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The Rothschilds - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) The Rothschilds is a musical with a book by Sherman Yellen, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Jerry Bock. Based on The Rothschilds by Frederic Morton, it tells of the rise of the Rothschild family from humble beginnings in Germany, to their founding of their financial empire and growing political influence under the guidance of patriarch Mayer Rothschild, to their assistance in funding Napoleon's defeat, and how they secure a declaration of rights for European Jews in the midst of an oppre... |
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Perchance to Dream - Vocal Score
(12/31/1969) Perchance to Dream is a musical romance with book, lyrics and music by Ivor Novello. It was the only musical for which Novello wrote lyrics. It opened on the London stage at the Hippodrome Theatre on 21 April 1945. The show starred Novello, Olive Gilbert, Roma Beaumont, Muriel Barron, and Bobbie Andrews, and veteran actress Zena Dare appeared in the piece as Charlotte Fayre. Sylvia Cecil was a replacement during the run. It is one of Novello's most successful works and enjoyed an original run ... |
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Paint Your Wagon - Vocal Score
(12/31/1969) 10 selections from Lerner and Loewe's musical tale of the California gold fields. Includes: Best Things * The First Thing You Know * Gold Fever * Gospel of No Name City * I Still See Elisa * I Talk to the Trees * I'm on My Way * Million Mi.Away Behind the Door * They Call the Wind Maria * Wand'rin' Star. |
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Of Thee I Sing
(12/31/1969) The first musical production to win the Pulitzer Prize (1932). Gershwin's songs include: Wintergreen for President * Love Is Sweeping the Country * The Senator from Minnesota and more. |
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My One and Only - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) This volume contains 14 songs from the show arranged for voice, piano, & guitar. In addition to the music, there are two pages about George & Ira Gershwin with photos. Titles: Blah-Blah-Blah, Boy wanted, Funny face, He loves & she loves, High hat, How long has this been going on? I can't be bothered now, In the swim, Kickin' the clouds away, My one & only, Nice work if you can get it, 'S wonderful, Soon, Strike up the band. |
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Me and Juliet - Musical Play
(12/31/1969) Although not as well known as some of the Rodgers and Hammerstein's classics - such as Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I - this endearing backstage love story still charms with melodic romance and dazzling theatrics. This hardcover edition, published by Random House, has two full page black/white production shots along with the book and lyrics to the show. It also has the Original Cast list (with Isabel Bigley, Bill Hayes in the leads, and Ray Walston ["My Favorite Martian"], Jo... |
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I Can Get It For You Wholesale - a Musical Play
(12/31/1969) I Can Get It for You Wholesale is a musical with music and lyrics by Harold Rome and a book by Jerome Weidman based on his 1937 novel of the same title. It marked the Broadway debut of 19-year-old Barbra Streisand, who was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. The story is set in the New York City garment district in 1937, during the Great Depression, and the songs utilize traditional Jewish harmonies evocative of the setting and the period of the... |
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House of Flowers - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Vocal Selections / A Sleepin' Bee / Somethin' Cold To Drink / House of Flowers / Two Ladies in DE Shade of DE Banana Tree / Don't Like Goodbyes / Jump DE Broom / Smellin' OF Vanilla / Waitin / Wife Never Understan' / I Never Seen Snow / Madame Tango's Particular Tango / What is a Friend For? / nnnnnnnnn |
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Half a Sixpence
(12/31/1969) The Musical play based on the novel Kipps by H.G. Wells with music and lyrics by David Heneker. Vocal Score Contents A Proper Gentleman Chittlelow's Return Economy Entr'acte Finale Finale Utlimo Flash, Bang, Wallop Half A Sixpence I Don't Believe A Word Of It I Know What I Am If The Rain's Got To Fall Long Ago Military Canal Underscore Money To Burn Morning Music Overture Party Exit She's Too Far Above Me Shop Ballet Solarium Dance The Old Military Can... |
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BAKER STREET: A MUSICAL ADVENTURE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
(12/31/1969) A Musical adapted from the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Conan Doyle |
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Three Sisters
(12/31/1969) 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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Encyclopedia of theatre music
(12/31/1969) A comprehensive listing of more than 4000 songs from Broadway and Hollywood, 1900-1960 |
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Ring Bells! Sing Songs! Broadway Musicals of the 1930's
(12/31/1969) Broadway Musicals of the 1930's |
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Man of LA Mancha (Vocal Score)
(12/31/1969) Includes 21 songs: Abduction Aldonza La Mancha Barber's Song The Combat Dubbing Dulcinea Golden Helmet of Mambrino I Really Like Him I, Don Quixote I'm Only Thinking of Him The Impossible Dream (The Quest) It's All the Same Knight of Mirrors Knight of Woeful Count Little Bird Little Bird A Little Gossip Moorish Dance Overture To Each His Dulcinea We're Only Thinking of Him What Does He Want of Me. |
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Ten Great Musicals of the American Theatre
(12/31/1969) Includes - Of Thee I Sing - Porgy and Bess - One Touch of Venus - Brigadoon - Kiss Me, Kate - West Side Story - Gypsy - Fiddler on the Roof - 1776 - Company |
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Better Foot Forward
(12/31/1969) The History of American Musical Theatre |
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Opera--Dead or Alive: Production, Performance and Enjoyment of Musical Theatre
(12/31/1969) Playwright, director, and critic Ronald E. Mitchell offers general readers a richer understanding of traditions, terms, styles, and staging techniques of musical theater, including an introduction to seventeen examples of operas and musicals, from baroque and romantic operas to Gilbert & Sullivan, from proletarian dramas to Broadway shows like Oklahoma. |
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Great Musicals of the American Theatre
(12/31/1969) Originally published in 1973 under the title Ten great musicals of the American theatre. Includes the librettos of Of thee I sing, Porgy and Bess, One touch of Venus, Brigadoon, Kiss me Kate, West Side story, Gypsy, Fiddler on the roof, 1776, and Company. |
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King Henry VI
(12/31/1969) Henry VI, Part 1 or The First Part of Henry the Sixt (often written as 1 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1591, and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Whereas 2 Henry VI deals with the King's inability to quell the bickering of his nobles, and the inevitability of armed conflict, and 3 Henry VI deals with the horrors of that conflict, 1 Henry VI deals with the loss of England's French territories and the political machination... |
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Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 4: Sweet Bird of Youth / Period of Adjustment / The Night of the Iguana
(12/31/1969) The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in matching format the plays of one of America's most persistently influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes for all full-length plays. |
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Learning Through Drama: Report of the Schools Council Drama, Teaching Project
(12/31/1969) A guide to teaching drama. It stresses the place of drama in the school curriculum and makes detailed recommendations both on the organization and on the content of drama teaching. |
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Polly: an opera
(12/31/1969) Trapes. There it is now! Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? If the necessaries of life would have satisfy'd such a poor body as me, to be sure I had never come to mend my fortune to the Plantations. Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities. We never stint our Expence to our own fortunes, but are miserable, if we do not live up to the profuseness of our neighbours. |
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All For Love: A Tragedy
(12/31/1969) Although John Dryden the poet is best known for his alexandrine epics, John Dryden the playwright is most honored for this blank verse tragedy. The summit of Dryden's dramatic art, All For Love (1677) is a spectacle of passion as felt, feared, and disputed in the suspicious years following the English Civil War. |
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Politics and the Arts
(12/31/1969) This excellent translation makes available a classic work central to one of the most interesting controversies of the eighteenth century: the quarrel between Rousseau and Voltaire. Besides containing some of the most sensitive literary criticism ever written (especially of Molière), the book is an excellent introduction to the principles of classical political thought. It demonstrates the paradoxes of Rousseau's though and clearly displays the temperament that led him to repudiate the hopes of ... |
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Ghosts and Other Plays
(12/31/1969) The plays in this volume focus on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them. In "Ghosts", Osvald Alving returns home only to discover the truth about the father he always looked up to, and learns the horrific effect his father's debauchery has had on him. It was Ibsen's most provocative drama, stripping away the surface of a middle-class family to expose layers of hypocrisy and immorality. "A Public Enemy" sets two brothers against each other when one w... |
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The Feast At Solhoug
(12/31/1969) Henrik Ibsen's "The Feast at Solhoug" is set at the annual feast to celebrate the wedding anniversary of Margit and Bengt Guateson. Knut Gesling, the King's sheriff, comes prior to the feast to ask for Margit's approval for marrying her sister, Signe. Knowing that Knut can be a brutal and violent man, Margit gives her permission on the condition that Knut can demonstrate he can be peaceful for a period of one year. In typical Ibsen fashion, anything but a peaceful outcome ensues. Written in 1855... |
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Max: A Play
(12/31/1969) A play that satirizes the political confusions of both youthful activists and middle-aged believers in gradual reform. Translated by A. Leslie Willson and Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. |
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Selected Plays
(12/31/1969) Francis Russell O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet and art critic. He was a member of the New York School of poetry. |
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The Zoo Story and the Sandbox
(12/31/1969) The Zoo Story is American playwright Edward Albee's first play; written in 1958 and completed in just three weeks. It was originally titled Peter and Jerry. The play explores themes of isolation, loneliness, miscommunication as anathematization, social disparity and dehumanization in a commercial world. Initially the play was rejected by New York producers. Albee first had it staged in Europe, premiering in West Berlin at the Schiller Theater Werkstatt on September 28, 1959. In its first Ameri... |
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AWAKE AND SING. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS
(12/31/1969) Awake and Sing! is a drama written by American playwright Clifford Odets. The play was initially produced by The Group Theatre in 1935. The play is set in The Bronx in 1933; it concerns the impoverished Berger family and their conflicts as the parents scheme to manipulate their children's relationships to their own ends, while their children strive for their own dreams. |
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Saint Joan of the Stockyards
(12/31/1969) "A major Brecht play in an outstanding translation with an expert and up-to-date preface." -- Eric Bentley "... a fine translation.... Jones has handled Brecht's meters with great skill." -- Choice |
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Open Letters to the Intimate Theater
(12/31/1969) Swedish playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, who combined in his works psychology, naturalism, and later elements of new literary forms. Strindberg was married three times – several of his plays drew on the problems of his marriages and reflected his constant interest in self-analysis. A sensitive and controversial writer, who suffered from hostile reviews, Strindberg represented the 19th-century ideal of artist as a free personality, unrestrained by convention. |
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A Short History of Opera
(12/31/1969) When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have. The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medi... |
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A Source Book in Theatrical History: Twenty-five centuries of stage history in more than 300 basic documents and other primary material
(12/31/1969) A rich resource for students of theater and theater historians, this volume features an annotated collection of more than 300 unusually interesting and detailed articles. Passages by contemporary observers from ancient Greece to modern times include notes on acting, directing, make-up, costuming, stage props, machinery, scene design, and much more. |
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Later Plays Of Eugene O'Neill
(12/31/1969) Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (16 October 1888 – 27 November 1953) was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. His plays were among the first to include speeches in American vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society, where they... |
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1776: A Musical Play
(12/31/1969) 1776 The musical was produced on Broadway in 1969, running for 1,217 performances, and was made into a film of the same name in 1972. The show was nominated for five Tony Awards and won three, including Best Musical. |
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24 Favorite One Act Plays
(12/31/1969) Two dozen classic dramas by some of the finest and most famous playwrights of the last hundred years--Anton Chekhov, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, and A.A. Milne. |
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persian
(12/31/1969) Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In "Prometheus Bound", the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. "The Suppliants" tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must flee to escape enforced marriages, while "Seven Against Thebes" shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the c... |
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No Acting Please
(12/31/1969) No Acting Please-Beyond the Method a Revolutionary Approach to Acting and Living. Foreword by Jack Nicholson |
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The Pot of Gold and Other Plays
(12/31/1969) One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254–184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day. This collection features a varied selection of his finest plays, from the light-hearted comedy Pseudolus, in which the lovesick Calidorus and his slave try to liberate his lover from her pimp, to the more subversive The Prisoners, which raises serious questions about the role of slavery. Also included are The Brothers Menaechmus, which... |
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An Unsocial Socialist
(12/31/1969) An Unsocial Socialist was published in 1887, having been written in 1883. The tale begins with a humorous description of student antics at a girl's school then changes focus to a seemingly uncouth laborer who, it soon develops, is really a wealthy gentleman in hiding from his overly affectionate wife. He needs the freedom gained by matrimonial truancy to promote the socialistic cause, to which he is an active convert. Once the subject of socialism emerges, it dominates the story, allowing only ... |
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Environmental Theater
(12/31/1969) Here are the exercises which began as radical departures from standard actor training etiquette and which stand now as classic means through which the performer discovers his or her true power of transformation. Available for the first time in fifteen years, this new expanded edition offers a new generation of theater artists the gospel according to Richard Schechner, the guru whose principles and influence have influenced a quarter century of theater. |
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Audition
(12/31/1969) Michael Shurtleff has been casting director for Broadway shows like Chicago and Becket and for films like The Graduate and Jesus Christ Superstar. His legendary course on auditioning has launched hundreds of successful careers. Now in this book he tells the all-important HOW for all aspiring actors, from the beginning student of acting to the proven talent trying out for that chance-in-a-million role! |
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