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Lust: A Musical
ISBN: 9780573080982 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aft er their smash-hit success A Slice of Saturday Night, The Heather Brothers have collaborated once again in the wildly entertaining musical Lust, which premiered in London at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in 1993. Based upon Wycherley's Th e Country Wife, this rollicking Restoration revel throws off the shackles of Puritan austerity in a high spirited celebration of "the noblest urge bestowed on us." Ribaldry, romance and drama abound in the hilarious tale of Horner, a notorious London libertine. He charms and seduces his way into the hearts and boudoirs of society ladies, while practising...
Aft er their smash-hit success A Slice of Saturday Night, The Heather Brothers have collaborated once again in the wildly entertaining musical Lust, w...
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81,56 zł |
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Meg and Mog Show
ISBN: 9780573050657 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Th is delightful adaptation by David Wood of Helen Nicoll and Jan Pie kowski's Meg and Mog books brings to life for children the familiar figures they know and love so well. The play ingeniously combines stories from five of the books into an exciting adventure tale. Meg, Mog, and Owl set off to fi nd the ingredients for a getting rid of Steggy spell. Their path leads to a castle, a zoo and to the moon. Lively songs and plenty of audience participation ensure enchantment for all ages."
Th is delightful adaptation by David Wood of Helen Nicoll and Jan Pie kowski's Meg and Mog books brings to life for children the familiar figures they...
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81,56 zł |
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Heart of Gold, the Musical
ISBN: 9780986671616 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Hope Rises From The Ashes..." No one planned to stay in the Porcupine Camp. All anyone hoped for was to find gold fast and get on the next train home. But when the Great Fire of 1911 strikes, something strange happens, and the people of the Porcupine Camp discover that gold isn't only found in the ground... ... It is found in each other. Based on true events that occurred during the Porcupine Gold Rush of the early 20th century, Heart of Gold is a new musical theatre creation exploring the romance, adventure, and hope that is synonymous with Canadian History. Reviews from the... "Hope Rises From The Ashes..." No one planned to stay in the Porcupine Camp. All anyone hoped for was to find gold fast and get on the next trai... |
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80,92 zł |
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Scrooge The Musical: All the songs from the hit show, arranged for piano and voice with guitar chords
ISBN: 9780571537389 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scrooge The Musical started its screen life to celebrate the centennial of Charles Dickens' death in 1970. The return to the Palladium, in the 22nd year of its stage life, coincides with the bi-centennial of Dickens' birth in 1812. This brand new songbook contains all the songs from the hit show, arranged for piano and voice with guitar chords.
Scrooge The Musical started its screen life to celebrate the centennial of Charles Dickens' death in 1970. The return to the Palladium, in the 22nd ye...
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80,66 zł |
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The Scores of Sullivan - Let Me Dream Again - Sheet Music for Voice and Piano
ISBN: 9781528701570 / Angielski / Miękka / 18 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,69 zł |
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When Broadway Went to Hollywood
ISBN: 9780199395408 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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124,33 zł |
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Nothing Like a Dame
ISBN: 9780199941209 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Nothing Like a Dame, theater journalist Eddie Shapiro opens a jewelry box full of glittering surprises, through in-depth conversations with twenty leading women of Broadway. He carefully selected Tony Award-winning stars who have spent the majority of their careers in theater, leaving aside those who have moved on or occasionally drop back in. The women he interviewed spent endless hours with him, discussing their careers, offering insights into the iconic shows, changes on Broadway over the last century, and the art (and thrill) of taking the stage night after night. Chita Rivera...
In Nothing Like a Dame, theater journalist Eddie Shapiro opens a jewelry box full of glittering surprises, through in-depth conversations wit...
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284,13 zł |
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America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years
ISBN: 9780415810074 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America s Songs II: Songs from the 1890's to the Post-War Years continues to tell the stories behind popular songs in our country s history, serving as a sequel to the bestselling "America s Songs: Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley." Beginning in 1890 and ending in post-war America, America's Songs II is a testament to the richness of popular music in the first half of the 20th century. This volume builds on the unique features of the first volume, delving deeper into the nature of the collaboration between well-known songwriters of the time but also... America s Songs II: Songs from the 1890's to the Post-War Years continues to tell the stories behind popular songs in our country s history, servin... |
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708,73 zł |
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America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years
ISBN: 9780415810081 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America s Songs II: Songs from the 1890's to the Post-War Years continues to tell the stories behind popular songs in our country s history, serving as a sequel to the bestselling "America s Songs: Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley." Beginning in 1890 and ending in post-war America, America's Songs II is a testament to the richness of popular music in the first half of the 20th century. This volume builds on the unique features of the first volume, delving deeper into the nature of the collaboration between well-known songwriters of the time but also... America s Songs II: Songs from the 1890's to the Post-War Years continues to tell the stories behind popular songs in our country s history, servin... |
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190,58 zł |
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Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance
ISBN: 9780199997152 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance offers new, cutting-edge essays focusing on song and dance as performative gestures that not only entertain but also act on audiences and performers. The chapters range across musical theater, opera, theater, and other artistic practices, from Glee to Gardzienice, Beckett to Disney, Broadway to Turner-Prize-winning sound installation. The chapters draw together these diverse examples of vocality and physicality by exploring their affect rather than through considering them as texts. The book's contributors...
Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance offers new, cutting-edge essays focusing on song and dance as performative ge...
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677,72 zł |
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Changed for Good
ISBN: 9780195378238 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked," female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this lively book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theatre - performers, creators, and characters -- from the start of the cold war to the present day, creating a new, feminist history of the genre. Moving from decade to decade, Wolf first highlights the assumptions that circulated about gender and sexuality at the time. She then looks at the leading musicals to stress the key aspects of...
From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked," female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned ...
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561,96 zł |
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The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical
ISBN: 9780195385946 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, interdisciplinary field of musical-theater and film-musical studies. Taking the form of a "keywords" book, it introduces readers to the concepts and terms that define the history of the musical as a genre and that offer ways to reflect on the specific creative choices that shape musicals and their performance on stage and screen. The handbook offers a cross-section of essays written by leading experts in the field, organized within broad...
The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, ...
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793,49 zł |
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The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan
ISBN: 9780198167105 / Angielski / Miękka / 1214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan are a performing arts phenomenon. Wildly popular when first produced, they are if anything even more popular today. The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan provides the complete text of all thirteen of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas still being performed today, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado. Each work is thoroughly annotated, with the text, including stage directions, given on the right-hand page, and the notes on the left. The annotations provide a wealth of information--everything from the identity of real-life...
The comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan are a performing arts phenomenon. Wildly popular when first produced, they are if anything even more popular ...
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302,65 zł |
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Show Boat
ISBN: 9780199759378 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and including much new information from early draft scripts and scores, this book reveals how Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern created Show Boat in the crucible of the Jazz Age to fit the talents of the show's original 1927 cast. After showing how major figures such as Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan defined the content of the show, the book goes on to detail how Show Boat was...
Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway h...
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205,37 zł |
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The Sound of Broadway Music: A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations
ISBN: 9780199790845 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Broadway's top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book ever written about these unsung stars of the Broadway musical whose work is so vital to each show's success. The book examines the careers of Broadway's major orchestrators and follows the song as it travels from the composer's piano to the orchestra pit. Steven Suskin has meticulously tracked down thousands of original orchestral...
Broadway's top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but...
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256,35 zł |
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Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady
ISBN: 9780199827305 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few musicals have had the impact of Lerner and Loewe's timeless classic My Fair Lady. Sitting in the middle of an era dominated by such seminal figures as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser, and Leonard Bernstein, My Fair Lady not only enjoyed critical success similar to that of its rivals but also had by far the longest run of a Broadway musical up to that time. From 1956 to 1962, its original production played without a break for 2,717 performances, and the show went on to be adapted into one of the most successful movie musicals of all time in 1964, when it won eight...
Few musicals have had the impact of Lerner and Loewe's timeless classic My Fair Lady. Sitting in the middle of an era dominated by such semin...
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223,89 zł |
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150 Years of Popular Musical Theatre
ISBN: 9780300075380 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Parisian operettas of Jacques Offenbach in the 1850s to such current blockbuster musicals as Les Miserables and Rent, musical theatre has given joy to audiences throughout the world. This lively book--an illustrated history of popular musical theatre--provides a compendium of fascinating details about the origins and development of the genre over a century and a half. From the Parisian operettas of Jacques Offenbach in the 1850s to such current blockbuster musicals as Les Miserables and Rent, music... |
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421,71 zł |
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George Gershwin
ISBN: 9780300192384 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this welcome addition to the immensely popular Yale Broadway Masters series, Larry Starr focuses fresh attention on George Gershwin's Broadway contributions and examines their centrality to the composer's entire career. Starr presents Gershwin as a composer with a unified musical vision--a vision developed on Broadway and used as a source of strength in his well-known concert music. In turn, Gershwin's concert-hall experience enriched and strengthened his musicals, leading eventually to his great "Broadway opera," Porgy and Bess. Through the prism of three major shows--Lady Be... In this welcome addition to the immensely popular Yale Broadway Masters series, Larry Starr focuses fresh attention on George Gershwin's Broadway c... |
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286,84 zł |
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On My Way: The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and Porgy and Bess
ISBN: 9780393240139 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stephen Sondheim has called "Bring my goat " "one of the most moving moments in musical theater history." For years it was assumed that DuBose Heyward--the author of the seminal novella and subsequent play, Porgy, and later the librettist for the opera Porgy and Bess--penned this historic line. In fact, both it and "Oh Lawd, I'm on my way" were added to the play eight years earlier by that production's unheralded architect: Rouben Mamoulian. Porgy and Bess as we know it would not exist without the contributions of this master director. Culling new... Stephen Sondheim has called "Bring my goat " "one of the most moving moments in musical theater history." For years it was assumed that DuBose Heyw... |
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107,99 zł |
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A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical
ISBN: 9780472067725 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Subverting assumptions that American musical theater is steeped in nostalgia, cheap sentiment, misogyny, and homophobia, this book shows how musicals of the 1950s and early 1960s celebrated strong women characters who defied the era's gender expectations. A Problem Like Maria reexamines the roles, careers, and performances of four of musical theater's greatest stars-Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, and Barbra Streisand-through a lesbian feminist lens. Focusing on both star persona and performance, Stacy Wolf argues that each of her subjects deftly crafted characters (both on...
Subverting assumptions that American musical theater is steeped in nostalgia, cheap sentiment, misogyny, and homophobia, this book shows how musicals ...
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112,17 zł |
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