Broadway Modern
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Broadway Modern
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
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Designing Modern America
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Author : Christopher Innes
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Designing Modern America written by Christopher Innes and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Design categories.
From the 1920s through the 1950s, two individuals, Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes, did more, by far, to create the image of “America” and make it synonymous with modernity than any of their contemporaries. Urban and Bel Geddes were leading Broadway stage designers and directors who turned their prodigious talents to other projects, becoming mavericks first in industrial design and then in commercial design, fashion, architecture, and more. The two men gave shape to the most quintessential symbols of the modern American lifestyle, including movies, cars, department stores, and nightclubs, along with private homes, kitchens, stoves, fridges, magazines, and numerous household furnishings. Illustrated with more than 130 photographs of their influential designs, this book tells the engrossing story of Urban and Bel Geddes. Christopher Innes shows how these two men with a background in theater lent dramatic flair to everything they designed and how this theatricality gave the distinctive modernity they created such wide appeal. If the American lifestyle has been much imitated across the globe over the past fifty years, says Innes, it is due in large measure to the designs of Urban and Bel Geddes. Together they were responsible for creating what has been called the “Golden Age” of American culture.
Victorians On Broadway
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Author : Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2020-07-20
Victorians On Broadway written by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Broadway productions of musicals such as The King and I, Oliver!, Sweeney Todd, and Jekyll and Hyde became huge theatrical hits. Remarkably, all were based on one-hundred-year-old British novels or memoirs. What could possibly explain their enormous success? Victorians on Broadway is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of live stage musicals from the mid- to late twentieth century adapted from British literature written between 1837 and 1886. Investigating musical dramatizations of works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others, Sharon Aronofsky Weltman reveals what these musicals teach us about the Victorian books from which they derive and considers their enduring popularity and impact on our modern culture. Providing a front row seat to the hits (as well as the flops), Weltman situates these adaptations within the history of musical theater: the Golden Age of Broadway, the concept musicals of the 1970s and 1980s, and the era of pop mega-musicals, revealing Broadway’s debt to melodrama. With an expertise in Victorian literature, Weltman draws on reviews, critical analyses, and interviews with such luminaries as Stephen Sondheim, Polly Pen, Frank Wildhorn, and Rowan Atkinson to understand this popular trend in American theater. Exploring themes of race, religion, gender, and class, Weltman focuses attention on how these theatrical adaptations fit into aesthetic and intellectual movements while demonstrating the complexity of their enduring legacy.
The Best In Broadway
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Release Date : 1987-11
The Best In Broadway written by and has been published by Alfred Music Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-11 with Music categories.
Contains: Lullaby of Broadway * Memory (from Cats) * Moonfall * 'S Wonderful * Tea for Two * Mr. Wonderful and more!
Selling What People Need
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Author : Laura Emily MacDonald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Selling What People Need written by Laura Emily MacDonald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
This project investigates how the American musical reflected and engaged with key economic, social and political events and trends in order to sustain itself as a profitable, commercial form, from the late 1950s through to the late 1980s. Beginning with an examination of West Side Story (1957) as a reaction to a changing post-war American society and an entertainment industry in transition, this project positions the musical as an enduring form of popular culture which found continual success by embedding itself in the conditions of its production. The Civil Rights movement, Vietnam War, feminism and globalization are just some of the issues and events which the Broadway musical engaged with to create emotional moments for audiences to experience. This project explores the complexities of these relationships between the musical and its social and political context, to suggest it was by pursuing and navigating the events and issues dominating the United States in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s that the musical was able to maintain its commerciality, continuing to be manufactured for consumption today. Drawing on analysis of songs, libretti, media coverage and advertising, each chapter in this thesis contextualizes a set of landmark musicals within a particular social or political issue to ask how authors, producers and audiences sustained this commercial form. It will conclude with a discussion of the British invasion of Broadway, in particular of the last major musical of the invasion period, Miss Saigon (1991). With its opening and immediate success, the making and marketing of the Broadway musical had clearly shifted into being a global rather than exclusively American commercial venture.
The Complete Book Of 1940s Broadway Musicals
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Author : Dan Dietz
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-02-02
The Complete Book Of 1940s Broadway Musicals written by Dan Dietz and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-02 with Performing Arts categories.
The debut of Oklahoma! in 1943 ushered in the modern era of Broadway musicals and was followed by a number of successes that have become beloved classics. Shows produced on Broadway during this decade include Annie Get Your Gun, Brigadoon, Carousel, Finian’s Rainbow, Pal Joey, On the Town, and South Pacific. Among the major performers of the decade were Alfred Drake, Gene Kelly, Mary Martin, and Ethel Merman, while other talents who contributed to shows include Irving Berlin, Gower Champion, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Agnes de Mille, Lorenz Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Cole Porter, Jerome Robbins, Richard Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein II. In The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz examines every musical and revue that opened on Broadway during the 1940s. In addition to providing details on every hit and flop, this book includes revivals and one-man and one-woman shows. Each entry contains the following information: Opening and closing dates Plot summary Cast members Number of performances Names of all important personnel, including writers, composers, directors, choreographers, producers, and musical directors Musical numbers and the names of performers who introduced the songs Production data, including information about tryouts Source material Critical commentary Details about London and other foreign productions Besides separate entries for each production, the book offers numerous appendixes, such as a discography, film versions, published scripts, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and non-musical productions that utilized songs, dances, or background music. A treasure trove of information, The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals provides readers with a complete view of each show. This significant resource will be of use to scholars, historians, and casual fans of one of the greatest decades in musical theatre history.
World Theatre In Pictures From Ancient Times To Modern Broadway
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Author : Tom Prideaux
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
World Theatre In Pictures From Ancient Times To Modern Broadway written by Tom Prideaux and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Theater categories.
A compilation of pictures from Life Magazine's theater collection, with commentary and text.
Broadway Theatre
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Author : Andrew Harris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
Broadway Theatre written by Andrew Harris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Performing Arts categories.
'Broadway' has been the stuff of theatrical legends for generations. In this fascinating and affectionate account of a unique theatrical phenomenon, Andrew Harris takes an intriguing look at both the reality and the myth behind the heart and soul of American Drama Broadway Theatre explores: * the aims and achievements of such major figures as Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill and David Mamet * the processes a play goes through from preliminary draft to opening night * the careful balancing between aesthetic ideals and commercial considerations * the place of producers, reviewers, agents and managers and their contribution to the process * the relationship between acting styles and writing syles for Broadway plays
Top Requested Modern Broadway Hits
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Top-Requested Sheet Music
Release Date : 2013
Top Requested Modern Broadway Hits written by and has been published by Top-Requested Sheet Music this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Music categories.
For pianists who love contemporary musical theatre, this collection contains easy-to-play arrangements of standouts from Broadway's hottest new shows and revivals. Great show tunes from the Broadway-oriented NBC TV series SMASH are also included. Showcasing a wide variety of styles, from touching ballads to over-the-top comedy numbers, the songs in this collection are guaranteed to entertain! The melody is played by the right hand in these arrangements, so they sound great either as piano solos or for singing along. Titles: Already Home (Andrew Lloyd Webber's new production of The Wizard of Oz) * Any Way You Want It (Rock of Ages) * Dancing Queen (Mamma Mia!) * Don't Forget Me (SMASH) * Don't Stop Believin' (Rock of Ages) * Falling Slowly (Once) * Fly, Fly Away (Catch Me If You Can) * Goodbye (Catch Me If You Can) * I Believe (The Book of Mormon) * I Have a Dream (Mamma Mia!) * I'm Alive (Next to Normal) * Let Me Be Your Star (SMASH) * Mama Who Bore Me (Spring Awakening) * Nice Work If You Can Get It (Nice Work If You Can Get It) * Red Shoes Blues (Andrew Lloyd Webber's New Production of The Wizard of Oz) * Secondhand White Baby Grand (SMASH) * Someone to Watch Over Me (Nice Work If You Can Get It) * Superboy and the Invisible Girl (Next to Normal) * There's a Fine, Fine Line (Avenue Q) * 21 Guns (American Idiot) * Wake Me Up When September Ends (American Idiot) * When Your Mind's Made Up (Once) * You and Me (But Mostly Me) (The Book of Mormon).
Contemporary American Theatre
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Author : Bruce King
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-19
Contemporary American Theatre written by Bruce King and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-19 with Performing Arts categories.