Broadway Musical Revue category: 202 books
Sutton Foster: Broadway Sweetheart, TV Bunhead
StageStars: Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Musical theater fans first fell for Sutton Foster in her triumphant turn as the title character in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Since then the heralded triple threat performer has charmed Broadway audiences in a wide variety of memorable roles, playing a writer, a princess, a movie star, a nightclub...
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...
by Brian Yorkey, Tom Kitt
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Rock is alive and rolling like thunder in Next to Normal. It’s the best musical of the season by a mile...an emotional powerhouse with a fire in its soul and a wicked wit that burns just as fiercely.”-Rolling Stone
No show on Broadway...
by Steve Swayne
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
"The research is voluminous, as is the artistry and perceptiveness. Swayne has lived richly within the world of Sondheim's music."
---Richard Crawford, author of America's Musical Life: A History
"Sondheim's career and music have never been so skillfully dissected, examined,...
Broadway Musical MVPs: 1960-2010
The Most Valuable Players of the Past 50 Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
B&W photos throughout
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...
Music Direction for the Stage
A View from the Podium
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Theater music directors must draw on a remarkably broad range of musical skills. Not only do they conduct during rehearsals and performances, but they must also be adept arrangers, choral directors, vocal coaches, and accompanists. Like a record producer, the successful music director must have the...
Dear Evan Hansen
Through the Window
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
The official behind-the-scenes book of the hit musical that won 6 Tony Awards!
A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to finally fit in. Both...
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 Arthur Laurents
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
From Arthur Laurents, playwright, screenwriter, director—a mesmerizing book about theater, the art, the artist, the insider, the outsider—and the making of two of the greatest musicals of the American stage, West Side Story and Gypsy. It is a book profoundly enriched by the author’s two loves,...
The Great Parade
Broadway's Astonishing, Never-to-Be-Forgotten 1963-1964 Season
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
It was the Broadway season when Barbra Streisand demanded "Don't Rain on My Parade" and Carol Channing heard the waiters at the Harmonia Gardens say "Hello, Dolly!". From June 1, 1963 through the final day of May 31, 1964, theatergoers were offered 68 different productions: 24...
by Jeffrey Magee
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
From patriotic "God Bless America" to wistful "White Christmas," Irving Berlin's songs have long accompanied Americans as they fall in love, go to war, and come home for the holidays. Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater is the first book to fully consider this songwriter's...
The Last Five Years (The Applause Libretto Library)
The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Musical
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two...
by Olaf Jubin
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
‘The Woods are just Trees. The Trees are just Wood.’ – All together
In 1987, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine combined several classic fairy tales including Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Jack and the Beanstalk to create Into the Woods. Funny and heartfelt, this musical...