Burlesque: A Living History
ISBN: 9781593934699 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Join the journey-discover burlesque when it was part of a large theatrical world filled with dance, comedy, and live music. BURLESQUE: A Living History captures the spirit of this unique art form through hundreds of photographs and stories from many who were a part of America's most colorful past. This book highlights the careers and contributions of selected artists, many of whom were the nuts and bolts of burlesque. It also acknowledges just some of the young performers of today who are diligently working to remember the days of old. When burlesque theatres and clubs went dark, a whole...
Join the journey-discover burlesque when it was part of a large theatrical world filled with dance, comedy, and live music. BURLESQUE: A Living Histor...
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145,47 zł |
Getting Gigs! the Musician's and Singer's Survival Guide to Booking Better Paying Jobs
ISBN: 9780970677327 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive guide to getting the best paying gigs for musicians and singers, from local to international stages - with or without an agent A music business veteran gives the inside track to creating a profitable career performing music from local clubs to international cruise ships. This new updated edition includes interviews with successful musicians and entertainment directors who share their secrets in landing the best paying gigs. Also includes directories of resources for further research.
Unquestionably the best book ever written on finding gigs - Michelle W. Benton,... A comprehensive guide to getting the best paying gigs for musicians and singers, from local to international stages - with or without an agent A musi...
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109,45 zł |
To Broadway, to Life!: The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick
ISBN: 9780195390070 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In fourteen years of collaboration, composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick wrote seven of Broadway's most beloved and memorable musicals together, most famously Fiddler on the Roof (1964), but also the enduring audience favorite She Loves Me (1963), and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Fiorello (1959). With their charm, humor, and boundless musical invention, their musicals have won eighteen Tony Awards and continue to capture the imaginations of millions around the world. To Broadway, To Life : The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick is the first...
In fourteen years of collaboration, composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick wrote seven of Broadway's most beloved and memorable musicals tog...
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258,36 zł |
Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919: From Greenwich Village Follies to The Toxic Avenger
ISBN: 9780810877719 / Angielski / Twarda / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume, Thomas Hischak looks at more than 375 Off-Broadway productions, from the early decades of the 20th century through 2010. These musicals are described, discussed, and analyzed with particular attention given to their books, scores, performers, and creators.
In this volume, Thomas Hischak looks at more than 375 Off-Broadway productions, from the early decades of the 20th century through 2010. These musical...
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716,61 zł |
Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway: Situating the Western Experience in Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780230111448 / Angielski / Twarda / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of dramas such as Augustus Thomas's Arizona (1900), Owen Wister and Kirke La Shelle's The Virginian (1904), Edwin Milton Royle's The Squaw Man (1905), David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West (1905), William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide (1906), and Rachel Crothers's The Three of Us (1906) not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace. By focusing on how...
Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of dramas such as Augustus Th...
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193,19 zł |
Man with a Load of Mischief: Complete Script of the Musical
ISBN: 9780976084662 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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38,81 zł |
All for the Best: How Godspell Transferred from Stage to Screen
ISBN: 9781593936778 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Off-Broadway hit musical Godspell became a worldwide cultural phenomenon in 1972 when, just over a year after its award-winning emergence on stages around the world and with the Top 20 Billboard hit "Day by Day," Columbia Pictures decided to film and release it on the silver screen across the globe. In the process, it created cinematic history for its use of locations around New York City (including the then-unfinished World Trade Center) and, at the same time, accomplished the nearly-impossible by taking a small stage show--one that had been originally created as a college thesis--and...
The Off-Broadway hit musical Godspell became a worldwide cultural phenomenon in 1972 when, just over a year after its award-winning emergence on stage...
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116,56 zł |
Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater
ISBN: 9780195398267 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From patriotic "God Bless America" to wistful "White Christmas," Irving Berlin's songs have long accompanied Americans as they fall in love, go to war, and come home for the holidays. Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater is the first book to fully consider this songwriter's immeasurable influence on the American stage. Award-winning music historian Jeffrey Magee chronicles Berlin's legendary theatrical career, providing a rich background to some of the great composer's most enduring songs, from "There's No Business Like Show Business" to "Puttin' on the Ritz." Magee shows how...
From patriotic "God Bless America" to wistful "White Christmas," Irving Berlin's songs have long accompanied Americans as they fall in love, go to war...
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253,37 zł |
Kiss Me, Kate: Vocal Score
ISBN: 9780571532865 / Angielski / Miękka / 999 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cole Porter's musical that incorporates Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew within his own story. This was Porter's 'comeback' musical and was indeed his most successful.
Titles: Always True to You in My Fashion * Another Op'nin', Another Show * Bianca * Brush Up Your Shakespeare * I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple * I Hate Men * I Sing of Love * I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua * Overture--Kiss Me, Kate * So in Love * Tom, Dick, or Harry * Too Darn Hot * We Open in Venice * Were Thine That Special Face * Where Is the Life That Late I Led? * Why Can't You Behave? *... Cole Porter's musical that incorporates Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew within his own story. This was Porter's 'comeback' musical and was indee...
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120,81 zł |
Les Misérables, for musical and movie lovers who have not read Victor Hugo's novel
ISBN: 9783906000183 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is written for those inspired by the musical and movie versions of Les Misérables who have not yet tackled Victor Hugo’s 1200-page masterpiece. The novel is pervaded by two central conflicts. The first is the conflict between love and justice. Love is championed by the bishop and, later, by Valjean. Justice is the supreme god of the fanatical Police Inspector Javert. The second is the conflict between love and egotism. Found within the heart of Jean Valjean himself, it is barely discernable in the Jean Valjean of the musical; but without it, the central character of Hugos novel...
This book is written for those inspired by the musical and movie versions of Les Misérables who have not yet tackled Victor Hugo’s 1200-page master...
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72,37 zł |
Ship Without a Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart
ISBN: 9781416594260 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A deeply sympathetic biography of Lorenz Hart, the talented, troubled lyricist of film and Broadway fame. Marmorstein has done an enormous service for fans of stage and movie musicals" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). "Blue Moon," "Where or When," "The Lady Is a Tramp," "My Funny Valentine," "Isn't It Romantic?," "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"--these are just some of the unforgettable songs that lyricist Lorenz "Larry" Hart wrote together with composer Richard Rodgers. A Ship Without a Sail is the story of the exuberant yet troubled Hart, who wrote so...
"A deeply sympathetic biography of Lorenz Hart, the talented, troubled lyricist of film and Broadway fame. Marmorstein has done an enormous service...
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82,39 zł |
All I Ever Wanted Was A B Cup: Memoir of a Rockette and Broadway Veteran
ISBN: 9781618633668 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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70,76 zł |
"All I Ever Wanted Was A B Cup"
ISBN: 9781618633682 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This funny showgirl's memoir takes readers behind the curtain, and straight into the dressing room. Mary Lee DeWitt Baker started out as a flat-chested dreamer competing in the world of show business, where perfection is the norm. She endured and overcame battles with bullying and repeated rejection. She shares her most intimate and epic wardrobe malfunction, which led to a life-changing decision. This author loves to share a good laugh, and gives witty inside tips like how to survive a five-show day, balance an oversized headdress, and audition do's and don'ts. And, above all, in the event...
This funny showgirl's memoir takes readers behind the curtain, and straight into the dressing room. Mary Lee DeWitt Baker started out as a flat-cheste...
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230,62 zł |
The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together
ISBN: 9781416576518 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. - An important and useful skill: In education, collaborative classroom learning is replacing head-to-head competition. In business, the best leaders are team-builders who can inspire great group efforts. Tharp uses her decades of experience to explain why teamwork is a superior way of working for some of us and inevitable for almost all of us. .
- The essential lessons of group effort: Tharp takes readers through the most common varieties of collaborations, including working with a partner, with institutions and middlemen, outside your expertise, in a virtual partnership, with a friend,... - An important and useful skill: In education, collaborative classroom learning is replacing head-to-head competition. In business, the best leaders a...
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73,72 zł |
Broadway Actors in Films, 1894-2015
ISBN: 9780786476855 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many Broadway stars appeared in Hollywood cinema from its earliest days. Some were 19th century stage idols who reprised famous roles on film as early as 1894. One was born as early as 1829. Another was cast in the performance during which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. One took her stage name from her native state. Some modern-day stars also began their careers on Broadway before appearing in films. This book details the careers of 300 performers who went from stage to screen in all genres of film. A few made only a single movie, others hundreds. Each entry includes highlights of the...
Many Broadway stars appeared in Hollywood cinema from its earliest days. Some were 19th century stage idols who reprised famous roles on film as early...
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309,55 zł |
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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127,33 zł |
Tradition Und Utopie: Eine Werkschau Zum 70. Geburtstag Des Komponisten Wilfried Hiller
ISBN: 9783631621042 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die jungst einsetzende wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk des Komponisten Wilfried Hiller, geboren 1941, wird hier dokumentiert mit dem Blick auf die Werke der spaten Schaffensjahre: Die Analysen reichen vom biografisch-historischen Kontext des Chagall-Zyklus uber die zentralen Werke des Hillerschen Kindermusiktheaters (Das Traumfresserchen, Peter Pan, Pinocchio), die Fallstricke der Nonsense-Oper Die Jagd nach dem Schlarg, die mythologischen Grundlagen des Buchs der Sterne, die Lebensballade Oswald von Wolkenstein bis zu den theologischen...
Die jungst einsetzende wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk des Komponisten Wilfried Hiller, geboren 1941, wird hier dokumentiert mit dem...
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258,16 zł |
Audiovisual Media and Music Culture: Translated from Slovak by Barbora Patočková
ISBN: 9783631591390 / Angielski / Twarda / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the present time electronic media are the most powerful factory that influence music culture. They change social functions of music, they affect musical behavior, music taste and aesthetic ideals of the society. The power of film, television and other media is based on the fact that the media trigger complex audiovisual perceptions or they determine the ways of how music evokes extra-musical imaginations. Audiovisual Media and Music Culture struggles to systematize and classify the basic categories of audiovisual communication, it explains music in media as a category of space and...
In the present time electronic media are the most powerful factory that influence music culture. They change social functions of music, they affect mu...
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186,11 zł |
Super Sidekick: The Musical
ISBN: 9780573700965 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festival, Best of Fringe When famous superhero Blackjack the Bold is kidnapped by an evil sorcerer, it's up to his assistant Inky to step up and save the day Little does he know that he'll also have to contend with Ninja Koalas, dark caves, secret weapons, and an abducted princess who's considerably braver than he is. Colorful characters, witty humor, and an upbeat catchy score make Super Sidekick: The Musical... Winner 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festival, Best of Fringe |
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69,16 zł |
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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312,72 zł |