Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform
ISBN: 9780520271777 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill s complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater s key figures. Hinton shows how Weill s experiments with a range of genresfrom one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-operabecame an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career. Confronting the divisive notion of two Weills one European, the other AmericanHinton adopts a broad and inclusive perspective, establishing criteria that allow aspects of...
In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill s complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twent...
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247,12 zł |
Audrey Wood and the Playwrights
ISBN: 9781137270627 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history.
From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwright...
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193,19 zł |
Something's Coming, Something Good: West Side Story and the American Imagination
ISBN: 9781557837660 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Applause Books). Something's Coming, Something Good: West Side Story and the American Imagination takes a critical, comprehensive look at one of the most inventive, influential, and internationally beloved Broadway musicals of all time from its inception by a brilliant quartet of creators (Robbins, Bernstein, Sondheim, and Laurents) to its smashing success on film, to its ongoing popularity on stages around the world and its potent impact on the Great American Musical. Featuring intriguing chapters on West Side Story in relation to Romeo and Juliet; as a recording phenomenon; as a film rated...
(Applause Books). Something's Coming, Something Good: West Side Story and the American Imagination takes a critical, comprehensive look at one of the ...
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86,69 zł |
So You Want To Be In Musicals?
ISBN: 9781848421509 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An invaluable guide to how to start and maintain a career in musical theatre, from one of the most successful and brightest stars of The West End and Broadway, Ruthie Henshall.
An invaluable guide to how to start and maintain a career in musical theatre, from one of the most successful and brightest stars of The West End and ...
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82,32 zł |
American Musical Theater
ISBN: 9780195379600 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American Musical Theater provides a chronological history of musical theater within a cultural context. Covering the major artistic trends, seminal works, and leading figures in the field, the text uses case study musicals in each chapter as a lens through which to explore themes and developments in the evolution of musical theater over time. In addition to exposing students to the musical theater canon, author James Leve encourages them to think across the disciplines, drawing on their knowledge of music, literature, popular culture, and history. For anyone from diehard musical theater fans...
American Musical Theater provides a chronological history of musical theater within a cultural context. Covering the major artistic trends, seminal wo...
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655,85 zł |
Act One: An Autobiography
ISBN: 9781250050892 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moss Hart's Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great American memoirs, a glorious memorial to a bygone age filled with all the wonder, drama, and heartbreak that surrounded Broadway in the early twentieth century. Hart's story inspired a generation of theatergoers, dramatists, and readers everywhere as he eloquently chronicled his impoverished childhood and his long, determined struggle to reach the opening night of his first Broadway hit. Act One is the quintessential American success story.
Moss Hart's Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great America...
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108,41 zł |
Popular Singing and Style: 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781472518644 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second edition of the highly successful Popular Singing serves as a practical guide to exploring the singing voice while helping to enhance vocal confidence in a range of popular styles. The book provides effective alternatives to traditional voice training methods, and demonstrates how these methods can be used to create a flexible and unique sound. This updated and thoroughly revised edition features a new chapter on training for popular singing, which incorporates recent movements in teaching the discipline across the globe, taking into account recent developments in... This second edition of the highly successful Popular Singing serves as a practical guide to exploring the singing voice while helping to enh... |
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140,81 zł |
Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater
ISBN: 9780199381012 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 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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157,00 zł |
Alone: A Musical Dramedy - Libretto
ISBN: 9780615770529 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sid Lexic is the worst composer on Broadway, and a notorious womanizer. In the midst of his latest quest to discover his artistic voice, Sid falls in love with the star of his latest show - a vivacious young woman named Rona Exic, who has a fond taste for British desserts. But when things between Sid and Rona fall apart, Sid is forced to face the demons of his past and present.
Sid Lexic is the worst composer on Broadway, and a notorious womanizer. In the midst of his latest quest to discover his artistic voice, Sid falls in ...
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27,32 zł |
Alone: A Musical Dramedy - Piano-Vocal Selections
ISBN: 9780615770550 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sid Lexic is the worst composer on Broadway, and a notorious womanizer. In the midst of his latest quest to discover his artistic voice, Sid falls in love with the star of his latest show - a vivacious young woman named Rona Exic, who has a fond taste for British desserts. But when things between Sid and Rona fall apart, Sid is forced to face the demons of his past and present.
Sid Lexic is the worst composer on Broadway, and a notorious womanizer. In the midst of his latest quest to discover his artistic voice, Sid falls in ...
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72,85 zł |
Sondheim and Lloyd-Webber: The New Musical
ISBN: 9781480386495 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Applause Books). In this third volume of the distinguished The Great Songwriters series, musicologist Stephen Citron takes on two leading contributors to the lyric stage, Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd-Webber. By exploring the works of these two giants of musical theater and those of their contemporaries, Citron also simultaneously guides readers along the winding path of musical theater. Beginning with Sondheim's lyrics-only works West Side Story, Gypsy, and Do I Hear A Waltz ? through his scores for A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park, and Into...
(Applause Books). In this third volume of the distinguished The Great Songwriters series, musicologist Stephen Citron takes on two leading contributor...
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108,37 zł |
Musical Youth
ISBN: 9781493141425 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,77 zł |
Oliver!: A Dickensian Musical
ISBN: 9780199364824 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the show was first produced in 1960, at a time when transatlantic musical theatre was dominated by American productions, Oliver already stood out for its overt Englishness. But in writing Oliver , librettist and composer Lionel Bart had to reconcile the Englishness of his Dickensian source with the American qualities of the integrated book musical. To do so, he turned to the musical traditions that had defined his upbringing: English music hall, Cockney street singing, and East End Yiddish theatre. This book reconstructs the complicated biography of Bart's play, from...
When the show was first produced in 1960, at a time when transatlantic musical theatre was dominated by American productions, Oliver already...
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238,54 zł |
The Art of Singing: The Science of Emotions
ISBN: 9781490716664 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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255,50 zł |
Stanislavski Never Wore Tap Shoes: Musical Theater Acting Craft
ISBN: 9781499101072 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finally, a book about acting on the musical stage Ask any director who stages musicals at any level, and you will hear the same: acting is the musical theater gold standard, the skill hardest to find in the audition room. Acting facility almost always separates leading player from ensemble, and, frequently, employed from unemployed. In film or on the dramatic stage, great acting stands in the spotlight. It has its own dressing room. It's paid top dollar and walks the red carpet. Yet in the musical theater just a little acting skill goes a long, long way. With only a measure of dramatic...
Finally, a book about acting on the musical stage Ask any director who stages musicals at any level, and you will hear the same: acting is the musica...
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90,84 zł |
Studying Musical Theatre: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781137270948 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ideal accompaniment to any study of musical theatre, this lively textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory and practice of this popular theatre form. Bringing critical theory and musical theatre together, it focuses on a diverse range of key shows - from HMS Pinafore (1878) to Mamma Mia (1999) and Imago (2013). The ideal accompaniment to any study of musical theatre, this lively textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory and practice... |
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135,59 zł |
Studying Musical Theatre: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781137270955 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ideal accompaniment to any study of musical theatre, this lively textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory and practice of this popular theatre form. Bringing critical theory and musical theatre together, Millie Taylor and Dominic Symonds explore the musical stage from a broad range of theoretical perspectives, including narrative theory, orientalism, gender theory and globalization.Focusing on opera as well as musical theatre, Studying Musical Theatre considers dozens of diverse shows from 1607 to the present day. From Monteverdi to Mamma Mia, and from HMS...
The ideal accompaniment to any study of musical theatre, this lively textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory and practice of...
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417,35 zł |
Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre
ISBN: 9780190227937 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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97,68 zł |
We'll Have Manhattan: The Early Work of Rodgers & Hart
ISBN: 9780199929481 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are one of the defining duos of musical theater, contributing dozens of classic songs to the Great American Songbook and working together on over 40 shows before Hart's death. With hit after hit on both Broadway and the West End, they produced many of the celebrated songs of the '20s and '30s--such as "Manhattan," "The Lady is a Tramp," and "Bewitched"--that remain popular favorites with great cultural resonance today. Yet the early years of these iconic collaborators have remained largely unexamined. We'll Have Manhattan: The Early Work of Rodgers &...
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are one of the defining duos of musical theater, contributing dozens of classic songs to the Great American Songbook a...
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292,96 zł |
Secrets of Stage Success
ISBN: 9781848423756 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two of London's biggest musical theater stars answer questions submitted by the public on a wide range of theatrical topics. Louise Dearman (Elphaba and Glinda in Wicked, London West End) and Mark Evans (Elder Price in The Book of Mormon, North America Tour), both West End regulars, offer an exciting glimpse behind the scenes and illuminate the mysteries that musical theater fans are most eager to uncover. Two of London's biggest musical theater stars answer questions submitted by the public on a wide range of theatrical topics. Louise Dearman (Elphab... |
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49,37 zł |