Author: Holly Reed
Publisher: Musicalwriters.com LLC
ISBN: 9780578746159
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Ultimate Musical Writer's Planner is an all-in-one workbook to help you brainstorm, develop, plan and calendar your new musical. You'll find guides on outlining story structure and character development, charts for determining vocal ranges and rhyme patterns, checklists for readings and marketing, goal planning sheets, a monthly planning calendar, and much, much more. It's a 240+ page musical planner and workbook to take you from concept to stage. Sections Include: Getting Started, The Book & Story Structure, Character Development, Writing the Script, Music & Songwriting, Development & Readings, Submissions & Marketing, Setting Goals, Monthly Planner, Contacts & Important Info, Recommended Resources, and Notes & Brainstorming. Writing a musical isn't easy, and it can take years of work to successfully move it from idea to stage. This workbook will help you feel less overwhelmed and hopefully trigger some important ideas. It may even one day become a treasured memento of the journey.
The Ultimate Musical Writer's Planner
Author: Holly Reed
Publisher: Musicalwriters.com LLC
ISBN: 9780578746159
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Ultimate Musical Writer's Planner is an all-in-one workbook to help you brainstorm, develop, plan and calendar your new musical. You'll find guides on outlining story structure and character development, charts for determining vocal ranges and rhyme patterns, checklists for readings and marketing, goal planning sheets, a monthly planning calendar, and much, much more. It's a 240+ page musical planner and workbook to take you from concept to stage. Sections Include: Getting Started, The Book & Story Structure, Character Development, Writing the Script, Music & Songwriting, Development & Readings, Submissions & Marketing, Setting Goals, Monthly Planner, Contacts & Important Info, Recommended Resources, and Notes & Brainstorming. Writing a musical isn't easy, and it can take years of work to successfully move it from idea to stage. This workbook will help you feel less overwhelmed and hopefully trigger some important ideas. It may even one day become a treasured memento of the journey.
Publisher: Musicalwriters.com LLC
ISBN: 9780578746159
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Ultimate Musical Writer's Planner is an all-in-one workbook to help you brainstorm, develop, plan and calendar your new musical. You'll find guides on outlining story structure and character development, charts for determining vocal ranges and rhyme patterns, checklists for readings and marketing, goal planning sheets, a monthly planning calendar, and much, much more. It's a 240+ page musical planner and workbook to take you from concept to stage. Sections Include: Getting Started, The Book & Story Structure, Character Development, Writing the Script, Music & Songwriting, Development & Readings, Submissions & Marketing, Setting Goals, Monthly Planner, Contacts & Important Info, Recommended Resources, and Notes & Brainstorming. Writing a musical isn't easy, and it can take years of work to successfully move it from idea to stage. This workbook will help you feel less overwhelmed and hopefully trigger some important ideas. It may even one day become a treasured memento of the journey.
The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide
Author: David Spencer
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Award-winning musical dramatist and teacher David Spencer provides a guide-to-the-game that helps you negotiate aspects of the musical theatre business and more.
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Award-winning musical dramatist and teacher David Spencer provides a guide-to-the-game that helps you negotiate aspects of the musical theatre business and more.
Writing Musical Theater
Author: A. Cohen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137048107
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This guide to the modern musical covers the entire process of creating a show, from finding and working out the initial idea, through to the ways in which writers can market a finished show and get it produced. For the interested theatregoer and writers, it is written in a lively and user-friendly style and illustrated with numerous examples.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137048107
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This guide to the modern musical covers the entire process of creating a show, from finding and working out the initial idea, through to the ways in which writers can market a finished show and get it produced. For the interested theatregoer and writers, it is written in a lively and user-friendly style and illustrated with numerous examples.
Beating Broadway
Author: Steve Cuden
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781481223027
Category : Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The popularity of musicals has reached an all-time high leading to the development of numerous original shows. In this comprehensive new guide, Beating Broadway: How to Create Stories for Musicals That Get Standing Ovations, written by veteran storyteller and successful creator of musicals Steve Cuden, readers learn how the plots and stories behind musicals are developed and honed. With a breezy, lighthearted approach, creators at all levels are provided key advice for building winning musical stories. Cuden, who has been there, done that, offers writers the know-how and encouragement to construct brilliant, attention-grabbing musical storylines. Beating Broadway provides readers with practical, down-to-earth advice for crafting successful musical theater stories that will reach audiences everywhere. This complete, two-part manual also guides aspiring writers in what it takes to develop shows that can attract Broadway producers. By showing writers the ins and outs of storytelling required for today's commercial musical theater, Beating Broadway places success firmly within grasp. Readers also gain insight into how stories function in forty of the world's most beloved stage and movie musicals as Cuden breaks down each one into key narrative beats and plot points. "Beating Broadway is a take-you-by-the-hand guided tutorial written by a seasoned professional who really knows his stuff. This book feeds your mind with how stories for musicals are made. If you are interested in creating or producing a musical, Steve's insights will be helpful and inspiring to you.JEFF MARX, Tony winning Composer/Lyricist of Avenue Q "Beating Broadway digs deep to the core of how stories for successful musicals are created. This is a must-have book for anyone who wants to write exceptional musicals or is just a fan."SCOTT WITTMAN, Tony Winning Lyricist of Hairspray and Co-Lyricist and Executive Producer for the Hit TV Series, Smash "Beat-by-beat, Steve Cuden breaks down story, structure, and song spotting so you can beat the Broadway musical before it beats you!"CHERI STEINKELLNER, Emmy-winning Writer/Producer of Cheers and Teacher's Pet, Tony-nominated Writer of Sister Act
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781481223027
Category : Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The popularity of musicals has reached an all-time high leading to the development of numerous original shows. In this comprehensive new guide, Beating Broadway: How to Create Stories for Musicals That Get Standing Ovations, written by veteran storyteller and successful creator of musicals Steve Cuden, readers learn how the plots and stories behind musicals are developed and honed. With a breezy, lighthearted approach, creators at all levels are provided key advice for building winning musical stories. Cuden, who has been there, done that, offers writers the know-how and encouragement to construct brilliant, attention-grabbing musical storylines. Beating Broadway provides readers with practical, down-to-earth advice for crafting successful musical theater stories that will reach audiences everywhere. This complete, two-part manual also guides aspiring writers in what it takes to develop shows that can attract Broadway producers. By showing writers the ins and outs of storytelling required for today's commercial musical theater, Beating Broadway places success firmly within grasp. Readers also gain insight into how stories function in forty of the world's most beloved stage and movie musicals as Cuden breaks down each one into key narrative beats and plot points. "Beating Broadway is a take-you-by-the-hand guided tutorial written by a seasoned professional who really knows his stuff. This book feeds your mind with how stories for musicals are made. If you are interested in creating or producing a musical, Steve's insights will be helpful and inspiring to you.JEFF MARX, Tony winning Composer/Lyricist of Avenue Q "Beating Broadway digs deep to the core of how stories for successful musicals are created. This is a must-have book for anyone who wants to write exceptional musicals or is just a fan."SCOTT WITTMAN, Tony Winning Lyricist of Hairspray and Co-Lyricist and Executive Producer for the Hit TV Series, Smash "Beat-by-beat, Steve Cuden breaks down story, structure, and song spotting so you can beat the Broadway musical before it beats you!"CHERI STEINKELLNER, Emmy-winning Writer/Producer of Cheers and Teacher's Pet, Tony-nominated Writer of Sister Act
The Secret Life of the American Musical
Author: Jack Viertel
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374711259
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller: “Both revelatory and entertaining . . . Along the way, Viertel provides some fascinating Broadway history.” —The New York Times Book Review Americans invented musicals—and have a longstanding love affair with them. But what, exactly, is a musical? In this book, longtime theatrical producer and writer Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he shows 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. Beginning with an overture and concluding with a curtain call, with stops in between for “I Want” songs, “conditional” love songs, production numbers, star turns, and finales, Viertel 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 like you’re there in the rehearsal room, the front row, and the offices of theater owners and producers as they pursue their own love affair with that rare and elusive beast—the Broadway hit. “A valuable addition to the theater lover’s bookshelf. . . . fans will appreciate the dips into memoir and Viertel’s takes on original cast albums.” —Publishers Weekly “Even seasoned hands will come away with a clearer understanding of why some shows work while others flop.” —Commentary “A showstopper . . . infectiously entertaining.” —John Lahr, author of Notes on a Cowardly Lion “Thoroughly interesting.” —The A.V. Club “The best general-audience analysis of musical theater I have read in many years.” —The Charlotte Observer “Delightful . . . a little bit history, a little bit memoir, a little bit criticism and, for any theater fan, a whole lot of fun.” —The Dallas Morning News
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374711259
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller: “Both revelatory and entertaining . . . Along the way, Viertel provides some fascinating Broadway history.” —The New York Times Book Review Americans invented musicals—and have a longstanding love affair with them. But what, exactly, is a musical? In this book, longtime theatrical producer and writer Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he shows 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. Beginning with an overture and concluding with a curtain call, with stops in between for “I Want” songs, “conditional” love songs, production numbers, star turns, and finales, Viertel 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 like you’re there in the rehearsal room, the front row, and the offices of theater owners and producers as they pursue their own love affair with that rare and elusive beast—the Broadway hit. “A valuable addition to the theater lover’s bookshelf. . . . fans will appreciate the dips into memoir and Viertel’s takes on original cast albums.” —Publishers Weekly “Even seasoned hands will come away with a clearer understanding of why some shows work while others flop.” —Commentary “A showstopper . . . infectiously entertaining.” —John Lahr, author of Notes on a Cowardly Lion “Thoroughly interesting.” —The A.V. Club “The best general-audience analysis of musical theater I have read in many years.” —The Charlotte Observer “Delightful . . . a little bit history, a little bit memoir, a little bit criticism and, for any theater fan, a whole lot of fun.” —The Dallas Morning News
Making Musicals
Author: Tom Jones
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1617748706
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
(Limelight). The lyricist/librettist of The Fantasticks , the longest-running show in the history of the American theater, takes on a new role as your guide through the magical world of the stage musical.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1617748706
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
(Limelight). The lyricist/librettist of The Fantasticks , the longest-running show in the history of the American theater, takes on a new role as your guide through the magical world of the stage musical.
Writing & Staging a New Musical
Author: Jye Bryant
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781730897412
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Writing & Staging A New Musical is a brand new instructional manual for anyone eager to create and premiere their own original piece of musical theatre. It is a practical guide filled with useful tricks, tips and templates designed to reduce the workload for creators and producers alike.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781730897412
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Writing & Staging A New Musical is a brand new instructional manual for anyone eager to create and premiere their own original piece of musical theatre. It is a practical guide filled with useful tricks, tips and templates designed to reduce the workload for creators and producers alike.
Uncle Jed's Barber Shop
Author: Margaree King Mitchell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442443642
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Coretta Scott King Award winner A young girl’s beloved uncle is a talented barber without a shop who never gives up on his dream in this richly illustrated, stirring picture book. Everyone has a favorite relative. For Sarah Jean, it’s her Uncle Jed. Living in the segregated South of the 1920s, where most people are sharecroppers, Uncle Jed is the only black barber in the county and has to travel all over the county to cut his customers’ hair. He lives for the day when he could open his very own barbershop. But there are a lot of setbacks along the way. Will Uncle Jed ever be able to open a shiny new shop?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442443642
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Coretta Scott King Award winner A young girl’s beloved uncle is a talented barber without a shop who never gives up on his dream in this richly illustrated, stirring picture book. Everyone has a favorite relative. For Sarah Jean, it’s her Uncle Jed. Living in the segregated South of the 1920s, where most people are sharecroppers, Uncle Jed is the only black barber in the county and has to travel all over the county to cut his customers’ hair. He lives for the day when he could open his very own barbershop. But there are a lot of setbacks along the way. Will Uncle Jed ever be able to open a shiny new shop?
A Creative Writer's Kit
Author: Judy Reeves
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781577314356
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Judy Reeves provides direction, support, and practical tips for the novice and seasoned writer alike. An experienced workshop leader, Judy evokes the muse in every writer through engaging exercises and clear instructions. Her kit offers dynamic tools for creative writing: a perpetual book of days with a year's worth of writing topics, a deck of inspiration cards, a journal, and elegant writing instruments--all packaged in a portable, attractive, portfolio-style tri-fold box that features gusseted envelopes, pen loops, lay-flat binding, and an embedded magnet closure. The book of days offers evocative writing prompts, culled from hundreds of writing workshops, and is a muse in itself. The journal is liberally sprinkled with sophisticated literary quotations, and it features an embedded elastic strap to contain all the ephemera that writers collect.The unique Portfolio Box will be shrink-wrapped. A detailed product shot and descriptive copy will be displayed on a removable sticker on the back of the box. Upscale design. Object value.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781577314356
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Judy Reeves provides direction, support, and practical tips for the novice and seasoned writer alike. An experienced workshop leader, Judy evokes the muse in every writer through engaging exercises and clear instructions. Her kit offers dynamic tools for creative writing: a perpetual book of days with a year's worth of writing topics, a deck of inspiration cards, a journal, and elegant writing instruments--all packaged in a portable, attractive, portfolio-style tri-fold box that features gusseted envelopes, pen loops, lay-flat binding, and an embedded magnet closure. The book of days offers evocative writing prompts, culled from hundreds of writing workshops, and is a muse in itself. The journal is liberally sprinkled with sophisticated literary quotations, and it features an embedded elastic strap to contain all the ephemera that writers collect.The unique Portfolio Box will be shrink-wrapped. A detailed product shot and descriptive copy will be displayed on a removable sticker on the back of the box. Upscale design. Object value.
How Musicals Work
Author: Julian Woolford
Publisher: Theatrebook
ISBN: 9781848421752
Category : Musicals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A practical guide to, and history of, musical theatre. What makes the great shows work, and why some never did.
Publisher: Theatrebook
ISBN: 9781848421752
Category : Musicals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A practical guide to, and history of, musical theatre. What makes the great shows work, and why some never did.