One Year on Broadway

One Year on Broadway
Author: Kathryn McKendry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-08-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735610016

Have you ever been so touched by a story that it changed your life? One Year on Broadway is the unlikely true story of two musical theater fans whose lives were forever changed by seeing a touring production of Once on This Island in 1992. What they saw that night was a version of their own story played out on the stage and it gave them the courage to fight for their own forbidden love. Twenty-five years later, by some strange twist of fate, they were led back to the Island where they ignored conventional wisdom, took a leap of faith, and became co-producers of the Tony Award winning Broadway Revival of Once on This Island. This is their love letter to the musical that gave them more than they ever could have imagined

Not Since Carrie

Not Since Carrie
Author: Ken Mandelbaum
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1992-08-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1466843276

Not Since Carrie is Ken Mandelbaum's brilliant survey of Broadway's biggest flops. This highly readable and entertaining book highlights almost 200 musicals created between 1950 and 1990, framed around the notorious musical adaptation of Carrie, and examines the reasons for their failure. "Essential and hilarious," raves The New Yorker, and The New York Times calls the book "A must-read."

The Book of Broadway

The Book of Broadway
Author: Eric Grode
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2017-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 076035734X

Whether you're coming to Broadway fresh faced or are an old hand, you'll enjoy these 150+ profiles of the great musicals to hit the stage--including Hamilton!

The Season

The Season
Author: William Goldman
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1984
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780879100230

Each production of one season is used as the basis for an examination of one aspect of the Broadway theater

Rent

Rent
Author: Jonathan Larson
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2008
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781557837370

(Applause Libretto Library). Finally, an authorized libretto to this modern day classic! Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score for Jonathan Larson. The story of Mark, Roger, Maureen, Tom Collins, Angel, Mimi, JoAnne, and their friends on the Lower East Side of New York City will live on, along with the affirmation that there is "no day but today." Includes 16 color photographs of productions of Rent from around the world, plus an introduction ("Rent Is Real") by Victoria Leacock Hoffman.

Broadway Musicals

Broadway Musicals
Author: Peter Filichia
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2010
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1423495624

When Evita opened on Broadway during the 1979-1980 season, it was (as one of its songs said) "High Flying Adored." But in the 1970-71 season, the producers of Lolita, My Love saw their show (as one of its songs said) "Going, Gone, Gone" after its torturous Philadelphia and Boston tryouts. It didn't even try to brave Broadway, although the bookwriter-lyricist of My Fair Lady had written it. It happens every season. Broadway has one, two, or a few hit musicals, but many, many more flops. Here's a look at the extreme cases from each season of the past half-century. The musicals that everyone knew would be hits - The Sound of Music, The Phantom of the Opera, The Producers - and were. The tuners that sounded terrible from the moment they were announced - Via Galactica, The Civil War, Lestat - and turned out to be even worse than anyone expected. The shows that were destined to succeed - Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Merrily We Roll Along - but didn't. The ones that didn't have a chance - Man of La Mancha, 1776, Grease - but went on to household-name status. Yes, Broadway is the oldest established permanent non-floating crap game in New York, and Peter Filichia takes a look at 100 shows that met either the most glorious or the most ignominious fates.

Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919

Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919
Author: Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2011-02-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0810877724

Although the venue Off Broadway has long been the birthplace of innovative and popular musicals, there have been few studies of these influential works. Long-running champs, such as The Fantasticks and Little Shop of Horrors, are discussed in many books about American musicals, but what of the hundreds of other Off-Broadway musicals? In Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919, Thomas Hischak looks at more than 375 musicals, which are described, discussed, and analyzed, with particular attention given to their books, scores, performers, and creators. Presented chronologically and divided into chapters for each decade, beginning with the landmark musical Greenwich Village Follies (1919), the book culminates with the satiric The Toxic Avenger (2009). In this volume, any work of consequence is covered, especially if it was popular or influential, but also dozens of more obscure musicals are included to illustrate the depth and breadth of Off Broadway. Works that introduced an important artistic talent, from performers to songwriters, are looked at, and the selection represents the various trends and themes that made Off Broadway significant. In addition to essential data about each musical, the plot and score are described, the success (or lack of) is chronicled, and an opinionated commentary discusses the work's merits and influences on the musical theatre in general. The first book of its kind, this highly readable volume will please both the theatre scholar and the average musical theatre patron or fan.

At this Theatre

At this Theatre
Author: Louis Botto
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2002
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781557835666

"Contains the informal history of forty theatres that were built, as either legitimate houses or movie palaces and that are currently operating as legitimate theatres"--p. xiii.

Wicked

Wicked
Author: Winnie Holzman
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781423492764

Each title in The Applause Libretto Library Series presents a Broadway musical with fresh packaging in a 6 x 9 trade paperback format. Each Complete Book and Lyrics is approved by the writers and attractively designed with color photo inserts from the Broadway production. All titles include introduction and foreword by renowned Broadway musical experts. Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald green skin, is smart, fiery, and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious, and very popular. The story of how these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years.

The Great White Way

The Great White Way
Author: Warren Hoffman
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2020-02-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1978807112

An investigation into the ways in which race and ethnicity have shaped the American musical over the course of the twentieth century up through today