Broadway category: 202 books
Victor Herbert
A Theatrical Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Victor Herbert is one of the giants of American culture. As a musician, conductor, and, above all, composer, he touched every corner of American musical life at the turn of the century, writing scores of songs, marches, concerti, and other works. But his most enduring legacy is on a different kind...
From Backpacks to Broadway
Children's Experiences in Musical Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Musical theater is a dynamic, collaborative art form, which encompasses music, theater, dance, and the visual arts. Traditionally associated with adult performers, musicals also have roles designated specifically for children. How then does involvement in musical theater support children’s learning...
Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock
An Inside Look at the Hit Musical
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock - a fully illustrated companion volume to the hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, featuring the book and lyrics for the first time in print, backstage stories and the real history behind the show's events, character design sketches, and songs that ended up...
by William McBrien
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
In his life and in his music, Cole Porter was the top—the pinnacle of wit and sophistication. From the 1910s through the ‘50s, from Yale pep rallies through the Broadway triumphs of Anything Goes and Kiss Me, Kate, he delighted audiences with a glittering torrent of song: “I Get a Kick Out of...
by Bette Midler
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Bette Midler, also known as Divine Miss M—the indomitable and incomparable singer, actor, and musical theater extraordinaire, with a career spanning almost half a century—revisits her classic memoir, now with a new introduction.
This book was a kind of last hurrah. When I read it, I hear...
Lonelyhearts
The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
A “breezily entertaining” look at the comic couple who hobnobbed with Dorothy Parker, S. J. Perelman, Bennett Cerf, and other luminaries of their day (The New York Times Book Review).
Nathanael West—author, screenwriter, playwright—was famous for two masterpieces: Miss Lonelyhearts...
Master of Ceremonies
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and wooly Jewish American family in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, Joel began his life in the theater at the age of 9, starting in children’s theater and...
Voice Lessons
A Sisters Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Voice Lessons is the story of one younger sister growing up in the shadow of a larger-than-life older sister—looking up to her, wondering how they were alike and how they were different and, ultimately, learning how to live her own life and speak in her own voice on her own terms.
As Cara...
by Meredith Willson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Composer Meredith Willson once described The Music Man as “an Iowan’s attempt to pay tribute to his home state.” Never once forgetting his roots, Willson reflects on the ups and downs, surprises and disappointments, and finally successes of the making of one of America’s most popular musicals....
The Astaires
Fred & Adele
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This is the first book about the theatre career of Fred and Adele Astaire, detailing their years in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in London, their impact culturally, and the essence of their partnership on and off the stage.
Gleeful!
A Totally Unofficial Guide to the Hit TV Series Glee
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
A Totally Unofficial Guide to the Hit TV Series Glee
GET CHOIRED UP!
Calling all Gleeks! Go back to school and behind the music with the hot new stars of Glee, one of the most watched, beloved, and sung-about shows on television. The unofficial guide to all things McKinley High, Gleeful...
A Ship Without A Sail
The Life of Lorenz Hart
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
An unforgettable portrait of an exuberant yet troubled artist who so enriched the American songbook
“Blue Moon, ” “Where or When, ” “The Lady Is a Tramp,” “My Funny Valentine,” “Isn’t It Romantic?,” “My Romance,” “There’s a Small Hotel,” “Falling in Love with...
All That Jazz
The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths - the gleefully subversive character of American musical comedy, the reckless glamour of the big-city newspaper, the mad decade of the 1920s, the work of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon (two of the greatest talents in the musical's...
Failing Up
How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Leslie Odom Jr., burst on the scene in 2015, originating the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical phenomenon Hamilton. Since then, he has performed for sold-out audiences, sung for the Obamas at the White House, and won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. But before he landed the...