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Books on: musical theatre american

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American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle

Book by Gerald Bordman; Oxford University Press, 1992

Subjects:

Musicals--United States--History And Criticism

Collections: Entire Library

Gerald Bordman's American Musical Theatre has become a landmark book since its publication in 1978. It chronicles American musicals, show by show and season by season, and offers a running commentary and assessment as well as providing the basic facts about each production. This updated edition ...
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Gerald Bordman's American Musical Theatre has become a landmark book since its publication in 1978. It chronicles American musicals, show by show and season by season, and offers a running commentary and assessment as well as providing the basic facts about each production. This updated edition includes the new shows that have opened on Broadway since the original publication. Also included are over a hundred musicals that were turn-of-the-century, cheap-priced touring shows which never played Broadway, but were the training ground for many theatre greats.
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Musical Theatre in America: Papers and Proceedings of the Conference on the Musical Theatre in America

Book by Glenn Loney; Greenwood Press, 1984

Subjects:

Musicals--United States--Congresses

Collections: Entire Library

...many contributions to the American Musical Theatre and his work in developing...Stillman Kelley and the American Musical Theatre, 1880-1900 LEONARD L...Dance in the American Musical Theatre Preserving...
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Stage It with Music: An Encyclopedic Guide to the American Musical Theatre

Book by Thomas S. Hischak; Greenwood Press, 1993

Subjects:

Musicals--Encyclopedias

Collections: Entire Library

A one-stop source for information on the American musical theatre, Stage It with Music packs an astonishing quantity of facts as well as insights and anecdotes into a convenient A-Z dictionary format. Coverage extends from the genre's nineteenth century beginnings to the present. Included are ...
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A one-stop source for information on the American musical theatre, Stage It with Music packs an astonishing quantity of facts as well as insights and anecdotes into a convenient A-Z dictionary format. Coverage extends from the genre's nineteenth century beginnings to the present. Included are entries on over 300 individual shows, musical series, performers, composers, lyricists, librettists, directors, designers, music directors, orchestrators, choreographers, producers, producing companies and other theatrical institutions, as well as related topics and genres. Thoroughly indexed, the volume also includes a chronology of musical shows and a bibliography. As fascinating as its subject, Stage It with Music will lure the student or researcher into delightful and rewarding browsing.
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The Show Makers: Great Directors of the American Musical Theatre

Book by Lawrence Thelen; Routledge, 2000

Subjects:

Musicals--Production And Direction, Theatrical Producers And Directors--United States--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

The Show Makers are twelve of the most creative and influential directors of the contemporary musical theatre. Lawrence Thelen creates lively portraits of theatre people at work: James Lapine's early involvement with photography becomes an influence on Sunday in the Park with George; Harold Prince's ...
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The Show Makers are twelve of the most creative and influential directors of the contemporary musical theatre. Lawrence Thelen creates lively portraits of theatre people at work: James Lapine's early involvement with photography becomes an influence on Sunday in the Park with George; Harold Prince's early desire to be a playwright is rechanneled into directing; George C. Wolfe speaks of the ongoing involvement of black artists with musicals since the last century; Jerome Robbins, in his final interview, considers collaboration and the role of dance in the musical. Lawrence Thelen's book is part theatre history, part interview volume, part celebration. Richly anecdotal, it communicates the passion and joy that motivate our wizards of the musical stage.
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Gower Champion: Dance and American Musical Theatre

Book by David Payne-Carter, Brooks McNamara, Stephen Nelson; Greenwood Press, 1999

Subjects:

Champion, Gower--1921-1980, Choreographers--United States--Biography, Dancers--United States--Biography, Theatrical Producers And Directors--United States--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

Gower Champion's career spanned the years during which American musical theatre was transformed from a crude popular entertainment into a sophisticated art form. As the director and choreographer of Hello, Dolly!, 42nd Street, and other Broadway musicals, he was central to that transformation. This ...
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Gower Champion's career spanned the years during which American musical theatre was transformed from a crude popular entertainment into a sophisticated art form. As the director and choreographer of Hello, Dolly!, 42nd Street, and other Broadway musicals, he was central to that transformation. This book is the first extensive treatment of his life and contribution to dance and American musical theatre. The volume draws on the holdings of various special collections, is informed by careful analyses of Champion's scripts, and depends on information gathered through interviews with those who knew and worked with Champion throughout his legendary career.
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Journal Articles on: musical theatre american

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Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical

Journal article by Jessica Hillman; Theatre History Studies, Vol. 26, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...burgeoning field of musical theatre academic writing has...Andrea Mosts Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway...chapter 1, "Acting American: Jews, Theatricality...overwhelming majority of musical theatre creators have been...
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Parody and Double Consciousness in the Language of Early Black Musical Theatre

Journal article by David Krasner; African American Review, Vol. 29, 1995

Subjects:

Black theater--Analysis, Musical theater--Analysis, Wit and humor, Musical--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...early Black musical theatre. by...in African American music, dance...which African American performers...her life in musical theatre: You havent...of Black Musical Theatre at the Turn...Studies in American Music, Brooklyn...
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Our Musicals, Ourselves: A Social History of the American Musical Theater

Journal article by Mary Jo Lodge; Theatre History Studies, Vol. 25, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Musical Theater and American Culture (Book)--Book reviews, Our Musicals, Ourselves: A Social History of the American Musical Theatre (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...History of the American Musical Theatre. By John Bush Jones...64.95 cloth. Musical theatre, and specifically the American institution of...death knell for the American musical. Musical Theatre and American Culture...
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The Selling of la Cage Aux Folles: How Audiences Were Helped to Read Broadway's First Gay Musical

Journal article by Norman Hart; Theatre History Studies, Vol. 23, 2003

Subjects:

Gays--Portrayals, depictions, etc., La Cage aux Folles (Theater)--History, Theatrical producers and directors--Behavior

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...opened at the Theatre de Palais Royale...Broadways first musical to center around...the best American play Id seen...Cambridge Guide to American Theatre, s.v. "Torch...English Forms of American Musical Theatre" at Hofstra Cultural...
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New P'ansori in Twenty-First-Century Korea: Creative Dialectics of Tradition and Modernity

Journal article by Hae-Kyung Um; Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 25, 2008

Subjects:

Korean culture--Analysis, Modernism--Influence, Musical theater--Analysis, Tradition--Influence

Collections: Entire Library

...from other musical cultures to...with Japanese, American, and European...large-cast pansori theatre, changguk...respect to its musical and textual...changguk (pansori theatre), using their...and created musical theatre productions...

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Magazine Articles on: musical theatre american

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Great Expectations: Why Are the Country's Top Musical-Theatre Artists Flocking to Virginia's Tiny Signature Theatre?

Magazine article by Nelson Pressley; American Theatre, Vol. 16, April 1999

Subjects:

Musical theater--Management, Schaeffer, Eric--Works, Signature Theatre--Management

Collections: Entire Library

...the countrys top musical-theatre artists flocking...Va.s Signature Theatre, is putting out...new Kander and Ebb musical Over and Over, an...heavily revised musical Big, and in 1998...watches over his own theatre, and has seen to...
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Pop Goes the Musical: Musical Theatre Finally Turns on to the Tunes Everybody in the World Has Been Listening to for Years

Magazine article by John Istel; American Theatre, Vol. 20, March 2003

Subjects:

Mamma Mia! (Theater), Musical theater--Public opinion, Musicals, Popular music

Collections: Entire Library

...rejuvenating the American musical theatre? Whatever you...credit. It has given musical-theatre artists and producers...territory: mainstream American culture. Thirty...innovators of the American musical theatre to put them to creative...
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A Nationwide Boom: The Not-for-Profit Musical Factory; Resident Theatres Believe in the Journey of Musical-Theatre Artists, Not in Hits

Magazine article; American Theatre, Vol. 23, April 2006

Subjects:

Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Performances, Entertainment industry--Management, Music--Criticism and interpretation, Music--Performance, Musical performance--Criticism and interpretation, Musicians--Performances, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Performances

Collections: Entire Library

...primary engine that drove the American musical. Today, from coast to coast, resident theatres are rich and fertile breeding...have some kind of impact on American musical theatre." ILLUSTRATION OMITTED ILLUSTRATION...
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Entertaining America: Jewish Anxiety about Inclusion Is a Formative Strain in America's Musical-Theatre Heritage

Magazine article by Wendy Wasserstein; American Theatre, Vol. 21, July 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Americas Musical-Theatre Heritage...MAKING AMERICANS: JEWS AND...passion for musicals so contagious...vision of the American character...vision for the theatre is not just...self-expression in the musical theatre has been...unobtrusively American. The fear...
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On Becoming Campers: How to Survive the Workshop Syndrome; A Handful of Musical-Theatre Writers at Different Stages in Their Careers Compile Their Do's and Don'ts

Magazine article; American Theatre, Vol. 23, April 2006

Subjects:

Dramatists--Authorship, Dramatists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Playwrights--Authorship, Playwrights--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Collections: Entire Library

...of writers. The musical-theatre workshops organized by the American Society of Composers...the support of the American Musical Theatre of San Jose and...leading voices in American musical theatre and a composer of...

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Newspaper Articles on: musical theatre american

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Box Office: Tonight's the Night for Stars to Shine in Rod Stewart Musical; Theatre

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 16, 2006

Subjects:

Musical theater, Stewart, Rod

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...professional musical and cannot...was at the theatre a few days...strangulated American accent. He...last year. Musical theatre has also served...the National Theatre production...Boy George musical Taboo and is...
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A Living Legend and the King of Musical Theatre; Andrew Lloyd Webber Is Celebrating His 60th Birthday Tomorrow. Karen Price Speaks to Those Who Know the Man Behind Hit Musicals like Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Starlight Express and, of Course, Phantom of the Opera

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), March 21, 2008

Subjects:

Jesus Christ Superstar (Play)

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...from many people in the world of musical theatre. Most performers want to be in his shows...McCartney. When I decided to write my musical Amazing Grace I went out and bought Evita...that the story of the wife of a South American dictator was the good basis for a musical...
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A Leg-Kicking Legacy; Musical Theatre Reaches the Parts That High Art Can't. Isn't It Time We Recognised Its Importance as Part of Our Cultural Heritage?

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 20, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of current shows. Musical theatre, Chapin is first to...pap. That, to young Americans, is the modern stage...high and mass culture, musical theatre reaches the parts that...herself appearing on an American TV gameshow. And there...
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BBC's Voice of Musical Theatre Can Be Heard in Cardiff This Week

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 31, 2002

Subjects:

British Broadcasting Corp., Broadcasting, Broadcasting industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...one Greek/British, one Irish, two Americans, two Australians and two New Zealanders...New Zealander Tim Beveridge, the New Theatre is an old friend - he was a finalist in the inaugural Voice of Musical Theatre competition, held in 2000...
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Celeb City: All-Singing All-Dancing Line-Up; Stars of the Musicals COVENTRY'S Singing Talents Have Starred in Some of the World's Top Musicals and Performed All over the World. Theatre Writer MARION McMULLEN Continues the Celeb City Series with a Look at Some of the Area's Leading Musical Theatre Stars

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), August 8, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...actor Nigel Francis has bared all in the musical stage version of The Full Monty and perfected an American accent. The son of Coventry dance teacher...Francis, he was appearing at the Talisman Theatre in Kenilworth as a teenager and then went...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: musical theatre american

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Robbins, Jerome

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...JEROME 1918 98, American choreographer and dancer...his career dancing in musical comedy (1937). In 1940 he joined the Ballet Theatre and in 1948 became associate...was expanded into the musical On the Town. Robbins...choreographer of such Broadway musicals as High Button Shoes...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Innovation: A History of European and American Theatre and Drama Since the Late 19th...ed., The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre (1996); D. B. Wilmeth and C...The Cambridge History of American Theatre (3 vol., 2000); G. Bordman...
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Graupner, Gottlieb

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Christian Gottlieb), 1767 1836, German-American musician. In 1795 he came to the United...Charleston, S.C., where he played in the City Theatre Orchestra. He moved to Boston in 1798...century a leading figure in that citys musical life, Graupner was a founder of the Handel...
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De Mille, Agnes

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1947), and Paint Your Wagon (1951). She created dances for the American Ballet Theatre , notably Fall River Legend (1948), and for films. Choreographing some 15 musicals and 21 ballets, she was a significant force in a new American realism...
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Morris, Mark

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

MORRIS, MARK 1956 , American dancer and choreographer, b...was the resident company the Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels. In...their craftsmanship, ingenuity, musicality, and iconoclastic choreography...sometimes eclectic and always live musical accompaniments; his solo performance...

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