Broadway category: 202 books
by Steven Cutts
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
My Big Fat Broadway Debut! the ebook miniseries chronicles the remarkable journey of Steven Cutts, who went from being a kid with a dream to being a pro on the Broadway stage. The book is packed with stories, wisecracks, pitfalls, and sage advice from a true industry insider.From one volume...
Something Wonderful
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the soundtrack to the American Century
They stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and...
Tradition!
The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
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...
The Secret Life of the American Musical
How Broadway Shows Are Built
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A New York Times Bestseller
For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in a darkened theater, grows into something more serious for high school actors, and reaches...
The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen
The Last Twenty-Five Years of the Broadway Musical
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
For Ethan Mordden, the closing night of the hit musical, 42nd St. sounded the death knell of the art form of the Broadway musical. After that, big orchestras, real voices, recognizable books and intelligent lyrics went out the window in favor of cats, helicopters, yodeling Frenchmen, and the roof...
by Corinne J. Naden
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre: 1943-1965 provides synopses, cast and production credits, song titles, and other pertinent information for over 180 musicals from Oklahoma! to On A Clear Day You Can See Forever. Concentrating on a 22-year span, this book lists both commercial successes...
Idina Menzel: Broadway Superstar
StageStars: Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Idina Menzel's career has been “Defying Gravity” for years now! With starring roles in Wicked and Rent, the Tony-award winner has become one of theater's most beloved stage performers. The powerful vocalist has also branched out successfully in other mediums! She has filmed a recurring role on...
by Steven Rivellino
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
Broadway is a commercial institution. It has nothing whatsoever to do with pretentious artistic notions. Its there for one purpose, and one purpose alone to make money. So begins the comments by the successful Broadway and television producer Alexander Cohen made just before his recent deathhis thoughts...
Singing and Dancing to The Book of Mormon
Critical Essays on the Broadway Musical
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
One of the most successful shows in Broadway history, The Book of Mormon broke box office records when it debuted in 2011 and received nine Tony awards, including Best Musical. A collaboration between Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of the show South Park) and Robert Lopez (Avenue Q), the show...
Renaissance Man
The Lin-Manuel Miranda Story An Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Lin-Manuel Miranda created the Broadway hit-musical of the decade in Hamilton. His earlier production In The Heights set theater audiences dancing to a hip hop/ Latin beat. And if you have children or are a child at heart, you know all about the music of Moana. But there’s a lot you don’t know...
by Sam Wasson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Now the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams with Lin-Manuel Miranda executive producing.
“Wasson is a smart and savvy reporter, and his book abounds with colorful firsthand tales.” — Janet Maslin, New York Times
“Fascinating . . . Wasson...
Patti LuPone
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The legendary Patti LuPone is one of the theatre’s most beloved leading ladies. Now she lays it all bare, sharing the intimate story of her life both onstage and off--through the dizzying highs and darkest lows--with the humor and outspokenness that have become her trademarks.
With nearly...
Stephen Sondheim
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
In the first full-scale life of the most
important composer-lyricist at work in musical theatre today, Meryle Secrest, the biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright and Leonard Bernstein, draws on her extended conversations with Stephen Sondheim as well as on her interviews with his friends, family, collaborators,...
Some Enchanted Evenings
The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Mary Martin was one of the greatest stars of her day. Growing up in Texas, she was married early to Benjamin Hagman and gave birth to her first child, Larry Hagman. She was divorced even more quickly. Martin left little Larry with her parents and took off for Hollywood. She didn't make a dent in the...