Performing Arts : Theater - Broadway & Musical Revue

"Steve Swayne's How Sondheim Found His Sound is a fascinating treatment and remarkable analysis of America's greatest playwright in song. His marvelous text ......

Victor Herbert is one of the giants of American culture. As a musician, conductor, and, above all, composer, he touched every corner of American musical life......

"The best new musical in a generation."--The New York Observer Author: Sater, Steven Author: Sheik, Duncan Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Illustrat......

An exciting and humorous collection of short stories, poetry, plays, non-fiction, interviews, and more, from excellent writers around the world. For more inf......

West Side Story: Cultural Perspectives on an American Musical presents a major scholarly study of the famous American musical West Side Story, viewing the wo......

Since the latter part of the 19th century, the Broadway musical has remained one of the most popular genres in entertainment and its history is related in de......

The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre provides synopses, cast and production credits, song titles, and other pertinent information for over 180 musicals......

This book explores the creation of the popular Broadway musical Wicked through an examination of draft scripts, interviews with major figures, and the study ......

The Lombardo Story, Guy Lombardo and The Royal Canadians, the band's life and times, by Beverly Fink Cline, is an eBook re-issue of a 1979 book published......

Applause Books Mr. Broadway was completed just one month before Gerald Schoenfeld's death in 2008 at the age of 84. Bringing the reader backstage, the long-......

"A brave and breathtaking musical."--The New York Times Author: Yorkey, Brian Author: Kitt, Tom Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Illustration: N Lang......

As the first musical theater book especially for middle school productions, The Magic of Middle School Musical provides a step-by-step guide for success. Bob......

A dynamic, fast-paced biography of George Gershwin that has the verve and staccato drive of a book the composer himself might have written. Rimler gives us a......

So, You're the New Musical Director! is aimed at the person who has music training but little or no experience with musical theatre, the high school chor......

This new edition of Swain's classic award-winning text reveals how a musical drama achieves plot movement, character development and conflict through strateg......

This documented history reconstructs the song performances of each annual production of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1907 to 1931. In so doing, it demonstrates ......

The full text and complete lyrics as well as photographs from the original production. One of the great works of the American musical theatre. It is darling ...

Have you heard of the first American musical ÊThe Black CrookÊ which opened in 1866 and had fifteen revivals? Do you know Oscar Straus's hilarious parody o......

(Limelight). In the summer of 1978, Grease was the word. On Friday, June 16, 1978, the movie musical made a major comeback when a big-screen version of the...

Celebrating its 65th year ÊTheatre WorldÊ is the authoritative statistical and pictorial record of the season on Broadway Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadwa......