Musicals category: 260 books
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...
by J. Ajlouny
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
In this boisterous but sensitive drama, playwright J. Ajlouny looks beyond public image to find the heart of this young woman thrust wildly into fame as a sex symbol. Presented as a play-in-the-making within a play, Marilyn, Norma Jean and Me weaves biography with humor to explore the movie star’s...
Night Angel, A One-Woman Musical
Carman Moore Composer Vol 2 No 4
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Night Angel is a poignant and witty one-woman musical about a cabaret singer's efforts to resurrect her life and career in the aftermath of a painful divorce. During her comeback attempt in a nightclub in downtown Newark, New Jersey, she tries to pull together her singing career, her emotions, and...
When the Toys Say Bye
Musical comedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
In "When the Toys Say Bye" the toys of a spoiled boy take their fate into their own small paws, wings or hands and run away in the world.
This play was awarded the Grand Prize at the Drama Contest of the International Theatre Festival – "100, 1,000, 1,000,000 Stories",...
A Place for Us
“West Side Story” and New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, West Side Story is nothing less than an American touchstone—an updating of Shakespeare vividly realized in a rapidly changing postwar New York.
That vision of postwar New York is at the heart of Julia L. Foulkes’s...
by Laurian Taler
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
One Earth - The Musical is an educational , environmental tool based on science curriculum and behaviour modification geared toward students of all ages to prepare and perform in school concerts.
Victor Hugo's Les Misérables
A Midwest Journal Writers Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
About this book: Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title, which has not been successfully...
by Robert Price
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2011
Though the Rock Opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" has become a religious and musical phenomenon beloved around the world among Christians and non-believers alike no one has ever delved into the lyrics with the practiced eye of a professional biblical critic until now. Robert M. Price here shows...
Oh Joy! Oh Rapture!
The Enduring Phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2005
In Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! expert and enthusiast Ian Bradley explores the world of Gilbert and Sullivan over the last four and a half decades, looking at the way this "phenomenon" is passed from generation to generation. Taking as his starting point the expiry of copyright on the opera libretti at the...
by Walter Frisch
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
"Over the Rainbow" exploded into worldwide fame upon its performance by Judy Garland in the MGM film musical The Wizard of Oz (1939). Voted the greatest song of the twentieth century in a 2000 survey, it is a masterful, delicate balance of sophistication and child-like simplicity in which composer...
Arranging Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue and the Creation of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
In Arranging Gershwin, author Ryan Bañagale approaches George Gershwin's iconic piece Rhapsody in Blue not as a composition but as an arrangement -- a status it has in many ways held since its inception in 1924, yet one unconsidered until now. Shifting emphasis away from the notion of the Rhapsody...
by William H. Cummings
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
I Wanna Be a Producer
How to Make a Killing on Broadway...or Get Killed
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
What 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...
Lydia Thompson
Queen of Burlesque
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.