Broadway Legacies – serie
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28 produkter
Pal Joey
The History of a Heel
Inbunden, 2020
737 kr
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When Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey opened at the Barrymore on Christmas day, 1940, it flew in the face of musical comedy convention. The characters and situation were depraved. The setting was caustically realistic. Its female lead was frankly sexual and yet not purely comic. A narratively-driven …
Too Darn Hot
Kiss Me, Kate & the Making and Remaking of a Broadway Musical
Inbunden, 2026
333 kr
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When Kiss Me, Kate premiered in its first try-out performance, its future was anything but certain. Conceived and staged in just nine months of intense, sometimes chaotic collaboration, the show was a bold experiment: a backstage musical built around a Shakespearean comedy. But once the reviews …
Big Deal
Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical
Häftad, 2020
491 kr
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Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in post-World War II American musical theater. With his first Broadway musical, The Pajama Game in 1954, the "Fosse style" was already fully developed, with its trademark hunched shoulders, turned-in stance, and stuttering, …
Everything is Choreography
The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune
Inbunden, 2022
372 kr
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Grand Hotel. My One and Only. Nine. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. The Will Rogers Follies. For two decades, Tommy Tune was the maestro presiding over a string of glittering Broadway musicals that took the tradition of complete musical staging by a …
The Shuberts and Their Passing Shows
The Untold Tale of Ziegfeld's Rivals
Inbunden, 2016
978 kr
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The Shubert name has been synonymous with Broadway for almost as long as Broadway entertainment itself. With seventeen Broadway theatres including the Ambassador, the Music Box, and the Winter Garden, The Shubert Organization perpetuates brothers Lee and Jacob Shubert's business legacy. In The …
Show Boat
Performing Race in an American Musical
Av Todd Decker
Häftad, 2015
670 kr
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Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and including much new information from early draft scripts and scores, this book reveals how Oscar …
Bernstein Meets Broadway
Collaborative Art in a Time of War
Av Carol J. Oja
Häftad, 2016
508 kr
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When Leonard Bernstein first arrived in New York City, he was an unknown artist working with other brilliant twentysomethings, notably Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green. By the end of the 1940s, these artists were world famous. Their collaborations defied artistic boundaries and subtly …
Oklahoma!
The Making of an American Musical, Revised and Expanded Edition
Av Tim Carter
Inbunden, 2020
2281 kr
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First published in 2007, "Oklahoma!": The Making of an American Musical tells the full story of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Author Tim Carter examines archival materials, manuscripts, and journalism, and the lofty aspirations and mythmaking that surrounded the musical from its very …
Oklahoma!
The Making of an American Musical, Revised and Expanded Edition
Av Tim Carter
Häftad, 2020
492 kr
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First published in 2007, "Oklahoma!": The Making of an American Musical tells the full story of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Author Tim Carter examines archival materials, manuscripts, and journalism, and the lofty aspirations and mythmaking that surrounded the musical from its very …
We'll Have Manhattan
The Early Work of Rodgers & Hart
Häftad, 2017
380 kr
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Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are one of the defining duos of musical theater, contributing dozens of classic songs to the Great American Songbook and working together on over 40 shows before Hart's death. With hit after hit on both Broadway and the West End, they produced many of the celebrated …
Sweet Mystery
The Musical Works of Rida Johnson Young
Inbunden, 2021
489 kr
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Rida Johnson Young (ca. 1869-1926) was one of the most prolific female playwrights of her time, as well as a lyricist and librettist in the musical theater. She wrote more than thirty full-length plays, operettas, and musical comedies, 500 songs, and four novels, including Naughty Marietta, Lady …
Pick Yourself Up
Dorothy Fields and the American Musical
Inbunden, 2010
930 kr
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Dorothy Fields was best known as a lyricist, one of the few women who played a central role in the great period of American popular song from 1920 to 1960. Fields first became prominent writing the lyrics for Cotton Club shows in Harlem in the late 1920s and 1930s, and her most successful …
South Pacific
Paradise Rewritten
Inbunden, 2010
902 kr
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "South Pacific" has remained a mainstay of the American musical theater since it opened in 1949, and its powerful message about racial intolerance continues to resonate with twenty-first century audiences. Drawing on extensive …
To Broadway, To Life!
The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick
Inbunden, 2011
1193 kr
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In fourteen years of collaboration, composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick wrote seven of Broadway's most beloved and memorable musicals together, most famously Fiddler on the Roof (1964), but also the enduring audience favorite She Loves Me (1963), and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning …
Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater
Inbunden, 2012
1105 kr
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From patriotic "God Bless America" to wistful "White Christmas," Irving Berlin's songs have long accompanied Americans as they fall in love, go to war, and come home for the holidays. Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater is the first book to fully consider this songwriter's immeasurable …
Yankee Doodle Dandy
George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage
Inbunden, 2024
347 kr
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Playwright, composer, actor, director, and producer George M. Cohan looms large in musical theater legend. Remembered today for classic tunes like "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Give My Regards to Broadway," he has been called "the father of musical comedy," and his statue stands in the heart of …
The Big Parade
Meredith Willson's Musicals from The Music Man to 1491
Inbunden, 2021
390 kr
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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 Loewe, not to mention Frank Loesser's …
Closer than Ever
The Unique Six-Decade Songwriting Partnership of Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire
Inbunden, 2024
340 kr
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How do musical theater songs actually get written? What enables some composer and lyricist partnerships to last for decades?Composer David Shire and lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr., two of the most gifted songwriters of our time, are revered among musical theater lovers for their ground-breaking …
To Broadway, To Life!
The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick
Häftad, 2013
619 kr
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In fourteen years of collaboration, composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick wrote seven of Broadway's most beloved and memorable musicals together, most famously Fiddler on the Roof (1964), but also the enduring audience favorite She Loves Me (1963), and the Pulitzer Prize-winning …
Big Deal
Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical
Inbunden, 2018
547 kr
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Bob Fosse (1927-87) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in the post-World War II American musical theater. With his first Broadway musical, The Pajama Game in 1954, the "Fosse style" was already fully developed, with the hunched shoulders, turned in stance, and stuttering, staccato …
Loverly
The Life and Times of My Fair Lady
Häftad, 2014
733 kr
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Few musicals have had the impact of Lerner and Loewe's timeless classic My Fair Lady. Sitting in the middle of an era dominated by such seminal figures as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser, and Leonard Bernstein, My Fair Lady not only enjoyed critical success similar to that of its rivals but …
Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater
Häftad, 2014
677 kr
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From patriotic "God Bless America" to wistful "White Christmas," Irving Berlin's songs have long accompanied Americans as they fall in love, go to war, and come home for the holidays. Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater is the first book to fully consider this songwriter's immeasurable …
Agnes de Mille
Telling Stories in Broadway Dance
Inbunden, 2016
846 kr
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This book explores the Broadway legacy of choreographer Agnes de Mille, from the 1940s through the 1960s. Six musicals are discussed in depth - Oklahoma!, One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, and Allegro. Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Brigadoon were de Mille's most influential and …
Show Boat
Performing Race in an American Musical
Av Todd Decker
Inbunden, 2012
965 kr
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Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and including much new information, this book reveals how Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern created "Show Boat" …
Loverly
The Life and Times of My Fair Lady
Inbunden, 2012
935 kr
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Few musicals have had the impact of Lerner and Loewe's timeless classic "My Fair Lady." Sitting in the middle of an era dominated by such seminal figures as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser, and Leonard Bernstein, "My Fair Lady" not only enjoyed critical success similar to that of its rivals …
We'll Have Manhattan
The Early Work of Rodgers & Hart
Inbunden, 2015
974 kr
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Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are one of the defining duos of musical theater, contributing dozens of classic songs to the Great American Songbook and working together on over 40 shows before Hart's death. With hit after hit on both Broadway and the West End, they produced many of the celebrated …
Pick Yourself Up
Dorothy Fields and the American Musical
Häftad, 2013
535 kr
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Famed lyricist Dorothy Fields penned the words to more than four hundred songs, among them mega-hits such as "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, " and "The Way You Look Tonight." In Pick Yourself Up, Charlotte Greenspan offers the most complete treatment of …
South Pacific
Paradise Rewritten
Häftad, 2013
404 kr
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "South Pacific" has remained a mainstay of the American musical theater since it opened in 1949, and its powerful message about racial intolerance continues to resonate with twenty-first century audiences. Drawing on extensive …
