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The Ultimate Broadway Fake Book

(1993)

Over 720 songs from over 240 Broadway shows! Recently revised to include hits from Martin Guerre, Rent, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Sunset Boulevard, Victor/Victoria, and more! This is the definitive collection of Broadway music, featuring: * Song title index * Show title index * Composer and lyricist index * Synopses of each show. Song highlights include: Ain't Misbehavin' * All I Ask of You * Another Op'nin' Another Show * As Long As He Needs Me * At The Ballet * Bali Ha'i * Beauty and the Beast * Bew...

Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology Soprano Vol.5

(2008)

Includes: Somewhere Never Who Am I? The Flagmaker, 1775 Around The World Anything Can Happen How Can I Lose You? The Girl In 14G Glitter and be Gay Thank Goodness Baubles, Bangles And Beads Begin The Beguine Some Things Are Meant To Be The Beauty Is Fable Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True Practically Perfect Love Makes Such Fools Of Us All Bride's Lament Another Winter In A Summer Town Daddy's Girl Will You? My House Take Care Of This House I Feel Pretty Whispering ...

Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology Soprano Vol.5

The First Book of Broadway Solos: Soprano

(2001)

This is the perfect first collection for many voice students, whether they are teens or college singers or adults. Joan Boytim has selected songs appropriate for each voice type, and has chosen keys that suit the vocal needs of novice singers studying in traditional, generally classical lyric singing. The editions of the songs in these collections are short and straight-forward. Teachers have found these books invaluable. To make the collections even more useful, each volume is offered in a boo...

The First Book of Broadway Solos: Soprano

The Definitive Broadway Collection

(1988)

This is simply the best and most comprehensive collection of Broadway music ever collected! 142 of the greatest show tunes compiled into one volume - this is one book that every Broadway lover must have! Songs include: Don't Cry for Me Argentina * Edelweiss * Hello, Dolly! * I Could Have Danced All Night * I Dreamed a Dream * I Know Him So Well * Lullabye of Broadway * Mack the Knife * People * Send in the Clowns * Somewhere * Summertime * Sunrise, Sunset * Tomorrow * What Kind of Fool Am I? * ...

The Big Book of Broadway

(1994)

This 2003 revised edition includes 70 songs from classic musicals to recent blockbusters like The Producers, Aida and Hairspray. Includes: All I Ask of You * Bring Him Home * Camelot * Elaborate Lives * Everything's Coming up Roses * If I Loved You * The Impossible Dream (The Quest) * A Lot of Livin' to Do * One * Some Enchanted Evening * Tell Me on a Sunday * Thoroughly Modern Millie * Till There Was You * What I Did for Love * and more.

Mary Poppins: Piano Selections

(2011)

This collection features 17 easy piano arrangements of songs from the popular London and Broadway musical based on the classic Disney film. Songs include: Anything Can Happen * Being Mrs. Banks (Parts 1 and 2) * Chim Chim Cher-ee * Feed the Birds * Let's Go Fly a Kite * A Man Has Dreams * Practically Perfect * A Spoonful of Sugar * Step in Time * Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious * Temper, Temper * and more.

The Best Broadway Songs Ever

(1985)

We've made this book even better with the addition of songs from some of Broadway's latest blockbusters such as Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Les Miserables, and more - over 70 songs in all! Highlights include: All I Ask of You * As Long As He Needs Me * Bess, You Is My Woman * Bewitched * Camelot * Climb Ev'ry Mountain * Comedy Tonight * Don't Cry for Me Argentina * Everything's Coming Up Roses * Getting to Know You * I Could Have Danced All Night * I Dreamed a Dream *...

Hairspray: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Hit Broadway Musical

(2003)

Hairspray is a musical with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray. The songs include 1960s-style dance music and "downtown" rhythm and blues. In 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, plump teenager Tracy Turnblad's dream is to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance program based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show. When Tracy wins a role on the show, she becomes a celebrity overnight....

Hairspray: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Hit Broadway Musical

Les Miserables: Vocal / Piano Selections

(1987)

This terrific songbook features 14 vocal selections from the beloved Broadway musical: At the End of the Day * Bring Him Home * Castle on a Cloud * Do You Hear the People Sing? * Drink with Me (To Days Gone By) * Empty Chairs at Empty Tables * A Heart Full of Love * I Dreamed a Dream * In My Life * A Little Fall of Rain * Master of the House * On My Own * Stars * Who Am I?. Also includes beautiful full-color photos from the production.

Les Miserables: Vocal / Piano Selections

The Sound of Music: Vocal Selections

(1981)

11 songs: Climb Ev'ry Mountain * Do-Re-Mi * Edelweiss * I Have Confidence * The Lonely Goatherd * Maria * My Favorite Things * Sixteen Going on Seventeen * So Long, Farewell * Something Good * The Sound of Music.

Kids' Broadway Songbook

(2001)

This landmark collection of music originally sung onstage by children was released in 1993, and has become the most used collection of theatre music for kids. Now this same collection is available with a much needed companion CD of piano accompaniments. Child singers can practice with the recording as many times as they like ... until they drive Mom and Dad crazy! Includes: Castle on a Cloud * Gary, Indiana * I Whistle a Happy Tune * It's the Hard-Knock Life * Let Me Entertain You * Tomorrow * W...

Wicked - Piano/Vocal Arrangement

(2004)

Nominated for a whopping 10 Tony Awards in 2005, Wicked is an undeniable Broadway smash! A prequel to the all-American classic The Wizard of Oz, this new musical is a character study of Elphaba and Glinda, school roommates who grow up to become the Wicked Witch and the Good Witch, respectively. We are very proud to offer several songbooks featuring this delightful music, including a Vocal Selections book which contains the vocal line with piano accompaniment (00313268), and a Piano/Vocal Selecti...

Oh, Calcutta!

(2000)

Oh! Calcutta! is an avant-garde theatrical revue, created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan. The show, consisting of sketches on sex-related topics, debuted Off-Broadway in 1969 and then in London in 1970. It ran in London for over 3,900 performances, and in New York initially for 1,314. Revivals enjoyed even longer runs, including a Broadway revival that ran for 5,959 performances, making the show the longest-running revue in Broadway history at the time. It is currently the sixth longest...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

(2000)

"Mr. Sondheim fearlessly explores psychic caverns where civilized people are not dying to go ... A naked Sweeney Todd stands revealed as a musical of naked rage, chewing up everyone in its path as it spits out blood and tears." - Frank Rich, The New York Times ¥ "A work of such scope and such daring that it dwarfs every other Broadway musical that even attempts to invite comparison." - Rex Reed, New York Daily News

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sunday in the Park with George

(2000)

Winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize! "Sunday is itself a modernist creation, perhaps the first truly modernist work of musical theatre that Broadway has produced ... a watershed event that demands nothing less than a retrospective, even revisionist, look at the development of the serious Broadway musical."- Frank Rich, The New York Times Magazine

A Little Night Music: Libretto

(2000)

"Throwing caution to the winds, I assert that A Little Night Music comes as close as possible to being the perfect romantic comedy musical." -Brendan Gill, The New Yorker "Heady, civilized, sophisticated and enchanting. Good God! An adult musical." -Clive Barnes, The New York Times

A Little Night Music - Vocal Selections

(2010)

This completely new edition, created with Sondheim's approval, contains 13 newly edited and engraved songs based on the composer's piano/vocal manuscript sources. Includes: Now * Later * Soon * Remember? * You Must Meet My Wife * Liaisons * In Praise of Women * Every Day a Little Death * Night Waltz * It Would Have Been Wonderful * Send in the Clowns * The Miller's Son * The Glamorous Life.

A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical

(2000)

It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the showÕs birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent - and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since. For a generation of theater people and theatergoers, A Chorus Line was and is the touchstone that defines the glittering promise, more often realized in lengend than in reality,...

A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical

Four by Sondheim

(2000)

The complete book and lyrics with set and costume designs, production photos, essays, cast lists and credits, awards for major productions, selected discographies, and much more! Includes the shows A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. A richly illustrated Sondheim treasury!

Rent: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical

(2008)

Finally, an authorized libretto to this modern day classic! Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score for Jonathan Larson. The story of Mark, Roger, Maureen, Tom Collins, Angel, Mimi, JoAnne, and their friends on the Lower East Side of New York City will live on, along with the affirmation that there is "no day but today." Includes 16 color photographs of productions of Rent from around the world, plus an introducti...

Rent: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical

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