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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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