Musicals category: 260 books
by Charles Gounod, Jules Barbier, Michel Carré
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The legend of the magician Faust and his compact with the Devil comes from remote antiquity. At first in the form of folk tales in many lands, through ballads and the primitive drama it found its way into literature. It remained for the master-poet, Goethe, to fuse all the elements of the legend into...
Strategies for Success in Musical Theatre
A Guide for Music Directors in School, College, and Community Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
In Strategies for Success in Musical Theatre, veteran musical director and teacher Herbert Marshall provides an essential how-to guide for teachers or community members who find themselves in charge of music directing a show. Stepping off the podium, Marshall offers practical and often humorous real-world...
by Houston Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
How to Sing Great in 4 Simple Steps is full of easy listening, breathing, and other singing techniques that work quickly. Step-by-step voice training and effective vocal exercises give you quick results.
Using the practices in this guidebook improves your listening skills, increases your breathing...
Hollywood Beauty
Linda Darnell and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
At fifteen, Linda Darnell left her Texas home and normal adolescence to live the Hollywood dream promoted by fan magazine and studio publicity offices. She appeared in dozens of films and won international acclaim for Blood and Sand (playing opposite Tyrone Power), Forever Amber, A Letter to Three...
My Pride
Mastering Life's Daily Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Drawing on his own life and career and the rich lore of The Lion King, Alton Fitzgerald White, Broadway's longest running "King," delivers his message of service -- taking responsibility for and deriving happiness from commonplace achievements -- as a philosophy that anyone can get through...
So, You're the New Musical Director!
An Introduction to Conducting a Broadway Musical
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2002
So, You're the New Musical Director! is aimed at the person who has music training but little or no experience with musical theatre, the high school choral director with a degree in music education, or the actor participating in community theatre productions. It details the duties involved in directing...
All That Glittered
The Golden Age of Drama on Broadway, 1919-1959
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
From the late 1920s to late 1950s, the Broadway theatre was America's cultural epicenter. Television didn't exist and movies were novelties. Entertainment took the form of literature, music, and theatre. During this golden age of Broadway, actors and actresses became legends and starred in now classic...
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...
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...
Who Tells Your Story?
History, Pop Culture, and Hidden Meanings in the Musical Phenomenon Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Hamilton, the hip-hop rap musical, has revolutionized theater. It’s the story of an immigrant, “young, scrappy, and hungry,” who kicked off the Revolutionary War and built the central government of today. Within this book appears the musical’s backstory with many deeper insights. How do the...
Broadway Babylon
Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The first book of theater celebrity gossip, can you believe it? Here's the book that airs Broadway's dirty laundry! Inspired by the classic Hollywood Babylon (in print for more than forty years, more than 100,000 copies sold), Broadway Babylon presents a hyper-entertaining look at the Great White...
Acting the Song
Student Companion Ebook
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Used in tandem with Acting the Song: Performance for the Musical Theatre, this Student Companion Ebook guides students through three semesters (beginning, intermediate, and advanced) of musical theatre song study. It answers the many questions students using this method may have, including some that...
by Richard Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Tristan und Isolde is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was made between 1857 and 1859 and premiered at the Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich on 10 June...
by Gary Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
The glamorous life of the Dolly Sisters as seen in 200 photographic images. Capturing their rise to fame and fortune, from their birth in Budapest, through Jazz Age New York, London, Paris and the Riviera, it reveals the full story of the glamorous, dancing Dolly Sisters in pictures