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Pal Joey - Vocal Selections (1981)

This special edition features 14 piano/vocal selections from the Rodgers and Hart favorite: Bewitched * Do It the Hard Way * A Great Big Town (Chicago) * I Could Write a Book * What Is a Man? * and more, plus a history of this beloved musical.
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Paint Your Wagon - Vocal Score (1952)

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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Once Upon a Mattress - Vocal Selections (1981)

The vocal score including all 14 songs to this musical by Richard Rodger's daughter Mary. Includes: Happily Ever After * In a Little While * Normandy * Sensitivity * Shy * Song of Love * Yesterday I Loved You * and more.
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Of Thee I Sing (1931)

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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No Strings - Vocal Selections (1981)

Includes 8 selections from this 1962 Richard Rodgers musical, starring Richard Kiley and Diahann Carroll. Songs: La-La-La * Loads of Love * Look No Further * Love Makes the World Go * Maine * No Strings * Nobody Told Me * The Sweetest Sounds.
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My One and Only - Vocal Selections (1937)

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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My Fair Lady - Vocal Selection (1981)

7 vocal selections from one of the most influential musicals of the Fifties. Includes: Get Me to the Church on Time * I Could Have Danced All Night * I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face * On the Street Where You Live * Show Me * With a Little Bit of Luck * Wouldn't It Be Loverly.
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Me and Juliet - Musical Play (1953)

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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Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris - Vocal Selections (1981)

22 vocal selections from the popular review, including: Amsterdam * Brussels (Bruxelles) * Carousel (La Valse a Mille Temps) * I Loved (J'aimais) * If We Only Have Love (Quand on N'a Que L'amour) * Old Folks (Les Vieux) * You're Not Alone (Jef) * and more.
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I Can Get It For You Wholesale - a Musical Play (1962)

I Can Get It for You Wholesale is a musical with music and lyrics by Harold Rome and a book by Jerome Weidman based on his 1937 novel of the same title. It marked the Broadway debut of 19-year-old Barbra Streisand, who was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. The story is set in the New York City garment district in 1937, during the Great Depression, and the songs utilize traditional Jewish harmonies evocative of the setting and the period of the...
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House of Flowers - Vocal Selections (1968)

Vocal Selections / A Sleepin' Bee / Somethin' Cold To Drink / House of Flowers / Two Ladies in DE Shade of DE Banana Tree / Don't Like Goodbyes / Jump DE Broom / Smellin' OF Vanilla / Waitin / Wife Never Understan' / I Never Seen Snow / Madame Tango's Particular Tango / What is a Friend For? / nnnnnnnnn
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Half a Sixpence (1967)

The Musical play based on the novel Kipps by H.G. Wells with music and lyrics by David Heneker. Vocal Score Contents A Proper Gentleman Chittlelow's Return Economy Entr'acte Finale Finale Utlimo Flash, Bang, Wallop Half A Sixpence I Don't Believe A Word Of It I Know What I Am If The Rain's Got To Fall Long Ago Military Canal Underscore Money To Burn Morning Music Overture Party Exit She's Too Far Above Me Shop Ballet Solarium Dance The Old Military Can...
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Funny Girl (Vocal Selections) (1981)

Seven vocal selections from the Fanny Brice story that made Streisand a star. Includes: Don't Rain on My Parade * Funny Girl * His Love Makes Me Beautiful * I'm the Greatest Star * People * Sadie, Sadie * You Are Woman, I Am Man.
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Do I Hear a Waltz? (Vocal Selections) (1981)

Seven vocal selections from the only collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim. Songs include: Do I Hear a Waltz? * Here We Are Again * Moon in My Window * Someone like You * Stay * Take the Moment * Thank You So Much.
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Chicago - Vocal Selections (1981)

Our Broadway Vocal Selections book features a dozen fantastic songs from this Kander and Ebb blockbuster: All I Care About * And All That Jazz * Class * Funny Honey * A Little Bit of Good * Me and My Baby * Mister Cellophane * My Own Best Friend * Nowadays * Razzle Dazzle * Roxie * When You're Good to Mama.
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Can Can (Vocal Selections) (1981)

8 vocal selections from the 1953 Porter musical, including: Allez-Vous-En, Go Away * C'est Magnifique * Can Can * Come Along with Me * I Love Paris * It's All Right with Me * Live and Let Live * Montmartre.
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Camelot (Vocal Score) (1981)

The complete vocal score to the Lerner and Loewe musical featuring 15 tracks: Before I Gaze at You Again * C'est Moi * Camelot * Follow Me * Guenevere * Guenevere's Welcome * How to Handle a Woman * I Loved You Once in Silence * I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight * If Ever I Would Leave You * The Lusty Month of May * March * Seven Deadly Virtues,The * The Simple Joys of Maidenhood * What Do Simple Folks Do.
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The Boys from Syracuse (1981)

The complete vocal score to Rodgers and Hart's musical adaptation of Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors Includes 16 songs, including: Boys from Syracruse * Come with Me * Falling in Love with Love * He and She * Ladies of the Evening * The Shortest Day of the Year * This Can't Be Love * You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea * and more.
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BAKER STREET: A MUSICAL ADVENTURE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1966)

A Musical adapted from the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Conan Doyle
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Babes in Arms (Vocal Selections) (1981)

Six vocal selections from one of the biggest hit-producers from Rodgers and Hart. Includes: Babes in Arms * I Wish I Were in Love Again * Johnny One Note * The Lady Is a Tramp * My Funny Valentine * Where or When.
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Anyone Can Whistle (1981)

The complete vocal score to Sondheim's short-lived 1964 musical. Songs include: Anyone Can Whistle * Everybody Says Don't * Me and My Town * See What It Gets You * There Won't Be Trumpets * There's Parade in Town * With So Little Be Sure Of * and more.
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One Hundred Ten in the Shade (1981)

9 vocal selections from Jones' and Schmidt's follow-up to The Fantasticks, including: Everytng Beautiful Happens@night * Gonna Be Another Hot Day * Is It Really Me? * Little Red Hat (110 in Shade) * Love, Don't Turn Away * A Man and a Woman * One Hundred Ten in the Shade * Raunchy * Simple Little Things.
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Barnum : A Musical Suggested By the Life of P.T. Barnum (1980)

The Tony and Outer Critics Circle Arward-winning musical Barnum ran for over 2 years on Broadway. It follows the ups and downs of P.T.'s varied life, from his fraudulent and sensational promotions to his American Museum and Barnum and Bailey Circus. It takes us backstage as well, giving us a glimpse of his love affairs and marriage. Production photographs are included.
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Three Sisters (1934)

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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Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs (1981)

361 portraits, from 1860s to 1950 of over 400 stars. Informative captions. An illustrious collection, long overdue.
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Encyclopedia of theatre music (1961)

A comprehensive listing of more than 4000 songs from Broadway and Hollywood, 1900-1960
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Ring Bells! Sing Songs! Broadway Musicals of the 1930's (1971)

Broadway Musicals of the 1930's
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Man of LA Mancha (Vocal Score) (1965)

Includes 21 songs: Abduction Aldonza La Mancha Barber's Song The Combat Dubbing Dulcinea Golden Helmet of Mambrino I Really Like Him I, Don Quixote I'm Only Thinking of Him The Impossible Dream (The Quest) It's All the Same Knight of Mirrors Knight of Woeful Count Little Bird Little Bird A Little Gossip Moorish Dance Overture To Each His Dulcinea We're Only Thinking of Him What Does He Want of Me.
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Ten Great Musicals of the American Theatre (1973)

Includes - Of Thee I Sing - Porgy and Bess - One Touch of Venus - Brigadoon - Kiss Me, Kate - West Side Story - Gypsy - Fiddler on the Roof - 1776 - Company
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Better Foot Forward (1976)

The History of American Musical Theatre
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Opera--Dead or Alive: Production, Performance and Enjoyment of Musical Theatre (1972)

Playwright, director, and critic Ronald E. Mitchell offers general readers a richer understanding of traditions, terms, styles, and staging techniques of musical theater, including an introduction to seventeen examples of operas and musicals, from baroque and romantic operas to Gilbert & Sullivan, from proletarian dramas to Broadway shows like Oklahoma.
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Great Musicals of the American Theatre (1976)

Originally published in 1973 under the title Ten great musicals of the American theatre. Includes the librettos of Of thee I sing, Porgy and Bess, One touch of Venus, Brigadoon, Kiss me Kate, West Side story, Gypsy, Fiddler on the roof, 1776, and Company.
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Encyclopedia Of The Musical Theatre (1980)

Drawing equally from Viennese operetta, Parisian cabaret, vaudeville, and Tin Pan Alley, the American musical theatre has thrived in an unprecedented variety of forms and styles as our truest hybrid art. From Show Boat and Oklahoma! to West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, and A Chorus Line, the musical has attracted our finest actors, composers, writers, directors, and choreographers. The greats and near-greats are finally brought together in this essential reference guide to over 2,000 persona...
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King Henry VI (1891)

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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Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 4: Sweet Bird of Youth / Period of Adjustment / The Night of the Iguana (1972)

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in matching format the plays of one of America's most persistently influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes for all full-length plays.
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Chicago And Other Plays (1981)

Includes: Chicago, Icarus's Mother, Red Cross, Fourteen Hundred Thousand, Melodrama Play.
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La Mandragola (1981)

A superior treatment of Machiavelli's minor masterpiece! Flaumenhaft's beautifully crafted, literal translation aims to capture the original intent of the playwright. Machiavelli himself distinguished carefully between translations and revisions; thus, Flaumenhaft finds a faithful translation essential to conveying Machiavelli's thought and to allowing direct access to the work. The Prologue explores the relationship between Machiavelli's stage comedies--part of the Comedia Erudita of the Italia...
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Così è (se vi pare) (1980)

osì è (se vi pare) (English: Right you are (if you think so)) is an Italian drama by Luigi Pirandello. It premiered 18 June 1917 in Milan.
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Learning Through Drama: Report of the Schools Council Drama, Teaching Project (1977)

A guide to teaching drama. It stresses the place of drama in the school curriculum and makes detailed recommendations both on the organization and on the content of drama teaching.
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Polly: an opera (1922)

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 (207)

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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Politics and the Arts (1968)

This excellent translation makes available a classic work central to one of the most interesting controversies of the eighteenth century: the quarrel between Rousseau and Voltaire. Besides containing some of the most sensitive literary criticism ever written (especially of Molière), the book is an excellent introduction to the principles of classical political thought. It demonstrates the paradoxes of Rousseau's though and clearly displays the temperament that led him to repudiate the hopes of ...
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Ghosts and Other Plays (1964)

The plays in this volume focus on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them. In "Ghosts", Osvald Alving returns home only to discover the truth about the father he always looked up to, and learns the horrific effect his father's debauchery has had on him. It was Ibsen's most provocative drama, stripping away the surface of a middle-class family to expose layers of hypocrisy and immorality. "A Public Enemy" sets two brothers against each other when one w...
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The Feast At Solhoug (208)

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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Max: A Play (1972)

A play that satirizes the political confusions of both youthful activists and middle-aged believers in gradual reform. Translated by A. Leslie Willson and Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
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You Never Can Tell (1981)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT III The Clandons' sitting room in the hotel. An expensive apartment on the ground floor, with a French window leading to the gardens. In the centre of the room is a substantial table, surrounded by chairs, and draped with a maroon cloth on which opulently bound hotel and railway guides are displayed. A visitor e...
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Selected Plays (1978)

Francis Russell O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet and art critic. He was a member of the New York School of poetry.
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The Zoo Story and the Sandbox (1959)

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 (1935)

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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Saint Joan of the Stockyards (1970)

"A major Brecht play in an outstanding translation with an expert and up-to-date preface." -- Eric Bentley "... a fine translation.... Jones has handled Brecht's meters with great skill." -- Choice
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