Author: John ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Broadway's Best
Author: John ChapmanBroadway's Best - Simple Sheet Music + Audio Play-Along
Author: Hal Leonard Corp.Publisher: Hal Leonard
ISBN: 1540086356
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
(Instant Piano). The Instant Piano Songs series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily whether you use one hand or two! Start with the melody in your right hand, then add basic left-hand chords when you're ready. Letter names inside each note speed up the learning process, and optional rhythm patterns take your playing to the next level. Online backing tracks are also included. Stream or download the tracks using the unique codes inside each book, then play along to build confidence and sound great! This edition includes 30 Broadway showstoppers, including: All I Ask of You * Bring Him Home * Defying Gravity * Don't Cry for Me Argentina * Edelweiss * Memory * The Music of the Night * On My Own * People * Seasons of Love * Send in the Clowns * She Used to Be Mine * Sunrise, Sunset * Tonight * Waving Through a Window * and more. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
The Villainous Stage
Author: Marvin LachmanPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476618755
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Live theatre was once the main entertainment medium in the United States and the United Kingdom. The preeminent dramatists and actors of the day wrote and performed in numerous plays in which crime was a major plot element. This remains true today, especially with the longest-running shows such as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and Sweeney Todd. While hundreds of books have been published about crime fiction in film and on television, the topic of stage mysteries has been largely unexplored. Covering productions from the 18th century to the 2013-2014 theatre season, this is the first history of crime plays according to subject matter. More than 20 categories are identified, including whodunits, comic mysteries, courtroom dramas, musicals, crook plays, social issues, Sherlock Holmes, and Agatha Christie. Nearly 900 plays are described, including the reactions of critics and audiences.
West Side Story
Author: Leonard BernsteinPublisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435235284
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This series of contemporary plays includes structured GCSE assignments for use by individuals or groups. These include questions which involve close reading, writing and discussion. This play places the "Romeo and Juliet" story in a New York gang-warfare context.
The Hooded Eagle
Author: Peter BaulandPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Gore Vidal
Author: S. T. JoshiPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810860018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This comprehensive bibliography of Gore Vidal charts his career and covers the span of his sixty years of writing-from his first novel, Williwaw, to his 2006 memoir Point to Point Navigation.
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Author: Meredith WillsonPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452965013
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Chronicles the creation of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man—reprinted now as the Broadway Edition Composer Meredith Willson described The Music Man as “an Iowan’s attempt to pay tribute to his home state.” Now featuring a new foreword by noted singer and educator Michael Feinstein, this book presents Willson’s reflections on the ups and downs, surprises and disappointments, and finally successes of making one of America’s most popular musicals. Willson’s whimsical, personable writing style brings readers back in time with him to the 1950s to experience firsthand the exciting trials and tribulations of creating a Broadway masterpiece. Fresh admiration of the musical—and the man behind the music—is sure to result.
Wicked
Author: Winnie HolzmanPublisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
ISBN: 9781423492764
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Each title in The Applause Libretto Library Series presents a Broadway musical with fresh packaging in a 6 x 9 trade paperback format. Each Complete Book and Lyrics is approved by the writers and attractively designed with color photo inserts from the Broadway production. All titles include introduction and foreword by renowned Broadway musical experts. Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald green skin, is smart, fiery, and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious, and very popular. The story of how these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years.
Mel Brooks
Author: Jeremy DauberPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300244274
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy Mel Brooks, born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, is one of the great comic voices of the twentieth century. Having won almost every entertainment award there is, Brooks has straddled the line between outsider and insider, obedient and rebellious, throughout his career, making out-of-bounds comedy the American mainstream. Jeremy Dauber argues that throughout Brooks's extensive body of work--from Your Show of Shows to Blazing Saddles to Young Frankenstein to Spaceballs--the comedian has seen the most success when he found a balance between his unflagging, subversive, manic energy and the constraints imposed by comedic partners, the Hollywood system, and American cultural mores. Dauber also explores how Brooks's American Jewish humor went from being solely for niche audiences to an essential part of the American mainstream, paving the way for generations of Jewish (and other) comedians to come.