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Book The Collector s Guide to American Musical Theatre

Download or read book The Collector s Guide to American Musical Theatre written by David Hummel and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collector s Guide to the American Musical Theatre  The shows

Download or read book The Collector s Guide to the American Musical Theatre The shows written by David Hummel and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collector s Guide to American Musical Theatre

Download or read book The Collector s Guide to American Musical Theatre written by David Hummel and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collector s Guide to the American Musical Theatre

Download or read book The Collector s Guide to the American Musical Theatre written by David Hummel and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collector s Guide to the American Musical Theatre  1st Ed

Download or read book The Collector s Guide to the American Musical Theatre 1st Ed written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The collector s guide to the America musical theatre

Download or read book The collector s guide to the America musical theatre written by David Hummel and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stage It with Music

Download or read book Stage It with Music written by Thomas S. Hischak and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1993-06-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...The book succeeds due to its comprehensiveness and useful cross-referencing....There is a wealth of information here." Library Journal

Book American Musical Theatre

Download or read book American Musical Theatre written by Gerald Martin Bordman and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "absolutely the best reference book on its subject" by Newsweek, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle covers more than 250 years of musical theatre in the United States, from a 1735 South Carolina production of Flora, or Hob in the Well to The Addams Family in 2010. Authors Gerald Bordman and Richard Norton write an engaging narrative blending history, critical analysis, and lively description to illustrate the transformation of American musical theatre through such incarnations as the ballad opera, revue, Golden Age musical, rock musical, Disney musical, and, with 2010's American Idiot, even the punk musical. The Chronicle is arranged chronologically and is fully indexed according to names of shows, songs, and people involved, for easy searching and browsing. Chapters range from the "Prologue," which traces the origins of American musical theater to 1866, through several "intermissions" (for instance, "Broadway's Response to the Swing Era, 1937-1942") and up to "Act Seven," the theatre of the twenty-first century. This last chapter covers the dramatic changes in musical theatre since the last edition published-whereas Fosse, a choreography-heavy revue, won the 1999 Tony for Best Musical, the 2008 award went to In the Heights, which combines hip-hop, rap, meringue and salsa unlike any musical before it. Other groundbreaking and/or box-office-breaking shows covered for the first time include Avenue Q, The Producers, Billy Elliot, Jersey Boys, Monty Python's Spamalot, Wicked, Hairspray, Urinetown the Musical, and Spring Awakening. Discussion of these shows incorporates plot synopses, names of principal players, descriptions of scenery and costumes, and critical reactions. In addition, short biographies interspersed throughout the text colorfully depict the creative minds that shaped the most influential musicals. Collectively, these elements create the most comprehensive, authoritative history of musical theatre in this country and make this an essential resource for students, scholars, performers, dramaturges, and musical enthusiasts.

Book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.

Book Bibliographical Handbook of American Music

Download or read book Bibliographical Handbook of American Music written by Donald William Krummel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Author : David Hummel
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  • Release : 1984
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  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Index written by David Hummel and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Broadway to Main Street

Download or read book Broadway to Main Street written by Laurence Maslon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of Broadway is one of America's most unique and popular calling cards. In Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America, author Laurence Maslon tells the story of how the most beloved songs of the American Musical Theater made their way from the Theater District to living rooms across the country. The crossroads where the music of Broadway meets popular culture is an expansive and pervasive juncture throughout most of the twentieth century--from sheet music to radio broadcasts to popular and original cast recordings--and continues to influence culture today through television, streaming, and the Internet. The original Broadway cast album--from the 78 rpm recording of Oklahoma! to the digital download of Hamilton--is one of the most successful, yet undervalued, genres in the history of popular recording. The challenge of capturing musical narrative with limited technology inspired the imagination of both the recording industry and millions of listeners: between 1949 and 1969, fifteen different original cast albums hit number one on the popular music charts, ultimately tallying more weeks at number one than all of the albums by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles combined. The history of Broadway music is also the history of American popular music; the technological, commercial, and marketing forces of communications and media over the last century were inextricably bound up in the enterprise of bringing the musical gems of New York's Theater District to living rooms along Main Streets across the nation. Featuring new interviews with Stephen Schwartz, Chita Rivera, Steve Lawrence, and prominent record producers and music critics, the story of this commercial and emotional phenomenon is told here in full--from the imprimatur of sheet music from Broadway in the early 20th century to the renaissance of Broadway music in the digital age, folding in the immense impact of show music on American culture and in the context of the recording industry, popular tastes, and our shared national identity. A book which connects cherished cultural artifacts to the emotional narratives at the core of American popular music, Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America is an ideal companion for all fans of American musical theater and popular music.

Book The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia

Download or read book The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia written by Thomas S. Hischak and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1995-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The musical theatre song is conceived, written, and produced as part of a whole. While it may eventually stand on its own and join the ranks of popular hits, its immediate purpose is clear: it must 'work' in the show ... 'The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia' is about how hundreds of famous and not-so-famous songs have functioned in the American musical. In addition to identifying the authors and the source of the song, this reference provides full detail about the song ... It is a book about songs as little pieces of playwriting for the musical theatre ...

Book America s Music  from the Pilgrims to the Present

Download or read book America s Music from the Pilgrims to the Present written by Gilbert Chase and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of American music, its diversity, and the cultural influences that helped it develop.