The world of showbiz, including Jazz, Pop, Rock N" Roll, Hollywood and Broadway is unmerciful. How easy it is to forget the music, entertainment giants and pioneers of yesteryears! Time erases the glory, the memory, and accomplishments of past stars and legends, most cherished musical treasures, lost or forgotten for lack of scholarly research or because of changes in musical taste and preference of a generation that lost interest in the music of the golden years of Broadway, Hollywood, Swing and Pop music. I know this is the best of any book you will find, of singers. .It is without any hesitation one of the best books ever published on Broadway, Hollywood, Swing, Pop and beloved stars who entertained us for generations. This book is a must read, HARVEY SHELDON HE KNOWS ALL - TELLS ALL - TELLS EVERYTHING - of all the questions and the history of Broadway, Hollywood, Swing and Pop music and the biographies of the ground breaking singers, and vocal arrangers.
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Up till 1900 America had no music of its very own or its very own culture. With the arrival of millions of Jews coming from Russia, and they created a musical marriage with Afro Americans and Italian Americans and would create American music and culture in less than 10 years. Bro…
This extremely comprehensive history of my book provides information on many aspects of musical theater: from the history of stage and film musicals to reviews and essays on current and past productions; from profiles of New York City venues that have housed musicals to an encour…
Part of Essential Musicals series. Takes a chronological look at the ten musicals that have won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Deep diving into the development of each show, unpacking the creation, production, and reception of each musical. Each chapter traces a differ…
A panoramic study of NYC across all of Miller's oeuvre, exploring how Miller transformed the defining experiences of his youth and early adulthood - formed on the streets and in the neighborhoods of the New York boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens - into art. 238 pages.
Gaming expert and theatre fan Barry Joseph draws from over eighty years of Sondheim’s activities, collecting his extremely rare and never-publicly-seen puzzles and game designs, original interviews with the celebrity friends who played them, deep dives into Sondheim-related archi…
Composer-lyricist and teacher Craig Carnelia provides musical actors with a step-by-step guide to making their sung performances more truthful, vivid, and full of life. Using a technique developed over decades of teaching the professional community of Broadway actors and students…
Composer-lyricist and teacher Craig Carnelia provides musical actors with a step-by-step guide to making their sung performances more truthful, vivid, and full of life. Using a technique developed over decades of teaching the professional community of Broadway actors and students…
Two-volume set features the original theatrical script with rare images of the original cast, and an oral history of the Rocky Horror Picture Show phenomenon featuring never-before-seen archival material from its creator (and original Riff-Raff), Richard O'Brien. With never-befor…
The Museum of Broadway will host a vinyl and CD signing event with THE RESCUES, the two-time Tony Award-nominated composers of THE LOST BOYS, in connection with Atlantic Records' physical release.
Concord Theatricals Recordings will release two new formats of the RAGTIME cast recording: a 4-inch collectible Tiny Vinyl pressing and a Dolby Atmos digital remix, both featuring performances by Tony Award winners Joshua Henry and Caissie Levy.
Life Jacket Theatre Company, the creator of the new musical The Gorgeous Nothings, has teamed up with Making Gay History and their podcast of the same name to release 'The Queens of Welfare Island'.
Audible will premiere Feeding Frenzy, a new play from Audible Emerging Playwright Ava Geyer.
Play Club has published Jack Kelly Bellue's English translation of Sacha Guitry's 1916 French comedy, available as a standalone paperback after first appearing in Asymptote Literary Journal.
Bob Holz will release a compilation album featuring John McLaughlin, Jean Luc Ponty, Stanley Clarke, Randy Brecker and other jazz fusion musicians.
Joy Machine Records released the original cast recording for THE TUNEABOMBER, a musical comedy about the Unabomber written and performed by John Lampe and Michael Wysong, featuring theater legend Harvey Fierstein.
The second single from THAT PARENTING MUSICAL, featuring Christopher Jackson of HAMILTON, is out now.
Concord Theatricals Recordings released “O Holy Night,” the second single from the highly-anticipated Voices of The Gilded Age: The Christmas Album, due out November 6.
401 RECORDS will release the new album by Nicolas King on CD and streaming formats.
Methuen Drama/Bloomsbury Publishing will release Power and Greed: Monopolies, Mergers, and Cartels on the American Stage by Spencer Weber Waller this week.
Kennedy Caughell, currently starring in Todrick Hall's Off-Broadway musical MIDNIGHT, has released the CD edition of her debut album JUST THE BEGINNING.
Original Broadway cast members including Alex Brightman, Sara Chase, and Ana Gasteyer will gather at the Museum of Broadway to sign copies of the SCHMIGADOON! Original Broadway Cast Recording on CD and vinyl.
A concept EP titled STONE COLD will release with cast members including Isabella Esler, Echo Picone, Lindsay Heather Pearce, Cassadee Pope, and Keaton Whittaker.
The TUNEabomber: Original Cast Recording has released its second single “The TUNEabomber,” the show's title number.
Scott Fagan released a new song from his long-lost 1971 Broadway rock opera SOON, which starred a young Richard Gere.
BORDEN: A New Musical, which explores the Lizzie Borden murders through her sister Emma's perspective, will release a concept album featuring Broadway's Katy Geraghty as Lizzie Borden.
Broadway performer Kimberly Faye Greenberg will release an interactive children's book introducing young readers ages 7–12 to vaudeville history through the stories of two characters discovering their local theater's entertainment past.
That Parenting Musical (Studio Cast Album) will be released in streaming and digital formats.
Concord Theatricals Recordings has released a new recording of “Dreamer (The Familia Version),” by composer and theatrical artist Jaime Lozano, featuring more than 100 Latine Broadway and off-Broadway performers.
You can now get an exclusive first listen of “To Be A Butterfly,” the debut single from the upcoming concept album for the new folk musical The Waiting.
This holiday season, the cast of HBO’s Emmy Award-nominated Original Drama series The Gilded Age will come together for Voices Of The Gilded Age: The Christmas Album, featuring Audra McDonald, Laura Benanti, Kelli O'Hara, and more.
AILEY Artistic Director Alicia Graf Mack announced her debut children's book INTRODUCING RHYTHM, illustrated by Justin Campbell, designed for readers ages 4–12 exploring movement, music, and self-discovery.
Based on Taylor Mac and Matt Ray’s spectacular rock opera, Bark of Millions brings the experience of the show to the page in a gorgeous two-volume box set.
Musical theatre writers Maria Isabella Andreoli and EmmaLee Kidwell released the first single from their developing folk musical THE WAITING, which explores grief and healing through the perspective of the dead.
Musical theatre writers Maria Isabella Andreoli and EmmaLee Kidwell will release “To Be A Butterfly,” the first single from the upcoming concept album for their developing folk musical The Waiting.
Murray Hill will host a one-night-only drag king showcase featuring K.
AGT winner Terry Fator is releasing his debut novel MARLEY, co-written with Jon Macks, which retells Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL from the perspective of Jacob Marley.
The TUNEabomber, a musical comedy about the Unabomber written by and starring John Lampe and Michael Wysong, will release its original cast recording via Joy Machine Records with monthly performances in Los Angeles and Boston.
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