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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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Musicals!: A Complete Selection Guide for Local Productions
(12/2/1994) From A . . . My Name Is Alice to The Zulu and the Zayde, this second edition of a title first published in 1984 contains information about 500 musicals (100 of which are new to this edition) available for production by community theaters and schools. Listed alphabetically by title, each entry includes date of original production, playwright, composer, lyricist, plot summary, licensing agent and music publisher, recordings and librettos available (for in-depth research by the user), and cast (num... |
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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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South Pacific Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) The New York Times described South Pacific, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and nine Tonys, as "magnificent ... lively, warm, fresh and beautiful." Our deluxe revised Vocal Selections features 15 beloved songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein, a biography, plot synopsis, history of the show, and photos! Includes: Bali Ha'i * Happy Talk * Honey Bun * I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair * Some Enchanted Evening * There Is Nothin' like a Dame * A Wonderful Guy * and more |
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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
(12/31/1969) 13 piano/vocal selections from the 1957, 1965, and 1997 television productions of Cinderella, including: Cinderella Waltz * Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful * Falling in Love with Love * Impossible * In My Own Little Corner * Stepsister's Lament * Ten Minutes Ago * and more. Extra features include a Rodgers & Hammerstein biography, plot synopsis, a history of the show, and photos from all three productions. |
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What They Did for Love: The Untold Story Behind the Making of "A Chorus Line"
(12/31/1969) The Untold Story Behind the Making of "A Chorus Line". Photography by Martha Swope. |
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Sondheim & Company
(12/31/1969) Here is a lavish tribute and a candid look at the career of the much-acclaimed, much-loved Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim. Includes candid interviews with his colleagues and stars, telling of his trials, false starts and heartbreaks as well as his successes. 150 photos. |
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The time of the cuckoo: A comedy in two acts
(12/31/1969) A two act play with 3 scenes in each act for 5 males and 5 females. The plot concerns an older unmarried secretary who meets an attentive man while vacationing in Venice. When she finds out he is married and has children she is torn with the moral problem of whether to partake in a short affair. |
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Way Off Broadway
(12/31/1969) A Complete Guide to Producing Musicals With School and Community Groups. |
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The Ploughman's Lunch
(12/31/1969) The Ploughman's Lunch is a studied analysis of the media world in Margaret Thatcher's Britain during the time of the Falklands War. It was one of the first films to feature in Channel 4's inaugural "Film on Four" season in 1982, enjoying a successful and critically lauded theatrical release prior to its television screening. |
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The Location of Culture
(12/31/1969) This classic study of Shakespeare's tragedies inaugurated a new school of Shakespearean study. Professor Wilson Knight reveals design and significance where previous commentary had remained baffled |
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Stages in Design
(12/31/1969) This is a photocopiable pack of practical activities aimed at 14-19 year-old drama students and their teachers. It offers a structured and progressive approach to stagecraft, design and technology in the performing arts. Each assignment contains teacher's notes. |
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Exploring Theatre and Education
(12/31/1969) Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. He has worked with national governments in Europe and Asia, international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, national and state education systems, non-profit organizations and some of the world's leading cultural organizations. He was knighted in 2003 for his contribution to education and the arts. |
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Complete Plays
(12/31/1969) Though she died penniless and forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston is now recognized as a major figure in African American literature. Best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she also published numerous short stories and essays, three other novels, and two books on black folklore.Even avid readers of Hurston's prose, however, may be surprised to know that she was also a serious and ambitious playwright throughout her career. Although several of her plays were produced during her lif... |
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Zorba - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) 8 selections from the 1968 collaboration of Kander & Ebb: Zorba Theme (Life Is) * Happy Birthday to Me * No Boom Boom * Only Love * The Top of the Hill * The First Time * I Am Free * Why Can't I Speak. |
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Zombies from the Beyond - A Musical
(12/31/1969) A musical comedy celebration of American ideals and foibles in the Eisenhower era. Songs, dances, and laughs abound in the unlikeliest of settings as the Cold War and space race paranoia threaten the good folks at the fictional Milwaukee Space Center in 1955, where the staff is all abuzz at the arrival of rocket scientist Trenton Corbett. The budding romance of Trenton and Mary the daughter of Space Center commander Major Malone is jeopardized when a flying saucer lands in Milwaukee. The craft i... |
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The Yeomen of the Guard - Vocal Score
(12/31/1969) This Gilbert & Sullivan opera is set in the Tower of London, during the 16th century, and is the darkest, and perhaps most emotionally engaging, of the Savoy Operas, ending with a broken-hearted main character and two very reluctant engagements, rather than the usual numerous marriages. The libretto does contain considerable humour, including a lot of pun-laden one-liners, but Gilberts trademark satire and topsy-turvy plot complications are subdued in comparison with the other G&S operas. |
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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) 10 songs from the endearing Broadway production, including: The Baseball Game * The Doctor Is In * Happiness * The Kite (Charlie Brown's Kite) * Little Known Facts * My Blanket and Me * Schroeder * Snoopy * Suppertime * You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. |
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Wuthering Heights - Vocal Score
(12/31/1969) Musical drama in a prologue and three acts. Dramatization by Carlisle Floyd after the novel by Emily Bronte, Vocal score published by Boosey & Hawkes. |
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Working - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Titles include: All the Livelong Day * Brother Trucker * Cleanin' Women * Fathers and Sons * If I Could've Been * It's an Art * Joe * Just a Housewife * Lovin' All * The Mason * Millwork * Neat to Be a Newsboy * Something to Point Out, and others. |
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Woman of the Year - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Titles are: Woman of the Year * One of the Girls * I Wrote the Book * See You in the Funny Papers * Sometimes a Day Goes By * The Grass Is Always Greener * We're Gonna Work It Out. |
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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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Will Rogers Follies - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) A Tony and Drama Desk winner for Best Musical, this 1991 production focuses on the life and career of famed humorist and performer Will Rogers, using as a backdrop the Ziegfeld Follies, which he often headlined. Our songbook include: Willamania * Give a Man Enough Rope * It's a Boy * My Unkown Someone * The Big Time * My Big Mistake * Marry Me Now * Look Around * Favorite Son * No Man Left for Me * Never Met a Man I Didn't Like * |
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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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Whistle Down The Wind - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) This book features 8 songs from this new musical, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Jim Steinman. Songs: Cold * If Only * A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste * No Matter What * Unsettled Scores * The Vaults of Heaven * When Children Rule the World * Whistle Down the Wind. Includes color and black & white photos from the production. |
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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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The Student Prince in Heidelberg - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Presented by "The Messrs Schubert" in Heidelberg. Songs include: Deep in My Heart * Serenade * Drinking Song and much more. |
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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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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Vocal Selections
(12/31/1969) Eight titles from this classic film and Broadway score are: Bless Yore Beautiful Hide * When You're In Love * June Bride * Lonesome Polecat * Spring, Spring, Spring * Sobbin' Women * Goin' Co'tin' * Wonderful, Wonderful Day. |
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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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