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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. 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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40,35 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. 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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158,92 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. 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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554,53 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. 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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297,42 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. 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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583,94 zł |
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The Making of Cabaret
ISBN: 9780199732494 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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560,83 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. 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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205,33 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. (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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91,76 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. (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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82,27 zł |
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The Book of Mormon Script Book: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
ISBN: 9781557049933 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The only official companion book to the Tony Award winner for Best Musical from the creators of South Park and the co-creator of Avenue Q. Features the complete script and song lyrics, with 4-color spot illustrations throughout, an original introduction by the creators, and a foreword by Mark Harris. The Book of Mormon, which follows a pair of mismatched Mormon boys sent on a mission to a place that's about as far from Salt Lake City as you can get, features book, music, and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone. Parker and Stone are the... The only official companion book to the Tony Award winner for Best Musical from the creators of South Park and the co-creator of Avenu... |
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84,50 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. (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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65,14 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. 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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85,71 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. 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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80,66 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. 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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56,43 zł |
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Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History
ISBN: 9781451684575 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "One of the best literary works of this year" (Miami Herald-Tribune): The true story of a theatrical dream--or nightmare--come true...the making of the Spider-Man musical. As you might imagine, writing a Broadway musical has its challenges. But it turns out there are challenges one can't begin to imagine when collaborating with two rock legends and a superstar director to stage the biggest, most expensive production in theater history. Renowned director Julie Taymor picked playwright Glen Berger to cowrite the book for a $25 million Spider-Man musical. Together--along with U2's...
"One of the best literary works of this year" (Miami Herald-Tribune): The true story of a theatrical dream--or nightmare--come true...the makin...
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72,98 zł |
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We Bombed in New London: The Inside Story of the Broadway Musical Late Nite Comic (Hardback)
ISBN: 9781593937089 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the HARDBACK version. WE BOMBED IN NEW LONDON tells the true story of one man's tenacious plight to get his musical mounted. From its romantic inception to its eventual demise and then the score's resurrection in cabarets and recordings, this book takes you on a journey through the ups and downs of the theatrical world with all its excitement, disappointment, laughter and hope. Packed with memorabilia, including rare photos and interviews, this book documents composer/lyricist Brian Gari's minute by minute development of his musical. Fortunately, he saved every scrap of paper, tape...
This is the HARDBACK version. WE BOMBED IN NEW LONDON tells the true story of one man's tenacious plight to get his musical mounted. From its romantic...
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128,91 zł |
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Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical
ISBN: 9781442256682 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Broadway musical has greatly influenced both American and world culture. Shows such as Oklahoma and Annie Get Your Gun are as American as apple pie, while the long runs of imports such as Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Les Miserables have broken records. Shows filled with rock and pop music such as Mamma Mia and Wicked enthrall audiences, and revivals of beloved shows play an important role in contemporary Broadway culture. Actors Ethel Merman, Yul Brynner, Julie Andrews, Bernadette Peters, and Audra McDonald; composers and lyricists Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter,...
The Broadway musical has greatly influenced both American and world culture. Shows such as Oklahoma and Annie Get Your Gun are as American as apple p...
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619,48 zł |
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The Complete Book of 1960s Broadway Musicals
ISBN: 9781442230712 / Angielski / Twarda / 622 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the 1960s may have been a decade of significant upheaval in America, it was also one of the richest periods in musical theatre history. Shows produced on Broadway during this time include such classics as Bye, Bye Birdie; Cabaret; Camelot; Hello Dolly ; Fiddler on the Roof; How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying; Oliver ; and Man of La Mancha. Performers such as Dick Van Dyke, Anthony Newley, Jerry Orbach, and Barbara Streisand made their marks, and other talents--such as Bob Fosse, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Jerome Robbins, and Stephen...
While the 1960s may have been a decade of significant upheaval in America, it was also one of the richest periods in musical theatre history. Shows pr...
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648,74 zł |
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U N?: R U in or out of the UN?
ISBN: 9781490409474 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,35 zł |
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Nirvana Joe's: A Heavenly Place to Eat and Live
ISBN: 9781490418223 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,35 zł |
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