How to Direct a Musical

ISBN-13: 9780878300525 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 200 str.

David Young; Brian Clark;Young David

Opis

This is a step-by-step guide for anyone interested in creating a musical play. Writing in a style that is informal and accessible, David Young covers all aspects of directing, from initial casting through to dress rehearsals and the first performances. The range is comprehensive, covering choreography and musical direction as well as strictly dramatic theatrical presentation. A useful feature of the book is a diary that chronicles the decisions and reasoning of the director of a professional production, allowing the reader to examine the creative thought processes involved in bringing a musical to the stage.

Spis treści

Part I: Before Rehersals Begin: 1. The Guide; 2. The Diary; 3. Director's Book; 4. Plot of the Musical Fanny; 5. Checklist of Important Points in Each Musical Production; 6. Script Analysis; 7. Setting the Style of Your Musical - Exploring the Musicals of the 1980s and 1990s; 8. First Exercise; 9. Collaborating with Designers, Crew, and Staff (first production meeting); 10. Specifics: costumes and wigs, sets (design and sketches), makeup, sound and lights, props and set dressing, stage manager, production book, rehearsal pianist; 11. Musical Director and Choreographer; 12. The Director Who Stages His/Her Own Dances; 13. For the Director Who Has Never Staged a Dance Number; Part II: Auditions and Casting: 14. Sample Notice; 15. Early Challenges; Part III: The Beginning - First Rehearsals: 16. Rehearsal Schedule; 17. Sample Autobiographies; 18. Blocking (samples to use); 19. Staging the Musical Numbers (Diagrams Included); 20. Comparison of Similarities in Musical Numbers; 21. Putting Together a Multicultural Musical Revue; Part IV: Working With Singer/Dancers on Acting - The Early Stages: 22. Where Are We?; 23. Listening: a Most Important Tool; 24. Characterization; 25. Think Time for the Director; 26. Improvisation Theatre Games - To Help Strengthen and Enliven Rehearsals as the Pressure Begins; Part V: Specific Challenges - Midway: 27. Pulling the Musical Numbers Together; 28. Talking about Comedy; 29. Farce - A Special Kind of Comedy; 30. Stage Fights - How We Did Them!; 31. Accents; 32. Helping Singers to Age Realistically; 33. Aging Americans and the Theatre; 34. More Production Meetings; 35. Microphones; 36. Orchestra Rehearsals; 37. Update and Relaxers; 38. Run Through; Part VI: Pacing, Blending, Streamlining: 39. Pauses, How to Eliminate the Unwanted Ones; 40. Special Rehearsal; 41. Sorting Out; 42. Plugging Along - Then Disaster; 43. Concentration - The Dustin Hoffman Story; 44. Videotaping could Help; 45. Publicity and Photographs - Necessary Interruptions; Part VII: Ontage - Finally: 46. Lights/Sound, Dry Tech; 47. Rehearsals with Sets, Costumes, and Tech; 48. More Observations; 49. Some Breakthroughs; 50. Fine-Tuning the Songs; 51. Last Dress Rehearsals - Progress; 52. Staging the Curtain Calls; 53. Preview; 54. Opening Night; 55. Evaluation; Part VIII: Appendices: 56. Understanding and Directing Young People and Teens; 57. Concerning Special Talents, or Whose Disability is it Anyway?; 58. How to Stage Musical Numbers; 59. The Choreographer/Director; 60. Computers for the Musical Theatre.

O autorze

David Young is Producing Director of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.