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Bash--acting edition
(12/15/2015) BASH, a collection of three darkly brilliant one-act plays, forms a trio of unforgettable personal accounts. In MEDEA REDUX, a woman tells of her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her junior high school English teacher; in IPHIGENIA IN OREM, a Utah businessman confides in a stranger in a Las Vegas hotel room, confessing a most chilling crime; and in A GAGGLE OF SAINTS, a young Mormon couple separately recounts the violent events of an anniversary weekend in New York City. All thre... |
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Adventures in Blackface: and other shorts
(12/31/2014) Adventures in Blackface is a short story and one of a selection of “shorts” retrieved from the cutting room floor. The short story centers on a black college freshman, Ruth, one of six black students in an otherwise white university in the 1960’s. Ruth faces the challenge of the romantic advances of a white male student, and the racism of white faculty. |
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Tevye's Daughters: No Laughing Matter
(12/31/2014) The Crawley sisters of Downton Abbey? The Bennet sisters of Pride & Prejudice? The daughters born to Zelophehad? Why mention any of these women in the same breath as the beloved characters in the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof? Conventional wisdom has it that Fiddler on the Roof is about Tevye, a beleaguered patriarch persecuted by his neighbors and “desperately clinging to Tradition.” But in this surprising eBook, Jan Lisa Huttner turns the reader’s focus away from Tevye and onto h... |
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Falling off Broadway
(12/29/2014) Falling off Broadway is a witty, entertaining memoir by Tony Award-winning producer David Black of his adventures on Broadway. The book is filled with revealing personal accounts of theatrical luminaries and well-known figures such as Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Julie Harris, Gene Hackman, Joel Grey, Bernadette Peters, Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Groucho Marx, Joshua Logan, Alan King, David Merrick, Donald Trump, and Richard Nixon. This memoir is based on David Black's one-man play, which... |
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The Godspell Experience: Inside a Transformative Musical
(12/22/2014) This book covers all things "Godspell." It includes a colorful behind-the-scenes account of the musical’s creative history, notes about each song, never-before-published photographs, "Godspell" movie development details, complete lyrics, and much more. In his Foreword for "The Godspell Experience," composer Stephen Schwartz shares some of his favorite personal memories from the earliest days of "Godspell." Author Carol de Giere has gathered fresh comments from original cast members, Stephen S... |
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Hopelessly Hollywood: My Dreamland Diary, from Small Town Extra to Musical Theatre King for a Day
(12/21/2014) Curtain up on musical theatre, LA! Journey into the shadows of Tinseltown, where on dozens of small stages eager young actors fresh off the bus share the spotlights with forgotten idols and new stars rising. Follow collaborators Mike and David into this dream-drenched world, the two believing they are the next Rodgers and Hammerstein waiting to be discovered. But the City of Angels soon cures them of their heady illusions, sending each down a separate road, one ultimately tragic. Here is another... |
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Out of the Woods: A True Story
(12/21/2014) Father takes six-year-old daughter to see summer production of Into the Woods thinking in his ignorance it would be appropriate for children because it’s about fairy tales. Problem is that her mother died when daughter was three weeks old, and seeing the show opens the floodgates to almost seven years of unresolved grief for father and daughter both. Next morning, daughter wakes father and begs him to take her to see it again. And the same the next morning, and the next after that. And so beg... |
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ZOMBIE BROADWAY, Issue 1
(12/19/2014) They say that New Yorkers have seen everything. But that was before New York City was hit by a zombie infestation, destroying the city, and killing most of its inhabitants. Now the President and all his men have to solve this zombie problem before it hits the rest of the country. Dropping a bomb on the city seems like the only solution, until the mayor of New York comes up with a last ditch effort: put on a Zombie Broadway! Crazy? Well, not completely. Seems like zombies aren't so different fro... |
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STAGE MANAGEMENT from Rural America to Broadway: An Interview with Bryce McDonald
(12/19/2014) What do Mary-Louise Parker, Kathleen Turner, Frank Langella, Blythe Danner, Judith Ivy, Victoria Clark, Sherie Rene Scott, Danny Burstein, and Doug Hughes have in common? Each of them has worked with Bryce McDonald during his career as a New York Stage Manager. While serving as Production Stage Manager for the 2014 off-Broadway run of "Tales from Red Vienna," Bryce McDonald took some time to answer questions about his career as a professional stage manager: how he got started and what he lo... |
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W. C. Fields from Burlesque and Vaudeville to Broadway: Becoming a Comedian
(12/17/2014) A virtuoso comedian, W. C. Fields is often called a comic genius and legendary iconoclast who gave the gift of laughter to multitudes during his epoch and left a legacy of humor for future generations. Using the newly opened W. C. Fields Papers at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Library, this groundbreaking book explores how he became a comedian during his lesser known stage career from 1898 to 1930 - years of hardship and exaltation that had a major influence on his comedy... |
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Mickey & Sage
(12/15/2014) This four-scene, 60-minute piece lays bare the way that the minor differences that kids note about their playmates' home lives take on greater weight and power as childhood ends. --Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice Listening to two kids talking smack during forced backyard playdates can be pretty funny. They mangle adult language they're trying to ape, and what it all means. But there's a disturbing undercurrent to MICKEY & SAGE. Comedy leavens the underlying painful circumstances, as filtered ... |
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Strays, the Musical: Piano-Vocal Score (Volume 2)
(12/12/2014) STRAYS, THE MUSICAL! explores furry foibles from the PETS’ point of view. The actors give voice to a variety of cat and dog characters in this hilarious–and often moving–musical review “drama-dy” that seeks to edu-tain audiences about normal pet behavior while honoring the bond we share with them. The two-hour review-format offers a mix of funny to poignant monologues and scenes with and without music, perfect for middle school to high school contest/performance as well as adult comm... |
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Three Songs by George M. Cohan: for Voice and Piano
(12/11/2014) Give my Regards to Broadway, Over There and Mary's a Grand Old Name. Classic sheets from the early 20th century. Carry this on your Kindle, and you'll always be prepared to kick a party into overdrive. |
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The Broadway Anthology: And Tender Buttons
(12/11/2014) The Broadway Anthology: And Tender Buttons (Bonus Book) By Edward L. Bernays, Samuel Hoffenstein (Authored by), Walter J. Kingsley (Authored by), Murdock Pemberton (Authored by), Gertrude Stein (Authored by) |
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Charles Walters: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance
(12/5/2014) From the trolley scene in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's last dance on the silver screen ( The Barkleys of Broadway, 1949) to Judy Garland's timeless, tuxedo-clad performance of "Get Happy" ( Summer Stock, 1950), Charles Walters staged the iconic musical sequences of Hollywood's golden age. During his career, this Academy Award--nominated director and choreographer showcased the talents of stars such as Gene Kelly, Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds, and Frank Sinatra. ... |
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It Happened on Broadway: An Oral History of the Great White Way
(12/2/2014) In this deliciously revealing oral history of Broadway from World War II through the early 1980s, more than one hundred theater veterans—including Carol Channing, Hal Prince, Donna McKechnie, Hal Holbrook, Andrea McArdle, and Al Hirschfeld—deliver the behind-the-scenes story of the hits, the stars, the feuds, and the fiascoes. Along the way there are evocations of the great comedians and dramatic actors who had that indefinable magic that made them stand out above the rest. With verve, love... |
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Aladdin - Broadway Musical
(12/1/2014) (Easy Piano Vocal Selections). 11 selections from the Broadway production arranged at an easier level. Includes: Arabian Nights * Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kassim * Friend like Me * High Adventure * A Million Miles Away * One Jump Ahead * One Jump Ahead (Reprise) * Prince Ali * Proud of Your Boy * Somebody's Got Your Back * A Whole New World |
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The Broadway Comedy Murders
(12/1/2014) Hollywood comedy writer Springer McKay’s latest adventure finds him on Broadway, where his satirical play, Boob Tube, is in rehearsal with a bunch of wildly eccentric actors—British stage legend Lady Kate Ashley, egotistical sitcom star Wally Wheeler, highly neurotic Tony Award–winner Nedda Norman, and action film star Kirby Gates, who has saved the world a million times. Retired junk dealer Sid Rosko is the producer. Five quirky young performers round out the cast. When two surprisin... |
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Current Hits on Broadway
(12/1/2014) (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 29 favorites from contemporary Broadway blockbusters like Wicked, Mamma Mia, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Matilda , and more! Includes: Ain't No Mountain High Enough * Dancing Queen * Defying Gravity * I've Decided to Marry You * (You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman * Not My Father's Son * On My Own * The Origin of Love * Raise You up / Just Be * Seize the Day * When I Grow Up * A Whole New World * Wig in a Box * You and Me (But Mostly Me) * and more. |
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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 22: Broadway and Beyond: Commercial Theatre Considered
(11/30/2014) That theatre is a business remains a truth often ignored by theatre insiders and consumers of the performing arts alike. The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 22 explore theatre as a commercial enterprise both historically and as a continuing part of the creation, production, and presentation of contemporary live performance. The eleven contributors to this fascinating collection illuminate many aspects of commercial theatre and how best to examine it. George Pate analyzes the high-stakes... |
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Collected Plays Hoyt Hilsman: Volume 1: The Family Plays
(11/28/2014) HOYT HILSMAN is an award-winning writer, journalist and critic, and a former candidate for Congress in California. He has written screenplays for a number of studios and television networks, including Disney, Sony, New Line, ABC, NBC and CBS, and his stage plays and musicals have been produced in theaters around the country and abroad, and have won numerous awards. His television script, Foggy Bottom, based on his childhood in Washington, was honored at the Slamdance Festival. Mr. Hilsman has b... |
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Cold War Theatre
(11/28/2014) Cold War Theatre, first published in 1992, provides an account of the theatrical history within the context of East/West politics. Its geographical span ranges from beyond the Urals to the Pacific Coast of the US, and asks whether the Cold War confrontation was not in part due to the cultural climate of Europe. Taking the McCarthy era as its starting point, this readable history considers the impact of the Cold War upon the major dramatic movements of our time, East and West. The author pose... |
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Acting Through Song: Techniques and Exercises for Musical-Theatre Actors
(11/25/2014) An impassioned and invaluable guide for actors and students of musical theatre. In Acting Through Song, ? Paul Harvard takes the techniques of modern actor training – including the theories of Stanislavsky, Brecht, Meisner and Laban, amongst others – and applies them to the fundamental component of musical theatre: singing. With dozens of exercises to put these theories into practice, and numerous examples from a broad range of musicals, the result is a comprehensive and rigorous acti... |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: (Broadway Tie-in Edition)
(11/25/2014) Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he hates the color yellow. The improbable story of Christopher's quest as he investigates the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years |
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Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History
(11/18/2014) “One of the best literary works of this year” (Miami Herald-Tribune): The true story of a theatrical dream—or nightmare—come true…the making of the Spider-Man musical. As you might imagine, writing a Broadway musical has its challenges. But it turns out there are challenges one can’t begin to imagine when collaborating with two rock legends and a superstar director to stage the biggest, most expensive production in theater history. Renowned director Julie Taymor picked playwright... |
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Who Should Sing 'Ol' Man River'?: The Lives of an American Song
(11/17/2014) A Broadway classic, a call to action, and an incredibly malleable popular song, "Ol' Man River" is not your typical musical theater standard. Written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II in the 1920s for Show Boat, "Ol Man River" perfectly blends two seemingly incongruous traits-the gravity of a Negro spiritual and the crowd-pleasing power of a Broadway anthem. Inspired by the voice of African American singer Paul Robeson, who adopted the tune for his own goals as an activist, "Ol' Man River... |
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The Voice That Amazed America: The Life, Times, & Singing Career of Tommy Dix
(11/15/2014) The story of Tommy Dix is the story of a remarkable singer and a remarkable man. Overcoming a chronic illness, and rising above his family's initial poverty, Tommy used his talents to become one of America's most popular entertainers during the 1940s. He amazed a nationwide audience for the first time at the age of thirteen when he appeared on "Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour", the country's most popular radio show in the mid-1930s. Tommy's unusually rich, deep baritone singing voice lit up ... |
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The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1
(11/15/2014) Have you ever wanted to sneak behind the curtain of some of Broadway's greatest hits including Wicked, Rent, and A Chorus Line? Do you wonder what Patti LuPone revealed to Raul Esparza about Broadway dressing rooms or wish you were a fly on the wall during Audra McDonald's big break auditions? Are you dying to know why Laura Linney would watch Stockard Channing from the rafters each night? From opening nights to closing nights. From secret passageways to ghostly encounters. From Bro... |
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Watch Me: A Memoir
(11/11/2014) Following her “extraordinary” (Vanity Fair), “evocative” (The New York Times), “magically beautiful” (The Boston Globe), “gorgeously written” (O, The Oprah Magazine) coming-of-age memoir, Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston writes about her relationship with Jack Nicholson, her rise to stardom, her work with the greatest directors in Hollywood, her love affair with her husband, and much more. Anjelica Huston was twenty-nine years old and trying to create a place for... |
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The Barbra Streisand Record & CD Collector's Guide 1962-2014 A Six-Decade Celebration
(11/10/2014) A musical tribute celebrating six decades of Streisand’s amazing recording career, this second edition to the popular five-star rated book, has 26 pages more and features over 90 new items. It covers all of Streisand’s single and album releases worldwide on vinyl and compact disc, and includes several rare and unpublished photographs. And pictured is the thank you note Ms. Streisand sent to the author. Available exclusively on Amazon. |
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Fosse
(11/4/2014) The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year, Bob Fosse revolutionized nearly every facet of American entertainment. His signature style would influence generations of performing artists. Yet in spite of Fosse’s innumerable—including Cabaret, Pippin, All That Jazz, and Chicago, one of the longest-running Broadway musicals ever—his offstage life was shadowed by deep wounds and insatiable appetites. To craft this richly detailed account, best-selling author S... |
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Mainly on Directing: Gypsy, West Side Story, and Other Musicals
(11/1/2014) As a playwright, screenwriter, and director, Arthur Laurents has a unique place in the history of theater. In this moving, exhilarating, and provocative account, he presents readers with a front-row look at the making of two of the greatest musicals of the American stage, West Side Story and Gypsy. He writes in rich detail about his new bilingual production of West Side Story, along with his most recent production of Gypsy, how it began as an act of love, and how that love spread through the en... |
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Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
(11/1/2014) In March 2013, a new Rodgers and Hammerstein musical opened on Broadwaynew to Broadway, but based on a TV musical first written nearly 60 years before, and beloved by audiences all over the world. It was Rodgers + Hammersteins Cinderella, which very quickly became the belle of the ball of the Broadway season, winning cheers for its fresh take on a timeless classic. Douglas Carter Beane created a new, Tony-nominated book that was hailed for complementing the inspirational themes of Rodgers and H... |
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The Villainous Stage: Crime Plays on Broadway and in the West End
(10/31/2014) Live theatre was once the main entertainment medium in the United States and the United Kingdom. The preeminent dramatists and actors of the day wrote and performed in numerous plays in which crime was a major plot element. This remains true today, especially with the longest-running shows such as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables and Sweeney Todd. While hundreds of books have been published about crime fiction in film and on television, the topic of stage mysteries has been largely une... |
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Experiencing Leonard Bernstein: A Listener's Companion
(10/30/2014) Leonard Bernstein is a household name. Most know him for his classic musical reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as Broadway’s West Side Story. But Bernstein accomplished so much more as a composer, and his body of work is both broad and varied. He composed ballets (Fancy Free, Facsimile, Dybbuk), operas (Trouble in Tahiti, Candide, A Quiet Place), musicals (On the Town, Wonderful Town), film scores (On the Waterfront), symphonies, choral works, chamber music pieces, art songs, and ... |
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The Director Within: Storytellers of Stage and Screen
(10/28/2014) In Rose Eichenbaum’s latest book on the confluence of art making and human expression, she sits down with thirty-five modern day storytellers—the directors of theater, film, and television. Eichenbaum’s subjects speak with revealing clarity about the entertainment industry, the role and life of the director, and how theatrical and cinematic storytelling impacts our culture and our lives. The Director Within includes interviews with Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show), Julie Taymor (... |
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Evita, Inevitably: Performing Argentina's Female Icons Before and After Eva Perón
(10/23/2014) Evita, Inevitably sheds new light on the history and culture of Argentina by examining the performances and reception of the country’s most iconic female figures, in particular, Eva Perón, who rose from poverty to become a powerful international figure. The book links the Evita legend to a broader pattern of female iconicity from the mid-nineteenth century onward, reading Evita against the performances of other female icons: Camila O’Gorman, executed by firing squad over her affair with a ... |
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Seth's Broadway Diary, Volume 1
(10/20/2014) A compilation of Seth's hilarious, Broadway-centric "Onstage and Backstage" columns for Playbill.com, chronicling Seth Rudetsky's unique life on and around the Great White Way. Seth's Broadway Diary is full of his personal Broadway experiences, such as going to the final performance and party for Rent, watching in terror as Jeff Bowen was dragged off the stage during [title of show] and the night he saw Spring Awakening and helped Jonathan Groff and Lea Michele break (-ish) the law. Plus, insid... |
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Oliver!: A Dickensian Musical
(10/15/2014) When the show was first produced in 1960, at a time when transatlantic musical theatre was dominated by American productions, Oliver! already stood out for its overt Englishness. But in writing Oliver!, librettist and composer Lionel Bart had to reconcile the Englishness of his Dickensian source with the American qualities of the integrated book musical. To do so, he turned to the musical traditions that had defined his upbringing: English music hall, Cockney street singing, and East End Yiddis... |
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Made In Heaven
(10/14/2014) Off Broadway audiences, gay and straight, laughed themselves hoarse at this brilliantly constructed, lovingly raunchy farce about two brothers -- conjoined twins sharing a penis -- whose plan to marry their slightly overweight, cheerfully self-loathing girlfriend runs afoul when one brother finally summons the courage to reveal that he is gay. The trio invites a sizzling hot, morally challenged male hustler into the household to help fix the problem. But his presence becomes the fuse that sets ... |
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Peter and the Starcatcher (Acting Edition)
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I Only Know Who I Am When I Am Somebody Else: My Life on the Street, On the Stage, and in the Movies
(10/14/2014) Beloved stage and screen actor Danny Aiello’s big-hearted memoir reveals a man of passion, integrity, and guts—and lays bare one of the most unlikely success stories ever told. Danny Aiello admits that he backed into his acting career by mistake. That’s easy to see when you begin at the beginning: Raised by his loving and fiercely resilient mother in the tenements of Manhattan and the South Bronx, and forever haunted by the death of his infant brother, Danny struggled early on to defin... |
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Streisand: In the Camera Eye
(10/14/2014) Streisand: In the Camera Eye is a collection of 170 of the most compelling photographs of Barbra Streisand, chosen for their rarity, beauty, and insight into Streisand’s multifaceted life and career. The pictures, most of which have never been published before, document her many phases, from her early days on Broadway, including Funny Girl, to her hugely popular TV specials, to her work as an actress in films such as Hello, Dolly!, The Way We Were, and A Star Is Born. Taken by some of the gre... |
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The Musical as Drama
(10/12/2014) Derived from the colorful traditions of vaudeville, burlesque, revue, and operetta, the musical has blossomed into America's most popular form of theater. Scott McMillin has developed a fresh aesthetic theory of this underrated art form, exploring the musical as a type of drama deserving the kind of critical and theoretical regard given to Chekhov or opera. Until recently, the musical has been considered either an "integrated" form of theater or an inferior sibling of opera. McMillin demonstrat... |
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Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater
(10/9/2014) The "villainous homosexual" has long stalked America's cultural imagination, most explicitly in the figure of the queer murderer, a character in dozens of plays. But as society's understanding of homosexuality has changed, so has the significance of these controversial characters, especially when employed by LGBT theater artists themselves to explore darker fears and desires. Murder Most Queer examines the shifting meanings of murderous LGBT characters in American theater over a century, showin... |
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South Pacific: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
(10/8/2014) Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony for Best Musical, South Pacific flourished as the golden musical of Broadways post-WWII golden era. Nearly 60 years after its 1949 premiere, South Pacific returned to Broadway in Lincoln Center Theaters glorious Tony-winning production, setting box-office records and bringing this timely and timeless musical to new generations. With a score by Rodgers & Hammerstein and a libretto by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan, based on James A. Micheners Pul... |
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50 Tips on How to Get Your Show off the Ground: The Producer's Perspective
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Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical
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This Is Our Youth: Broadway Edition
(10/1/2014) This Is Our Youth, Kenneth Lonergan’s lacerating look at affluent young Manhattanites of the 1980s, depicts two days in the lives of three college-age Upper West Siders who are from wealthy families but living in doped-up squalor. Dennis—with a famous painter father and social activist mother—is a small-time drug dealer and total mess. His hero-worshipping friend Warren has just impulsively stolen $15,000 from his father, an abusive lingerie tycoon. When Jessica, a mixed-up prep school gi... |
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The Song of Spider Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History
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