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Cleo Sings Sondheim [sound Recording]
Author | : Laine, Cleo |
Publisher | : New York : RCA Victor |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Musicals Excerpts |
ISBN | : |
Four by Sondheim
Author | : Stephen Sondheim |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 775 |
Release | : 2000-02-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1557839867 |
The complete book and lyrics with set and costume designs, production photos, essays, cast lists and credits, awards for major productions, selected discographies, and much more! Includes the shows A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. A richly illustrated Sondheim treasury!
Enchanted Evenings : The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim
Author | : Washington Geoffrey Block Professor of Music University of Puget Sound |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1997-10-02 |
Genre | : Musicals |
ISBN | : 0199769885 |
The classic musicals of Broadway can provide us with truly enchanted evenings. But while many of us can hum the music and even recount the plot from memory, we are often much less knowledgeable about how these great shows were put together. What was the inspiration for Rodgers and Harts Pal Joey, or Rodgers and Hammersteins Carousel? Why is Marias impassioned final speech in West Side Story spoken, rather than sung? Now, in Enchanted Evenings, Geoffrey Block offers theatre lovers an illuminating behind-the- scenes tour of some of the best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals of Broadways Golden Era. Readers will find insightful studies of such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Anything Goes, Porgy and Bess, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, My Fair Lady, and West Side Story. Block provides a documentary history of fourteen musicals in all--plus an epilogue exploring the plays of Stephen Sondheim--showing how each work took shape and revealing, at the same time, production by production, how the American musical evolved from the 1920s to the early 1960s, and beyond. The book's particular focus is on the music, offering a wealth of detail about how librettist, lyricist, composer, and director work together to shape the piece. Drawing on manuscript material such as musical sketches, autograph manuscripts, pre-production librettos and lyric drafts, Block reveals the winding route the works took to get to their final form. Block blends this close attention to the nuances of musical composition and stagecraft with trenchant social commentary and lively backstage anecdotes. Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Kurt Weill, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Sondheim, and other luminaries emerge as hardworking craftsmen under enormous pressure to sell tickets without compromising their dramatic vision and integrity. Opening night reviews and accounts of critical and popular response to subsequent revivals show how particular musicals have adapted to changing times and changing audiences, shedding light on why many of these innovative shows are still performed in high schools, colleges, and community theaters across the country, while others, such as Weills One Touch of Venus or Marc Blitzsteins The Cradle Will Rock, languish in comparative obscurity. Packed with information, including a complete discography and plot synopses and song-by-song scenic outlines for each of the fourteen shows, Enchanted Evenings is an essential reference as well as a riveting history. It will deepen readersappreciation and enjoyment of these beloved musicals even as it delights both the seasoned theater goer and the neophyte encountering the magic of Broadway for the first time.
The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia
Author | : Rick Pender |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 2021-04-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1538115875 |
Praise from Jesse Green, New York Times Chief Theater Critic, Arts, in the 2023 Holiday Gift Guide: “From A (the director George Abbott) to Y ('You Could Drive a Person Crazy'), The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia, by Rick Pender, offers an astonishingly comprehensive look, in more than 130 entries, at the late master’s colleagues, songs, shows and methods." The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia is a wonderfully detailed and comprehensive reference devoted to musical theater’s most prolific and admired composer and lyricist. Entries cover Sondheim’s numerous collaborators, from composers and directors to designers and orchestras; key songs, such as his Academy Award winner “Sooner or Later” (Dick Tracy); and major works, including Assassins, Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, and West Side Story. The encyclopedia also profiles the actors who originated roles and sang Sondheim’s songs for the first time, including Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Mandy Patinkin, and Bernadette Peters. Featuring a detailed biographical entry for Sondheim, a chronology of his career, a listing of his many awards, and discussions of his opinions on movies, opera, and more, this wide-ranging resource will attract musical theater enthusiasts again and again.
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Author | : Colin Larkin |
Publisher | : Omnibus Press |
Total Pages | : 4183 |
Release | : 2011-05-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0857125958 |
This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Author | : Hugh Wheeler |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781557830661 |
Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London seeking revenge for the loss of his wife and daughter by killing customers and dropping to the shop downstairs to be made into meat pies by Mrs. Lovett. Includes sketches and photographs from several productions.
Into the Woods
Author | : Theatre Aquarius Archives (University of Guelph) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2004 |
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