Musicals category: 260 books
Evita, Inevitably
Performing Argentina's Female Icons Before and After Eva Perón
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Evita, Inevitably sheds new light on the history and culture of Argentina by examining the performances and reception of the country’s most iconic female figures, in particular, Eva Perón, who rose from poverty to become a powerful international figure. The book links the Evita legend to a broader...
Broadway Rhythm
Imaging the City in Song
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Broadway Rhythm is a guide to Manhattan like nothing you've ever read. Author Dominic Symonds calls it a performance cartography, and argues that the city of New York maps its iconicity in the music of the Broadway songbook. A series of walking tours takes the reader through the landscape of Manhattan,...
Advice to Singers
Frederick James Crowest
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
First published in 1904, this handy book provides useful common sense advice for singers and aspiring performers of song.
by Tim Minchin
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Each themed book in the Little Voices series contains five songs that make a perfect introduction to part-singing for beginner groups.
The modern day musical theatre phenomenon Matilda is the multiple Olivier Award-winning adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel, performed by...
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...
Entertaining Lisbon
Music, Theater, and Modern Life in the Late 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
During the decades leading up to 1910, Portugal saw vast material improvements under the guise of modernization while in the midst of a significant political transformation - the establishment of the Portuguese First Republic. Urban planning, everyday life, and innovation merged in a rapidly changing...
Lady in the Dark
Biography of a Musical
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2007
When Lady in the Dark opened on January 23, 1941, its many firsts immediately distinguished it as a new and unusual work. The curious directive to playwright Moss Hart to complete a play about psychoanalysis came from his own Freudian psychiatrist. For the first time since his brother George's death,...
Sondheim on Music
Minor Details and Major Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
From his early work as lyricist for West Side Story to acclaimed creations such as A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, and Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim is widely regarded as the most important figure in musical theater since the second half of the 20th century. Who better to discuss...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
A selection of fantastic songs taken from the bestselling albums Dreamboats And Petticoats I & II. Some of the greatest artists and their greatest songs of the bygone era are represented in this collection, including artists like Chuck Berry, Doris Day, Elvis Presley, Marty Robbins and Brenda...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Really Easy Piano: Great Showtoppers contains easy arrangements for twenty fabulous stage songs. These simplified arrangements are accompanied by background notes on the songs as well as handy playing hints and tips. Suitable for beginners of all ages, including grades 1-3, this book will make 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...
Popular Singing and Style
2nd edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This second edition of the highly successful Popular Singing serves as a practical guide to exploring the singing voice while helping to enhance vocal confidence in a range of popular styles. The book provides effective alternatives to traditional voice training methods, and demonstrates how these...
by Alice Carey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
As a young girl Alice Carey came to realise that ‘home’ can mean different things. The only child of Irish immigrants to New York in search of a better life, her isolated and sometimes violent childhood was transformed when her mother started working as maid to legendary Broadway producer Jean...
Les comédies musicales
(Les Dossiers d'Universalis)
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2015
À partir de quatre exemples remarquables (Chantons sous la pluie, L’Opéra de quat’ sous, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, et West Side Story), ce dossier retrace l’histoire du genre, au théâtre et au cinéma. En une trentaine d’articles empruntés à l’Encyclopaedia Universalis, il présente...