The Book Of Musicals From Show Boat To A Chorus Line
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The Best Musicals
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Author : Arthur Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Release Date : 1979
The Best Musicals written by Arthur Jackson and has been published by Crown Publishing Group (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Musicals categories.
From the Dust Jacket: There is a certain magic about the Musical-a certain thrill and excitement that conjures up the memorable evergreen songs, the stars, the spectacular productions. That magic is now re-created in pictures and text in the most comprehensive book ever to be written on the subject-from the earliest Broadway musicals of the nineteenth century up to today's smash hits. The Best Musicals is packed with information covering the musical's fascinating history, going into hundreds of shows and performers and placing them in historical context, and it is a joy to look at. The 174 historic and original illustrations (16 pages are in full color) cover all periods and all types of musicals to date. Although The Best Musicals concentrates on the "book" musical, a special section is devoted to the Hollywood adaptations of the great stage musicals and the best of the original musical films by the best of the original musical films by such master as Busby Berkeley, Stanley Donen, and Gene Kelley. A special feature of the book is the large reference section: Who's Who, of 100 principal composers, lyricists, and authors of stage and screen, with checklists of their work in both media; Musical calendar listing opening dates and theaters of the principal musicals from 1866 to date; Plot summaries of principal musicals; Index of over 1000 favorite evergreen songs and the shows of origin; Discography, filmography, complete plot summaries, bibliography, and comprehensive index. The Best Musicals is not only the definitive reference book, it is also compulsive reading for anyone remotely interested in that most durable of all forms of entertainment-the musical.
The Book Of Musicals From Show Boat To A Chorus Line
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Author : Arthur Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Book Of Musicals From Show Boat To A Chorus Line written by Arthur Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Musicals categories.
The Book Of Musicals From Show Boat To A Chorus Line
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
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The Best Musicals From Show Boat To A Chorus Line
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Author : Arthur Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Best Musicals From Show Boat To A Chorus Line written by Arthur Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Musicals categories.
The Book Of Musicals
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Author : Arthur Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The Book Of Musicals written by Arthur Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Musical revues, comedies, etc categories.
A Chorus Line
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Author : Marvin Hamlisch
language : en
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
Release Date : 1995
A Chorus Line written by Marvin Hamlisch and has been published by Applause Theatre & Cinema this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Drama categories.
For the first time in musical theater history, the intensity of the drama, the story, and its characters overshadowed the music of a Broadway musical. For the first time ever in print, the experience of this landmark production is available to give the reader a full sensual rendition of the play in performance. More than 100 production photos with costumes and set designs are included.
Enchanted Evenings
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Author : Geoffrey Block
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-30
Enchanted Evenings written by Geoffrey Block and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-30 with Performing Arts categories.
This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals. Readers will find such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Phantom of the Opera. Geoffrey Block provides a documentary history of each of the musicals, showing how each work took shape and revealing, at the same time, how the American musical evolved from the 1920s to today, both on stage and on screen. The book's particular focus is on the music, offering a wealth of detail about how librettist, lyricist, composer, and director work together to shape the piece. Block also includes trenchant social commentary and lively backstage anecdotes. Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Kurt Weill, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and other luminaries emerge as hardworking craftsmen under enormous pressure to sell tickets without compromising their dramatic vision. The second edition includes a greatly expanded chapter on Sondheim, a new chapter on Lloyd Webber, and two new chapters on the film adaptations of the main musicals featured in the text (including such hard to find films as the original 1936 version of Anything Goes and the 1959 film adaptation of Porgy and Bess). Packed with information, including a complete discography and plot synopses and song-by-song scenic outlines for each of the fourteen shows, Enchanted Evenings is an essential reference as well as a riveting history. "A solid and fascinating work that should become a model of how to investigate and report on the evolution of a musical. Block's research is persuasive and his writing vivid. . . Indispensable for anyone who cares to know more about Broadway musicals than Playbill can provide." --Steven Bach, The Los Angeles Times Book Review
Fifty Key Stage Musicals
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Author : Robert W. Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-03-30
Fifty Key Stage Musicals written by Robert W. Schneider and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-30 with Performing Arts categories.
This volume in the Routledge Key Guides series provides a round-up of the fifty musicals whose creations were seminal in altering the landscape of musical theater discourse in the English-speaking world. Each entry summarises a show, including a full synopsis, discussion of the creators' process, show's critical reception, and its impact on the landscape of musical theater. This is the ideal primer for students of musical theater – its performance, history, and place in the modern theatrical world – as well as fans and lovers of musicals.
Unfinished Show Business
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date :
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.
Show Boat
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Author : Todd Decker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-05
Show Boat written by Todd Decker and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-05 with Music categories.
Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and including much new information from early draft scripts and scores, this book reveals how Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern created Show Boat in the crucible of the Jazz Age to fit the talents of the show's original 1927 cast. After showing how major figures such as Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan defined the content of the show, the book goes on to detail how Show Boat was altered by later directors, choreographers, and performers up to the end of the twentieth century. All the major New York productions are covered, as are five important London productions and four Hollywood versions. Again and again, the story of Show Boat circles back to the power of performers to remake the show, winning appreciative audiences for over seven decades. Unlike most Broadway musicals, Show Boat put black and white performers side by side. This book is the first to take Show Boat's innovative interracial cast as the defining feature of the show. From its beginnings, Show Boat juxtaposed the talents of black and white performers and mixed the conventions of white-cast operetta and the black-cast musical. Bringing black and white onto the same stage -- revealing the mixed-race roots of musical comedy -- Show Boat stimulated creative artists and performers to renegotiate the color line as expressed in the American musical. This tremendous longevity allowed Show Boat to enter a creative dialogue with the full span of Broadway history. Show Boat's voyage through the twentieth century offers a vantage point on more than just the Broadway musical. It tells a complex tale of interracial encounter performed in popular music and dance on the national stage during a century of profound transformations.