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How Musicals Work
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Author : Julian Woolford
language : en
Publisher: Theatrebook
Release Date : 2012
How Musicals Work written by Julian Woolford and has been published by Theatrebook this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Musicals categories.
A practical guide to, and history of, musical theatre. What makes the great shows work, and why some never did.
How Musicals Work Beginnings Forms Of Musical Source Material Foundations Structure Song Spotting Theatrical Language Characters And Scenes Songs Lyrical Matters Musical Matters Rewrites And Workshops In Production The Lifetime After The Night Before Finally
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Author : Julian Woolford
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Release Date : 2012
How Musicals Work Beginnings Forms Of Musical Source Material Foundations Structure Song Spotting Theatrical Language Characters And Scenes Songs Lyrical Matters Musical Matters Rewrites And Workshops In Production The Lifetime After The Night Before Finally written by Julian Woolford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Explores the musical-theatre canon to explain why and how some musicals work, why some don't, and what you should (and shouldn't) do if you're thinking of writing your own. Outlines every step of the creative process, from hatching the initial idea and developing a structure for the work, through creating the book, the music and the lyrics, and on to the crucial process of rewriting; then guides the reader through getting a musical produced, with advice about generating future productions and sustaining a career
So You Want To Be In Musicals
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Author : Ruthie Henshall
language : en
Publisher: So You Want To Be...? career guides
Release Date : 2012
So You Want To Be In Musicals written by Ruthie Henshall and has been published by So You Want To Be...? career guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Acting categories.
A handy guide from a musical theatre star.
The Secret Life Of The American Musical
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Author : Jack Viertel
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2016-03-01
The Secret Life Of The American Musical written by Jack Viertel and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-01 with Performing Arts categories.
A New York Times Bestseller For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in a darkened theater, grows into something more serious for high school actors, and reaches its passionate zenith when it comes time for love, marriage, and children, who will start the cycle all over again. Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In The Secret Life of the American Musical, Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love all over again by showing 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. Structured like a musical, The Secret Life of the American Musical begins with an overture and concludes with a curtain call, with stops in between for “I Want” songs, “conditional” love songs, production numbers, star turns, and finales. The ultimate insider, Viertel has spent three decades on Broadway, working on dozens of shows old and new as a conceiver, producer, dramaturg, and general creative force; he has his own unique way of looking at the process and at the people who collaborate to make musicals a reality. He 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 as though you’ve been there in the rehearsal room, in the front row of the theater, and in the working offices of theater owners and producers as they pursue their own love affair with that rare and elusive beast—the Broadway hit.
The Musical Theatre Writer S Survival Guide
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Author : David Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Release Date : 2005
The Musical Theatre Writer S Survival Guide written by David Spencer and has been published by Heinemann Drama this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Education categories.
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.
The Complete Book Of 1900s Broadway Musicals
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Author : Dan Dietz
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-07-15
The Complete Book Of 1900s 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 2022-07-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Broadway musicals of the 1900s saw the emergence of George M. Cohan and his quintessentially American musical comedies which featured contemporary American stories, ragtime-flavored songs, and a tongue-in-cheek approach to musical comedy conventions. But when the Austrian import The Merry Widow opened in 1907, waltz-driven operettas became all the rage. In The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz surveys every single book musical that opened during the decade. Each musical has its own entry which features the following: Plot summary Cast members Creative team Song lists Opening and closing dates Number of performances Critical commentary Film adaptations, recordings, and published scripts, when applicable Numerous appendixes include a chronology of book musicals by season; chronology of revues; chronology of revivals of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas; a selected discography; filmography; published scripts; Black musicals; long and short runs; and musicals based on comic strips. The most comprehensive reference work on Broadway musicals of the 1900s, this book is an invaluable and significant resource for all scholars, historians, and fans of Broadway musicals.
Writing Musical Theater
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Author : A. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Writing Musical Theater written by A. Cohen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Musical Theatre Script And Song Analysis Through The Ages
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Author : James Olm
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-12-16
Musical Theatre Script And Song Analysis Through The Ages written by James Olm and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-16 with Performing Arts categories.
How many times have you experienced a musical that was fabulous or just didn't work at all, but you had no idea how to communicate why? How do you differentiate between a flaw in the performance portrayal of a character to a structural flaw in the musical itself? How do you analyse musical theatre songs that are so subjective in its very nature? Is there even a common link of analysis between musicals from the Golden Age and musicals from the present day? Musical Theatre Script and Song Analysis Through the Ages answers these questions and gives students of musical theatre the tools they need to understand and articulate how musicals work. At the heart of any musical lie its music and lyrics, yet it is this area that is least understood. This book offers a brand new terminology of analysis that gets to the core of what holds a musical together: the libretto, music, and lyrics. Through identifying methods of lyric and musical analysis and applying these to ten different musicals throughout history, students are able to ask questions such as: why does this song sound this way?; what is this lyric doing to identify character purpose?; and how is a character communicating this feeling to an audience? From classroom analysis through to practical application, this text guides readers through a structured approach to understanding, disseminating and more importantly, articulating how a musical works. A perfect tool for students of musical theatre, its practical benefits of understanding the form, and realizing that it can be applied to any age musical, will benefit any theatre person in helping articulate all of those abstract feelings that are inherent in this art form. It offers a roadmap to the musical's innermost DNA.
Words With Music
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Author : Lehman Engel
language : en
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date : 2006
Words With Music written by Lehman Engel and has been published by Hal Leonard Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Music categories.
The dean of Broadway musical directors examines the dynamics of how the book, music and lyrics work together to create such hits as My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, Hair, Pal Joey, West Side Story, Company, South Pacific, Threepenny Opera and Porgy and Bess. Howard Kissel, chief theater critic for the New York Daily News, extends the reach of Engel's subjects by bringing them up to date with commentary on such shows as A Chorus Line, Nine, Sunday in the Park with George, Rent, Working and Falsettos. Kissel offers a thoughtful history on how musical theater has evolved in the three decades since Engel wrote Words with Music (1972) and how Engel's classic work remains vital and illuminating today.
Unfinished Show Business
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language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
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Unfinished Show Business written by and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Musicals categories.
In this fresh approach to musical theatre history, Bruce Kirle challenges the commonly understood trajectory of the genre. Drawing on the notion that the world of the author stays fixed while the world of the audience is ever-changing, Kirle suggests that musicals are open, fluid products of the particular cultural moment in which they are performed. Incomplete as printed texts and scores, musicals take on unpredictable lives of their own in the complex transformation from page to stage. Using lenses borrowed from performance studies, cultural studies, queer studies, and ethnoracial studies, Unfinished Show Business: Broadway Musicals as Works-in-Process argues that musicals are as interesting for the provocative issues they raise about shifting attitudes toward American identity as for their show-stopping song-and-dance numbers and conveniently happy endings. Kirle illustrates how performers such as Ed Wynn, Fanny Brice, and the Marx Brothers used their charismatic personalities and quirkiness to provide insights into the struggle of marginalized ethnoracial groups to assimilate. Using examples from favorites including Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, A Chorus Line, and Les Misérables, Kirle demonstrates Broadway’s ability to bridge seemingly insoluble tensions in society, from economic and political anxiety surrounding World War II to generational conflict and youth counterculture to corporate America and the “me” generation. Enlivened by a gallery of some of Broadway’s most memorable moments—and some amusing, obscure ones as well—this study will appeal to students, scholars, and lifelong musical theatre enthusiasts.