all elements of the profession, including: fundamentals of acting applied to musical theatre script, score and character analysis personalizing your performance turning rehearsal into performance acting styles in the musical theatre practical steps to a career. Acting in Musical Theatre’s chapters divide into easy-to-reference units, each containing related group and solo exercises, making it the definitive textbook for students and practitioners alike.

Gower Champion

Author : David Payne-Carter
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gower Champion written by David Payne-Carter and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gower Champion's career spanned the years during which American musical theatre was transformed from a crude popular entertainment into a sophisticated art form. As the director and choreographer of Hello, Dolly!, 42nd Street, and other Broadway musicals, he was central to that transformation. He came of age during the zenith of American musical theatre production and made his mark on both sides of the curtain. As a dancer, he gained notoriety through his work with Jeanne Tyler and Marjorie Belcher, and his experience as a performer gave him a solid foundation for his later success as an organizer of memorable productions. As a choreographer and director, he became known for spectacular numbers that blended dance, staging, and elaborate scenography. More than anyone else, he seemed to realize that the achievement of a musical depended on those spots where music, dance, lighting, costumes, and staging created a sustained narrative and emotional flow through sound and motion rather than words. This book provides the first extensive treatment of Champion's life and legendary career. The book falls neatly into two main sections. The first discusses Champion's career as a performer, with chapters on his early Broadway appearances and his work for MGM Special attention is given to how his experiences as a dancer prepared him for the later half of his career. The second examines his work as a choreographer and director and is organized around the musicals with which he was involved. Each chapter consists of a history of one or more of those productions, from original concept to opening night and sometimes beyond, as Champion, ever the perfectionist, sought to improve on what everyone else thought was already perfect. The volume is fully documented, with basic historical research conducted at several special collections. In addition, the book is based on a careful analysis of Champion's scripts, which include numerous revisions and thus illuminate how he crafted his productions. Finally, the study depends on interviews conducted with various individuals who knew and worked with Champion throughout his impressive career.

The American Musical Theater

Author : Lehman Engel
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The American Musical Theater written by Lehman Engel and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1975 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Media and Performance in the Musical

Author : Raymond Knapp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190877847
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Media and Performance in the Musical written by Raymond Knapp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past several years, the American musical has continued to thrive by reflecting and shaping cultural values and social norms, and even commenting on politics, whether directly and on a national scale (Hamilton) or somewhat more obliquely and on a more intimate scale (Fun Home). New stage musicals, such as Come from Away and The Band's Visit, open on Broadway every season, challenging conventions of form and content, and revivals offer audiences a different perspective on extant shows (Carousel; My Fair Lady). Television musicals broadcast live hearken back to 1950s television's affection for musical theatre and aim to attract new audiences through the accessibility of television. Film musicals, including Les Misérables and Into the Woods, capitalize on the medium's technical capabilities of perspective and point of view, as well as visual spectacle. Television has embraced the genre anew, and with unexpected gusto, not only devising musical episodes for countless dramatic and comedy series, but also generating musical series such as Galavant and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. And animated musicals, such as Disney's Moana, hail child and adult audiences with their dual messages, vibrant visual vocabulary, and hummable music. The chapters gathered in this book, Volume II of the reissued Oxford Handbook, explore the American musical from the various media in which musicals have been created to the different components of a musical and the people who do the work to bring a musical to life.

Producing Musicals

Author : John Gardyne
Publisher : Crowood Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Producing Musicals written by John Gardyne and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 2004 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Producing Musicals is a step-by-step guide through the exciting process of producing a show for the stage, from the earliest planning to the last performance. The principles and procedures described can be applied to shows of any size and complexity, from one-off cabaret entertainments to large-scale multi-media extravaganzas. The key roles of the producer, director, creative team and staging departments · Tips on researching and realizing your production effectively · Analysis of the different requirements of plays and musicals · Suggested approaches for producing, directing, designing and casting shows · Breakdown of the rehearsal process with suggestions for working with amateurs, students and professionals · Analysis of moving a production from the rehearsal room into the theatre, and getting the curtain up on time AUTHOR: John Gardyne is a director, writer and producer with twenty years' experience. He has produced and directed shows in the West End. He is an award-winning playwright, and has worked as a librettist and lyricist with many leading composers. He regularly teaches and directs at drama schools and music colleges in the UK and abroad. 137 b/w photos

The Musical

Author : Richard Kislan
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Musical written by Richard Kislan and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1980 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and expanded edition of Kislan's acclaimed study of America's musical theater includes a new section on "Recent Musical Theater: Issues and Problems." "The ancient union of drama and song, known as musical theater, comes in many forms - vaudeville, burlesque, comic opera, minstrels, etc. The author reviews these and other highlights of American musicals ... with a fascinating background on the elements that contribute to the success of a Showboat." - King Features * "Worth study by anyone who still thinks that the musical is a collection of songs." - The Stage

Musical Theatre

Author : John Kenrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Musical Theatre written by John Kenrick and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre: A-Gi

Author : Kurt Gänzl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre: A-Gi written by Kurt Gänzl and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains approximately 2,700 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about musical theater around the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, covering performers, composers, writers, shows, producers, directors, choreographers, and designers.

Gänzl's Book of the Musical Theatre

Author : Kurt Gänzl
Publisher : New York : Schirmer Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gänzl's Book of the Musical Theatre written by Kurt Gänzl and published by New York : Schirmer Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essentially a collection of full plot summaries organized under country of origin and preceeded by brief historical introduction. Covers Britain, France, US, Austria-Germany-Hungary, and Spain. Indexed by author/composer/lyricist, and by song title. Includes a discography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Making of a Musical

Author : Lehman Engel
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Musical written by Lehman Engel and published by Scribner. This book was released on 1977 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Musical

Author : Marc Bauch
Publisher : Tectum Verlag DE
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The American Musical written by Marc Bauch and published by Tectum Verlag DE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although almost neglected in research and studies on American Literature, the American Musical is certainly the most interesting and the most popular genre of American theater and drama. It has been influenced by the necessities of a self-funding commercial theater system of a democratic country. The fact that it has developed in a country of democracy means that it should be a genre for everyone: the intellectual and the common man. Broadway has provided all these. In his study, Marc Bauch analyzes three American Musicals, namely South Pacific (1949) by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, West Side Story (1957) by Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim as well as Sunday in the Park with George (1984) by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. Special attention is paid to the themes and topics, the literary means and the dramatic dodges of the aforementioned American Musicals. The three analyses are extended with historical overviews of the American Musical. Marc Bauch is also the author of Themes and Topics of the American Musical after World War II (2001) also published by Tectum Verlag.

Musical Theatre

Author : London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780955768705
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book Musical Theatre written by London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and published by . This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Song

Author : Ken Bloom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Song written by Ken Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 includes material "on nearly 3,300 American musicals. Volume 2 consists of complete indexes to more than 42,000 songs and more than 16,000 personnel, as well as a chronological listing of titles by year of production."

The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre: O-Z

Author : Kurt Gänzl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre: O-Z written by Kurt Gänzl and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains approximately 2,700 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about musical theater around the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, covering performers, composers, writers, shows, producers, directors, choreographers, and designers.

Musical Theatre in America

Author : American Society for Theatre Research
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Musical Theatre in America written by American Society for Theatre Research and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1984-04-23 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A notable addition to the literature on the American musical and especially its history, this collection of essays and edited panel discussions is diverse and rich in its scope. Based on the combined efforts of theater and dance specialists, musicologists, librarians and archivists, and professional musical theater practitioners, this volume attempts to cover aspects of the American musical from its 18th-century beginnings to the synthesizing of the contemporary musical as a work of art. In between there are sections on the musical in the 19th century, 20th-century variety and revue formats, the book musical of this century, dance in the musical, and various methods of preserving the musical theater heritage.