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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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The Wiz - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Musical / 11 Principals, Various small parts, Singers and Dancers / Various sets Dorothy's adventures in the Land of Oz have been set to music in a dazzling, lively mixture of rock, gospel and soul music. Everybody knows the story, but now it's a new fantasy for today- mysterious, opulent and fanciful. |
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Wildcat - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Selections are: Hey, Look Me Over * What Takes My Fancy * Give a Little Whistle * One Day We Dance * You've Come Home * Tall Hope. |
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Where's Charley? - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) 7 vocal selections, including: Lovelier Than Ever * Make a Miracle * My Darling, My Darling * The New Ashmolean Marching Society and Students Conservatory Band * Once in Love with Amy * Pernambuco * Where's Charley? |
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What Makes Sammy Run? - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Titles include: * Bachelor Gal * The Friendliest Thing (Two People Can Do) * My Hometown * A Room Without Windows * Some Days Everything Goes Wrong * Something to Live For * A Tender Spot * You're No Good. |
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Victor Victoria - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Contains 13 songs from the acclaimed Broadway stage production, featuring music by Henry Mancini and Frank Wildhorn, with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. Includes: Le Jazz Hot * Paris by Night * Living in the Shadows * and 10 more, plus color photos and a plot synopsis. |
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) The Unsinkable Molly Brown is a musical with music and lyrics by Meredith Willson and book by Richard Morris. The plot is a fictionalized account of the life of Margaret Brown, who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic, and her wealthy miner-husband. |
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They're Playing Our Song - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) They're Playing Our Song is a musical with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, and music by Marvin Hamlisch. In a story based on the real-life relationship of Hamlisch and Sager, a wisecracking composer finds a new, offbeat lyricist, but initially the match is not one made in heaven. The two undergo a series of trials and overcome a number of hurdles before finding true love by the final curtain. They're Playing Our Song is essentially a two-character show. Vernon and Sonia are... |
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The Tap Dance Kid - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) In this musical play, ten-year-old Willie pursues his interest in dancing despite his father's insistence that he follow in his footsteps and become a lawyer. |
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Taking My Turn - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) A cast filled with aged actors gathers together to reminisce and reflect upon their careers, the changing times, and the trials of getting old. |
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Take Me Along - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Take Me Along is a musical based on the Eugene O'Neill play Ah, Wilderness, with music and lyrics by Bob Merrill and book by Joseph Stein and Robert Russell. |
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Sugar Babies - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) This piano-vocal highlights score includes words/music for the following songs: Cuban Love Song, Don't Blame Me, Down at the Gaity Burlesque, Exactly Like You, A Good Old Burlesque Show (You Don't Know the Half), I Can't Give You Anything But Love, I Feel a Song Comin' On, I Just Want to Be a Song and Dance Man, I'm Keepin' Myself Available for You, I'm Shooting High, In Lou'siana, Let Me Be Your Sugar Baby, Mister Banjo Man, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Sally, Warm and Willing, When You and... |
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Strike Up the Band - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Strike Up the Band is a musical with a book by Morrie Ryskind, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. The musical ran on Broadway in 1930 after the original book by George S. Kaufman was revised. Titles Include: Military Dancing Drill * Strike Up the Band! * Mademoiselle from New Rochelle * I've Got a Crush on You. Nine great songs in all. |
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Street Scene: Vocal Score
(12/31/1969) Songs include: A Boy Like You; Ain't It Awful, The Heat?; Catch Me If You Can; Don't Forget The Lilac Bush; Get A Load Of That (K.Weill); I Got A Marble And A Star; I Loved Her Too; Ice Cream Sextet (Weill K); Let Things Be Like The Always Wa; Lonely House; Lullaby (Scott); Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed; Remember That I Care; Somehow I Never Could Believe; There'll Be Trouble (K.Weill); We'll Go Away Together; What Good Would The Moon Be?; When A Woman Has A Baby; Woman Who Lived Up There, The; Would... |
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Stop the World I Want to Get Off - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Songs included: Gonna Build a Mount, Lumbered, Meilinki Meilchik, Once in a Lifetime, Someone Nice Like You, All American, Typische Deutsche, Glorious Russian, Typically English, I Wanna Be Rich, What Kind of Fool Am I? 32 pages. |
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Starting Here, Starting Now - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Titles include: Autumn * Barbara * Crossword Puzzle * Flair * I Don't Remember Christmas * I Hear Bells * I Think I May Want to Remember Today * A Little Bit Off * One Step * Song of Me * Starting Here, Starting Now * Travel * What About Today? and more. |
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Starlight Express - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) 11 vocal selections, including: AC/DC * Crazy * He'll Whistle at Me * Light at the End of the Tunnel * Make up My Heart * Next Time You Fall in Love * One Rock 'N' Roll Too Many * Pumping Iron * Rolling Stock * Starlight Sequence * U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D. |
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Song and Dance
(12/31/1969) Song and Dance is a musical comprising two acts, one told entirely in "Song" and one entirely in "Dance", tied together by a love story. The first part is Tell Me On A Sunday, with lyrics by Don Black and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, about a young British woman's romantic misadventures in New York City and Hollywood. The second part is a ballet choreographed to Variations, composed by Lloyd Webber for his cellist brother Julian, which is based on the A Minor Caprice No. 24 by Paganini. |
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Snoopy - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) 10 vocal selections from the stage musical, including: Clouds * Daisy Hill * Don't Be Anything Less * Friend * I Know Now * Just One Person * Poor Sweet Baby * Where Did That Little Dog Go? * Woodstock's Theme * The World According to Snoopy. |
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Smokey Joe's Cafe - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) 20 vocal selections from this Lieber & Stoller review, including: Baby, That Is Rock & Roll * Fools Fall in Love * Hound Dog * Jailhouse Rock * Kansas City * Love Potion Number 9 * On Broadway * Ruby Baby * Stand by Me * Treat Me Nice * Yakety Yak * and more. |
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Shenandoah - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Charlie Anderson, a widower, lives with his large family in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, during the American Civil War. Anderson does not wish to be involved in the war because he doesn't consider it "his" war, but he is forced to take action when his youngest son Robert is taken prisoner by Union soldiers. In the course of searching for Robert, Charlie, his daughter Jenny, and some of his sons rescue Sam (Jenny's newlywed Confederate soldier husband), from a Yankee POW train. After enduri... |
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Seesaw - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Includes: * He's (She's) Good for Me * I'm Way Ahead * In Tune * It's Not Where You Start * My City * Nobody Does It Like Me * Poor Everybody Else * Ride Out the Storm * Seesaw * Spanglish * We've Got It * Welcome to Holiday Inn * You're a Lovable Lunatic. |
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The Secret Garden - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) For her first venture into music-theatre, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman, in collaboration with composer Lucy Simon, achieved Broadway success with the moving book and lyrics she adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved 1911 novel, The Secret Garden. The story of 10-year-old orphan Mary Lennox and her search for friendship, love and an understanding of the past in her lonely uncle-guardian's locked garden has often been dramatized for the stage, the screen, radio and telev... |
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The Scarlet Pimpernel - The New Musical Adventure
(12/31/1969) Vocal Selections from The Scarlet Pimpernel contains notes from Frank Wildhorn and director Peter Hunt, Nan Knighton's The Making of 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' documenting the eight-year journey to The Great White Way, a full song and story outline, and beautiful full-color photographs of the production and its stars. Includes the Top 40 Single hit recorded by Peabo Bryson and Linda Eder. |
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Salvation - Vocal selection
(12/31/1969) The story follows a young man, who is a hardshell-Baptist kind of guy. He searches, and tries to figure out how relevant is religion to men and women society as a whole? He becomes enthralled by the pageantry and the ritual of Roman Catholicism. He is unenthusiastic about hearing others confess their sins, and literally and as well as figuratively, reveal themselves to him. He begins to search for something else, becoming a Timothy Leary-like guru. |
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Runaways
(12/31/1969) Runaways is a musical which was written, composed and directed by Elizabeth Swados, about the lives of children who run away from home and live on the city streets. The characters were taken from workshops conducted by Swados with real-life runaways in the late 1970s. |
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I Do! I Do! - Vocal Score
(12/31/1969) The complete vocal score to the musical first staged with Robert Preston and Mary Martin. 19 songs, including: Good Night * Honeymoon Is Over, The * I Do, I Do * I Love My Wife * It's a Well Known Fact * Love Isn't Everything * My Cup Runneth Over * Nobody's Perfect * This House * What Is a Woman * and more. |
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Two by Two - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Complete vocal score to the 1970 musical starring Danny Kaye. Songs include: As Far As I'm Concerned * The Covenant * Hey, Girlie * I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You * Ninety Again * An Old Man * Poppa Knows Best * Something Doesn't Happen * Something, Somewhere * Two by Two * When It Dries * Why Me? (Why Me, Lord?) * You * and more. |
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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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Romance, Romance - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) The music for a delightful pair of one-act musical comedies includes: It's Not Too Late * The Night It Had to End * Romantic Notions * Words He Doesn't Say * Romance, Romance and others. |
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Robber Bridegroom - Vocal Score
(12/31/1969) The Robber Bridegroom is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alfred Uhry and music by Robert Waldman. The story is based on the 1942 novella by Eudora Welty of the same name, with a Robin Hood-like hero; the adaptation placed it in a late 18th century American setting. The musical ran on Broadway in 1975 and again in 1976. |
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Return to the Forbidden Planet - PVG
(12/31/1969) Return to the Forbidden Planet is a Jukebox musical by director Bob Carlton based on Shakespeare's The Tempest and the 1950s science fiction film Forbidden Planet (which itself drew its plot loosely from The Tempest). Return to the Forbidden Planet started life with the Bubble Theatre Company as a production for open-air performance in a tent. A revised version of the musical opened, indoors, at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in the mid 1980s.[1] It later moved to the Tricycle Theatre in Lon... |
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Ragtime The Musical - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Titles are: Back to Before * Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc. * Gliding * Goodbye, My Love * Make Them Hear You * New Music * Our Children * Ragtime * Sarah Brown Eyes * Till We Reach That Day * Wheels of a Dream * Your Daddy's Son. |
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State Fair - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) USA Today says of State Fair, "This may be what the Golden Age of Broadway was really about!" Our deluxe revised Vocal Selections features 11 beloved songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein, a biography, plot synopsis, history of the show and photos! Includes: It Might as Well Be Spring * It's a Grand Night for Singing * Our State Fair * You Never Had It So Good * more. |
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Pipe Dream - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) 7 vocal selections from the Rodgers and Hammerstein 1955 musical, including: All at Once You Love Her * All Kinds of People * Everybody's Got a Home but Me * The Man I Used to Be * The Next Time It Happens * Suzy Is a Good Thing * Sweet Thursday. |
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The Phantom of the Opera - Piano Selections
(12/31/1969) Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Phantom of the Opera has been a smash hit worldwide. Nine songs from the Tony-winning Broadway sensation that every organist should know: All I Ask of You * Angel of Music * Masquerade * The Music of the Night * The Phantom of the Opera * The Point of No Return * Prima Donna * Think of Me * Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again. |
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Phantom - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) 30m, 7f, plus ensemble (doubling possible.) / Ints./exts. This mesmerizing Phantom is traditional musical theatre in the finest sense. The Tony award winning authors of Nine have transformed Gaston Leroux' The Phantom of the Opera into a sensation that enraptures audiences and critics with beautiful songs and an expertly crafted book. It is constructed around characters more richly developed than in any other version, including the original novel. "Everything is first rate." - N.Y. Daily News "R... |
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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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Show Boat - Vocal Score
(12/31/1969) The original cast listing, full-color photos from the Broadway production, and nine stellar songs from this musical classic: Bill * Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man * I Have the Room Above * Life upon the Wicked Stage * Make Believe * Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun' * Ol' Man River * Why Do I Love You? * You Are Love. |
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Pal Joey - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) This special edition features 14 piano/vocal selections from the Rodgers and Hart favorite: Bewitched * Do It the Hard Way * A Great Big Town (Chicago) * I Could Write a Book * What Is a Man? * and more, plus a history of this beloved musical. |
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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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Pacific Overtures
(12/31/1969) Pacific Overtures is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, a libretto by John Weidman, and additional material by Hugh Wheeler. The musical is set in 1853 Japan and follows the difficult Westernization of Japan, through the lives of two friends caught in the change. The title of the work is ironic, nodding toward "overture" as a musical form, noting that the initiatives of the Western powers for commercial exploitation of the Pacific nation were anything but "pacific" (or peaceabl... |
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Once Upon a Mattress - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) The vocal score including all 14 songs to this musical by Richard Rodger's daughter Mary. Includes: Happily Ever After * In a Little While * Normandy * Sensitivity * Shy * Song of Love * Yesterday I Loved You * and more. |
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On Your Toes -Vocal Score
(12/31/1969) Complete vocal score featuring 26 songs, including: Glad to Be Unhappy * It's Got to Be Love * On Your Toes * Quiet Night * Slaughter on Tenth Avenue * There's a Small Hotel * Too Good for the Average Man * and more, including entr'actes and all other musical numbers. |
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever - Vocal Score
(12/31/1969) 9 vocal selections, including: Come Back to Me * Hurry It's Lovely up Here * Melinda * On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) * On the S.S. Bernard Cohn * She Wasn't You * Wait Till We're Sixty Five * What Did I Have That I Don't Have? * When I'm Being Born Again. |
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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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Nymph Errant - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Includes: * Experiment * How Could We Be Wrong? * It's Bad for Me * Nymph Errant * The Physician (But He Never Said He Loved Me) * Solomon * When Love Comes Your Way * You're Too Far Away. |
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Nunsense - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) An unfortunate convent cooking accident causes most of the order of the Little Sisters of Hoboken to die of botulism. Before all of the deceased sisters can be buried, the Reverend Mother buys a camcorder and VCR for the convent - resulting in not having enough money to bury the four remaining sisters (which, by the way, are temporarily being stored in the freezer). In order to raise money to bury the four dead sisters, the Little Sisters of Hoboken (well, what's left of them) put on a riotous r... |
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No Strings - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Includes 8 selections from this 1962 Richard Rodgers musical, starring Richard Kiley and Diahann Carroll. Songs: La-La-La * Loads of Love * Look No Further * Love Makes the World Go * Maine * No Strings * Nobody Told Me * The Sweetest Sounds. |
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Nine - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) The smash hit musical Nine won five Tony Awards when it first appeared on Broadway in 1982. The 2003 revival was nominated for eight Tonys and won two, including Best Revival and Best Actress in a musical for Jane Krakowski. This folio features 11 songs from the musical as well as a bio on its composer, Maury Yeston. Songs include: Be Italian * Be on Your Own * A Call from the Vatican * Folies Bergeres * Getting Tall * Guido's Song * My Husband Makes Movies * Nine * Only with You * Simple * Unus... |
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