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Download The Season PDF

The Season

Author : William Goldman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date : 1984
ISBN :
Pages : 456 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( Download)

Download PDF The Season Book by William Goldman Full eBook and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1984 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each production of one season is used as the basis for an examination of one aspect of the Broadway theater


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On Broadway

Author : Adler, Steven
Publisher : SIU Press
Release Date : 2004
ISBN : 9780809388714
Pages : 276 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (89 Download)

Download PDF On Broadway Book by Adler, Steven Full eBook and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:


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Lillian Gish

Author : Stuart Oderman
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2015-07-11
ISBN : 1476613699
Pages : 408 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (613 Download)

Download PDF Lillian Gish Book by Stuart Oderman Full eBook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a theatrical career spanning nearly 100 years, Gish saw motion pictures evolve from flickers to blockbusters. Usually playing someone needing to be rescued or protected, her trademark delicacy and vulnerability belied a strong and complex woman whose fatherless childhood taught her frugality, love for her mother and her sister, Dorothy, and a distrust of men. The author, who was her friend, chronicles the hardships, heartaches, and fierce determination that shaped her all her days. With rare photographs and intimate recollections of Lillian, Dorothy, and many other important figures.


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Text & Presentation, 2013

Author : Graley Herren
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-31
ISBN : 0786478934
Pages : 245 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (478 Download)

Download PDF Text & Presentation, 2013 Book by Graley Herren Full eBook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text & Presentation, 2013 gathers some of the best work presented at the 2013 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore. Subjects ranging from Ancient Greece to 21st century America are covered with a variety of approaches and formats. Celebrated playwright Edward Albee's presentation is the lead piece, followed by 12 research papers, one review essay, and seven book reviews. This volume represents the latest research in the fields of comparative drama, performance, and dramatic textual analysis.


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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume 8

Author : David Horn
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-03-08
ISBN : 1441148744
Pages : 586 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (148 Download)

Download PDF Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume 8 Book by David Horn Full eBook and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 8 is one of six volumes within the 'Genre' strand of the series. This volume discusses the genres of North America in relation to their cultural, historical and geographic origins; technical musical characteristics; instrumentation and use of voice; lyrics and language; typical features of performance and presentation; historical development and paths and modes of dissemination; influence of technology, the music industry and political and economic circumstances; changing stylistic features; notable and influential performers; and relationships to other genres and sub-genres. This volume features over 100 in-depth essays on genres ranging from Adult Contemporary to Alternative Rock, from Barbershop to Bebop, and from Disco to Emo.


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Theatre Stuff

Author : Arts Council of Ireland
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release Date : 2000
ISBN : 9780953425716
Pages : 378 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (953 Download)

Download PDF Theatre Stuff Book by Arts Council of Ireland Full eBook and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2000 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on contemporary Irish theatre


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Unrequited Love and Gay Latino Culture

Author : D. Contreras
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2005-01-14
ISBN : 1403978840
Pages : 146 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (978 Download)

Download PDF Unrequited Love and Gay Latino Culture Book by D. Contreras Full eBook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-01-14 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of material from art, theater, music, and literature, Contreras argues that historical memory is embedded in these forms of art and can perhaps take us "somewhere better than this place." The critical energies in the book come from Chicana/o and queer studies. Contreras views unrequited love as a utopian space of possibility and transformation. The discussion includes The Boys in the Band, Arturo Islas, Paris is Burning, Judy Garland, and Kiss of the Spider Woman.


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Unfinished Show Business

Author :
Publisher : SIU Press
Release Date :
ISBN : 9780809388578
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (89 Download)

Download PDF Unfinished Show Business Book by Full eBook and published by SIU Press. This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fresh approach to musical theatre history, Bruce Kirle challenges the commonly understood trajectory of the genre. Drawing on the notion that the world of the author stays fixed while the world of the audience is ever-changing, Kirle suggests that musicals are open, fluid products of the particular cultural moment in which they are performed. Incomplete as printed texts and scores, musicals take on unpredictable lives of their own in the complex transformation from page to stage. Using lenses borrowed from performance studies, cultural studies, queer studies, and ethnoracial studies, Unfinished Show Business: Broadway Musicals as Works-in-Process argues that musicals are as interesting for the provocative issues they raise about shifting attitudes toward American identity as for their show-stopping song-and-dance numbers and conveniently happy endings. Kirle illustrates how performers such as Ed Wynn, Fanny Brice, and the Marx Brothers used their charismatic personalities and quirkiness to provide insights into the struggle of marginalized ethnoracial groups to assimilate. Using examples from favorites including Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, A Chorus Line, and Les Misérables, Kirle demonstrates Broadway’s ability to bridge seemingly insoluble tensions in society, from economic and political anxiety surrounding World War II to generational conflict and youth counterculture to corporate America and the “me” generation. Enlivened by a gallery of some of Broadway’s most memorable moments—and some amusing, obscure ones as well—this study will appeal to students, scholars, and lifelong musical theatre enthusiasts.


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Harold Prince

Author : Carol Ilson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date : 2000
ISBN : 0879102969
Pages : 543 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (12 Download)

Download PDF Harold Prince Book by Carol Ilson Full eBook and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Prince's career is inseparable from the history of the American musical theatre for the past 40 years...In-depth accounts of musicals Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, Cabaret, Company, and Sweeney Todd will be of interest to any musical theatre buff." -American Theatre


Download The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical PDF

The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical

Author : Raymond Knapp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-03
ISBN : 019998736X
Pages : 481 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (987 Download)

Download PDF The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical Book by Raymond Knapp Full eBook and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents keywords and critical terms that deepen analysis and interpretation of the musical. Taking into account issues of composition, performance, and reception, the book's contributors bring a range of practical and theoretical perspectives to bear on their considerations of American musicals.


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The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical

Author : Jessica Sternfeld
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2019-09-05
ISBN : 1134851855
Pages : 486 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (851 Download)

Download PDF The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical Book by Jessica Sternfeld Full eBook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical is dedicated to the musical’s evolving relationship to American culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In the past decade-and-a-half, international scholars from an ever-widening number of disciplines and specializations have been actively contributing to the interdisciplinary field of musical theater studies. Musicals have served not only to mirror the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural tenor of the times, but have helped shape and influence it, in America and across the globe: a genre that may seem, at first glance, light-hearted and escapist serves also as a bold commentary on society. Forty-four essays examine the contemporary musical as an ever-shifting product of an ever-changing culture. This volume sheds new light on the American musical as a thriving, contemporary performing arts genre, one that could have died out in the post-Tin Pan Alley era but instead has managed to remain culturally viable and influential, in part by newly embracing a series of complex contradictions. At present, the American musical is a live, localized, old-fashioned genre that has simultaneously developed into an increasingly globalized, tech-savvy, intensely mediated mass entertainment form. Similarly, as it has become increasingly international in its scope and appeal, the stage musical has also become more firmly rooted to Broadway—the idea, if not the place—and thus branded as a quintessentially American entertainment.


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Theatre as Human Action

Author : Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-02-26
ISBN : 1442261099
Pages : 281 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (261 Download)

Download PDF Theatre as Human Action Book by Thomas S. Hischak Full eBook and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most introductory theatre textbooks are written for theatre majors and assume the student already has a considerable amount of knowledge on the subject. However, such textbooks may be counterproductive, because they reference several works that may be unfamiliar to students with limited exposure to theatre. Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to Theatre Arts, Second Edition is designed for the college student who may be unacquainted with many plays and has seen a limited number of theatre productions. Focusing primarily on four plays, this textbook aims to inform the student about theatre arts, stimulate interest in the art form, lead to critical thinking about theatre, and prepare the student to be a more informed and critical theatregoer. In addition to looking at both the theoretical and practical aspects of theatre arts—from the nature of theatre and drama to how it reflects society—the author also explains the processes that playwrights, actors, designers, directors, producers, and critics go through. The four plays central to this book are the tragedy Macbeth, the landmark African American drama A Raisin in the Sun, the contemporary rock musical Rent, and—new to this edition—the American comedy classic You Can’t Take It with You. At the beginning of the text, each play is described with plot synopses (and suggested video versions), and then these four representative works are referred to throughout the book. This second edition also features revised chapters throughout, including expanded and updated material on the technical aspects of theatre, the role of the audience and critic,and the diversity of theatre today. Structured into nine chapters, each looking at a major area or artist—and concluding with the audience and the students themselves—the unique approach of Theatre as Human Action thoroughly addresses all of the major topics to be found in an introduction to theatre text.


Download The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers PDF

The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers

Author : Laura MacDonald
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2017-03-25
ISBN : 1137433086
Pages : 559 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (433 Download)

Download PDF The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers Book by Laura MacDonald Full eBook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is the first to provide a systematic investigation of the various roles of producers in commercial and not-for-profit musical theatre. Featuring fifty-one essays written by international specialists in the field, it offers new insights into the world of musical theatre, its creation and its promotion. Key areas of investigation include the lives and works of producers whose work is part of a US and worldwide musical theatre legacy, as well as the largely critically-neglected role of the musical theatre producer in the making, marketing, and performance of musicals. Also explored are the shifting roles of producers in musical theatre and their popular portrayals, offering a reader-friendly collection for fans, scholars, students, and practitioners of musical theatre alike.


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Media and Performance in the Musical

Author : Raymond Knapp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-04
ISBN : 0190877847
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (877 Download)

Download PDF Media and Performance in the Musical Book by Raymond Knapp Full eBook and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past several years, the American musical has continued to thrive by reflecting and shaping cultural values and social norms, and even commenting on politics, whether directly and on a national scale (Hamilton) or somewhat more obliquely and on a more intimate scale (Fun Home). New stage musicals, such as Come from Away and The Band's Visit, open on Broadway every season, challenging conventions of form and content, and revivals offer audiences a different perspective on extant shows (Carousel; My Fair Lady). Television musicals broadcast live hearken back to 1950s television's affection for musical theatre and aim to attract new audiences through the accessibility of television. Film musicals, including Les Misérables and Into the Woods, capitalize on the medium's technical capabilities of perspective and point of view, as well as visual spectacle. Television has embraced the genre anew, and with unexpected gusto, not only devising musical episodes for countless dramatic and comedy series, but also generating musical series such as Galavant and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. And animated musicals, such as Disney's Moana, hail child and adult audiences with their dual messages, vibrant visual vocabulary, and hummable music. The chapters gathered in this book, Volume II of the reissued Oxford Handbook, explore the American musical from the various media in which musicals have been created to the different components of a musical and the people who do the work to bring a musical to life.


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Kander and Ebb

Author : James Leve
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release Date : 2009-03-01
ISBN : 0300155948
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (155 Download)

Download PDF Kander and Ebb Book by James Leve Full eBook and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb collaborated for more than forty years, longer than any such partnership in Broadway history. Together they wrote over twenty musicals. Their two most successful works, Cabaret and Chicago, had critically acclaimed Broadway revivals and were made into Oscar-winning films. This book, the first study of Kander and Ebb, examines their artistic accomplishments as individuals and as a team. Drawing on personal papers and on numerous interviews, James Leve analyzes the unique nature of this collaboration. Leve discusses their contribution to the concept musical; he examines some of their most popular works including Cabaret, Chicago, and Kiss of the Spider Woman; and he reassesses their flops as well as their incomplete and abandoned projects. Filled with fascinating information, the book is a resource for students of musical theater and lovers of Kander and Ebbs songs and shows.


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Mike Nichols

Author : Mark Harris
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2021-02-02
ISBN : 0399562257
Pages : 688 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (562 Download)

Download PDF Mike Nichols Book by Mark Harris Full eBook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Critics Circle finalist • One of People's top 10 books of 2021 • An instant New York Times bestseller • Named a best book of the year by NPR and Time A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges—some of the worst largely unknown until now—by the acclaimed author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came Back Mike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind: while still in his twenties, he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country. Next he directed four consecutive hit plays, won back-to-back Tonys, ushered in a new era of Hollywood moviemaking with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and followed it with The Graduate, which won him an Oscar and became the third-highest-grossing movie ever. At thirty-five, he lived in a three-story Central Park West penthouse, drove a Rolls-Royce, collected Arabian horses, and counted Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Leonard Bernstein, and Richard Avedon as friends. Where he arrived is even more astonishing given where he had begun: born Igor Peschkowsky to a Jewish couple in Berlin in 1931, he was sent along with his younger brother to America on a ship in 1939. The young immigrant boy caught very few breaks. He was bullied and ostracized--an allergic reaction had rendered him permanently hairless--and his father died when he was just twelve, leaving his mother alone and overwhelmed. The gulf between these two sets of facts explains a great deal about Nichols's transformation from lonely outsider to the center of more than one cultural universe--the acute powers of observation that first made him famous; the nourishment he drew from his creative partnerships, most enduringly with May; his unquenchable drive; his hunger for security and status; and the depressions and self-medications that brought him to terrible lows. It would take decades for him to come to grips with his demons. In an incomparable portrait that follows Nichols from Berlin to New York to Chicago to Hollywood, Mark Harris explores, with brilliantly vivid detail and insight, the life, work, struggle, and passion of an artist and man in constant motion. Among the 250 people Harris interviewed: Elaine May, Meryl Streep, Stephen Sondheim, Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Tom Hanks, Candice Bergen, Emma Thompson, Annette Bening, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Lorne Michaels, and Gloria Steinem. Mark Harris gives an intimate and evenhanded accounting of success and failure alike; the portrait is not always flattering, but its ultimate impact is to present the full story of one of the most richly interesting, complicated, and consequential figures the worlds of theater and motion pictures have ever seen. It is a triumph of the biographer's art.


Download The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre PDF

The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre

Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-06-13
ISBN : 9780521564441
Pages : 448 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (521 Download)

Download PDF The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre Book by Don B. Wilmeth Full eBook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new and updated Guide, with over 2,700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the U.S., plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major U.S. cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and puppetry. Highly illustrated, the Guide is supplemented with a historical survey as introduction, a bibliography of major sources published since the first edition, and a biographical index covering over 3,200 individuals mentioned in the text."--BOOK JACKET.


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