Musicals is an illustrated sourcebook for total theatre training, emphasizing the director's role in the three main building blocks for mounting a performance: preparation, production, and performance. Boland and Argentini provide a comprehensive step-by-step theatre primer which will prove invaluable to musical directors, teachers, administrators, students, and actors. After the initial decisions are made, specific guidelines in preparing the stage picture, holding auditions and casting, and running the gamut of rehearsals are provided. Lighting, costumes, creating sets and scenery, and...

In the grand tradition of Strunk and White's Elements of Style, Paul Argentini presents an essential reference masterpiece in screenwriting. He provides clear and concise principles of screenplay formatting structure, as well as stylistic advice. Argentini explains how to design and format manuscripts to impress any film school professor, story editor, agent, producer or studio executive. No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help screenwriters more than this persistent volume.

Elements of Style for Screenwriters contains:

- A to Z listing of format terms and...

The Fourth Nail by Paul Argentini proves an historical fact. In this stunning revelation of a compelling historical mystery, Paul Argentini's story-telling masterstroke, The Fourth Nail, is in the overlay of the interrelated actions of two men born two millennia apart. In ancient times, we follow the destined path of Marius of Rome from his start as a profligate youth, to the Mid-east where he forges and uses The Fourth Nail to change the entire world forever. His challenge is to leave the love of his life and survive the dangerous journey on the Spice Trail back to Rome where he is...

JIM AND GABBIE as kids find an ardent love in and for each other that is profoundly special. It makes the gods so envious the lovers are challenged at every turn in an effort to keep them apart. Then, a war comes along and succeeds in doing so. The compelling, amazing story of how these fated lovers find each other again simply are the workings of destiny, a doer of miracles, and above all else, love. Like a kaleidoscope, the people to whom Jim completely shares his heart in this story, are reflected in the soul of his being. Not only Gabbie, the love of his life; but also Glenn, his...