wyszukanych pozycji: 26
Make Believe: The Broadway Musical in the 1920's
ISBN: 9780195105940 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The 1920s represented a turning point in the history of the Broadway musical, breaking with the vaudeville traditions of the early twentieth century to anticipate the more complex, sophisticated musicals of today. Composers Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and their contemporaries revitalized the musical with the sound of jazz and other new influences. Productions became more elaborate, with dazzling sets, tumultuous choreography, and staging tricks, all woven into tightly constructed story lines. These dramatic changes of the 1920s ushered in the "golden age" of...
The 1920s represented a turning point in the history of the Broadway musical, breaking with the vaudeville traditions of the early twentieth century t...
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276,19 zł |
Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s
ISBN: 9780195140583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The 1950s saw an explosion in the American musical theater. The Broadway show, catapulted into the limelight in the 20s and solidified during the 40s thanks to Rodgers and Hammerstein, now entered its most revolutionary phase, brashly redefining itself and forging a new kind of storytelling. In Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s, Ethan Mordden gives us a guided tour of this rich decade.
With loving detail, Mordden highlights the shift in Broadway from shows that were mere star vehicles, showcasing a big-name talent, to the bolder stories, stuffed with character and... The 1950s saw an explosion in the American musical theater. The Broadway show, catapulted into the limelight in the 20s and solidified during the 40s ...
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73,72 zł |
Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s
ISBN: 9780195117103 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The 1950s saw an explosion in the American musical theater. The Broadway show, catapulted into the limelight in the 20s and solidified during the 40s thanks to Rodgers and Hammerstein, now entered its most revolutionary phase, brashly redefining itself and forging a new kind of storytelling. In Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s, Ethan Mordden gives us a guided tour of this rich decade.
With loving detail, Mordden highlights the shift in Broadway from shows that were mere star vehicles, showcasing a big-name talent, to the bolder stories, stuffed with character and... The 1950s saw an explosion in the American musical theater. The Broadway show, catapulted into the limelight in the 20s and solidified during the 40s ...
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276,19 zł |
The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen: The Last Twenty-Five Years of the Broadway Musical
ISBN: 9780312239541 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For Ethan Mordden, the closing night of the hit musical, 42nd St. sounded the death knell of the art form of the Broadway musical. After that, big orchestras, real voices, recognizable books and intelligent lyrics went out the window in favor of cats, helicopters, yodeling Frenchmen, and the roof of the Paris Opera. Mordden takes us through the aftermath of the days of the great Broadway musical. From the long-running Cats to Miss Saigon, Phantom, and Les Miserables, to gems like The Producers, he is unsparing in his look at the remains of the... For Ethan Mordden, the closing night of the hit musical, 42nd St. sounded the death knell of the art form of the Broadway musical. After tha... |
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170,01 zł |
All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago
ISBN: 9780190651794 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Author Ethan Mordden tells the full story of Chicago-a play, a silent film, a talkie remake, a musical, and a movie musical-to unveil the racy satire inherent in American musical comedy.
Author Ethan Mordden tells the full story of Chicago-a play, a silent film, a talkie remake, a musical, and a movie musical-to unveil the racy satire ...
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143,61 zł |
Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s
ISBN: 9781403960139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the 1960s, the Broadway musical underwent a revolution. What was once a form of entertainment characterized by sentimental standards, such as Camelot and Hello, Dolly became one of brilliant and bittersweet masterpieces, such as Cabaret and Fiddler on the Roof. In Open a New Window, Mordden continues his history of the Broadway musical with the decade that bridged the gap between the fanciful shows of the fifties, such as Call Me, Madam, and the sophisticated fare of the seventies, including A Little Night Music and Follies. Here... In the 1960s, the Broadway musical underwent a revolution. What was once a form of entertainment characterized by sentimental standards, such as |
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95,35 zł |
Broadway Babies: The People Who Made the American Musical
ISBN: 9780195054255 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Vividly recreating the unique pleasure of experiencing a song-and-dance show, Broadway Babies spotlights the men and women who made a difference in the development of American musical comedy. Mordden's account features such show people as Florenz Ziegfeld, Harold Prince, Bert Lahr, Gwen Verdon, Angela Lansbury, Victor Herbert, Liza Minnelli, and Stephen Sondheim, and such musicals as Sally, Oh Kay , Anything Goes, Show Boat, Oklahoma , Follies, Chicago, and countless others.
While theatrical historians traditionally have emphasized the role of the authors of musicals, Mordden also... Vividly recreating the unique pleasure of experiencing a song-and-dance show, Broadway Babies spotlights the men and women who made a difference in th...
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209,56 zł |
Love Song: The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
ISBN: 9780312676575 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Noted historian of the Broadway musical chronicles the braided lives of two of the twentieth century's most influential artists For the first time, Ethan Mordden chronicles the romance of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya in Love Song, a dual biography that unfolds against the background of the tumultuous twentieth century, scored to music from Weil's greatest triumphs: Knickerbocker Holiday, Lost in the Stars, Lady in the Dark, Happy End, One Touch of Venus and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. The romance of Weill, the Jewish cantor's son, and Lenya,... Noted historian of the Broadway musical chronicles the braided lives of two of the twentieth century's most influential artists For the f... |
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165,86 zł |
The Jewcatcher
ISBN: 9780595516643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,86 zł |
Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s
ISBN: 9780195128512 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Music and girls are the soul of musical comedy," one critic wrote, early in the 1940s. But this was the age that wanted more than melody and kickline form its musical shows. The form had been running on empty for too long, as a formula for the assembly of spare parts--star comics, generic love songs, rumba dancers, Ethel Merman. If Rodgers and Hammerstein hadn't existed, Broadway would have had to invent them; and Oklahoma and Carousel came along just in time to announce the New Formula for Writing Musicals: Don't have a formula.
Instead, start with strong characters and atmosphere:... "Music and girls are the soul of musical comedy," one critic wrote, early in the 1940s. But this was the age that wanted more than melody and kickline...
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240,00 zł |
Gays on Broadway
ISBN: 9780190063108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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117,10 zł |
On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide
ISBN: 9780199394814 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In On Sondheim, renowned author Ethan Mordden takes the reader on a tour of Stephen Sondheim's work, arguing for the importance and appeal of the composer-lyricist in American theater and, even more, in American culture. Over the course of eighteen shows, Mordden demonstrates that Sondheim is a classical composer who happens to write musicals. Sondheim has intellectualized the musical by tackling serious content usually reserved for the spoken stage: nonconformism (in Anyone Can Whistle, 1964), history (in Pacific Overtures, 1976), and cannibalism as a metaphor for...
In On Sondheim, renowned author Ethan Mordden takes the reader on a tour of Stephen Sondheim's work, arguing for the importance and appeal of...
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121,92 zł |
On Streisand: An Opinionated Guide
ISBN: 9780190651763 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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99,50 zł |
I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore: The Buddies Cycle
ISBN: 9780312141127 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "We have traded tales, my buddies and I; of affairs, encounters, secrets, fears, self-promotion-of fantasies that we make real in the telling." In this, the first volume in Ethan Mordden's acclaimed trilogy on Manhattan gay life, he introduces a small group of friends-Dennis Savage, Little Kiwi, Carlos, and the narrator, Bud-and chronicles their exploration of the new world of gay life and the new people they are in the process of becoming. In a voice at once ironic, wistful, witty, and profound, Mordden investigates his suspicion that all of gay life is stories and that,... "We have traded tales, my buddies and I; of affairs, encounters, secrets, fears, self-promotion-of fantasies that we make real in the telling." |
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78,76 zł |
Opera Anecdotes
ISBN: 9780195056617 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this book unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore, alternately hilarious, poignant, and wise. Ethan Mordden has mined the literature for "the best stories" and retells them in the fresh and witty style that prompted Publishers Weekly to hail him as "one of the most entertaining and provocative writers around."
Mordden has selected a vast collection of classic, arcane and unusual anecdotes, including Giuseppe Verdi's advice on how to run an opera house and how to write an aria, Enrico Caruso's... From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this book unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore, alter...
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64,08 zł |
Pick a Pocket or Two: A History of British Musical Theatre
ISBN: 9780190877958 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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133,97 zł |
Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre
ISBN: 9780190227937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ethan Mordden has been hailed as "a sharp-eared listener and a discerning critic," by Opera News, which compares his books to "dinner with a knowledgeable, garrulous companion." The "preeminent historian of the American musical" (New York Times), he "brings boundless energy and enthusiasm buttressed by an arsenal of smart anecdotes" (Wall Street Journal). Now Mordden offers an entirely fresh and infectiously delightful history of American musical theatre.
Anything Goes stages a grand revue of the musical from the 1700s through to the present day, narrated in Mordden's famously witty,... Ethan Mordden has been hailed as "a sharp-eared listener and a discerning critic," by Opera News, which compares his books to "dinner with a knowledge...
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90,59 zł |
Buddies: A Continuation of the Buddies Cycle
ISBN: 9780312010058 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "What unites us, all of us, surely is brotherhood, a sense that our friendships are historic, designed to hold Stonewall together," muses on character in Ethan Mordden's Buddies. This need for friendship, for nonerotic affection, for buddies, shines forth as an American obsession from Moby-Dick through Of Mice and Men to The Sting. And American gay life has built upon and cherished these relationships, even as it has dared-perhaps its most startling iconoclasm-to break new ground by combining romance and friendship: one's lover is one's buddy. This book is... "What unites us, all of us, surely is brotherhood, a sense that our friendships are historic, designed to hold Stonewall together," muses on charac... |
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78,76 zł |
When Broadway Went to Hollywood
ISBN: 9780199395408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way - George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart, among many others - were enticed westward by Hollywood studios' promises of national exposure and top dollar success. But what happened when writers native to the business of Broadway ran into the very different business of Hollywood? Their movies had their producer despots, their stacking of writing teams on a single project, their use of five or six songs per...
When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great W...
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117,10 zł |
Everybody Loves You: A Continuation of the Buddies Cycle
ISBN: 9780312033347 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A gay ghost, a talking dog, and a street kid who thinks he's an elf-child join our narrator Bud, best friend Dennis Savage, eternally young Little Kiwi, devastating hunk Carlo, and the other characters from I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore and Buddies in this final volume in Mordden's trilogy on gay life in the big city. And there's trouble in paradise: Dennis Savage is suffering midlife crisisl; his lover little Kiwi who uses sex as a weapon, threatens to tear apart the delicate fabric of this gay family of buddies, lovers, and brothers and the AIDS crisis... A gay ghost, a talking dog, and a street kid who thinks he's an elf-child join our narrator Bud, best friend Dennis Savage, eternally young Little ... |
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95,35 zł |