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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In [this book], Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Applause Theater & Cinema books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
This updated edition of one of the bestselling and comprehensive Broadway reference books, first published in 1985, has been expanded to include many of the most important and memorable productions of American musical theater, including revivals. Arranged chronologically, beginning with musicals from just after the Civil War, each successive edition of the book has added valuable updates about trends in musical theater as well as capsule features...
Author
Language
English
Description
A backstage pass to the groundbreaking, hit musical Hamilton, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Eleven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, including the award-winning libretto, behind-the-scenes photos and interviews, and exclusive footnotes from composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda, now streaming on Disney+ with the original cast.
Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary...
Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George"--
In 1982 Lapine, at the beginning of his career as a playwright and director, met Stephen Sondheim, nineteen years his senior and already a legendary Broadway composer and lyricist. Shortly thereafter, the two decided to write a musical inspired by Georges Seurat's nineteenth-century painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte....
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"A contemporary musical that explores how one suburban household copes with crisis. With provocative lyrics and an electrifying score of more than thirty original songs, Next to normal shows how far two parents will go to keep themselves sane and their family's world intact"--From publisher description.
12) Chess in concert
Series
Publisher
Reprise Records
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The story of a romantic triangle between two top players, an American and a Russian, in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other, all in the context of the Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Author
Series
Chance to fly volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After moving across the country, thirteen-year-old Natalie auditions for her new school's play and overcomes her fears and insecurities about performing in a wheelchair.
Publisher
Sesame Street
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Come imagine, sing and learn along with Elmo in his very own math filled musicals. Will he be able to escort six kitty cows through a canyon to the Double Double Dude Dude Ranch Ranch? In another musical Elmo is a detective searching for a cube that is causing people to sneeze, can you be his assistant and help him investigate? There are many more adventures to enjoy in this monster sized dvd.
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