The Rodgers and Hammerstein Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9780313341403 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Still the most influential and popular songwriting team in the history of the American Musical Theatre, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein represent Broadway musicals at their finest. The team revolutionized the musical play with "Oklahoma " in 1943 and then went on to explore territory never put on the musical stage before in such beloved shows as "Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I" and "The Sound of Music." The team also worked in film, as with "State Fair," and in the new medium of television, with "Cinderella." For the first time, the lives, careers, works, songs, and themes... Still the most influential and popular songwriting team in the history of the American Musical Theatre, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein repre... |
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Routledge Guide to Broadway
ISBN: 9780415973793 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Routledge Guide to Broadway is the second title in our new student reference series. It will introduce the student to the Broadway theater, focusing on key performers, writers, directors, plays, and musicals, along with the theaters themselves, key awards, and the folklore of Broadway.
Broadway is the center of American theater, where all the great plays and musicals make their mark. Students across the country in theater history, performance, and direction/production look to Broadway for their inspiration. While there are illustrated coffee table type books on Broadway, there are few... The Routledge Guide to Broadway is the second title in our new student reference series. It will introduce the student to the Broadway theater, focusi...
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558,51 zł |
Routledge Guide to Broadway
ISBN: 9780415973809 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Routledge Guide to Broadway is the second title in our new student reference series. It will introduce the student to the Broadway theater, focusing on key performers, writers, directors, plays, and musicals, along with the theaters themselves, key awards, and the folklore of Broadway.
Broadway is the center of American theater, where all the great plays and musicals make their mark. Students across the country in theater history, performance, and direction/production look to Broadway for their inspiration. While there are illustrated coffee table type books on Broadway, there... The Routledge Guide to Broadway is the second title in our new student reference series. It will introduce the student to the Broadway theate...
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203,04 zł |
Urinetown
ISBN: 9780571211821 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of three Tony Awards, including Best Book, Urinetown is a tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold. Winner of three Tony Awards, including Best Book, Urinetown is a tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution in a time when water is wor... |
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79,40 zł |
The Scores of Sullivan - St Agnes' Eve - Sheet Music for Voice and Piano
ISBN: 9781528701525 / Angielski / Miękka / 18 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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84,20 zł |
The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity
ISBN: 9780691126135 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American musical has achieved and maintained relevance to more people in America than any other performance-based art. This thoughtful history of the genre, intended for readers of all stripes, offers probing discussions of how American musicals, especially through their musical numbers, advance themes related to American national identity. Written by a musicologist and supported by a wealth of illustrative audio examples (on the book's website), the book examines key historical antecedents to the musical, including the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, nineteenth and early... The American musical has achieved and maintained relevance to more people in America than any other performance-based art. This thoughtful history ... |
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149,65 zł |
Duke Ellington's Music for the Theatre
ISBN: 9780786408566 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume acknowledges Duke Ellington's contribution to the stage. It offers a survey of every theatre piece he is known to have worked on during his lifetime. The plot of each work is described and the score analyzed.
This volume acknowledges Duke Ellington's contribution to the stage. It offers a survey of every theatre piece he is known to have worked on during hi...
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240,03 zł |
The Beggar's Opera
ISBN: 9780803253612 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Beggar's Opera introduced to theater the ballad-opera and an immortal cast of characters. The Peachums, employers of a company of pickpockets, shoplifters, and thieves, raised their daughter Polly for finer things, but she has done a dreadful deed. She has married for love. Her husband is Macheath, so exquisite a robber he might have been a lawyer or lord, and so devoted to matrimony that he has two or three wives already.
The Beggar's Opera introduced to theater the ballad-opera and an immortal cast of characters. The Peachums, employers of a company of pickpockets, sho...
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96,42 zł |
Lost Colony: A Symphonic Drama of American History
ISBN: 9780807849705 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1937, The Lost Colony, Paul Green's dramatic retelling of the founding and mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke Island colony, opened to standing-room-only audiences and rave reviews. Since then, the beloved outdoor drama has played to more than 3 million people, and it is still going strong. Produced by the Roanoke Island Historical Association at the Waterside Theater near Manteo, North Carolina, The Lost Colony has run for more than sixty summers almost without interruption. (Production was suspended during World War II, when the threat of German submarines prowling the...
In 1937, The Lost Colony, Paul Green's dramatic retelling of the founding and mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke Island colony, opened to ...
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108,65 zł |
So, You're the New Musical Director!: An Introduction to Conducting a Broadway Musical
ISBN: 9780810840010 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 choral director with a degree in music education, or the actor participating in community theatre productions. It details the duties involved in directing a broadway musical, including overseeing singer and orchestra rehearsals and conducting the musical itself. The chapters follow the actual progression of a musical from a discussion of the production team's responsibilities to the final bow. Filled with photos, illustrations, and examples, So,...
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 c...
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369,03 zł |
The Art of the American Musical: Conversations with the Creators
ISBN: 9780813536132 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Musical theater has captivated American audiences from its early roots in burlesque stage productions and minstrel shows to the million-dollar industry it has become on Broadway today. What is it about this truly indigenous American art form that has made it so enduringly popular? How has it survived, even thrived, alongside the technology of film and the glitz and glamour of Hollywood? Will it continue to evolve and leave its mark on the twenty-first century? Bringing together exclusive and previously unpublished interviews with nineteen leading composers, lyricists, librettists, directors,...
Musical theater has captivated American audiences from its early roots in burlesque stage productions and minstrel shows to the million-dollar industr...
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238,63 zł |
Our Musicals, Ourselves: A Social History of the American Musical Theatre
ISBN: 9780874519044 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our Musicals, Ourselves is the first full-scale social history of the American musical theater from the imported Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas of the late nineteenth century to such recent musicals as The Producers and Urinetown. While many aficionados of the Broadway musical associate it with wonderful, diversionary shows like The Music Man or My Fair Lady, John Bush Jones instead selects musicals for their social relevance and the extent to which they engage, directly or metaphorically, contemporary politics and culture. Organized chronologically, with some liberties taken to keep...
Our Musicals, Ourselves is the first full-scale social history of the American musical theater from the imported Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas of ...
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149,65 zł |
Making It Big: The Diary of a Broadway Musical
ISBN: 9780879100889 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Limelight). Long-time theatre writer and Los Angeles Times correspondent Barbara Isenberg received rare access to every aspect of the creative process and the financial planning that went into Big...The Musical . "Marvelous. Barbara Isenberg's precise and perceptive account of Big from its birth pangs to its final delivery is a gripping tale of blood, sweat and toys." Larry Gelbart
(Limelight). Long-time theatre writer and Los Angeles Times correspondent Barbara Isenberg received rare access to every aspect of the creative proces...
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125,16 zł |
Making Musicals: An Informal Introduction to the World of Musical Theater
ISBN: 9780879100957 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Limelight). The lyricist/librettist of The Fantasticks, the longest-running show in the history of the American theater, takes on a new role as your guide through the magical world of the stage musical.
(Limelight). The lyricist/librettist of The Fantasticks, the longest-running show in the history of the American theater, takes on a new role as your ...
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79,36 zł |
Dry-Cured Meat Products
ISBN: 9780917678547 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. meat science, meat manufacturing, meat technology, meat quality, meat safety, food safety
meat science, meat manufacturing, meat technology, meat quality, meat safety, food safety
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Musical Comedy on the West End Stage, 1890 - 1939
ISBN: 9781403932259 / Angielski / Twarda / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work offers a full historical treatment of a music theatre that was once at the centre of London's West End. From the late Victorian period to the early 1920s, musical comedy was the single most popular form of legitimate theatre entertainment. This account establishes musical comedy as one of the first industrial cultures and offers fascinating insights into how it functioned ideologically as a celebrated embracing of the modern condition.
This work offers a full historical treatment of a music theatre that was once at the centre of London's West End. From the late Victorian period to th...
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387,30 zł |
Words with Music: Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto
ISBN: 9781557835543 / Angielski / Miękka / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Creating the Broadway musical libretto An invaluable update to Lehman Engel's classic text The dean of Broadway musical directors examines the dynamics of how the book, music, and lyrics work together to create such hits as: My Fair Lady Fiddler on the Roof Guys and Dolls Hair Pal Joey West Side Story South Pacific Three Penny Opera Porgy and Bess A Chorus Line Nine Sunday in the Park with George Rent Working Falsetto
Creating the Broadway musical libretto An invaluable update to Lehman Engel's classic text The dean of Broadway musical directors examines the dynamic...
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75,18 zł |
Assassins
ISBN: 9781559360388 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Evoking a fraternity of political assassins and would-be assassins across a hundred years of our history, Sondheim and Weidman daringly examine success, failure and the questionable drive for power and celebrity in American society. "Dark, demented humor, as horrifying as it is hilarious."--Michael Kuchwara, "Associated Press"
Evoking a fraternity of political assassins and would-be assassins across a hundred years of our history, Sondheim and Weidman daringly examine succes...
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70,83 zł |
Passion
ISBN: 9781559360883 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A handsome army officer, entangled with a married woman, is despatched to a distant military outpost. There he has to beat off the attentions of Fosca, the sickly - and distinctly unattractive - cousin of his commanding officer, only to realise that he's falling in love with her.
A handsome army officer, entangled with a married woman, is despatched to a distant military outpost. There he has to beat off the attentions of Fosca...
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Company (Tcg Edition)
ISBN: 9781559361088 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A breakthrough Broadway musical in 1970, Company remains fresh, acerbic and original today. The musical's themes - marriage and commitment, friendship and loneliness - and its innovations in form mark it as a landmark of modern American musical theatre. Company's 25th anniversary was commemorated by two major revivals: in New York, at the Roundabout Theatre Company and in London at the Donmar Warehouse. This edition incorporates all revisions and additions made for these productions.
A breakthrough Broadway musical in 1970, Company remains fresh, acerbic and original today. The musical's themes - marriage and commitment, friendship...
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66,65 zł |