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It's True
ISBN: 9781478321248 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "It's True" is an adventure, the pursuit of the most important goal in life, and finding it. Three young men in the English medieval period search for the eternal quest: the woman they alone choose love. It takes one thousand years, but each eventually finds theirs. In Act I there are songs, humor, and some wisdom of the ages for good measure. The audience comes to know famous poet icons, Chaucer, Shakespeare and several Romantic Poets. Each surely would know about love, one would think. What is it? How to know? They stumble for answers, and the audience enjoys: to laugh at, to laugh with and...
"It's True" is an adventure, the pursuit of the most important goal in life, and finding it. Three young men in the English medieval period search for...
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96,95 zł |
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The History Lesson
ISBN: 9781490405810 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The History Lesson - A New Play The History Lesson is a political play which exposes, through dramatization of a teacher/student relationship, the "behind the scenes" aspects of the wealthy elite (Bilderberg Group et. al.) planning, executing and manipulating "globalization" and the propaganda that is instilled in the American psyche. High school senior Scott flunks his History final because he writes of his researched truth instead of what was covered in the class: traditional, conventional and accepted truths about history which are slanted by the rich victors who write history. This causes...
The History Lesson - A New Play The History Lesson is a political play which exposes, through dramatization of a teacher/student relationship, the "be...
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45,10 zł |
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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
ISBN: 9781495056581 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The complete book of music and lyrics for Rogers and Hammerstein's classic musical Carousel
The complete book of music and lyrics for Rogers and Hammerstein's classic musical Carousel
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72,96 zł |
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To Broadway, to Life!: The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick
ISBN: 9780199328062 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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161,64 zł |
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Beating Broadway: How to Create Stories for Musicals That Get Standing Ovations
ISBN: 9781481223027 / Angielski / Miękka / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The popularity of musicals has reached an all-time high leading to the development of numerous original shows. In this comprehensive new guide, Beating Broadway: How to Create Stories for Musicals That Get Standing Ovations, written by veteran storyteller and successful creator of musicals Steve Cuden, readers learn how the plots and stories behind musicals are developed and honed. With a breezy, lighthearted approach, creators at all levels are provided key advice for building winning musical stories. Cuden, who has been there, done that, offers writers the know-how and... The popularity of musicals has reached an all-time high leading to the development of numerous original shows. In this comprehensive new guide, Bea... |
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103,49 zł |
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The Cherry Orchard: A new musical based on Anton Chekhov's Play
ISBN: 9781481971157 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) It is always exciting when a new musical can be produced. This finished version of "The Cherry Orchard" has had years of being refined, polished and rewritten until the author was satisfied. For a musical to work successfully there are several elements that must be present: the story, the actions that the characters have upon each other, music and lyrics which create mood, drama and humor. The "Cherry Orchard" has all of this. The script of "The Cherry Orchard" has a wonderful flow and always keeps the viewer interested in the next moment. The score expands that enjoyment. It is rare to have...
It is always exciting when a new musical can be produced. This finished version of "The Cherry Orchard" has had years of being refined, polished and r...
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45,10 zł |
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The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical
ISBN: 9780813563343 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Broadway musicals are one of America's most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often thought to be just frothy entertainment, really have to say about our country and who we are as a nation?The Great White Way is the first book to reveal the racial politics, content, and subtexts that have haunted musicals for almost one hundred years from Show Boat (1927) to The Scottsboro Boys (2011). Musicals mirror their time periods and reflect the political and social issues of their day. Warren Hoffman investigates the...
Broadway musicals are one of America's most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often thoug...
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169,64 zł |
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The Great White Way : Race and the Broadway Musical
ISBN: 9780813563350 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Broadway musicals are one of America's most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often thought to be just frothy entertainment, really have to say about our country and who we are as a nation?The Great White Way is the first book to reveal the racial politics, content, and subtexts that have haunted musicals for almost one hundred years from Show Boat (1927) to The Scottsboro Boys (2011). Musicals mirror their time periods and reflect the political and social issues of their day. Warren Hoffman investigates the...
Broadway musicals are one of America's most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often thoug...
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591,95 zł |
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Make Believe: The Broadway Musical in the 1920's
ISBN: 9780195105940 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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302,27 zł |
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American Musical Theatre Chronicle 4e C
ISBN: 9780199729708 / Angielski / Twarda / 1032 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Hailed as "absolutely the best reference book on its subject" by Newsweek, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle covers more than 250 years of musical theatre in the United States, from a 1735 South Carolina production of Flora, or Hob in the Well to The Addams Family in 2010. Authors Gerald Bordman and Richard Norton write an engaging narrative blending history, critical analysis, and lively description to illustrate the transformation of American musical theatre through such incarnations as the ballad opera, revue, Golden Age musical, rock musical, Disney musical, and, with 2010's American...
Hailed as "absolutely the best reference book on its subject" by Newsweek, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle covers more than 250 years of musical...
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598,25 zł |
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The Making of Cabaret
ISBN: 9780199732494 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A handy and engaging chronicle, this book is the most detailed production history to date of the original Broadway version of Cabaret, showing how the show evolved from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories, into John van Druten's stage play, a British film adaptation, and then the Broadway musical, conceived and directed by Harold Prince as an early concept musical. With nearly 40 illustrations, full cast credits, and a bibliography, The Making of Cabaret will appeal to musical theatre aficionados, theatre specialists, and students and performers of musical theatre.
A handy and engaging chronicle, this book is the most detailed production history to date of the original Broadway version of Cabaret, showing how the...
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573,58 zł |
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Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater
ISBN: 9780393067156 / Angielski / Twarda / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Showtime brings the history of Broadway musicals to life in a narrative as engaging as the subject itself. Beginning with the scandalous Astor Place Opera House riot of 1849, Larry Stempel traces the growth of musicals from minstrel shows and burlesques, through the golden age of Show Boat and Oklahoma , to such groundbreaking works as Company and Rent. Stempel describes the Broadway stage with vivid accounts of the performers drawn to it, and detailed portraits of the creators who wrote the music, lyrics, and stories for its shows, both beloved...
Showtime brings the history of Broadway musicals to life in a narrative as engaging as the subject itself. Beginning with the scandalous Asto...
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219,19 zł |
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Avenue Q: The Musical: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
ISBN: 9781423489047 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) (Applause Libretto Library). Anyone who grew up watching Sesame Street on public television will quickly be able to identify the inspiration for Avenue Q . Most of the characters in the show are puppets, and the set depicts several tenements on a rundown street in New York City. Several characters are parodies of Sesame Street regulars: for example, the roommates Rod and Nicky are based on Bert and Ernie, while Trekkie Monster is based on Cookie Monster. However, these characters are in their twenties and thirties and face adult problems; despite the fuzzy faces, this is not a children's...
(Applause Libretto Library). Anyone who grew up watching Sesame Street on public television will quickly be able to identify the inspiration for Avenu...
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81,39 zł |
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Oklahoma!: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
ISBN: 9781423490562 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) (Applause Libretto Library). Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's...
(Applause Libretto Library). Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and es...
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72,96 zł |
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The Sound of Music: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
ISBN: 9781423490791 / Angielski / Miękka / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) (Applause Libretto Library). The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world's most beloved musical. When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious life, she is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed naval captain. Her growing rapport with the youngsters, coupled with her generosity of spirit, gradually captures the heart of the stern captain, and they marry. Upon returning from their honeymoon they discover that Austria has been invaded by the Nazis, who demand the captain's immediate service in their navy. The...
(Applause Libretto Library). The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world's most beloved musical. When a pos...
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72,96 zł |
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A Purple Summer: Notes on the Lyrics of Spring Awakening
ISBN: 9781557838247 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) (Applause Books). In February 1999, Steven Sater conceived the radical notion of creating a rock musical from Frank Wedekind's notorious Symbolist drama, Fruhlings Erwachen, and he enlisted his friend and writing partner Duncan Sheik in the enterprise. That night, Sater came home and began writing the first lyric of Spring Awakening: "Mama Who Bore Me" a lyric which still stands, verbatim, just as he first wrote it. Ten years later, in the wake of the enormous international success of this groundbreaking, multiaward-winning show, its original director, Michael Mayer, urged Sater to write...
(Applause Books). In February 1999, Steven Sater conceived the radical notion of creating a rock musical from Frank Wedekind's notorious Symbolist dra...
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55,62 zł |
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How Musicals Work: And How to Write Your Own
ISBN: 9781848421752 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This invaluable inside account, written by a writer and director of many successful musicals, is jam-packed with great advice, information, and exercises designed to help new musicals reach their full potential. It's the ultimate guide to what to do and not do when you're putting your show together. This invaluable inside account, written by a writer and director of many successful musicals, is jam-packed with great advice, information, and exe... |
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86,51 zł |
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Acting Through Song: Techniques and Exercises for Musical-Theatre Actors
ISBN: 9781848422292 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A rewarding and revelatory guide to improving a singer's performance that draws from the techniques of modern actor training and applies them to musical theatre. Written from experience, with dozens of exercises and numerous examples, Acting Through Song is a comprehensive and rigorous acting course for musical theatre students and performers seeking to realize their potential.
A rewarding and revelatory guide to improving a singer's performance that draws from the techniques of modern actor training and applies them to music...
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81,42 zł |
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The Sound of Musicals
ISBN: 9781849430180 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this entertaining new title, Ruth Leon tells all about the composers, the lyricists, the directors, and the pioneers of the stage musical on both sides of the Atlantic while trying to reveal the truth behind the eternal question--what are musicals and why do we love them? In this entertaining new title, Ruth Leon tells all about the composers, the lyricists, the directors, and the pioneers of the stage musical on bot... |
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78,11 zł |
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The Girl I Left Behind Me
ISBN: 9781849431972 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) What is it that makes women in trousers so appealing? A provocative, flirtatious, personal one-woman guide through musical theater and the tradition of cross-dressing female protagonists. Jessica Walker's one-woman show, written with Neil Bartlett, conjures up an entire cross-dressing history, from Victorian musical halls to Mozart to the Harlem Renaissance. What is it that makes women in trousers so appealing? A provocative, flirtatious, personal one-woman guide through musical theater and the traditio... |
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57,23 zł |
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