Music-Genres & Styles-Musicals

The musical tale of a domineering stage mother's inadvertent creation of a burlesque stripper, now available in paperback for the first time.Author: Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, Jule StyneISBN-10: 1559360860ISBN-13: 9781559360869Publisher: Theatre Communications GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1994Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d

(Vocal Selections). A dozen vocal selections presented for the hit musical which opened on Broadway in March 2015, presented in vocal line arrangements with piano accompaniment. Includes: Welcome to the Renaissance * God, I Hate Shakespeare * Right Hand Man * A Musical *...

Sondheim in Our Time and His offers a wide-ranging historical investigation of the landmark works and extraordinary career of Stephen Sondheim, a career which has spanned much of the history of American musical theater. Each author uncovers those aspects of biography, collaborative process, and...

Libretto for the musical about a young New York couple.Author: Jason Robert BrownISBN-10: 1557837708ISBN-13: 9781557837707Publisher: Applause BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2011Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.40d

From his early work as lyricist for West Side Story to acclaimed creations such as A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, and Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim is widely regarded as the most important figure in musical theater since the second...

(Easy Piano Vocal Selections). The winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Original Score and Best Musical, Dear Evan Hansen has struck a remarkable chord with audiences and critics everywhere. With advanced ticket sales in excess of $20 million and its soundtrack debut at...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). From Gershwin and Rodgers & Hammerstein to Stephen Schwartz & Stephen Sondheim, 100 timeless hits from the Great White Way are showcased in this book of classics in arrangements for piano, voice and guitar. Songs include: And All That Jazz * Beauty...

Contains the following songs: It All Comes Back (Opening) Welcome to Our House on Maple Avenue Come to the Fun Home Changing My Major Maps Raincoat of Love Ring of Keys Days and Days Telephone Wire Edges of the World Flying Away (Finale) Bonus...

American Musicals in Context: From the American Revolution to the 21st Century gives students a fresh look at history-based musicals, helping readers to understand the American story through one of the country's most celebrated art forms: the musical. With the hit musical Hamilton (2015)...

Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden defined beauty standards for the first half of the twentieth century. Brilliant innovators with humble roots, both were masters of self-invention who sacrificed everything to become the country's first major female entrepreneurs. They were also fierce competitors whose fifty-year...

WORDS WITH MUSIC: CREATING THE BROADWAY MUSICAL LIBRETTOAuthor: Lehman EngelISBN-10: 1557835543ISBN-13: 9781557835543Publisher: Applause BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 478Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 04/15/2006 pg. 126

FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE IN MODERN TYPEAuthor: William ShakespeareISBN-10: 1557833338ISBN-13: 9781557833334Publisher: Applause BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2000Pages: 1182Format: HardcoverWeight: 6.45lbsSize: 11.10h x 8.80w x 2.80dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 12/01/2001 pg. 122Choice 03/01/2002 pg. 1251

(Vocal Selections). An acclaimed three-person musical, tick, tick ... BOOM is an autobiographical piece from the late Jonathan Larson, the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of Rent . Our songbook features 12 tunes from the production: Come to Your Senses * Green Green Dress...

"Caroline is a breakthrough--a story so grounded in the ordinary details of life that it almost seems to have discovered a new genre." -Richard Zoglin, Time "Acute, smart and witty: a telling snapshot focusing with sharp clarity on characters captured at a fraught turning...

In this collective memoir, each gang member shares behind the scenes personal stories about the making of this classic film. Stories never before told. Stories that will make you laugh, stories that will inspire and surprise. Where are the now? What are they doing...

Fascinating, never-before-published interviews with Broadway's leading men offer behind-the-scenes looks at the careers of some of the most beloved perfomers today. In A Wonderful Guy, a follow up to Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater, theatre journalist Eddie...

(Vocal Collection). Contents: THE ADDAMS FAMILY: Pulled * BABY: The Story Goes On * BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL: One Perfect Moment * CATCH ME IF YOU CAN: Fly, Fly Away * FALSETTOS: Holding to the Ground * FAME: Think of Meryl Streep *...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 39 favorites from contemporary Broadway hit shows are featured in this collection of piano/vocal/guitar arrangements. Includes songs from: The Addams Family * Aladdin * The Book of Mormon * Bright Star * A Bronx Tale * Come from Away * Dear Evan...

Kurt G舅zl, an award-winning authority on musical theater, is a former opera singer, theatrical agent, casting director, and theater and opera critic. He is the author of numerous books, including Gilbert and Sullivan: The Players and the Plays, also by SUNY Press; Encyclopedia of...

Musical theatre choreography has indisputably evolved over the years and choreographers develop methods of working and philosophical approaches that should be documented but rarely are. Textual information is limited, and what has been written is generally more practical than theoretical, and is minimal compared...

"This brave new musical, haunting and electrifying by turns, restores the mystery, the thrill to that shattering transformation that stirs in all our souls."--Charles Isherwood, The New York Times"The staggering purity of this show will touch all open hearts...In its refined, imaginative simplicity, it...

The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies offers a series of cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling topics in the growing field of Sondheim Studies. Focusing on broad groups of issues relating to the music and the production of Sondheim works, rather than...

In the 1950s, Meredith Willson's The Music Man became the third longest running musical after My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music: a considerable achievement in a decade that saw the premieres of other popular works by Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and...

"The idea is inspired and the treatment piercingly beautiful . . . Two formidable artists have shown respect for the integrity of each other's work here and the result is magnificent." --Independent "Bob Dylan's back catalogue is used to glorious effect in Conor McPherson's...

(Vocal Score). The complete vocal score to one of the most beloved American musicals of all time. Includes complete cast list, vocal ranges, instrumentation list plus an introduction about the famous collaboration that worked together on this project: Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents,...

From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked," female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this lively book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theatre...

(Vocal Collection). This massive collection features 50 songs from 41 shows and films appropriate for teen singers. Includes: Astonishing from Little Women * For the First Time in Forever from Frozen * Home from Beauty and the Beast * How Far I'll Go from...

Musical Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell. Music by Janet Hood. Characters: 20-25 males, 11-16 females (doubling or expanding possible.) Unit set A celebration of lives lost to AIDS told in free verse monologues with a blues, jazz and rock score, this piece is...

Soul Asylum has been a leading force on the alternative rock scene since the 1980s behind Dave Pirner's passionate and inspired songwriting. Beginning with his high school band, the Schitz, and then the precursor to Soul Asylum, Loud Fast Rules, Pirner's songs have run...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). One of our bestselling Broadway collections just got even better thanks to this new 6th edition. It features 85 timeless Broadway favorites arranged for piano and voice with guitar chord frames. Songs include: Bring Him Home * Cabaret * I Could Have...

(Vocal Selections). This souvenir folio features full-color photos from the stunning production as well as piano/vocal arrangements of 9 songs, including: All I Ask of You * Angel of Music * Masquerade * The Music of the Night * The Phantom of the Opera...

Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella is the new Broadway adaptation of the classic musical. This contemporary take on the classic tale features Rodgers & Hammerstein's most beloved songs, including "In My Own Little Corner," "Impossible/It's Possible" and "Ten Minutes Ago," alongside an up-to-date, hilarious and...

(Vocal Selections). Nominated for a whopping 10 Tony Awards in 2005, Wicked is an undeniable Broadway smash A prequel to the all-American classic The Wizard of Oz, this new musical is a character study of Elphaba and Glinda, school roommates who grow up to...

"Priceless and peerless...a thrilling work of theatricality." --Wayman Wong, San Francisco Examiner For over three decades, Stephen Sondheim has been the foremost composer and lyricist writing regularly for Broadway. His substantial body of work now stands as one of the most sustained achievements of...

A terrific take on theatre singing by a master teacher. "David Craig knows more about singing in the musical theatre than anyone in this country - which probably means the world. Time and time again his advice and training have resulted in actors moving...

(Vocal Selections). This hit musical, inspired by the Twentieth Century Fox motion picture, came to Broadway in April 2017. Our vocal selections feature piano/vocal arrangements of 14 songs by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, including: Close the Door * Everything to Win * Journey...

(Vocal Collection). Contents: THE APPLE TREE: Feelings * BRIGADOON: Waitin' for My Dearie * CAMELOT: Before I Gaze at You Again * CHICAGO: A Little Bit of Good * CINDERELLA: In My Own Little Corner * COWGIRLS: From Chopin to Country * EVENING PRIMROSE:...

Winner of three Tony Awards, including Best Book, Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann's Urinetown: The Musical is a tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold. After a twenty-year drought made water a scarce...

Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals, who or what they are meant to represent, and how, over time, those representations have been understood and interpreted, provide the very basis for our...

Winner of the 2018 Tony Award for Best Musical After a mix-up at the border, Egypt's Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra, bound for the cosmopolitan Israeli city Petah Tikvah, is stranded in a small desert town. With no transportation until the next day, the band...

Winner of the 1994 Tony Awards for Best Book, Best Music and Lyrics, and Best Musical "Easily among Sondheim's best--subtle, rhapsodic and full of emotional depth." --David Patrick Stearns, USA Today "Hypnotic, rigorous, very risky...a major work." --Vincent Canby, New York Times "Held me...

(Vocal Selections). Eight songs from the 2015 Broadway revival of the musical adapted from the novel The Color Purple, presented in vocal lines with piano accompaniment. Includes: Any Little Thing * The Color Purple * I'm Here * Our Prayer * Push Da Button...

In the half-century since its premiere, Fiddler on the Roof has become a supremely potent cultural landmark, beloved by audiences the world over. Now, in a history as captivating as its subject, award-winning drama critic Alisa Solomon traces how and why the story of...

(Vocal Selections). This outstanding collection features ten top songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved musical: The Ad-dressing of Cats * Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town * Gus: The Theatre Cat * Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats * The Journey to the Heavyside Layer...

(Vocal Selections). The 2008 Broadway musical In the Heights explores three days in the characters' lives in the New York City Latino neighborhood of Washington Heights, with an infectious score featuring hip-hop, salsa, merengue and soul music. Our piano/vocal selections songbook features 14 tunes...

In The Reason to Sing, renowned composer-lyricist and teacher Craig Carnelia provides musical actors with a step-by-step guide to making their singing performances more truthful, vivid, and full of life. Using a technique developed over decades of teaching the professional community of Broadway actors...

(Vocal Selections). A dozen vocal selections from the 2017 musical adaptation to the 1998 DreamWorks film of the same name featuring music by Stephen Schwartz. Includes 12 songs: All I Ever Wanted (with Queen's Reprise) * Always on My Side * Dance to the...

The official behind-the-scenes look at the powerful Grammy-award winning musical based on Alanis Morissette's cult classic album Jagged Little Pill. Celebrating its 25-year anniversary in 2020, singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette's Grammy-Award winning album Jagged Little Pill has come to define a generation. In the "triumphant...

America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how historically accurate is Hamilton?...

(Piano Solo Songbook). 16 beautiful solo arrangements of Broadway standards from 14 great shows. Includes: All I Ask of You * And All That Jazz * Beauty and the Beast * Bring Him Home * Cabaret * Edelweiss * If I Loved You *...