Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical written by Raymond Knapp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, interdisciplinary field of musical-theater and film-musical studies. Taking the form of a "keywords" book, it introduces readers to the concepts and terms that define the history of the musical as a genre and that offer ways to reflect on the specific creative choices that shape musicals and their performance on stage and screen. The handbook offers a cross-section of essays written by leading experts in the field, organized within broad conceptual groups, which together capture the breadth, direction, and tone of musicals studies today. Each essay traces the genealogy of the term or issue it addresses, including related issues and controversies, positions and problematizes those issues within larger bodies of scholarship, and provides specific examples drawn from shows and films. Essays both re-examine traditional topics and introduce underexplored areas. Reflecting the concerns of scholars and students alike, the authors emphasize critical and accessible perspectives, and supplement theory with concrete examples that may be accessed through links to the handbook's website. Taking into account issues of composition, performance, and reception, the book's contributors bring a wide range of practical and theoretical perspectives to bear on their considerations of one of America's most lively, enduring artistic traditions. The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical will engage all readers interested in the form, from students to scholars to fans and aficionados, as it analyses the complex relationships among the creators, performers, and audiences who sustain the genre.

Download or read book Top secret Personal Beeswax written by Barbara Park and published by Random House Childrens Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious companion to the best-selling series features Junie's own original writings along with drawings, stickers, and lots of blank pages with creative prompts designed to get kids drawing and writing about their own top-secret, personal beeswax.

Download or read book The People in the Picture written by Iris Rainer Dart and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the creator and star of Yiddish musical films in Poland between the wars, Raisel is now a grandmother (Bubbie) in ’70s New York. Bubbie longs to tell the stories of her acting troupe’s successes and heroism to her granddaughter Jenny. Sadly, her TV-comedy-writer daughter, Red, insists on leaving the past behind, unless Bubbie will talk about the events that have plagued them both since Red’s childhood.

Download or read book Shrek the Musical Songbook written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Features 18 piano/vocal selections from this Broadway hit that won both Tony and Drama Desk awards. Includes a plot synopsis, sensational color photos, and these tunes: The Ballad of Farquaad * Big Bright Beautiful World * Build a Wall * Don't Let Me Go * Donkey Pot Pie * Finale (This Is Our Story) * Freak Flag * I Know It's Today * I Think I Got You Beat * Make a Move * More to the Story * Morning Person * Story of My Life * This Is How a Dream Comes True * Travel Song * What's Up, Duloc? * When Words Fail * Who I'd Be.

Download or read book Phantom of the Auditorium Classic Goosebumps 20 written by R. L. Stine and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goosebumps now on Disney+! Brooke's best friend, Zeke, has been given the lead role in the school play, "The Phantom." Zeke's totally into it. He loves dressing up in the grotesque phantom costume. And scaring the other members of the cast. Brooke thinks Zeke's getting a little too into it. But then really scary things start happening. A message appears on a piece of scenery: "The Phantom Strikes!" A stage light comes crashing down.Is someone trying to ruin the play?Or is there really a phantom living under the stage?

Download or read book Heathers the Musical written by Laurence O'Keefe and published by Samuel French, Incorporated. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the classic 1989 film, Westerberg High is ruled by a shoulder-padded, scrunchie-wearing junta: Heather, Heather and Heather, the hottest and cruelest girls in all of Ohio. But misfit Veronica Sawyer rejects their evil regime for a new boyfriend, the dark and sexy stranger J.D., who plans to put the Heathers in their place - six feet under.

Download or read book Kings of the Wyld written by Nicholas Eames and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retired group of legendary mercenaries get the band back together for one last impossible mission in this award-winning debut epic fantasy. "Fantastic, funny, ferocious." -- Sam Sykes Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best, the most feared and renowned crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld. Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk, or a combination of the three. Then an ex-bandmate turns up at Clay's door with a plea for help -- the kind of mission that only the very brave or the very stupid would sign up for. It's time to get the band back together.

Download or read book Guide to Creating Comics in 3 D Dog Man written by Kate Howard and published by Dog Man. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attached to hardcover binding (20 cm); includes dry erase marker, 3-D glasses, and book of stickers.

Download or read book Evil Dead written by George Reinblatt and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Sam Raimi¿s 80s cult classic films, EVIL DEAD tells the tale of 5 college kids who travel to a cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force. And although it may sound like a horror, it's not! The songs are hilariously campy and the show is bursting with more farce than a Monty Python skit. EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL unearths the old familiar story: boy and friends take a weekend getaway at abandoned cabin, boy expects to get lucky, boy unleashes ancient evil spirit, friends turn into Candarian Demons, boy fights until dawn to survive. As musical mayhem descends upon this sleepover in the woods, ¿camp¿ takes on a whole new meaning with uproarious numbers like ¿All the Men in my Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons,¿ ¿Look Who¿s Evil Now¿ and ¿Do the Necronomicon.¿

Download or read book Pipeline written by Dominique Morisseau and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2019 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.

Download or read book The Secret Garden written by Frances Burnett and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.

Download or read book By The Horns written by Markisan Naso and published by Scout Comics. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BY THE HORNS is an epic, sci-fi fantasy comic book series set in a dangerous world of magic and technology written by Markisan Naso, illustrated by Jason Muhr and colored by Andrei Tabacaru, published monthly by Scout Comics. Elodie hates unicorns. For nearly a year, she's dedicated her life to killing them all for trampling her husband. Exiled from her village home for selfishly neglecting her duties, Elodie and her companion, Sajen, search the continent of Solothus to exact bloody revenge. But to make unicorns extinct she’ll need to fake an alliance with Zoso and Rigby, two of the very beasts she hates most, and battle four wind sorcerers who are extracting magic from all the mystical creatures on the continent. With the ability to rip off the unicorn horns and combine them to form wizard-slaying weapons, Elodie has a fighting chance. But will she decide to use those gifts to save magic in the world? Or destroy all the unicorns left alive?

Download or read book Cat Kid Comic Club Perspectives A Graphic Novel Cat Kid Comic Club 2 From the Creator of Dog Man written by Dav Pilkey and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cat Kid Comic Club is back in session in this groundbreaking graphic novel narrative by Dav Pilkey, the worldwide bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of Dog Man. Flippy, Molly, Li'l Petey, and twenty-one baby frogs each have something to say. Naomi and Melvin don't see eye to eye and Poppy perceives the world differently than her siblings. Will the baby frogs figure out how to work together and appreciate one another's point of view -- both inside and outside the classroom? The shenanigans are nonstop and the baby frogs' minicomics are funny and full of heart. Creating stories within a story, author and illustrator Dav Pilkey uses a variety of techniques -- including acrylic paints, colored pencils, Japanese calligraphy, photography, collage, gouache, watercolors, and much more -- to portray each frog's perspective. The kaleidoscope of art styles, paired with Pilkey's trademark storytelling and humor, fosters creativity, collaboration, independence, and empathy. Readers of all ages will relish this joyful graphic novel adventure.

Download or read book Clue written by Galen Blum and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical comedy Book by Peter DePietro. Music by Galen Blum, Wayne Barker and Vinnie Martucci. Lyrics by Tom Chiodo. Based on the Parker Brothers' Board Game. Characters: 5male, 3female Unit set. The internationally popular game is now a fun filled musical which brings the world's best know suspects to life and invites the audience to help solve the mystery: who killed Mr. Boddy, in what room and with what weapon. The audience receives forms to help

Download or read book Good News written by and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1974 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kennedy Center presents the Harry Rigby Production, Alice Faye, John Payne in the 30s musical comedy "Good News," book by Laurence Schwab, B.G. DeSylva, and Frank Mandel, words and music by DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson, also starring Stubby Kaye, with Marty Rolph, Scott Stevenson, Jana Robbins, Barbara Lail, Wayne Bryan, Joseph Burke, Tommy Breslin, settings designed by Donald Oenslager, costumes designed by Donald Brooks, lighting designed by Tharon Musser, sound designed by Tony Alloy, musical direction by Liza Redfield, orchestrations by Phillip J. Lang, musical supervision & vocal arrangements by Hugh Martin & Timothy Gray, dance music arranged & incidental music composed by Luther Henderson, associate producers Robert Anglund, Stan Hurwitz & Frank Mantalvo, assistant choreographer Arthur Faria, general managers Joseph Harris & Ira Bernstein, hair styles & make-up by Masarone, musical numbers staged by Donald Saddler, adaptation and direction by Abe Burrows.

Download or read book Cat Kid Comic Club written by Dav Pilkey and published by Graphix. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Cat Kid Comic Club, where Li'l Petey (LP), Flippy, and Molly introduce twenty-one rambunctious, funny, and talented baby frogs to the art of comic making. As the story unwinds with mishaps and hilarity, readers get to see the progress,

Download or read book The Soundtrack Album written by Paul N. Reinsch and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case Studies. The Soundtrack in Transition : The Many Objects of Paul Simon's One-Trick Pony / Landon Palmer ; It's a Kind of Soundtrack : Queen, Highlander, and the "Unofficial Soundtrack Album" / Ross Melnick ; Super Fly and the Sound of Seventies Blaxploitation Cinema / Matthew Tchepikova-Treon ; Signifyin(g) on the Soundtrack Album? OutKast's Idlewild Project / Laurel Westrup -- Brands. Learning from Sesame Street Soundtrack Albums / Kathryn A. Ostrofsky ; Creazioni Artistiche Musicali and Italian Cinema after World War II / Roberto Calabretto ; King of the Whole Wide World : Elvis, RCA Camden, and the Non-Filmic "Budget" Soundtrack Album / Justin Morris ; Sing Along with Hitch : Musically Marketing the Master of Suspense / Richard R. Ness -- Formats. Fixing the Brand : The Sonic Branding of Adult Swim / David Gurney ; Video Game Soundtrack Albums and the Digital Revolution / Robert Cavanagh ; Tracking Hypernostalgia : Soundtrack Albums and the Return of the Cassette in American Film and Television / Kristen Galvin -- New Directions. Now-For Even Greater Enjoyment...The Home Movie Soundtrack Album / Liz Czach ; A Brief Hearing for the Unified Soundtrack Album / Paul N. Reinsch.