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The World of Theatre: Tradition and Innovation
(11/29/2005) The World of Theatre is the first introduction to theatre book to truly focus on diversity and globalism, integrating coverage of multicultural, international and experimental theatre throughout. Theatre is presented as a global and multicultural form that reflects both traditional and evolving world views. While the American commercial theatre and European forms are central to the text, alternative theatres are placed side by side for comparison and contrast in each chapter, thus avoiding the s... |
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Theatre and Travel: Tours of the South
(3/2/2005) Presents rare information on traveling circus, minstrel, opera, and Toby shows. This collection of essays explores an understudied but pervasive aspect of American theatre: theatre on the road, from minstrel shows and Toby shows to contemporary African American theatre, 19th-century circus rail travel, and small-town opera houses. The challenges in gathering and compiling data on these ephemeral productions, from such far-flung sources as railroad schedules and weather reports, minutes f... |
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New York Then/New York Now
(2/21/2005) New York Then/New York Now—a collection of essays, memoirs, interviews, commentary, and plays—contemplates New York City’s history and future as a center for groundbreaking theatrical forms and ideas. Featuring the work of theater artists, producers, and critics, this special issue of Theater is concerned with the ideas and practicalities of making theater in and for New York within specific historical, political, and economic contexts. The first section, “New York Then,” reflects on ... |
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The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan
(1/1/2005) Lovers of Gilbert and Sullivan will be in heaven with the publication of these two books, which nicely complement each other. Stedman (English, Roosevelt Univ., Chicago) offers an outstanding study of this playwright and his often overlooked works, with much of its value deriving from its study of Gilbert without Sullivan. The author is a recognized expert on Gilbert as well as the Victorian time period, and she shows him to be a complex and interesting man who often found himself at odds with ... |
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The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet
(1/1/2004) This collection of specially written essays offers both student and theatregoer a guide to one of the most celebrated American dramatists working today. Readers will find the general and accessible descriptions and analyses provide the perfect introduction to Mamet's work. The volume covers the full range of Mamet's writing, including now classic plays such as American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross, and his more recent work, Boston Marriage, among others, as well as his films, such as The Ver... |
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Golda's Balcony: A Play
(11/21/2003) The sold out off-Broadway smash has moved to Broadway! The rise of Golda Meir from impoverished Russian schoolgirl to Prime Minister of Israel is one of the most amazing stories of the 20th century. Now her life has been transformed into a one-woman play of overwhelming power and triumph by William Gibson, author of The Miracle Worker. Golda's Balcony earned actress Tovah Feldshuh a 2003 Drama Desk award."Enlightening ... Now, hearing from someone who was there at the birth of the country, who ... |
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The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama
(6/25/2003) Known through three editions as the boldest and most distinguished introduction to drama, William Worthen's pace-setting text continues to provide exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts. |
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The Lyrics of Noel Coward
(1/1/2002) Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Don't Put your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs Worthington and over 250 more lyrics from Coward's musical masterpieces. Noel Coward is one of the greatest lyricists of the twentieth century. Songs such as A Room with a View, The Stately Homes of England, Mad Dogs and Englishmen and Mrs Worthington are known, sung and loved the world over. This edition gathers together over 250 of Coward's lyrics, arranged in chronological order and grouped by show. In addition, these masterp... |
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Theatre World 1994-1995, Vol. 51
(1/1/2000) Theatre World, the statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway and off-Broadway season, touring companies, and professional regional companies throughout the United States, has become a classic in its field. The book is complete with cast listings, replacement producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles, and much, much more. There are special sections with biographical data, obituary information, listings of annual Shakespeare festivals and major drama a... |
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Theatre World 1993-1994, Vol. 50
(1/1/2000) Theatre World, the statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway and off-Broadway season, touring companies, and professional regional companies throughout the United States, has become a classic in its field. The book is complete with cast listings, replacement producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles, and much, much more. There are special sections with biographical data, obituary information, listings of annual Shakespeare festivals and major drama a... |
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The Social Significance of Modern Drama
(1/1/2000) Out of print virtually since its completion in 1914, Emma Goldman's pioneer work Social Significance in Modern Drama bridges modern drama and political philosophy, pointing out the road that remains to be travelled toward a theatre of social empowerment. Activist, feminist, philosopher and anarchist, Emma Goldman was a passionate thinker about all things modern when the 20th century was still raw and new. The emergence of her treatise on the theatre after years of obscurity is certain to arouse ... |
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Polaroid Stories
(1/1/1999) Naomi Iizuka’s 1997 play, Polaroid Stories, consciously uses stories, characters and themes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to tell the stories of street kids living on the edge in a desolate, urban landscape. Because these characters are named after Orpheus and Eurydice, and Echo and Narcissus, or based on stories of Dionysus, and Ariadne and Theseus, and because scenes are entitled “The Story of Semele” or “Theseus in the Labyrinth,” Iizuka creates a world that has two dimensions: the g... |
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The Story of Starlight Theatre
(3/1/1992) Starlight Theatre is a magic place where an evening of musical theatre under the stars in Kansas City's Swope Park speaks so strongly of emotion that the audience is transformed by the presence of the creative experience. This book is filled with historical photos and provides a "behind the scenes" look at the real workings of the second largest outdoor theatre in the United States. A must for theatre goers everywhere. Unlike many other art forms, live outdoor theatre is a participatory expe... |
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Beauty and the Beast
(1999) Features piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of 21 songs by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice from this Disney Broadway smash: Be Our Guest • Beauty and the Beast • Belle • Gaston • Home • How Long Must This Go On? • Human Again • If I Can't Love Her • Maison des Lunes • Me • The Mob Song • No Matter What • Something There • Transformation/Beauty and the Beast (Reprise). |
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The Great Tradition and Its Legacy: The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe
(2004) Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, or Krakow. This volume not only offers an excellent overview of the theatrical history of the region, it is also an innovative, cross-disciplinary attempt to analyse the inner workings an... |
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The Great Theatres of London
(2004) With the recent influx of A-list stars like Nicole Kidman, Kevin Spacey, and Matt Damon vying to perform on the London stage, never has the West End enjoyed such a high profile. This updated edition of The Great Theaters of London—with brand new sections on the Almeida, the Donmar Warehouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Young Vic, and more—is a timely celebration of the cultural history behind each of the great London theaters. Handsomely illustrated, and with A–Z entries, this is the perfec... |
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Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002: A Relevant and Irreverent Record
(2003) Called the "theater equivalent of longtime New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael" by Matinee Magazine, critic and producer Steven Suskin chronicles the 2001-2002 theater season in his latest installment in the Broadway Yearbook series. Commenting with wit and erudition on each show that opened on Broadway between May 2001 and May 2002, Suskin's vivid descriptions recall Tony winners like Thoroughly Modern Millie and Urinetown and commercial smashes like Mamma Mia! and The Graduate. A great read fo... |
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High Society (Vocal Selections)
(1999) This hit Broadway musical features great Cole Porter songs such as: I Love Paris * I Love You, Samantha * It's All Right with Me * Let's Misbehave * Little One * Ridin' High * True Love * Well, Did You Evah? * Who Wants to Be a Millionaire * You're Sensational. The folio includes archive photographs from the original source movie The Philadelphia Story starring Katherine Hepburn, as well as the remake movie High Society starring Grace Kelly. |
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Miss Saigon
(1992) 11 vocal selections from the Broadway spectacular, including: The American Dream • The Heat Is on in Saigon • I'd Give My Life for You • The Last Night of the World • The Movie in My Mind • Now That I've Seen Her • Sun and Moon • Why God Why? • and more. |
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Peter Pan (Vocal Selections)
(1982) 8 vocal selections from the 1954 Broadway version of the beloved story starring Mary Martin. Includes: Captain Hook's Waltz * Distant Melody * I Won't Grow Up * I'm Flying * I've Gotta Crow * Never Never Land * Tender Shepherd (Count Your Sheep) * Wendy. |
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Women's Gidayu and the Japanese Theatre Tradition
(1997) Women's gidayu is a traditional form of Japanese musical narrative. During its 350 year history it has had to cope with the problems imposed by a theatrical culture dominated by men, but has survived and is now receiving greater recognition than ever before. This is the first book in English on women's gidayu and introduces the performers, their musical narratives and the politics of their survival within Japanese performing culture. It offers a case study of the continuation of a music within t... |
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You Can't Do That on Broadway!: A Raisin in the Sun and Other Theatrical Improbabilities
(2004) The producer of such legendary Broadway shows as A Raisin in the Sun and The Owl and the Pussycat, Rose here checks in autobiographically to show today's producers how much work remains to be done in integrating the American theater. His affectionately garrulous account of his adventures contains many pointed anecdotes about faithless (and sometimes criminal) investors, duplicitous producers, mentally disturbed directors and many other stage and screen fauna who make a producer's life a difficu... |
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Present at the Creation, Leaping in the Dark, and Going Against the Grain
(2005) "The best way I know to resuscitate the theatre is to produce dangerous new works." - Stuart Ostrow. Producer Stuart Ostrow's manifesto of how intelligent life might be restored to the theatre is also a unique personal memoir of the producer-creator relationship and an evaluation of the essentials that can make a show fly, or remain earthbound. As a solo producer, Ostrow's many productions include M. Butterfly, which won the Tony Award for Best Play; Pippin; and 1776, which received both the New... |
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You've Got to Have a Dream: The Message of the Musical
(2005) Arguing that the musical is the "most ubiquitous and dominant cultural icon of our day," Ian Bradley unpacks the theological significance of the musical. Bradley believes that musicals provide for many people "an experience which genuinely can be described as religious as well as entertaining." In addition, he offers his thoughts on what the popularity of the musical might mean for the future of the church. |
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If Love Were All
(1999) Playbill program booklet for 1999 performance at Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York City. An Entertainment Devised by Sheridan Morley. Directed and Adapted by Leigh Lawson. With words and music of Noel Coward. Starring Twiggy and Harry Groener. Scenic and Costume Design: Tony Walton. Musical Direction and Arrangements: Tom Fay. Choreographer: Niki Harris. |
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The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen: The Last Twenty-Five Years of the Broadway Musical
(2004) The true Broadway musical from the days of Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Merman, Preston, Channing, Fosse, and Robbins was finally dead. Unfortunately, the burial has not yet taken place. In The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen, Ethan Mordden takes the reader to the Broadway musical's wake and is unsparing in his acerbic and witty look at the condition of the corpse. |
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A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, or Involving African Americans
(1993) This comprehensive reference book provides succinct information on almost thirteen hundred musical stage works written and produced from the 1870s to the 1990s involving contributions by black librettists, lyricists, composers, musicians, producers, or performers or containing thematic materials relevant to the black experience. Organized alphabetically, they include tent and outdoor shows, vaudeville, operas and operettas, comedies, farces, spectacles, revues, cabaret and nightclub shows, chil... |
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The New Singing Theatre: A Charter for the Music Theatre Movement
(1991) At last, from an author uniquely qualified and ideally equipped to discuss all the elements (words, movement, music, light, use of space, narrative, vocal technique) that make up the "New Singing Theatre,", here is a book that lucidly recounts both the evolution and the content of this new and still-forming art. The book attempts a first definition that brings under the heading "New Singing Theatre" all the disparate works loosely known as musical theatre, everything from Broadway musicals to co... |
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Annie Get Your Gun (Vocal Selections)
(1990) Twelve songs from this Irving Berlin favorite, which won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival. Includes: Anything You Can Do * Doin' What Comes Natur'lly * The Girl That I Marry * I Got Lost in His Arms * I Got the Sun in the Morning * I'll Share It All with You * Moonshine Lullaby * My Defenses Are Down * An Old Fashioned Wedding * There's No Business Like Show Business * They Say It's Wonderful * You Can't Get a Man with a Gun. |
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Three Sisters
(1934) A Musical Play in Three Acts Programme (Theatre Royale Drury Lane June 4, 1934) Including, Eliot Makeham, Charlotte Greenwood, Adele Dixon, Victoria Hopper, Dick Francis, Albert Burdon, Esmond Knight, Stanley Holloway, Leonard Thorn, Anthony Hankey, Richard Dolman, Lucie Evely, Clare Lindsay, Bruce Seton, Eileen Clifton |
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Book of World-Famous Libretti: The Musical Theatre from 1598 to Today
(1984) In this handsome and invaluable book, James Fuld, author of The Book of World-Famous Music, examines the libretti of 167 works of musical theater. For each opera, operetta, or musical comedy libretto, he supplies a facsimile of the title page (see opposite) and, facing, all the relevant facts that can be gleaned from a close study of the original publication. In addition to a description of the physical properties of each libretto, you will find, for example, the date and place of the first perf... |
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Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs
(1981) 361 portraits, from 1860s to 1950 of over 400 stars. Informative captions. An illustrious collection, long overdue. |
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High Spirits: Vocal Selections
(2000) This collection features selections from the Hugh Martin/Timothy Gray musical, including material not in previous editions! Contains 7 songs in piano/vocal format: Forever and a Day ¥ Home Sweet Heaven ¥ I Know Your Heart ¥ If I Gave You ¥ Something Tells Me ¥ Was She Prettier Than I? ¥ YouÕd Better Love Me. |
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The Stage and the School
(2005) The Stage and the School provides students and teachers with the tools needed to build key theater arts skills. Students receive instruction in classic training exercises, production techniques, and theater conventions. Skills are developed through lessons that help students draw on their personal experiences and build historical and cultural background knowledge, hands-on exercises that provide students with authentic practical experience in casting, directing, and presenting plays, frequent a... |
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Musical Theatre Choreography: Practical Method for Preparing and Staging Dance
(1990) A guide for dancers, choreographers and directors, this book examines all phases of the choreographic process, such as structuring the dance, creating floor plans, staging, director, costumes and styles. Shows by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein and Gilbert and Sullivan are featured. |
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Musical Comedy in America
(1987) Musical Comedy in America: From The Black Crook to South Pacific, From The King & I to Sweeney Todd |
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The American Musical. A Literary Study within the Context of American Drama and American Theater
(2003) Although almost neglected in research and studies on American Literature, the American Musical is certainly the most interesting and the most popular genre of American theater and drama. It has been influenced by the necessities of a self-funding commercial theater system of a democratic country. The fact that it has developed in a country of democracy means that it should be a genre for everyone: the intellectual and the common man. Broadway has provided all these. In his study, Marc Bauch ana... |
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Choreographing the Stage Musical
(1990) 'Choreographing the Stage Musical' combines the knowledge, experience and talent of two very special authors: Margot Sutherland (six years the Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Dance at the Nonington College of Higher Education who lectured on both the Performing Arts and Human Movement Studies degrees and who was co-director of the Stage Musical Course); and Kenneth Pickering, a director of numerous plays, musicals and operas and who has written the book and lyrics for 3 successful stage mu... |
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Children of Eden: Vocal Selections
(1999) Musical from the multi Grammy and Oscar winning composer/lyricist of Godspell, Pippin, The Prince of Egypt, The Magic Show, The Baker's Wife, and more. Book includes a biography. Titles are: Ain't It Good * Children of Eden * Close to Home * The Hardest Part of Love * In the Beginning * In Pursuit of Excellence * In Whatever Time We Have * Lost in the Wilderness * Spark of Creation * Stranger to the Rain * Wastland * A World Without You. |
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But Darling, I'm Your Auntie Mame!: The Amazing History of the World's Favorite Madcap Aunt
(2004) When the novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis was first published in 1955, it became an instant hit and national bestseller. More than forty years later, it was brought back in print in a trade paperback edition and has, again, proven to be a commercial success. ABC is currently planning to air a two-hour special Auntie Mame movie starring Cher, and "Mame" is headed back to Broadway for the 2004 season. Now, industry insider Richard Tyler Jordan - who works as a senior publicist for Disney - prov... |
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A Day at the New Amsterdam Theatre
(2004) A photographic treasure of a day in the life of Broadway's most storied theatre Life in a Broadway theatre is a seven-day-a-week, 24-hour-a-day operation. In fact, there is always something going on at the famed New Amsterdam Theatre, home to the record-breaking Disney's The Lion King. Gino Domenico, an Associated Press photographer, has captured the wonderful essence and activity of this historic theatre. Never-before-photographed areas of the theatre are featured, and readers will see all the ... |
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Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical
(2004) From 1925 to 1951--three chaotic decades of depression, war, and social upheaval--Jewish writers brought to the musical stage a powerfully appealing vision of America fashioned through song and dance. It was an optimistic, meritocratic, selectively inclusive America in which Jews could at once lose and find themselves--assimilation enacted onstage and off, as Andrea Most shows. This book examines two interwoven narratives crucial to an understanding of twentieth-century American culture: the sto... |
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The Anarchist and The Devil Do Cabaret: Using Theatre, Music and Comedy for Radical Social Change
(2002) When the internationally acclaimed, Montreal-based, rock 'n' roll cabaret band Rhythm Activism toured Europe in the 1990s, it was through a Europe in transition that they traveled-a Europe marked by political and racial tension. Here, in an extraordinary mix of fact and fiction, musician/activist/anarchist Norman Nawrocki, recounts the band's experiences alongside a whole array of fascinating characters that he met along the way. |
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Encyclopedia of theatre music
(1961) A comprehensive listing of more than 4000 songs from Broadway and Hollywood, 1900-1960 |
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A Problem like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical
(2002) Subverting assumptions that American musical theater is steeped in nostalgia, cheap sentiment, misogyny, and homophobia, this book shows how musicals of the 1950s and early 1960s celebrated strong women characters who defied the era's gender expectations. A Problem Like Maria reexamines the roles, careers, and performances of four of musical theater's greatest stars-Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, and Barbra Streisand-through a lesbian feminist lens. Focusing on both star persona and p... |
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Broadway Musicals: A History in Posters
(2004) A History of Broadway musicals in Posters. |
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Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s
(2001) The 1960s formed the decade in which the Rodgers and Hammerstein era ended and the next era of modern concept musicals began. In Open a New Window, Ethan Mordden continues his history of the Broadway musical by looking at the decade that bridged the gap between the romantic, fanciful entertainments that came before to the time when "dark" musicals such as Company and A Little Night Music were commonplace. In the 1960s, Camelot was the climax of the romantic musical play that had its roots in suc... |
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How to Make It in Musicals: The Insider's Guide to a Career As a Singer-Dancer
(1999) Exploring all aspects of training and preparation, this career manual gives aspiring singer-dancers the specific know-how they need to move from dream to reality. Incorporating advice from numerous performers and other show-business professionals, this friendly guide starts with the basics for beginners: picking the right teachers, identifying the different kinds of dance and voice training needed, and developing an acting style for the musical stage. Behind the scenes information is offered on ... |
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42nd Street: Piano/Vocal/Chords
(2001) This folio includes all-new songs and photos from the 2001 Broadway revival . Titles are: About a Quarter to Nine * Dames * Forty-Second Street * Getti ng Out of Town * Go into Your Dance * The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money) * I Only Have Eyes for You * Keep Young and Beautiful * Lullaby of B roadway * Overture - Pretty Lady/With Plenty of Money and You * Shadow Walt z * Shuffle Off to Buffalo * There's a Sunny Side to Every Situation * You' re Getting to Be a Habit with Me * Young and ... |
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Getting To Know Him: A Biography Of Oscar Hammerstein II
(1995) Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960) forged a remarkable, multifaceted career as a librettist, lyricist, playwright, director, and producer. He wrote Carmen Jones, Carousel, Show Boat, and, with longtime collaborator Richard Rodgers, Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. Hugh Fordin enjoyed complete access to the Hammerstein archives and conducted numerous interviews with family and colleagues like Rodgers, Berlin, Robbins, and Sondheim. The result is the definitive bio... |
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