Theatre studies Books
Globe Pequot Press Monologues from the Edge
Book SynopsisStarting with an understanding that all actors are by nature unconventional, Monologues from the Edge presents performers with a wide range of monologues featuring characters who stand outside social norms and ideas of acceptability. Compiled by dramaturg Steve Marsh, this collection includes many contemporary monologues from plays he had the opportunity to review during his time on the nominating committee of the Drama Desk Awards in NYC. Marsh''s sincere theatrical bliss comes from understanding and working with playwrights and their dramatic structures, and his definition of the edge and his choice of dramatic works is sure to inspire all actors who endeavor to understand all of the characters and their motivations completely.
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Globe Pequot Press The Best Mens Monologues from New Plays 2020
Book SynopsisRenowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published men's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both well-known playwrights such as Don Nigro, Theresa Rebeck, Rob Ackerman, Len Jenkin, Stephen Belber, and Tim Blake Nelson, and future stars such as David MacGregor, Reina Hardy, Chris Daftsios, Frank Baslo and Will Arbery. There are terrific comic and dramatic pieces, and all represent the best of contemporary playwriting. This collection is an invaluable resource for aspiring actors hoping to ace their auditions and impress directors and teachers with contemporary pieces.
£14.24
Globe Pequot Press The Best New TenMinute Plays 2020
Book SynopsisThe Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2020 presents thirty new ten-minute plays, selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison. This volume is ideal for theater enthusiasts looking for new and compelling short pieces from some of the finest playwrights of our time. Selections include: Beta Testing by Jenny Lyn Bader The Fourteenth Annual Foot Puppet Festival by Holly Hepp-Galvan Glasstown by Don Nigro Incident on the Golden Gate Bridge by David MacGregor Oxycontin Follies by Steve Gold Two Artists Trying to Pay Their Bill by Lucy Wang The Scottish Loo by J. Thalia Cunningham
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Globe Pequot Press The Best Womens Monologues from New Plays 2019
Book SynopsisRenowned editor Larry Harbison brings together approximately one-hundred never-before-published women's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both well-known playwrights and future stars, including Michael Ross Albert, Don Nigro, Daniel Damiano, Molly Goforth, Seth Svi Rosenfeld, Brian Dykstra, Michael A. Jones, Sam Graber, Penny Jackson, Christi Stewart-Brown, George Sapio, Sarah M. Chichester, Constance Congdon, Steven Hayet, and Ashlin Halfnight.There are terrific comic pieces (laughs) and terrific dramatic pieces (no laughs), and all represent the best of contemporary playwriting. This collection is an invaluable resource for aspiring actors hoping to ace their auditions and impress directors and teachers with contemporary pieces.
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Globe Pequot Press The Best American Short Plays 20182019
Book SynopsisPulitzer Prizewinning playwright Paula Vogel once said that theater helps us learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable with each other. Revolving around the theme of ''this is who we are, the one-act plays in this latest edition of the Best American Short Plays series (now in its ninth decade) explore the thoughtful ways in which playwrights are wrestling to make sense of our world today. The selected plays reflect how we perform our identities (private and public) and how we negotiate who we are with others who often have different perspectives, perspectives that make us uncomfortable. The theme of this collection is topical and aptas our country continues to shore up its borders along party lines, from pride parades to strict abortion laws, from inclusivity in education curricula to children in detention centers at the USMexico border. Each of the plays presents a clear reflection of who we are (and who we aspire to be) as individuals a
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Globe Pequot Press Notes on the Writing of A Gentlemans Guide to
Book SynopsisThe most frequently asked question about writing musicals is, Which comes first, the music or the lyrics? As anyone on Broadway will tell you, the answer is, The book. Tony-winning book writer Robert L. Freedman takes you through the process of writing a new musical, including story structure, song placement, dialogue, character development, and more that led to the creation of A Gentleman''s Guide to Love and Murder, the 2014 Best Musical Tony winner. With candor and insight, Freedman describes the challenging and rewarding growing pains of what the critics called Hilarious! and Ingenious! and said Ranks among the most inspired and entertaining new musical comedies I''ve seen in years.
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Globe Pequot Press ComediesThe
Book SynopsisCurated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeare''s works are given new life and purpose for today''s readers and actors alike. There are twelve titles in this series, which is divided into four categories: monologues for younger men, monologues for older men, monologues for women, and monologues for any gender, the latter being a unique feature since most monologue books are compiled for either men or women. Each book is presented in a smaller format that is more consistent with standard monologue books. Titles in the series: Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Any Gender: The ComediesMonologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Any Gender: The HistoriesMonologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Any Gender: The Tragedies Monologues from Shakespeare's First F
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Globe Pequot Press TragediesThe
Book SynopsisCurated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeare''s works are given new life and purpose for today's readers and actors alike. There are twelve titles in this series, which is divided into four categories: monologues for younger men, monologues for older men, monologues for women, and monologues for any gender, the latter being a unique feature since most monologue books are compiled for either men or women. Each book is presented in a smaller format that is more consistent with standard monologue books. Titles in the series: Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Any Gender: The ComediesMonologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Any Gender: The HistoriesMonologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Any Gender: The Tragedies Monologues from Shakespeare's First Fo
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Globe Pequot Press TragediesThe
Book SynopsisCurated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeare''s works are given new life and purpose for today''s readers and actors alike. There are twelve titles in this series, which is divided into four categories: monologues for younger men, monologues for older men, monologues for women, and monologues for any gender, the latter being a unique feature since most monologue books are compiled for either men or women. Each book is presented in a smaller format that is more consistent with standard monologue books.Titles in the series:Monologues from Shakespeare''s First Folio for Any Gender: The ComediesMonologues from Shakespeare''sFirst Folio for Any Gender: The HistoriesMonologues from Shakespeare''s First Folio for Any Gender: The TragediesMonologues from Shakespeare''s First Folio for Women: The ComediesMonologue
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Globe Pequot Press ComediesThe
Book SynopsisCurated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeare''s works are given new life and purpose for today''s readers and actors alike. There are twelve titles in this series, which is divided into four categories: monologues for younger men, monologues for older men, monologues for women, and monologues for any gender, the latter being a unique feature since most monologue books are compiled for either men or women. Each book is presented in a smaller format that is more consistent with standard monologue books.Titles in the series:Monologues from Shakespeare''s First Folio for Any Gender: The ComediesMonologues from Shakespeare''sFirst Folio for Any Gender: The HistoriesMonologues from Shakespeare''s First Folio for Any Gender: The TragediesMonologues from Shakespeare''s First Folio for Women: The ComediesMonologue
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Globe Pequot Press The Histories
Book SynopsisCurated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeare''s works are given new life and purpose for today''s readers and actors alike. There are twelve titles in this series, which is divided into four categories: monologues for younger men, monologues for older men, monologues for women, and monologues for any gender, the latter being a unique feature since most monologue books are compiled for either men or women. Each book is presented in a smaller format that is more consistent with standard monologue books.Titles in the series:Monologues from Shakespeare''s First Folio for Any Gender: The ComediesMonologues from Shakespeare''sFirst Folio for Any Gender: The HistoriesMonologues from Shakespeare''s First Folio for Any Gender: The TragediesMonologues from Shakespeare''s First Folio for Women: The ComediesMonologue
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Globe Pequot Press TragediesThe
Book SynopsisCurated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeare''s works are given new life and purpose for today''s readers and actors alike. There are twelve titles in this series, which is divided into four categories: monologues for younger men, monologues for older men, monologues for women, and monologues for any gender, the latter being a unique feature since most monologue books are compiled for either men or women. Each book is presented in a smaller format that is more consistent with standard monologue books.Titles in the series:Monologues from Shakespeare''s First Folio for Any Gender: The ComediesMonologues from Shakespeare''sFirst Folio for Any Gender: The HistoriesMonologues from Shakespeare''s First Folio for Any Gender: The TragediesMonologues from Shakespeare''s First Folio for Women: The ComediesMonologue
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Globe Pequot Press The Histories
Book SynopsisCurated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeare''s works are given new life and purpose for today''s readers and actors alike. There are twelve titles in this series, which is divided into four categories: monologues for younger men, monologues for older men, monologues for women, and monologues for any gender, the latter being a unique feature since most monologue books are compiled for either men or women. Each book is presented in a smaller format that is more consistent with standard monologue books. Titles in the series: Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Any Gender: The ComediesMonologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Any Gender: The HistoriesMonologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Any Gender: The Tragedies Monologues from Shakespeare's First F
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Globe Pequot Press TragediesThe
Book SynopsisCurated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeare''s works are given new life and purpose for today's readers and actors alike. There are twelve titles in this series, which is divided into four categories: monologues for younger men, monologues for older men, monologues for women, and monologues for any gender, the latter being a unique feature since most monologue books are compiled for either men or women. Each book is presented in a smaller format that is more consistent with standard monologue books. Titles in the series: Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Any Gender: The ComediesMonologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Any Gender: The HistoriesMonologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Any Gender: The Tragedies Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Women
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Globe Pequot Press A Midsummer Nights Dream
Book SynopsisCurating material from Applause''s Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two by John Russell Brown, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends by Neil Freeman, The Applause Shakespeare Library, and Applause First Folio Editions, we''ve created the must-have workbook series for Shakespeare plays. Along with tips on approaching and working on the play and tackling the speeches, Applause Shakespeare Workbook: A Midsummer Night''s Dream includes highlighted essential passages.To fully appreciate A Midsummer Night?s Dream, it is essential to understand the play as a living text that must be spoken aloud to be fully understood. This workbook provides the tools to more fully explore the text through commentary and understand the rhetorical tradition that Shakespeare was part of, as well as clues offered from the First Folio. Applause Shakespeare Workbook: A Midsummer Night?s Dream includes the Demetrius/Helena scene and speeches from Titania, Oberon, and Theseus. This workbook will open your appreciation for the many diverse possibilities of interpreting the text, which is the key to Shakespeare''s longevity.Other titles available in the series: Applause Shakespeare Workbook: Romeo and JulietApplause Shakespeare Workbook: Julius CaesarApplause Shakespeare Workbook: MacbethApplause Shakespeare Workbook: OthelloApplause Shakespeare Workbook: The Tempest
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Globe Pequot Press Its a Drag
Book SynopsisFavorite examples of cross-dressing or cross-gender performances include Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, Vesta Tilley as Burlington Bertie, Maxine Peake as Hamlet, and Drag Queen RuPaul outrageously fronting the RuPaul Drag Race. Cross-Dressing in Performance tells the story of the different ways performers cross-dress. Janet Tennant looks at many of the memorable performers over the years who have adopted the characters and dress of others, and why they have done so: to tell stories, to amuse, to create memorable alter-egos, to rebel or call attention to social and political issues or merely for reasons of expediency.Tennant examines cross-dressing at different periods of theatrical history in the Western canon, predominantly in Britain and North America. Not following a conventional historical timeline, Tennant instead examines the different types of cross-dressing/cross-gender performance: Boys in Shakespeare, Heroes in Opera, Pantomime Dames, and Drag Qu
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Globe Pequot Press Emily Mann
Book SynopsisEmily Mann: Rebel Artist in the American Theater is the story of a remarkable American playwright, director, and artistic director. It is the story of a woman who defied the American theater''s sexism, a traumatic assault, and illness to create unique documentary plays and to lead the McCarter Theatre Center, for thirty seasons, to a place of national recognition. The book traces and describes Emily Mann''s family life; her coming-of-age in Chicago during the exuberant, rebellious, and often violent 1960s; how sexual violence touched her personally; and how she fell in love with theater and began learning her craft at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while a student at Radcliffe. Mann''s evolution as a professional director and playwright is explored, first at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, where she received an MFA from the University of Minnesota, then in New York City, and again in the Midwest, where she became recognized internationally, marr
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Globe Pequot Press The Best New TenMinute Plays 2021
Book SynopsisThe Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2021 presents thirty new ten-minute plays, selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison. This volume is ideal for theatre enthusiasts looking for new and compelling short pieces from some of the finest playwrights of our time. Selections include:The Architecture of Desire by Brian Leahy DoyleCount Dracula''s Café by Scot WalkerExtended Play by B.V. MarshallGo to the Light by Laurie AllenGreater than Nina by Bruce BonafedeThe Home for Retired Canadian Girlfriends by John BavosoJudas Iscariot''s Day Off by David MacgregorLast Dance with MJ by Lindsay PartainThe Lobster Quadrille by Don NigroMeanwhile at the Pentagon by Jenny Lyn BaderMost Wonderful by Jennifer O''gradyReconcile, Bitch by Desi Moreno-PensonTrumpettes Anonymous by Rex McgregorYou Are Here by Nandita Shenoy
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Globe Pequot Press She Persisted
Book SynopsisShe Persisted: Thirty Ten-Minute Plays by Women over Forty is a collection of plays by members of Honor Roll!, an advocacy group of women over forty. About Honor Roll!:Honor Roll! is an advocacy and action group of women+ playwrights over fortyand our allieswhose goal is our inclusion in theater. The term women+ refers to a spectrum of gender identification that includes women, non-binary identifiers, and trans. We are the generation excluded at the outset of our careers because of sexism, now overlooked because of ageism. We celebrate diversity in theater, and work to call attention to the negative impact of age discrimination alongside gender, race, ethnicity, faith, socioeconomic status, disability, and sexual orientation in the American Theatre and beyond.These women are in their forties and fifties and sixties, and they have been writing a long time, and they are at the height of their craft. These are tight, complex, nuanced pieces of writing, which no oneTable of Contents.
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Globe Pequot Press She Persisted
Book SynopsisShe Persisted: One Hundred Monologues from Plays by Women Over Forty is a collection of monologues from plays by members of Honor Roll!, an advocacy group of women over forty. About Honor Roll!:Honor Roll! is an advocacy and action group of women+ playwrights over fortyand our allieswhose goal is our inclusion in theater. The term women+ refers to a spectrum of gender identification that includes women, non-binary identifiers, and trans. We are the generation excluded at the outset of our careers because of sexism, now overlooked because of ageism. We celebrate diversity in theater, and work to call attention to the negative impact of age discrimination alongside gender, race, ethnicity, faith, socioeconomic status, disability, and sexual orientation in the American Theatre and beyond.These women are in their forties and fifties and sixties, and they have been writing a long time, and they are at the height of their craft. These are tight, complex, nuanced piece
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Globe Pequot Press Magic To Do
Book SynopsisIn Magic to Do, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of Pippin''s opening, two-time Pulitzer Prize jury member Elysa Gardner turns her attention to this innovative show, the musical retelling of the story of Prince Pippin, son of Charlemagne, and his quest for an extraordinary life. Magic to Do dives deep into the legendary clashes, backstage drama, and incredible artistic synergy that produced one of Broadway''s most influential musicals, a show that paved the way for the pop-informed musicals that we know and love today. Full of big personalities, brilliant creative minds, and never-before-told stories, Magic to Do is an intimate look at a moment in history, a time and a place in which popular culture was as defined by conflictbetween the young and the old, idealism and cynicism, creation and destructionas anything else. Gardner draws out this friction through her examination of the creative struggles between Pippin''s director/choreographer, the iconic Bob Fosse, for
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Globe Pequot Press Good Morning Olive
Book SynopsisHamlet calls death that undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.But he''s wrong. Some do return.Each night after the applause dies, the curtain falls, the audience vanishes, the cleaners dust, and the lights are killed, great theatres become dark and silent places. But not always quite empty. That''s when the theatre ghosts make their entrance and strut and fret their hour upon the shadowed boards, illuminated only by the ghost light, the solitary lamp that is required to burn through the night on every Broadway stage.Many of Broadway''s busiest theatres continue to be just as busily haunted by spirits, some with well-known names and histories. Good Morning, Olive (named for one of the most beautiful and temperamental of Broadway''s ghosts) is about the ghosts that haunt theatres in New York and around the world.Broadway is the playground of stars, so it''s probably not surprising to learn that even its ghosts are stars. Me
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Globe Pequot Press Right This Way
Book SynopsisWhen you sit down at a play, movie, or concertor even in front of the TV or scrollinl on youryou are taking part in one of the oldest and most mysterious forms of human behavior. Being part of an audience is an age-old experience that we all crave that has evolved from amphitheaters to screens. Right This Way is a pop history of audiences through the ages.Playbill editor Robert Viagas unfolds the unique aspects of what he calls audiencing with stories from the age of the Greeks to the world of Zoom. He walks through the different types of audiences and the history of their responses, what science has to say about how our brains respond to what they see and the reactions of the people around them, and why, during COVID-19, people risked a deadly virus to be part of a crowd. Right This Way explores what the audience experience brings us and how it may evolve in the 21st century.
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Globe Pequot Press Seasons of Love
Book SynopsisThe story of Rent is a theatrical legend, but one that has not been properly told: the story of Jonathan Larson, the young composer working in a diner when Rent became his big off-Broadway break; the composer who was mentored by Sondheim but struggling to break through; and the young man who tragically died the night of its final dress rehearsal. Seasons of Love: Why Rent Matters is an ode to the small Off-Broadway musical that swiftly moved uptown without its composer and broke box office records and won every award in the book. Alongside that legendary romantic story is a musical that changed musical theatre. The importance of Rent is often overlooked, sometimes reduced to parody and pulled apart for its narrative in ways other classics have not been. Emily Garside has serious questions to ask about why Rent is taken less seriously than other musicals of its caliber. It may have had a romantic and media friendly subplot, but musicals do not win the Pulitzer Prize for column
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Globe Pequot Press Offstage Observations
Book SynopsisBroadway, once upon a time. A place where people buy tickets at the box office, with cash; where patrons dress for theatre, with no sneakers, no water bottles, and no backpacks; and the only text messages are the ones put there by the playwright. A place where iconic legends of stage and screen can be found in plain view, smiling politely or egotistically preening. Where three dollars will get you a balcony seat at the biggest hitor the lowliest flopin town. And a place where an innocent teenager from the suburbs can buy a ticket, slip through the stage door, and wander o''er the threshold into the magical world backstage.Steven Suskin introduces Broadway, once upon a time, in Offstage Observations: Tales of the Not-So-Legitimate Theatre. The drama critic and noted chronicler of Broadway takes the reader through a decade''s worth of adventures, working his way from a menial pencil sharpener for producer David Merrick toward a career as a full-fledged manager, producer, and dr
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Globe Pequot Press Paul Sills Story Theater Four Shows
Book SynopsisThe creator of Story Theater, the original director of Second City, and one of the greatest popularizers of improvisational theater, Paul Sills has assembled some of his favorite adaptations from world literature. Includes: The Blue Light and Other Stories, A Christmas Carol (Dickens), Stories of God, and Rumi.
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Globe Pequot Press Carefully Taught
Book SynopsisCarefully Taught looks at American history as depicted in thirty Broadway musicals. Presented chronologically according to the musical timeframe, award-winning theater critic and author Cary Ginell dissects the stories, characters, and songs to not only examine how Broadway viewed historical events, epochs, and personalities, but also to capture how dramatic license separated fact from fantasy. The chosen musicals fall into a variety of categories: biographies of famous Americans, (Andrew Jackson and Fiorello LaGuardia), stories with national conflicts (Hamilton, South Pacific), events that captured the attention of the American public (Floyd Collins, Newsies), and sociological studies or satires of specific eras (The Music Man, Hair). Many books have been written about Broadway, but Carefully Taught uniquely approaches American history from two vantage points: the point of view of the playwright and composer accompanied with the context of how these events were seen when the
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Globe Pequot Press When the Lights Are Bright Again
Book SynopsisIt began as an artist's desperate desire to express himself inside a worldwide pandemic, but in one year's time it has grown into a theater industry and country-wide outlet for healing, grief, justice, and hope in the theater community.The Covid-19 pandemic revealed what a world without live performance looks and feels like. This book captures a small fraction of the powerful and transcendent internal heartbeat that never went away within the theater community. When the Lights Are Bright Again immortalizes the stories, struggles, and successes of an industry that was the first to be shut down and one of the last to return.Andrew Norlen weaves more than 200 letters from Broadway theater veterans, devout theatergoers, teenage dreamers aching for their day in the spotlight, long-time ushers, designers, creatives, and countless other arts workers with a brand-new, breathtaking photo series by Broadway photographer Matthew Murphy.Not only has the creation of this boo
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Globe Pequot Press The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and
Book SynopsisThe Book of Broadway Musical Debates, Disputes and Disagreements is purposely meant to start arguments and to settle them. Broadway musical fans won't always agree with the conclusions musical theater judge Peter Filichia reaches, but the best part of any drama is the conflict. Among lovers of musical theater, opinions are never in short supply, and Filichia addresses the most dividing questions and opinions in one book. What will you say when he asks, What is the greatest opening number of a Broadway musical? Will your answer be The Circle of Life from The Lion King, Heaven on Their Minds from Jesus Christ Superstar, or Beautiful Girls from Follies? Will you agree with his answer to Whose Broadway performance in a musical was later best captured on film? Did you immediately think of Robert Preston in The Music Man or Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl? More questions that will add to the fire include What song from a musical is the most beloved? and What's the worst song
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Globe Pequot Press Jesus Christ Superstar
Book SynopsisAlmost thirty years after Rock Opera, his first book on Jesus Christ Superstar, Ellis Nassour returns to the world of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to complete the fascinating story of the Broadway musical that rocked the stage and pushed boundaries. Nassour goes behind the scenes to show the evolution of Jesus Christ Superstar from an album to a Broadway musical, exploring not only the breakthroughs, but also the frustrations and pitfalls. With never-before-seen photos and new interviews, Superstar presents a detailed account of the life of the musical from 19691973.
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Globe Pequot Press When the British Musical Ruled the World
Book SynopsisFor decades, British stage musicals struggled to compete against the dazzling Broadway productions that came roaring in from across the pond. But that tide was turned at last in 1978, when Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of Evita brought the West End back into contention with Broadway. It was just the first of several blockbuster productions that helped Britain dominate musical theater all over the world.In this revealing behind-the-scenes narrative, journalist and author Robert Sellers gives a definitive account of how Evita, Cats, Starlight Express, Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Chess, and Miss Saigon changed the business of musical theater in the 1980s. These mega productions of the were larger than life, colorful, and spectacular. Sellers collects insightful, personal stories from cast members, set designers, musical supervisors, dancers, lighting designers, production managers, singers, and choreographers from the shows that finally put Broadway on
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Globe Pequot Press Broadway Decoded
Book SynopsisBROADWAY DECODED: MUSICAL THEATRE'S FORGOTTTEN REFERENCES
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Globe Pequot Press Gunplays
Book SynopsisGunplays is a series of five plays by William Electric Black addressing inner city violence and guns. The idea of these plays is to generate understanding of the social forces behind this scourge that our society has so far been helpless to resist. The debut productions of all five plays in the series were presented by Theater for the New City in New York City. Black launched the Gunplays series in 2013 with Welcome Home Sonny T, a drama that spotlighted two significant forces driving the 21st century epidemic of American gun violence: the social impact of alienation and unemployment on young black males and the declining influence of black ministers as a force of stability in affected neighborhoods. The second play in the series, When Black Boys Die (2015), is a family drama in which a teenage girl tries to understand the madness of gun violence that has killed her brother and consumed her mother. The third, presented by Theater for the New City for 2016 Gu
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Globe Pequot Press PublicPrivate
Book SynopsisPUBLIC/PRIVATE blends a behind-the-scenes view of the Public Theater''s dazzling history with an affecting memoir of the author''s life with Joe Papp. She opens with the Public''s beginnings in the Sixties and Seventies and the twenty-five year association the couple enjoyed, staging staged hundreds of productions, from Shakespeare in the Park to such musicals as Hair and A Chorus Line, and plays like for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (currently re-mounted on Broadway with seven TONY award nominations)with actors whose careers were launched at the Public, including James Earl Jones, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Colleen Dewhurst, Martin Sheen, Gloria Foster, George C. Scott, and Morgan Freeman, all of whom appear in stories Gail Papp tells in the book.The author explores Joe Papp''s creative process, highlighting how the Public was fueled by his ambition to create a producing home focused on original plays and
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Globe Pequot Press Brainteasers for Broadway Geniuses
Book SynopsisBRAINTEASERS FOR BROADWAY GENIUSES: (OR... QUESTIONS THAT WILL SEND YOU GOOGLING)
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Globe Pequot Press How to Survive a Killer Musical
Book SynopsisWhen the young composer Douglas Cohen first secured the musical rights to the novel No Way to Treat a Lady by William Goldmanthe acclaimed author of The Princess Bride and Marathon Manhe hoped it would be his big break, the first step on a gilt path to artistic triumph and commercial success in the form of a hit Broadway musical.What happened after that, while memorable, was anything but.How to Survive a Killer Musical chronicles Cohen''s decade-long quest to bring that musical to the stagewriting, re-writing, and shepherding it across the US and Europe amidst all manner of adversity and plain rotten luck. It''s a fascinating portrait of passion, persistence, and resiliencea coming-of-age story populated with famous mentors and formidable adversaries, told with refreshing honesty and humor. On Cohen''s journey, he introduces us to an indelible cast of characters including a two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter who invites Cohen to his personal screening r
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Globe Pequot Press The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Book SynopsisTHE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) (REVISED) ACTOR'S EDITIO
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Globe Pequot Press The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Book SynopsisTHE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) (REVISED) ACTOR'S EDITIO
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Globe Pequot Press Theatre Kids
Book SynopsisTHEATRE KIDS
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Globe Pequot Press Acting Out
Book SynopsisACTING OUT: HOW A PRISON THEATRE WORKSHOP BROKE FREE
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The InBetween
Book SynopsisBackstage in the most coveted theaters of Broadway works Jenny Anderson, a legend in her own right. A known Broadway photographer, Anderson has worked with the biggest names of theater and used the power of photography to tell the stories behind the stories: what happens behind the scenes on Broadway. The In-Between has been years in the making, Anderson''s personal ode to Broadway''s backstage. It includes over 100 of Anderson's behind-the-scenes photographs taken on the sets of some of the most iconic Broadway shows of the last decade including Hamilton, Wicked, Anastasia, Kinky Boots, Gypsy, Waitress, Company, Phantom of the Opera, and more.
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ
Book SynopsisTHE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW FAQ:EVERYTHING LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE CAMPY CULT CLASSIC
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Hal Leonard Corporation 25 10Minute Plays for Kids The Applause Acting
Book SynopsisMORE 10-MINUTE PLAYS FOR TEENS PLAYS
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Hal Leonard Corporation Cervantess Eight Interludes Applause Books
Book SynopsisCERVANTES'S EIGHT INTERLUDES
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Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation The Singers Musical Theatre Anthology Volume 6
Book Synopsis
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Hal Leonard Corporation I Wanna Be a Producer
Book SynopsisWhat does a producer actually do? How does one travel from that great idea for a show to a smash hit opening night on Broadway? John Breglio cannot guarantee you a hit but he does take the reader on a fascinating journey behind-the-scenes to where he himself once stood as a child dreaming about the theatre.ÞPart memoir part handbook ÊI Wanna Be a ProducerÊ is a road map to the hows and wherefores the dos and don''ts of producing a Broadway play written by a Broadway veteran with more than 40 years of experience. This comprehensive and highly informative book features practical analysis and concepts for the producer ä and is filled with entertaining anecdotes from Breglio''s illustrious career as a leading theatrical lawyer and producer. Breglio recounts not only his first-hand knowledge of the crucial legal and business issues faced by a producer but also his experiences behind the scenes with literally hundreds of producers playwrights composers and directors including su
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Hal Leonard Corporation Best Plays of 2015 the Best Plays of Year
Book SynopsisTHE BEST PLAYS OF 2015
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Book SynopsisThe book features chapters on Jean Ross and Christopher Isherwood ä the real people behind the singular characters of Sally Bowles and Clifford Bradshaw/Brian Roberts ä and includes background information on the original source material Isherwood''s ÊGoodbye to BerlinÊ stories and the first time Sally Bowles as portrayed by Julie Harris appeared onstage and on the big screen in John Van Druten''s ÊI Am a CameraÊ. It also explores the stories behind the figure of the outlandish Emcee as well as the actors who played him from Joel Grey to Alan Cumming. And it studies the famous musical score by John Kander and Fred Ebb and looks into the burlesque roots of director Bob Fosse in his native Chicago. Throughout the book the author makes connections and associations to ÊCabaretÊ by looking at such diverse topics as the first cabarets in Paris Cabaret Voltaire and Dada early Berlin cabarets during the Weimar Republic German expressionism the Bauhaus Marlene Dietrich and ÊThe Blue An
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