My Favorite Plays (Theatre and Performing Arts, #1)
by Tara Kachaturoff
Filled with fascinating information and insight into theatrical history, Musical Theatre teaches students about the performance genres that came to America with European immigrants and evolved over time to become the unique American form of entertainment known as musical theatre. This student friendly introduction examines the beginnings of musical theatre in the 1800's. The chapters progress chronologically and thematically through the early "gentlemen" composers George M. Cohen, Jerome Kern,...
Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Musical Theatre
A selection of chosen articles published within SMT. Plus additional new content.
The new musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim shuns the traditional story of love triumphant, probing instead the more disturbing issues of contemporary life. Confident that the musical is America's greatest original contribution to theatre, Joanne Gordon explicates the works of Sondheim to repudiate the common perception of the genre as mere escapist entertainment. Gordon notes that Sondheim tackles real themes, that he has no fear of introducing pain, trauma, and complex ideas onto the Broadwa...
Parsifal Reception in the Bayreuther Blaetter (American University Studies, #55)
by Mary A. Cicora
Niccolo Piccinni: Catone in Utica (Quellen Und Studien Zur Geschichte der Mannheimer Hofkapelle, #4)
by Wolfram Ensslin
Die Werke Niccolo Piccinnis, eines der produktivsten Opernkomponisten des 18. Jahrhunderts, fuhren heutzutage ein Schattendasein. Die meisten seiner Opern befinden sich in zum Teil schwer zuganglichen Bibliotheken. Die grundliche Quellenuntersuchung seiner 1770 komponierten und wohl in Mannheim uraufgefuhrten Oper "Catone in Utica" ergibt wertvolle neue Erkenntnisse zur Arbeitsweise Piccinnis sowie zur Entstehungs- und Auffuhrungsgeschichte dieses Werkes. Die Arbeit stellt einen Beitrag zur Gatt...
If No One Loves Me Now, Someday Somebody Will
by Write Run and Hye Scule
Today at Least You're You and That's Enough
by Write Run and Evan James Robert Hansen
From Goodreads: When the novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis was first published in 1955, it became an instant hit and national bestseller. More than forty years later, it was brought back in print in a trade paperback edition and has, again, proven to be a commercial success. ABC is currently planning to air a two-hour special Auntie Mame movie starring Cher, and "Mame" is headed back to Broadway for the 2004 season. Now, industry insider Richard Tyler Jordan--who works as a senior publicist f...
No One has more Resilience or Matches my Practical Tactical Brilliance
by Write Run and Hamm El Tun
Music Theory for Musical Theatre is a textbook designed to demystify music theory and analysis to make it more accessible to the musical theatre student. It aims to equip the student with a basic skill set that he or she can directly apply to the art form. John Bell and Steven R. Chicurel explore how musical theatre composers use basic principles of music theory to help illuminate characters and tell stories, while helping the student understand the form, structure, and dramatic power of musical...
Broadway Rhythm is a guide to Manhattan like nothing you've ever read. Author Dominic Symonds calls it a performance cartography, and argues that the city of New York maps its iconicity in the music of the Broadway songbook. A series of walking tours takes the reader through the landscape of Manhattan, clambering over rooftops, riding the subway, and flying over skyscrapers. Symonds argues that Broadway's songs can themselves be used as maps to better understand the city though identifiable patt...