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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Anything Goes stages a grand revue of the musical from the 1920s through the 1970s, narrated in Ethan Mordden's famously witty, scholarly, and conversational style.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
x, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsilmiles, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had written dozens of Broadway shows, but together they pioneered a new art form: the serious musical play. Their songs and dance numbers served to advance the drama and reveal character, a sharp break from the past and the template on which all future musicals would be built. [This is a portrait of that creative partnership].
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xvii, 312 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In [this book], Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate...
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 720 min.) in 2 containers : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (ii, 161 pages ; 20 cm.)
Description
This course covers the 200-year evolution of American music theater, including the minstrel era, the vaudeville era, the age of ragtime, the revue, and the book musical. Because recorded examples of music from recent Broadway musicals are readily available in retail stores, these are used less frequently here than the older, rarer recordings, without which most listeners would have little knowledge of the sound of the early musicals. The shows chosen...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Since it first opened on Broadway in September, 1964, Fiddler on the Roof has constantly been onstage somewhere, including four Broadway revivals, four productions on London's West End and thousands of schools, army bases and countries from Argentina to Japan. Barbara Isenberg interviewed the men and women behind the original production, the film and significant revivals-- Harold Prince, Sheldon Harnick, Joseph Stein, Austin Pendleton, Joanna Merlin,...
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Description
Broadway hit musical from Tony Award-winning composrer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda. "Hamilton" is the acclaimed new hip-hop musical about the scrappy young immigrant Alexander Hamilton, the $10 Founding Father who forever changed America with his revolutionary ideas and actions. During his life cut too short, he served as George Washington's chief aide, was the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, a loving husband and father, despised...
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