Music of film and stage Books
Faber Music Ltd Songscape Assembly with 2 CDs
Book SynopsisIdeal for assembly, classroom and concert use. Designed to develop young singers' confidence, the vocal ranges are for Key Stages 2-3 and many include an optional second part. The keyboard accompaniments are well within the grasp of pianists of moderate ability and complete performances and backing tracks are included in the CDs.Table of ContentsAnother time, another place; Being different; Believe; Can you hear my voice?; Cardboard city; Child of tomorrow; Free as a bird; I can go the distance; In our hands; Making a home; Maybe; Our world; Show me a mountain; Starlight; That’s what friends are for; This life of mine; We are the children of Europe; We will smile, we will sing; We’re aiming high; Whatever I do; The world of my tomorrow.
£23.75
Faber Music Ltd Howard Goodalls Songs from the Musicals
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsThere She Goes (Bend it Like Beckham); The Chances Are (Girlfriends); Day Follows Day (The Hired Man); Miss Hardcastle’s Wedding (The Kissing Dance); The Dreaming (The Dreaming); Not Ideal (The Stunners’ Opera); The Sorrow of My Fate (Two Cities); Lorca (Days of Hope); Glorious (Bend it Like Beckham); The Same Sun Shines (A Winter’s Tale); Nocturnes (Love Story); Days of Hope (Days of Hope); If I Could (The Hired Man); Wake Me, O Wake Me (Girlfriends); The Tyranny of a Lie (A Winter’s Tale); The Kissing Dance (The Kissing Dance); There I Will Be (Anna Karenina)
£20.90
Faber Music Ltd Cats definitive edition
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsOverture; Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats; The Naming Of Cats; The Old Gumbie Cat; The Rum Tum Tugger; Grizabella: The Glamour Cat; Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town; Mungojerrie And Rumpleteazer; Old Deuteronomy; Song Of The Jellicles And The Jellicle Ball; Grizabella: The Glamour Cat/Memory; Introduction to Act 2/The Moments of Happiness; Gus: The Theatre Cat; The Awefull Battle Of The Pekes And Pollicles; Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat; Macavity: The Mystery Cat; Magical Mister Mistoffelees; Memory; Journey To The Heaviside Layer; The Ad-dressing Of Cats; Finales 1, 2 and 3; Playout
£22.50
Faber Music Ltd SIX The Musical Songbook
Book SynopsisSIX the musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss has been hailed as, ‘the most uplifting piece of new British musical theatre’ (The Evening Standard) and is the phenomenon everyone is losing their head over! Critically acclaimed across the UK the sell-out intoxicating musical tells the story of the six wives of Henry VIII.Table of ContentsEx-Wives; No Way; Don’t Lose Ur Head; Heart of Stone; Haus of Holbein; Get Down; All You Wanna Do; I Don’t Need Your Love; Six
£17.09
Faber Music Ltd SIX The Musical Easy Piano
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsEx-Wives; No Way; Don’t Lose Ur Head; Heart of Stone; Haus of Holbein; Get Down; All You Wanna Do; I Don’t Need Your Love; Six
£13.29
Faber Music Ltd In The Heights movie selections
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIn the Heights; Breathe; ¡No Me Diga!; It Won’t Be Long Now; 96,000; Piragua; When You’re Home; Blackout; ¡Paciencia Y Fe!; Alabanza; When the Sun Goes Down; Champagne; Home All Summer
£17.99
Faber Music Ltd Sweeney Todd Brass Band Score and Parts Faber
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£52.49
Faber Music Ltd Highlights from Bugsy Malone
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£56.99
Samuel French Ltd Noahs Ark
Book SynopsisThis dramatization of the Bible story gives twenty to thirty 7-10 year olds a chance to practise their acting skills. Miming actions and props and using their voices for songs and sound effects, they learn how to relax, stand still and work together as a chorus. The moral lesson of the play won''t go amiss either, as the Noah family battle with hostility and intolerance from Nasty Neighbours to create the Ark saving themselves and the Animals from the Flood.-Large flexible cast
£11.91
Samuel French Ltd A Christmas Carol
Book SynopsisPretty, singable music, witty lyrics and plenty of scope for dancing and colorful staging make this musical version of a well loved story a real piece of Christmas cheer. Tremble with Scrooge at the sight of Marley''s ghost and rejoice with him when he sees the errors of his ways, feel sorry for Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim, and take comfort from the good spirits of Christmas who make everything right in the end.Large flexible cast
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd Dream Date
Book SynopsisDream Date is a teenage comic-strip magazine which crams its pages, and the heads of some of those who read it, with glamorous fantasies of romance, pop stars and boyfriends. Contrasted with this is the central character, Kathy, a sixteen year old who has turn her back on her own life and friends in search of a fantastic Mr. Right, as personified in the feature articles of Dream Date.Large flexible cast
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd The Hired Man
Book SynopsisBased on Melvyn Bragg''s stirring novel of rural and industrial working life early in the twentieth century, The Hired Man tells of one family''s - Bragg''s grandparents'' - journey from land laborers to colliers and back to the land. The superb score is a marvelous succession of chorales, operatic duets and vigorous foot stomping rhythms.5 women, 14 men
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd First Time A Musical Acting Edition S
Book SynopsisThis original and enjoyable show is best described as a musical revue which takes a light hearted look at the first time experience and feelings all of us have or will come up against. Each song and sketch is associated with the word 'first' in one way or another-- First Child, First Job, First Glance, First Family Christmas, First Bite(!). The show can be presented simply but effectively on an open stage, and the large number of characters provides the opportunity for a mixed cast to play a variety of interesting parts, with doubling. A great success in England.9 women, 9 men
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd A Slice of Saturday Night
Book SynopsisThe Heather Brothers'' homage to swinging sixties music was a smash hit at the King''s Head Theatre and it enjoyed a long run after transferring to London''s Arts Theatre.-5 women, 4 men
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd Sherlock Holmes
Book SynopsisBased on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle--Cover.
£11.99
Samuel French Ltd Scrooge The Musical
Book SynopsisIn 1970, renowned writer-composer-lyricist Leslie Bricusse adapted the classic Charles Dickens tale, A Christmas Carol, into the hit screen musical Scrooge!. Now available as a charming stage musical, Scrooge! has enjoyed a hugely successful tour of England and a season at London''s Dominion Theatre starring the late Anthony Newly. Included are six new songs not performed in the film. Now this sure-fire audience pleaser is available in two versions: as a full-length musical and in a 55-minute adaptation that is ideal for small theatre groups and schools, where it can be performed as a short play or as part of a seasonal concert.Large flexible cast
£13.49
Samuel French Ltd A Tale of Two Cities
Book SynopsisDickens''s novel of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities, is brought vividly to life in this musical adaptation, which was successfully premi?red at the Thameside Youth Theatre in January 1990.6 women, 13 men
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd Moll Flanders
Book SynopsisDaniel Defoe''s famous eighteenth-century novel about a girl born in Newgate Gaol: Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia whoat last grew Riche, liv''d in Honest and died a Penitent is brought to the stage in this rumbustious musical written by Claire Luckham.4 women, 5 men
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd Shake Ripple and Roll
Book SynopsisChildren''s Musical / Cast: 10 principals, chorusScenery: Unit setThis exuberant, fun packed musical written for a large cast of young people features a glitzy rock ''n'' roll score and plenty of action. Unless Joey Nobody and private detective Dirk Manley find Angelo''s will in time, bogus heir Deanne la Domme, the glamorous film star, will sell Angelo''s New York ice cream parlour to Crazy Flavors. So get out the bobby socks and join Chuck and the gang as they rock in this sizzling hour long musical for schools and youth groups.
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd Large As Life Acting Edition S
Book SynopsisThis joyous and exhilarating musical encounters five very different couples and a single woman embarking on an exciting journey -- the women are pregnant. To some this is a welcome surprise, to some a carefully planned event, to others a cause for worry and confusion. When the big delivery night arrives, with joy and with sadness, this musical shines with an understanding of natural development, never forsaking hope!
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd The Canterville Ghost
Book SynopsisWhen a brash American family stay at the gothic English stately home, Canterville Chase, they fail to be the least bit frightened by Sir Simon, a ghost who is condemned by a curse to haunt the house. The young Virginia, however, searches out the ghost and embarks on a mission to set him free.
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd The Selfish Giant
Book SynopsisA giant builds a high wall around his beautiful garden to prevent the children from playing in it. However, a valuable lesson is taught when the wall keeps the spring from returning and the garden remains in winter all year round. This is an adaptation of Oscar Wildes's short story.
£11.91
Samuel French Ltd Around the Pond in 80 Days
Book SynopsisCome with us on the incredible adventures of Phileas Frog and Pasper Toad as they attempt to go Around The Pond In 80 Days. Follow our intrepid heroes as they face all kinds of perils journeying over land, through water and beyond the clouds in this fabulous family fable based on the Jules Verne novel of nearly the same name.Large flexible cast
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd Aladdin
Book SynopsisWritten for London''s Theatre Royal, Stratford East, this pantomime combines all the traditional elements with original characterisations, imaginative and innovative staging ideas and witty, melodic songs.-Large flexible cast
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd Worzel Gummidge
Book SynopsisFollowing the successful television series based on Barbara Euphan Todd''s children''s classic, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall and Denis King bring us a new, effervescent stage musical of the story of Worzel Gummidge. The naughty, petulant, greedy, yet always lovable scarecrow is here with all the familiar characters: Aunt Sally, Sergeant Beetroot and Sue and John. Brought to life by the Crowman, Worzel creates havoc and farce wherever he goes in his frenzied efforts to win Aunt Sally''s unwilling hand until he finds himself before the scarecrow court on a very serious charge. But the final resolution is a happy one with a birthday cake enormous enough to satisfy even Worzel''s appetite!5 women, 13 men
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd The Railway Children
Book SynopsisLarge mixed cast of children and adults. May be played by 5m 5f, plus extras. Various simple settings on an open stage E. Nesbit''s well-loved tale of the three Victorian children sent to live in the countryside with their mother after their father has been disgraced for supposedly betraying his country''s secrets is brought vividly to life in this new adaptation, losing nothing of the original spirit of humor, tension, adventure and the final triumph of good over evil. The addition of songs to the action helps to highlight in particular Bobbie''s rite of passage to adulthood from Christmas Is Here! and Posh Talk to Nothing to Fear and Nearly Autumn.
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd The Railway Children
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£14.99
Samuel French Ltd Noir Suspicions
Book SynopsisIn this hard-boiled comic mystery sequel to the ever-popular Murder at Cafe Noir, ex-private eye Rick Archer is now the confused manager of Cafe Noir on the island of Mustique. He is confronted with a corpse on the dock, a mysterious femme fatale, a French blackmailer, and a businessman who wants both the cafe and the woman. Rick is arrested after the blackmailer is murdered in his club. It is up to the audience to convince the magistrate that he is innocent. A tribute to Casablanca with many references to the classic movie, Noir Suspicions is guaranteed to delight audiences whether or not they are familiar with Murder at Cafe Noir.
£12.76
Samuel French Inc Shine
Book SynopsisCharacters: 13 male, 6 female. Various sets. Winner! 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival Award for Excellence Winner! National Music Theatre Network Award! This charming rags to riches romp with a melodic score follows Ragged Dick, Horatio Alger's first best selling hero, from penniless bootblack to budding Wall Street entrepreneur. His adventures bring him face to face with scheming ex convicts, vicious comic villians, kind benefactors and a world of colorful street characters. Set in the New York Centennial summer of 1876, this full of hopes and dreams musical is perfect for the whole family. A charming, feel-good musical. The work's tremendous heart and unabashed celebration of Alger's popular stories are in ample evidence in this appealing musical about the rise from rags to riches. - Meredith Lee, Theatermania SHINE! is one of those wonderful musicals where an audience cares deeply for the hero. Richard Seff's book and Lee Goldsmith's lyrics perfectly capture the Horatio Alge
£11.99
Samuel French Ltd The Sweet Smell of Success
Book SynopsisIt''s New York, 1952. Welcome to Broadway, the glamour and power capital of the universe. J.J. Hunsecker rules it all with his daily gossip column in the New York Globe, syndicated to sixty million readers across America. J.J. has the goods on everyone, from the president to the latest starlet. And everyone feeds J.J. scandal, from J. Edgar Hoover and Senator Joe McCarthy down to a battalion of hungry press agents who attach their news to a client that J.J. might plug. When a young press agent, S
£16.14
Samuel French Inc Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Book SynopsisMusical comedy Based on the story by James Thurber Characters: 5 male, 6 female, and as many extras as desired. Scenery: Various simple sets (or one basic set). On his fortieth birthday Walter Mitty reflects on his drab, ordinary life. Defeated in his quest for wealth and glory by family responsibilities, a mortgage, and a routine job, he creates elaborate fantasies in which he is the hero. His secret world is so enticing that he often loses sight of the boundary between dream and reality and comically slips into his imagination. An attractive would be chanteuse aptly named Willa de Wisp encourages Walter to leave his wife, shed the burdens of suburban living and really live the secret life. Unfortunately it is as unattainable as it is appealing. At the end of the play Walter discovers that he is happily committed to the real world. A thoroughly pleasant musical evening.-- Time.
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Book SynopsisMusicalBook by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson. Music and Lyrics by Carol Hall.Characters: 13 male, 14 female, extras.Unit setThis happy go lucky view of small town vice and statewide political side stepping recounts the good times and the demise of the Chicken Ranch, known since the 1850s as one of the better pleasure palaces in all of Texas. Governors, senators, mayors and even victorious college football teams frequent Miss Mona''s cozy bordello until that puritan neme
£12.76
Samuel French Inc Teller of Tales
Book SynopsisHere is a richly textured musical adventure about the charismatic author of Treasure Island. Young Robert Louis Stevenson defies chronic ill health and Victorian family traditions by going places and taking risks. His high spirits and sparkling talent dazzle London''s literati until a turbulent romance sends him on a reckless odyssey to California. A stranger in colorful old Monterey, he finds that winning at love becomes a life and death struggle to salvage his writing career and save himself. Launched with simultaneous premieres in Scotland and California, Teller of Tales has a powerful script, witty lyrics and a memorable musical score ranging from reel to ragtime.
£16.14
Samuel French Inc Kiss of the Spider Woman
Book SynopsisCharacters: 15 male, 3 female Scenery: Interior Winner of multiple Tony Awards including Best Musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman revamps a harrowing tale of persecution into a dazzling spectacle that juxtaposes gritty realities with liberating fantasies. Cell mates in a Latin American prison, Valentin is a tough revolutionary undergoing torture and Molina is an unabashed homosexual serving eight years for deviant behavior. Molina shares his fantasies about an actress, Aurora (originated on Broadway by Chita Rivera) with Valentin. One of her roles is a Spider Woman who kills with a kiss. Thrilling.-- N.Y. Times. Compelling, beautiful, funny and moving...[Has] a cinematic fluidity and a poetic charge.-- N.Y. Daily News. Creates an entire world out of a prison cell...Dazzling.-- Newsweek.
£13.09
Samuel French Ltd Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens
Book SynopsisMusical Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell. Music by Janet Hood. Characters: 20-25 males, 11-16 females (doubling or expanding possible.) Unit set A celebration of lives lost to AIDS told in free verse monologues with a blues, jazz and rock score, this piece is designed to include the community in a theatrical response to the AIDS crisis. It is often performed as a benefit for fund raising and consciousness raising. Dramatic.---Spectator
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd Pageant
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£14.44
Concord Theatricals Funny You Dont Look Like a Grandmother
£15.15
Samuel French Ltd Zombie Prom
Book SynopsisThis girl-loves-ghoul rock and roll Off Broadway musical is set in the atomic 1950s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down by a zany, tyrannical principal. Pretty senior Toffee has fallen for the class bad boy. Family pressure forces her to end the romance, and he charges off on his motorcycle to the nuclear waste dump. He returns glowing and determined to reclaim Toffee''s heart. He still wants to graduate, but most of all he wants to take Toffee to the prom. The principal orders him t
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd Cougar
Book SynopsisCougar The Musical unleashes three divine but disillusioned women who develop a taste for hot, young men. They let their inner cougar roar and purr, finding self-love and empowerment in the process. The sexy, ferocious cast of three fabulous-over-forty women and one multi-talented boy toy sing and dance their way through a satiating range of original songs, from grinding blues, to doo-wop, to pop to Julio, a romantic ballad, sung to a vibrator. Hilarious, soulful and heartwarming, Co
£14.44
Samuel French Ltd Tumacho
Book SynopsisIn a small town in the Old West, the mayor can’t keep his people from running away or dying at the hands of the local brute. And just when things can’t get any worse, an omen predicts that a demon ghost might soon return to possess one of the town’s few remaining people, and then to ravage the rest. Which tyrant will be more awful, the demon or the brute? And assuming the mayor can’t save the day – for it seems he can’t do much – will Catalina, the town vagrant, be the one who steps up? Tumacho considers hope in the face of evil, the community struggle to act, and demon cuisine, all in a deadpan ode to comedies of yore.
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd War Paint
Book SynopsisHelena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden defined beauty standards for the first half of the twentieth century. Brilliant innovators with humble roots, both were masters of self-invention who sacrificed everything to become the country’s first major female entrepreneurs. They were also fierce competitors whose fifty-year tug-of-war would give birth to an industry. From Fifth Avenue society to the halls of Congress, their rivalry was relentless and legendary – pushing both women to build international empires in a world dominated by men.
£11.99
Samuel French Ltd Dont Hug Me Were Family
Book SynopsisSet in a little north woods Minnesota town, the host of a radio show devoted entirely to ice fishing loses his only advertiser while his wife, a popular host of a book show, has all the advertisers, putting the competitive couple at odds. Their marital problems are compounded when two fish-out-of-water Brooklyn Italians come to the rural Minnesota town, buy the radio station, and turn everything upside down.
£12.76
Samuel French Ltd Judge Jackie
Book SynopsisJudge Jackie Justice rules over her reality television courtroom with an iron fist, presiding over a three-ring circus of America''s most chaotic civil cases. But, when a drop in ratings brings her face to face with the liability of her own love life, the judge must learn to navigate the ludicrous laws of love in this over-the-top courtroom comedy.
£12.76
Random House USA Inc In the Heights
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£26.40
Hal Leonard Corporation Grease Is Still the Word
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£19.54
Hal Leonard Corporation Footloose Vocal Selections Piano Vocal and
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£22.94
Hal Leonard Corporation Singers Musical Theatre Soprano Volume 3
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£18.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Singers Musical Theatre Mezzo Soprano Volume 3
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£18.99
