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Vendor: Thomas S. Hischak
Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television
From the silver screen to the Great White Way, small community theatres to television sets, the musical has long held a special place in America's heart and history. Now, in The Oxford Companion to the American Musical, readers who flocked to the movies to...- $42.99
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Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s
The 1950s saw an explosion in the American musical theater. The Broadway show, catapulted into the limelight in the 20s and solidified during the 40s thanks to Rodgers and Hammerstein, now entered its most revolutionary phase, brashly redefining itself and forging a new kind...- $21.99
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Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s
"Music and girls are the soul of musical comedy," one critic wrote, early in the 1940s. But this was the age that wanted more than melody and kickline form its musical shows. The form had been running on empty for too long, as a...- $60.00
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Vendor: Joseph Church
Rock in the Musical Theatre: A Guide for Singers
Today's musical theatre world rocks. Now that rock 'n' roll music and its offshoots, including pop, hard rock, rap, r&b, funk, folk, and world-pop music, are the standard language of musical theatre, theatre singers need a source of information on these styles, their origins,...- $34.99
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Vendor: Dominic McHugh
The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner wrote the lyrics for some of the most beloved musicals in Broadway and Hollywood history. Most notably, with composer Frederick Loewe he created enduring hits such as My Fair Lady, Gigi, Camelot, and Brigadoon. In The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay...- $65.00
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Vendor: Thomas S. Hischak
The American Musical Film Song Encyclopedia
Following the successful, The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 1995), this new encyclopedia reviews in-depth individual songs written for the American musical film over the past seventy years. Over 1,800 songs from over 500 musical films are identified and described. In addition to...- $83.00
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Vendor: Thomas S. Hischak
The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia
The first encyclopedia of theatre songs from Broadway shows ranging from The Black Crook (1866) to the 1994 Tony Award-winning Passion, this handy guide features over 1,800 songs from over 500 musicals. It gives such information as the songs' authors, original performers, and dates...- $83.00
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Vendor: Andrew Lamb
150 Years of Popular Musical Theatre
From the Parisian operettas of Jacques Offenbach in the 1850s to such current blockbuster musicals as Les Mis rables and Rent, musical theatre has given joy to audiences throughout the world. This lively book--an illustrated history of popular musical theatre--provides a compendium of fascinating...- $77.00
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Vendor: Julia L. Foulkes
A Place for Us: "West Side Story" and New York
From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, West Side Story is nothing less than an American touchstone--an updating of Shakespeare vividly realized in a rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of postwar New York is at the heart...- $32.00
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