Broadway Musical Revue category: 202 books
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sing for Your Supper
The Broadway Musical in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
In the 1930s, Broadway's lights still burned brightly. Ethan Mordden completes his history of the Broadway musical by taking a look at this forgotten era. Shows like Anything Goes brought the glitter of Cole Porter and Merman's brass to the public. Innovations in dance were pioneered by Balanchine...
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...
by Dan Dietz
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
The book examines in specific detail every Broadway musical which opened from the 1969 fall season through the 1979 season. The 1970s was an exciting decade in theatre. In addition to shows by Stephen Sondheim (Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, and Sweeney Todd) and the concept musicals, there...
Colored Lights
Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
The autobiography, in dialogue, of the composer and lyricist of Chicago and Cabaret as well as a wise and witty memoir of forty years of American musicals.
Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb are the longest-running composer-lyricist team in Broadway history, having first joined forces...
Song of Spider-Man
The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
“One of the best literary works of this year” (Miami Herald-Tribune): The true story of a theatrical dream—or nightmare—come true…the making of the Spider-Man musical.
As you might imagine, writing a Broadway musical has its challenges. But it turns out there are challenges one can’t...
by Ronald Micci
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Murder, mayhem, and a lead actress just plain too hot to trot surround the opening of the smash new Broadway musical Pay Toilets, A Sentimental Journey. And when the body of a murdered playwright turns up in Shubert Alley with a menacing warning note tacked to his chest -- "Beware legends of...
Blue-Collar Broadway
The Craft and Industry of American Theater
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Behind the scenes of New York City's Great White Way, virtuosos of stagecraft have built the scenery, costumes, lights, and other components of theatrical productions for more than a hundred years. But like a good magician who refuses to reveal secrets, they have left few clues about their work. Blue-Collar...
Waiting in the Wings
How to Launch Your Performing Career on Broadway and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
The definitive guide to making a career in theater—to Broadway and beyond
Tiffany Haas knows how to make it on Broadway. After 72 rejections in a row she finally landed a role in Broadway’s long-running smash hit Wicked and later became “Glinda the Good.” Now she wants to share her...
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,...
Enchanted Evenings
The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals. Readers will find such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West...