Fings Ain T Wot They Used T Be The Lionel Bart Story
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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 : 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.
Fings Ain T Wot They Used T Be
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Author : Lionel Bart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Fings Ain T Wot They Used T Be written by Lionel Bart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Musicals categories.
Oliver
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Author : Marc Napolitano
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014
Oliver written by Marc Napolitano and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Music categories.
This book tells the full story of the genesis and legacy of Lionel Bart's most famous musical Oliver!, the beloved English musical from the golden age of Broadway.
Musicals In Film
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Author : Thomas S. Hischak
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2016-11-07
Musicals In Film written by Thomas S. Hischak and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-07 with Social Science categories.
This wide-ranging guide introduces (or reintroduces) readers to movie musicals past and present, enabling them to experience the development of this uniquely American art form—and discover films they'll love. This comprehensive guide covers movie musicals from their introduction with the 1927 film The Jazz Singer through 2015 releases. In all, it describes 125 movies, opening up the world of this popular form of entertainment to preteens, teens, and adults alike. An introduction explains the advent of movie musicals; then, in keeping with the book's historical approach, films are presented by decade and year with overviews of advances during particular periods. In this way, the reader not only learns about individual films but can see the big picture of how movie musicals developed and changed over time. For each film covered, the guide offers basic facts—studio, director, songwriters, actors, etc.—as well as a brief plot synopsis. Each entry also offers an explanation of why the movie is noteworthy, how popular it was or wasn't, and the influence the film might have had on later musicals. Sidebars offering brief biographies of important artists appear throughout the book.
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.
The Mikado To Matilda
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Author : Thomas S. Hischak
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2020-06-15
The Mikado To Matilda written by Thomas S. Hischak and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-15 with Performing Arts categories.
In The Mikado to Matilda: British Musicals on the New York Stage, Thomas Hischak provides an overview of British musicals that made their way to Broadway, covering their entire history up to the present day. This is the first book to look at the British musical theatre with reference to those London musicals that were also produced in New York City. The book covers 110 British musicals, ranging from 1750 to the present day, including the popular Gilbert and Sullivan comic operettas during the Victorian era, the Andrew Lloyd Webber mega-musicals of the late twentieth century, and today's biggest hits such as Matilda. Each London musical is discussed first as a success in England and then how it fared in America. The plots, songs, songwriters, performers, and producers for both the West End and the Broadway (or Off Broadway) production are identified and described. The discussion is sometimes critical, evaluating the musicals and why they were or were not a success in New York.
Reviewing The Situation
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Author : John Snelson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-05
Reviewing The Situation written by John Snelson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-05 with Performing Arts categories.
The British musical in its formative years has appeared in strikingly different guises: from the lasting hits of Oliver!, and Me and My Girl, to the successes of The Dancing Years, Bless the Bride and Expresso Bongo. This authoritative study traces what made these shows successes in the West End and how their qualities define a uniquely British interpretation of the genre. Cultural, sociological and political influences entwine with close reading of the dramatic and musical elements of this repertory to reveal a fascinating web of connections and contrasts between the times, the shows and the people who made them. Through detailed case studies, such as of The Boy Friend and Bitter Sweet, the rich individuality of each West End work is spotlighted, posing vital questions and intriguing answers as to what a British musical can be. Interdisciplinary in nature, this study brings together all the core materials to discover this period in the story of the British musical. Reviewing the Situation is insightful and lively, an invaluable resource for students and scholars of musical theatre and all those theatregoers drawn to the power of these classic British shows.
A Fabulous Creation
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Author : David Hepworth
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-03-21
A Fabulous Creation written by David Hepworth and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
_________ ‘Hepworth’s knowledge and understanding of rock history is prodigious ... [a] hugely entertaining study of the LP’s golden age’ The Times _________ The era of the LP began in 1967, with ‘Sgt Pepper’; The Beatles didn’t just collect together a bunch of songs, they Made An Album. Henceforth, everybody else wanted to Make An Album. The end came only fifteen years later, coinciding with the release of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’. By then the Walkman had taken music out of the home and into the streets and the record business had begun trying to reverse-engineer the creative process in order to make big money. Nobody would play music or listen to it in quite the same way ever again. It was a short but transformative time. Musicians became ‘artists’ and we, the people, patrons of the arts. The LP itself had been a mark of sophistication, a measure of wealth, an instrument of education, a poster saying things you dare not say yourself, a means of attracting the opposite sex, and, for many, the single most desirable object in their lives. This is the story of that time; it takes us from recording studios where musicians were doing things that had never been done before to the sparsely furnished apartments where their efforts would be received like visitations from a higher power. This is the story of how LPs saved our lives.
If You Should Fail
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Author : Joe Moran
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2020-09-24
If You Should Fail written by Joe Moran and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with Philosophy categories.
'There is an honesty and a clarity in Joe Moran's book If You Should Fail that normalises and softens the usual blows of life that enables us to accept and live with them rather than be diminished/wounded by them' Julia Samuel, author of Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass 'Full of wise insight and honesty. Moran manages to be funny, erudite and kindly: a rare - and compelling - combination. This is the essential antidote to a culture obsessed with success. Read it' Madeleine Bunting Failure is the small print in life's terms and conditions. Covering everything from examination dreams to fourth-placed Olympians, If You Should Fail is about how modern life, in a world of self-advertised success, makes us feel like failures, frauds and imposters. Widely acclaimed observer of daily life Joe Moran is here not to tell you that everything will be all right in the end, but to reassure you that failure is an occupational hazard of being human. As Moran shows, even the supremely gifted Leonardo da Vinci could be seen as a failure. Most artists, writers, sports stars and business people face failure. We all will, and can learn how to live with it. To echo Virginia Woolf, beauty "is only got by the failure to get it . . . by facing what must be humiliation - the things one can't do." Combining philosophy, psychology, history and literature, Moran's ultimately upbeat reflections on being human, and his critique of how we live now, offers comfort, hope - and solace. For we need to see that not every failure can be made into a success - and that's OK.