The Craft of Theatre: Seminars and Discussions in Brechtian Theatre (5/12/2012)
The autobiographical account by one of German theater's great actors of his life in the theater.
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Theatre World: Volume 63 2006-2007 (9/1/2009)
Applause Theatre and Cinema Books is pleased to make this venerable continuing series complete by publishing Theatre World Volume 63. Theatre World remains the authoritative pictorial and statistical record of the season on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and for regional theatre companies. Volume 63 features Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Tony Award-winning Best Musical Spring Awakening, which also earned a Theatre World Award for actor Jonathan Groff. Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Uto... |
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Theatre World 2005-2006 (7/1/2008)
The most complete annual record of American theatre. Celebrating its 62 year, Theatre World remains the authoritative and pictorial record of the season on Broadway, Off Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway, and for regional companies. Volume 62 features the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys, which also earned a Theatre World Award and Tony Award for its star, John Lloyd Young, while British imports Richard Griffiths and The History Boys gave lessons on how to earn rave reviews as well. Sex ... |
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The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television (2/1/2008)
From the silver screen to the Great White Way, small community theatres to television sets, the musical has long held a special place in America's heart and history. Now, in The Oxford Companion to the American Musical, readers who flocked to the movies to see An American in Paris or Chicago, lined up for tickets to West Side Story or Rent, or crowded around their TVs to watch Cinderella or High School Musical can finally turn to a single book for details about them all. For the first time, this... |
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Theatre World Volume 64, 2007-2008 (1/1/2008)
Celebrating its 64th year, Theatre World remains the definitive annual record of the American theatre season - the most complete record of the Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and regional theatre season. Volume 64 features Harvey Fierstein's A Catered Affair, starring Faith Prince, and Tracy Lett's moving August: Osage County, the latter part of a strong season for original dramas on Broadway. It was a season also rife with stellar revivals, including Sunday in the Park with George; So... |
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The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (1/1/2008)
Tracing the development of the musical on both Broadway and in London's West End, this updated Companion continues to provide a broad and thorough overview of one of the liveliest and most popular forms of musical performance. Ordered chronologically, essays cover from the American musical of the nineteenth century through to the most recent productions, and the book also includes key information on singers, audience, critical reception, and traditions. All of the chapters from the first edition... |
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The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson (3/1/2007)
One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of black Americans. He celebrated the lives of those seemingly pushed to the margins of national life, but who were simultaneously protagonists of their own drama and evidence of a vital and compelling community. Decade by decade, he told the story of a people with a distinctive history who forged their own future, aware of their roots in an... |
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The World of Theatre: Tradition and Innovation (11/29/2005)
The World of Theatre is the first introduction to theatre book to truly focus on diversity and globalism, integrating coverage of multicultural, international and experimental theatre throughout. Theatre is presented as a global and multicultural form that reflects both traditional and evolving world views. While the American commercial theatre and European forms are central to the text, alternative theatres are placed side by side for comparison and contrast in each chapter, thus avoiding the s... |
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Theatre and Travel: Tours of the South (3/2/2005)
Presents rare information on traveling circus, minstrel, opera, and Toby shows.
This collection of essays explores an understudied but pervasive aspect of American theatre: theatre on the road, from minstrel shows and Toby shows to contemporary African American theatre, 19th-century circus rail travel, and small-town opera houses.
The challenges in gathering and compiling data on these ephemeral productions, from such far-flung sources as railroad schedules and weather reports, minutes f... |
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New York Then/New York Now (2/21/2005)
New York Then/New York Now—a collection of essays, memoirs, interviews, commentary, and plays—contemplates New York City’s history and future as a center for groundbreaking theatrical forms and ideas. Featuring the work of theater artists, producers, and critics, this special issue of Theater is concerned with the ideas and practicalities of making theater in and for New York within specific historical, political, and economic contexts. The first section, “New York Then,” reflects on the emerge... |
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The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin (1/10/2005)
Gathered together in one volume for the first time: all of the incomparable song lyrics of Irving Berlin, whose career and work are the most important and all-encompassing in the history of American popular music.
Berlin came from a poor immigrant family and began his career as a singing waiter, but by the time he was nineteen he was publishing his songs and quickly found fame with "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1911. In the extraordinary six decades that followed, Berlin wrote one popular hit... |
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The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan (1/1/2005)
Lovers of Gilbert and Sullivan will be in heaven with the publication of these two books, which nicely complement each other. Stedman (English, Roosevelt Univ., Chicago) offers an outstanding study of this playwright and his often overlooked works, with much of its value deriving from its study of Gilbert without Sullivan. The author is a recognized expert on Gilbert as well as the Victorian time period, and she shows him to be a complex and interesting man who often found himself at odds with ... |
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The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet (1/1/2004)
This collection of specially written essays offers both student and theatregoer a guide to one of the most celebrated American dramatists working today. Readers will find the general and accessible descriptions and analyses provide the perfect introduction to Mamet's work. The volume covers the full range of Mamet's writing, including now classic plays such as American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross, and his more recent work, Boston Marriage, among others, as well as his films, such as The Ver... |
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Golda's Balcony: A Play (11/21/2003)
The sold out off-Broadway smash has moved to Broadway! The rise of Golda Meir from impoverished Russian schoolgirl to Prime Minister of Israel is one of the most amazing stories of the 20th century. Now her life has been transformed into a one-woman play of overwhelming power and triumph by William Gibson, author of The Miracle Worker. Golda's Balcony earned actress Tovah Feldshuh a 2003 Drama Desk award."Enlightening ... Now, hearing from someone who was there at the birth of the country, who ... |
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The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama (6/25/2003)
Known through three editions as the boldest and most distinguished introduction to drama, William Worthen's pace-setting text continues to provide exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts. |
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The Lyrics of Noel Coward (1/1/2002)
Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Don't Put your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs Worthington and over 250 more lyrics from Coward's musical masterpieces. Noel Coward is one of the greatest lyricists of the twentieth century. Songs such as A Room with a View, The Stately Homes of England, Mad Dogs and Englishmen and Mrs Worthington are known, sung and loved the world over. This edition gathers together over 250 of Coward's lyrics, arranged in chronological order and grouped by show. In addition, these masterp... |
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Theatre World 1994-1995, Vol. 51 (1/1/2000)
Theatre World, the statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway and off-Broadway season, touring companies, and professional regional companies throughout the United States, has become a classic in its field. The book is complete with cast listings, replacement producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles, and much, much more. There are special sections with biographical data, obituary information, listings of annual Shakespeare festivals and major drama a... |
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Theatre World 1993-1994, Vol. 50 (1/1/2000)
Theatre World, the statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway and off-Broadway season, touring companies, and professional regional companies throughout the United States, has become a classic in its field. The book is complete with cast listings, replacement producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles, and much, much more. There are special sections with biographical data, obituary information, listings of annual Shakespeare festivals and major drama a... |
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The Social Significance of Modern Drama (1/1/2000)
Out of print virtually since its completion in 1914, Emma Goldman's pioneer work Social Significance in Modern Drama bridges modern drama and political philosophy, pointing out the road that remains to be travelled toward a theatre of social empowerment. Activist, feminist, philosopher and anarchist, Emma Goldman was a passionate thinker about all things modern when the 20th century was still raw and new. The emergence of her treatise on the theatre after years of obscurity is certain to arouse ... |
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Polaroid Stories (1/1/1999)
Naomi Iizuka’s 1997 play, Polaroid Stories, consciously uses stories, characters and themes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to tell the stories of street kids living on the edge in a desolate, urban landscape. Because these characters are named after Orpheus and Eurydice, and Echo and Narcissus, or based on stories of Dionysus, and Ariadne and Theseus, and because scenes are entitled “The Story of Semele” or “Theseus in the Labyrinth,” Iizuka creates a world that has two dimensions: the gritty realm ... |
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The Story of Starlight Theatre (3/1/1992)
Starlight Theatre is a magic place where an evening of musical theatre under the stars in Kansas City's Swope Park speaks so strongly of emotion that the audience is transformed by the presence of the creative experience.
This book is filled with historical photos and provides a "behind the scenes" look at the real workings of the second largest outdoor theatre in the United States. A must for theatre goers everywhere.
Unlike many other art forms, live outdoor theatre is a participatory expe... |
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Movin' Out - Vocal Selections ()
The music of the Piano Man is now playing on the Great White Way! An innovative new "dancical," this Broadway show choreographed, directed and conceived by the legendary Twyla Tharpe is based on Billy Joel songs and follows six friends through two turbulent decades. Our vocal selections folio features fabulous full-page photos from the show and 20 Joel classics, including: Big Shot * Just the Way You Are * Keeping the Faith * The Longest Time * Movin' Out * Only the Good Die Young * Pressure * S... |
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The Most Happy Fella - Vocal Selections ()
Table of contents Big D Don't Cry My Heart Is So Full Of You Somebody, Somewhere Standing On The Corner The Most Happy Fella Warm All Over
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The Me Nobody Knows - Vocal Selections ()
9 vocal selections from the 1970 Obie Award winner for Best Musical, including: Black * Dream Babies * How I Feel * If I Had a Million * Let Me Come In * Light Sings * Sounds * This World * The Tree. Also includes copy of the original New York Times review.
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Me and Juliet - Musical Play ()
Although not as well known as some of the Rodgers and Hammerstein's classics - such as Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I - this endearing backstage love story still charms with melodic romance and dazzling theatrics. This hardcover edition, published by Random House, has two full page black/white production shots along with the book and lyrics to the show. It also has the Original Cast list (with Isabel Bigley, Bill Hayes in the leads, and Ray Walston ["My Favorite Martian"], Jo... |
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Martin Guerre ()
Loosely based on the real-life historical figure Martin Guerre and the 1982 film The Return of Martin Guerre he inspired, the story is set in early modern France in the anti-Protestant town of Artigat, where young Martin Guerre is forced into an arranged marriage with Bertrande de Rols in order to produce a Catholic heir. Martin is unsatisfied with the marriage, complicated by the fact that a childhood friend, Guillaume, is secretly in love with Bertrande. Beaten by the priests due to his failur... |
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Once on This Island - Vocal Selections ()
With full-color photos from the production. Includes: We Dance
• Waiting for Life
• Rain
• Forever Yours
• Ti Moune
• Mama Will Provide
• Some Girls. |
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Marie Christine - Vocal Selections ()
Songs include: Beautiful * Cincinnati * I Don't Hear the Ocean * No Turning Back * The Scorpion/I Will Love You Duet * Tell Me * Way Back to Paradise.
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Marguerite - Piano/Vocal Selections ()
A matching folio to the West End musical of star-crossed love in Occupied Paris during the Second World War. Marguerite is the world-premiere collaboration between Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg (Les Miserables and Miss Saigon), the triple-Oscar winning Michel Legrand (Yentl), and lyricist Herbert Kretzmer (Les Miserables).
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Mamma Mia! ()
Warner Bros. Publications releases the long-awaited folio of selections from the hit musical Mamma Mia!, the show that has been enthralling audiences since its world premiere in 1999. Based on the music from the ever-popular Swedish pop group ABBA, the show uses great hits such as "Dancing Queen," "Take a Chance on Me," "Voulez-Vous," and "Mamma Mia" to tell three wonderful love stories of family and friends on the mythical Greek island. The show's creators are actual members from the group: Ben... |
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Mame - Vocal Selections ()
From the acclaimed show featuring Angela Lansbury. Table of contents Bosom Buddies Gooch's Song If He Walked Into My Life It's Today Mame Man In The Moon My Best Girl (My Best Beau) Open A New Window St. Bridget That's How Young I Feel We Need A Little Christmas
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Mack and Mabel - Vocal Selections ()
Songs: Hundreds Of Girls : I Promise You A Happy Ending : I Won't Send Roses : I Wanna Make The World Laugh : Look What Happened To Mabel : Tap Your Troubles Away : Time Heals Everything : When Mabel Comes In The Room : Wherever He Ain't : Movies Were Movies : Big Time
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Lost in the Stars - Vocal Selections ()
Titles are: The Hills of Ixopo
* Thousands of Miles
* The Little Gray House
* Who'll Buy?
* Trouble Man
* Lost in the Stars
* O Tixo, Tixo Help Me!
* Stay Well
* Cry the Beloved Country
* Big Mole
* A Bird of Passage. |
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Lord of the Rings Official Stage Companion ()
A sumptuous illustrated celebration of 'The Lord of the Rings' stage show, which examines in detail through exclusive interviews and photographs the creation of one of the world's most ambitious theatre adaptations. Contains over 120 full-colour photos and illustrations combined to provide the fascinating story of how a big-budget show is born. 'The Lord of the Rings' stage show will be the biggest, most expensive production ever mounted, combining in three acts the spectacle of 'Cirque du Solei... |
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Little Me - Vocal Selections ()
Broadway revival with Martin Short and Faith Prince at the Roundabout Theatre. Classic musical originally starred Sid Caesar. Book by Neil Simon. Songs are: Deep Down Inside * Dimples * Here's to Us * I've Got Your Number * Le Grand Boom Boom * Little Me * On the Other Side of the Tracks * Poor Little Hollywood Star * Real Live Girl * To Be a Performer.
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Little Fish ()
"I never really knew what I was like until I quit smoking, by which time there was hell to pay." So observes Charlotte, a young writer of short stories as she confronts her past, present and future in post 9/11 Manhattan. With the help of her well-intentioned friends, Marco and Kathy, Charlotte embarks on a modern-day odyssey as she desperately attempts to fill her nicotine-starved days with swimming at the Y and jogging, but to no avail. She's a stranger in her own body, and it's not a pretty t... |
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The Lion King - Broadway Selections ()
Now available! Our deluxe songbook features piano/vocal arrangements of 14 songs by Elton John and Tim Rice from this beloved Tony -winning musical: Be Prepared * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Chow Down * Circle of Life * Endless Night * Hakuna Matata * He Lives in You (Reprise) * I Just Can't Wait to Be King * King of Pride Rock * The Madness of King Scar * The Morning Report * Nants' Ingonyama * Shadowland * They Live in You. Includes a special section of fantastic full-color photos from th... |
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The Light in the Piazza ()
Composer Adam Guettel, best known for his Floyd Collins, has teamed with Prelude to a Kiss playwright Craig Lucas to create a passionate and soaring new musical based on Elizabeth Spencer’s 1960 novella, which was first published as an entire issue of The New Yorker. It is the story of an American ingénue abroad, whose chance meeting of a charming young Italian in a Florentine piazza sets off a whirlwind romance—with an unsettling revelation. The Light in the Piazza opens on Broadway at the Lin... |
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Lady, Be Good! - Vocal Selections ()
The Gershwins' first Broadway smash. Includes: Fascinating Rhythm
* The Man I Love
* Little Jazz Bird
* So Am I and more. |
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Kiss of the Spider Woman: The Musical - Vocal Selections ()
11 compositions from this musical drama of transformation in a Latin American prison. Includes: Anything for Him * The Day After That * Dear One * Dressing Them Up * I Do Miracles * Kiss of the Spider Woman * The Morphine Tango 1 * Only in the Movies * Over the Wall 2 * She's a Woman * Where You Are.
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The King and I - Vocal Selections ()
Features 9 fantastic songs from this perennial favorite, plus color photos! Includes: Getting to Know You * Hello, Young Lovers * I Have Dreamed * I Whistle a Happy Tune * The March of the Siamese Children * My Lord and Master * Shall We Dance? * Something Wonderful * We Kiss in a Shadow.
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Jumbo - Vocal Selections ()
Contents: The Circus on Parade Diavolo Little Girl Blue The Most Beautiful Girl in the World My Romance Over and Over Again
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Piano Solo ()
10 piano solo arrangements from Lloyd Webber's rollicking biblical tale. Includes: Any Dream Will Do * Close Every Door * Go Go Go Joseph * Joseph's Coat * One More Angel in Heaven * and more.
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Jerry Springer: the Opera PVG ()
Songs, lyrics and pictures from the hit musical arranged for piano, voice and guitar with a special colour photo section at the front of the book. The musical starring Michael Brandon as Jerry Springer has just transferred to the West End after a sell out season at the National Theatre. WARNING NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.
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Jelly's Last Jam - Vocal Selections ()
12 vocal selections from the rollicking Broadway musical review, including: Creole Boy * Doctor Jazz * Good Ole New York * In My Day * Jelly's Jam (The Jam) * Last Chance Blues * That's How You Jazz * Too Late, Daddy * and more.
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Jane Eyre - Vocal Selections ()
Thirteen songs from the Broadway adaptation of Charlotte Bronté's passionately romantic novel Jane Eyre, which received five Tony Award® nominations in 2001. Titles are: Forgiveness
* Sweet Liberty
* As Good As You
* Secret Soul
* Finer Things
* Sirens
* Painting Her Portrait
* In the Light of the Virgin Morning
* The Gypsy
* The Proposal
* Slip of a Girl
* Farewell, Good Angel
* Brave Enough for Love |
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Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris - Vocal Selections ()
22 vocal selections from the popular review, including: Amsterdam * Brussels (Bruxelles) * Carousel (La Valse a Mille Temps) * I Loved (J'aimais) * If We Only Have Love (Quand on N'a Que L'amour) * Old Folks (Les Vieux) * You're Not Alone (Jef) * and more.
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I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change - Vocal Selections ()
This expanded edition of the hilarious off-Broadway show now also includes "A Stud and a Babe" and "Single Man Drought." Variety calls the production: "Smartly conceived...(with) catchy tunes and witty lyrics." Other vocal selections included are: Always a Bridesmaid * The Baby Song * I Can Live with That * I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change * I Will Be Loved Tonight * Marriage Tango * Shouldn't I Be Less in Love with You? * Tear Jerk.
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I Love My Wife - Piano/Vocal Selections ()
This risque, Tony-winning satire of the sexual revolution opened on Broadway in 1977. Our songbook features the title track and 12 more tunes, plus bios of writers Michael Stewart and Cy Coleman: By Threes * Ev'rybody Today Is Turning On * Hey There, Good Times * Love Revolution * Monica * Scream * Sexually Free * We're Still Friends * more.
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I Can Get It For You Wholesale - a Musical Play ()
I Can Get It for You Wholesale is a musical with music and lyrics by Harold Rome and a book by Jerome Weidman based on his 1937 novel of the same title. It marked the Broadway debut of 19-year-old Barbra Streisand, who was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. The story is set in the New York City garment district in 1937, during the Great Depression, and the songs utilize traditional Jewish harmonies evocative of the setting and the period of the... |
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