Fings Ain T Wot They Used T Be
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Fings Ain T Wot They Used T Be The Lionel Bart Story
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Author : David Stafford
language : en
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Release Date : 2011-12-12
Fings Ain T Wot They Used T Be The Lionel Bart Story written by David Stafford and has been published by Omnibus Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-12 with Music categories.
Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music and lyrics for Oliver! He also wrote the famous songs Living Doll (Cliff Richard) and From Russia With Love (Matt Munroe). He was unable to read music. He was a millionaire aged thirty in the Sixties, bankrupt in the Seventies and died in 1999. The authors gained exclusive access to Bart’s personal archives – his unfinished autobiography, his letters and scrapbooks. They detail how he signed away the rights to Oliver! to finance his new musical Twang – based on Robin Hood - which flopped badly in the theatre. Reveal how his heavy drinking led to diabetes and how he died in 1999 aged 69 from liver cancer. They have interviewed his personal secretaries, friends, family, counsellors and many of the performers, musicians and producers who worked with him. Interviewees include Rocky Horror’s Richard O’Brien and actors Dudley Sutton and Nigel Planer.
Fings Ain T Wot They Used T Be
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Author : Frank Norman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Fings Ain T Wot They Used T Be written by Frank Norman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Musicals categories.
Fred Cochran, the hero, is a down-at-heel gangster, trying to make a comeback. Lil Smith is his loyal moll, a tart with a heart of gold, who longs for respectability and keeps a marriage licence ready for her lucky day. Fred's shpieler (gambling den) provides a refuge for the failures of the underworld: Paddy the gambler, Tosher the ponce with his girls Betty and Rosey, and Redhot, a sad little burglar who never manages to get warm. They all look to Fred for a living and when he wins on the horses it seems the gang may be back in business. Fred redecorates his place, all 'contempery' (sic) and at the opening the Horrible Percy Fortesque comes to gamble and a rival leader, Meatface, is beaten in a razor fight. The play ends with a wedding - Lil and Fred are giving up crime to go straight; handing over the shpieler to the constable on the beat who has long wanted to go crooked
Fings Ain T Wot They Used T Be
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Fings Ain T Wot They Used T Be written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Theater programs categories.
7-12 December 1967, venue not stated.
Joan Littlewood S Theatre
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Author : Nadine Holdsworth
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-14
Joan Littlewood S Theatre written by Nadine Holdsworth and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-14 with Drama categories.
This book investigates Joan Littlewood's theatre productions and her community-based projects and activism, drawing upon extensive primary archival material.
Fings Ain T Wot They Used T Be
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Author : David Stafford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Fings Ain T Wot They Used T Be written by David Stafford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Composers categories.
"Lionel Bart, born Lionel Begleter, son of an East End tailor, rose from humble beginnings to dominate British pop and musical theatre in the Fifties and Sixties. At the birth of British rock'n'roll he was a hit song machine for Tommy Steele, Cliff Richard, Marty Wilde and Anthony Newley. He was a pal of the Beatles, squired Judy Garland, briefly managed the Rolling Stones, wrote the first of the James Bond movie songs and gave the British musical a badly needed boost that brought his crowning success and led eventually to his most humiliating failure. His run of hits began with Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be, climaxed with Oliver!, the show that conquered America, and came to a brutal end with Twang!, a spectacular flop in whiuch he'd also, unwisely, invested his own fortune. This, together with a string of personal tragedies, led him first to bankruptcy and alcoholism, then, with a lot of help from his friends, to rehab and a modest Bart bounce-back before his death in 1999."--Book jacket.
A Dictionary Of Catch Phrases
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Author : Eric Partridge
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
A Dictionary Of Catch Phrases written by Eric Partridge and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Foreign Language Study categories.
New cover design - all titles in the Partridge collection now have the same style covers. Group shot of titles will be made available, together with an order form The first edition had life sales of over 19000 copies (hardback), the second edition sold out after selling 6000 copies (hardback) and the paperback has sold nearly 5000 copies in 2 editions
Alexander Goehr
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Author : Werner Grünzweig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-01
Alexander Goehr written by Werner Grünzweig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01 with categories.
Living Expression
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Author : John Hodgson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Living Expression written by John Hodgson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An Illustrated History Of British Theatre And Performance
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Author : Robert Leach
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-12-10
An Illustrated History Of British Theatre And Performance written by Robert Leach and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-10 with Performing Arts categories.
An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach’s masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people and ethnic minorities, as well as the theatres of the English regions, and of Wales and Scotland. Highly illustrated chapters trace the development of theatre through major plays from each period; evaluations of playwrights; contemporary dramatic theory; acting and acting companies; dance and music; the theatre buildings themselves; and the audience, while also highlighting enduring features of British theatre, from comic gags to the use of props. Continuing on from the Enlightenment, Volume Two of An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance leads its readers from the drama and performances of the Industrial Revolution to the latest digital theatre. Moving from Punch and Judy, castle spectres and penny showmen to Modernism and Postdramatic Theatre, Leach’s second volume triumphantly completes a collated account of all the British Theatre History knowledge anyone could ever need.
The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6
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Author : Clare Finburgh Delijani
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-10-07
The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6 written by Clare Finburgh Delijani and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-07 with Performing Arts categories.
This volume examines the work of Joan Littlewood, Giorgio Strehler and Roger Planchon, demonstrating how these 3 directors take up key aesthetic prompts from earlier innovators – Stanislavski, the modernist avant-garde and not least Brecht – and thereby prepare the ground for contemporary, politically-engaged 'directors' theatre'. It argues that, in creating their major productions in the prosperous 'glorious decades' that followed the devastation of the Second World War, they represent a first expressly 'European' generation of theatre directors. Revisiting works from the classical dramatic canon by drawing on popular theatre traditions, and reaching out to spectators beyond the educated middle-class elite, they put theatre in the service of uniting a traumatized continent. This study posits that for Littlewood, Strehler and Planchon, theatre has the capacity to create communities.