The A To Z Of The Broadway Musical

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The A to Z of the Broadway Musical

Author : William A. Everett
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810870444
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of the Broadway Musical written by William A. Everett and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broadway musical has greatly influenced American (and world) culture. Such shows as Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun are as 'American as apple pie,' while the long runs of imports like Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Les MisZrables have broken records. Broadway has produced such cultural icons as Ethel Merman, Yul Brynner, and Julie Andrews, and composers and lyricists such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and many others have had their melodies sung on its stages. Visionaries like George Abbott, Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Tommy Tune, and Susan Stroman have brought productions to life through their innovative direction and choreography. Since the latter part of the 19th century, the Broadway musical has remained one of the most popular genres in entertainment and its history is related in detail in The A to Z of the Broadway Musical. Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and 900 dictionary entries on Broadway shows, playwrights, directors, producers, designers, and actors, this handy desk reference offers quick information on the many aspects of the Broadway musical.

The Ultimate Broadway Musical List Book

Author : Steven M. Friedman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663224803
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Broadway Musical List Book written by Steven M. Friedman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Showboat to Hamilton, American musical theater has long held the imagination and enjoyment of the nations’ theater goers. It creates an emotional reaction as there are favorites we cherish, the all-time bests, those that are the most reviled, the over-rated and the unforgettable. This second edition of The Ultimate Broadway Musical List Book considers the history of the Broadway Musical from the unique perspective of the list-the bests and worst of various eras, the groundbreaking, and the forgotten gems. Steven M. Friedman explores the musicals of the last 100 years, taking apart the favorites and flops alike in numerous creative ways. These lists and their explanations offer facts and background that stimulate laughs and discussion, provoke passionate reaction, and provide tons of fun for the Broadway Musical enthusiast. Enjoy a new twist on the subject, as this collection explores Broadway musicals and their history and provides intriguing background for music theater aficionados of all levels.

A Is for Audra: Broadway's Leading Ladies from A to Z

Author : John Robert Allman
Publisher : Doubleday Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0593377877
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book A Is for Audra: Broadway's Leading Ladies from A to Z written by John Robert Allman and published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadway babies, it's never too early to learn about the great women of American musical theater! From Audra McDonald to Liza with a "Z," this is a showstopping alphabet board book featuring your favorite leading ladies of the Broadway stage. Step into the spotlight and celebrate a cavalcade of Broadway's legendary leading ladies. Start with "A" for six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, then sing and dance your way through the alphabet with beloved entertainers like Carol Channing, Angela Lansbury, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Lea Salonga, and Liza Minnelli! With their signature voices and iconic roles, these talented women have created some of the greatest moments in musical theater history. Broadway fans and theater lovers everywhere will give a standing ovation to this one-of-a-kind tribute full of toe-tapping rhymes, with illustrations as bright and beautiful as the shining lights on any marquee.

The Broadway Musical Quiz Book

Author : Laura Frankos
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1423492757
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book The Broadway Musical Quiz Book written by Laura Frankos and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes over 80 quizzes on every aspect of the Broadway musical, including stars, directors, choreographers, shows imported from England, biographical shows, jukebox musicals, and shows by the decade.

The Book of Broadway

Author : Eric Grode
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 076035734X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Broadway written by Eric Grode and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're coming to Broadway fresh faced or are an old hand, you'll enjoy these 150+ profiles of the great musicals to hit the stage--including Hamilton!

The Complete Book of 2010s Broadway Musicals

Author : Dan Dietz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538126338
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Book of 2010s Broadway Musicals written by Dan Dietz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains detailed information about every musical that opened on Broadway from 2010 through the end of 2019. This book discusses the decade’s major successes, notorious failures, and musicals that closed during their pre-Broadway tryouts. In addition to including every hit and flop that debuted during the decade, this book highlights revivals and personal-appearance revues.

Show Tunes, 1905-1991

Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Amadeus Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Show Tunes, 1905-1991 written by Steven Suskin and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes over 30 major composers and their work

Zombie Prom

Author : Dana P. Rowe
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0573695792
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Zombie Prom written by Dana P. Rowe and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5m, 5f (with doubling) / Ints. This girl loves ghoul rock and roll Off Broadway musical is set in the atomic 1950s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down by a zany, tyrannical principal. Pretty senior Toffee has fallen for the class bad boy. Family pressure forces her to end the romance, and he charges off on his motorcycle to the nuclear waste dump. He returns glowing and determined to reclaim Toffee's heart. He still wants to graduate, but most of all he wants to take Toffee to the

Broadway Bird

Author : Alex Timbers
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250882001
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Broadway Bird written by Alex Timbers and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming and heartfelt picture book about a little bird who dreams of making it big on Broadway, from Tony Award-winning Broadway director Alex Timbers. What Louisa loved most about living in Times Square wasn't the buzzzz of the city... No, it was that she could sing as loud as she wanted. She could sing all day and she could sing all night. Louisa was truly a Broadway bird. Louisa is a tiny parakeet with a HUGE dream: to be a Broadway star. But no matter what she does, everyone keeps telling her she's too small to make it big! When a chance at her big break comes, Louisa learns that no matter how small you are, with a little talent and a lot of hard work, you can do anything - even be on Broadway! With colorful, charming illustrations by artist Alisa Coburn, this heartfelt picture book from renowned Broadway director Alex Timbers is about persistence, believing in yourself, and, of course, the magic of Broadway.

The Secret Life of the American Musical

Author : Jack Viertel
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374711259
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of the American Musical written by Jack Viertel and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in a darkened theater, grows into something more serious for high school actors, and reaches its passionate zenith when it comes time for love, marriage, and children, who will start the cycle all over again. Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In The Secret Life of the American Musical, Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate audiences, and how one landmark show leads to the next—by design or by accident, by emulation or by rebellion—from Oklahoma! to Hamilton and onward. Structured like a musical, The Secret Life of the American Musical begins with an overture and concludes with a curtain call, with stops in between for “I Want” songs, “conditional” love songs, production numbers, star turns, and finales. The ultimate insider, Viertel has spent three decades on Broadway, working on dozens of shows old and new as a conceiver, producer, dramaturg, and general creative force; he has his own unique way of looking at the process and at the people who collaborate to make musicals a reality. He shows us patterns in the architecture of classic shows and charts the inevitable evolution that has taken place in musical theater as America itself has evolved socially and politically. The Secret Life of the American Musical makes you feel as though you’ve been there in the rehearsal room, in the front row of the theater, and in the working offices of theater owners and producers as they pursue their own love affair with that rare and elusive beast—the Broadway hit.

Broadway to Main Street

Author : Laurence Maslon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190620412
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Broadway to Main Street written by Laurence Maslon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of Broadway is one of America's most unique and popular calling cards. In Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America, author Laurence Maslon tells the story of how the most beloved songs of the American Musical Theater made their way from the Theater District to living rooms across the country. The crossroads where the music of Broadway meets popular culture is an expansive and pervasive juncture throughout most of the twentieth century--from sheet music to radio broadcasts to popular and original cast recordings--and continues to influence culture today through television, streaming, and the Internet. The original Broadway cast album--from the 78 rpm recording of Oklahoma! to the digital download of Hamilton--is one of the most successful, yet undervalued, genres in the history of popular recording. The challenge of capturing musical narrative with limited technology inspired the imagination of both the recording industry and millions of listeners: between 1949 and 1969, fifteen different original cast albums hit number one on the popular music charts, ultimately tallying more weeks at number one than all of the albums by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles combined. The history of Broadway music is also the history of American popular music; the technological, commercial, and marketing forces of communications and media over the last century were inextricably bound up in the enterprise of bringing the musical gems of New York's Theater District to living rooms along Main Streets across the nation. Featuring new interviews with Stephen Schwartz, Chita Rivera, Steve Lawrence, and prominent record producers and music critics, the story of this commercial and emotional phenomenon is told here in full--from the imprimatur of sheet music from Broadway in the early 20th century to the renaissance of Broadway music in the digital age, folding in the immense impact of show music on American culture and in the context of the recording industry, popular tastes, and our shared national identity. A book which connects cherished cultural artifacts to the emotional narratives at the core of American popular music, Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America is an ideal companion for all fans of American musical theater and popular music.

Place for Us

Author : D. A. Miller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674669901
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (699 download)

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Download or read book Place for Us written by D. A. Miller and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Place for Us, D. A. Miller probes what all the jokes laugh off: the embarrassingly mutual affinity between a "general" cultural form and the despised "minority" that was in fact that form's implicit audience.

Broadway Baby: The Sound of Music, My Favorite Things

Author : Rodgers & Hammerstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1633223353
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (332 download)

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Download or read book Broadway Baby: The Sound of Music, My Favorite Things written by Rodgers & Hammerstein and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soar into musicals with The Sound of Music's classic song My favorite things. Each page is filled with illustrations and lyrics to sing along with!

Put on a Happy Face

Author : Charles Strouse
Publisher : Union Square Press
ISBN 13 : 1402758898
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Put on a Happy Face written by Charles Strouse and published by Union Square Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strouse composed some of the most successful shows in Broadway history (Annie, Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, and Golden Boy); wrote the film score for Bonnie and Clyde as well as the theme song for All in the Family; has been sampled by one of today's biggest rap stars (Jay-Z, in the Grammy-winning Hard Knock Life); and his songs have been sung by musical greats from Frank Sinatra to Ray Charles to Barbra Streisand. Timed to coincide with public celebrations of his 80th birthday, this memoir grants an insider's glimpse of Broadway, Hollywood, and beyond. Strouse relates the behind-the-curtain stories of his remarkable achievements, and tells about the people he's worked with along the way, including Butterfly McQueen, Gower Champion, Sammy Davis Jr., Lauren Bacall, Mel Brooks, Clifford Odets, Warren Beatty, Hal Prince and Carol Burnett.--From publisher description.

Writing The Broadway Musical

Author : Aaron Frankel
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306809435
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Writing The Broadway Musical written by Aaron Frankel and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2000-08-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic updated to include the developments of the 1990s-the first book to explore in detail how to create a Broadway musical.

Next to Normal

Author : Brian Yorkey
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559366621
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Next to Normal written by Brian Yorkey and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brave and breathtaking musical."--The New York Times

Bandstand

Author : Richard Oberacker
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 0573706751
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (737 download)

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Download or read book Bandstand written by Richard Oberacker and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2018 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1945. American soldiers return home to ticker tape parades and overjoyed families; Private First Class Donny Novitski, singer and songwriter, returns with the hope of rebuilding his life with just the shirt on his back and a dream in his heart. When NBC announces a national competition to find the nation’s next swing band sensation, Donny joins forces with a motley group of fellow veterans, and together they form a band unlike any the nation has ever seen. However, complicated relationships, the demands of the competition, and the challenging after-effects of war may break these musicians. But, when Donny meets a beautiful, young singer named Julia, he finds the perfect harmony in words and music that could take this band of brothers all the way to the live radio broadcast finale in New York City. Victory will require every ounce of talent, stamina, and raw nerve that these musicians possess.