The Show Choir Handbook

The Show Choir Handbook
Author: Alan L. Alder
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2016-07-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1442242027

With the popularity of television shows such as Glee, American Idol, and The Voice, show choirs have become a vibrant component of college and high school music programs. Music teachers must not only know how to teach choral singing for popular music, but also be versed in show design and production. In The Show Choir Handbook, Alan L. Alder and Thalia M. Mulvihill address both song technique and show presentation, giving show choir directors the full set of tools they need for successful performances. The Show Choir Handbook is a resource for current and future music educators who administer show choirs. With most literature on the topic either out of date or focused on the teaching techniques limited to vocal jazz (drawing on the choral genre’s origins as “swing choirs”), instructors are in dire need of a resource that addresses music produced by publishers and choral arrangers.

Show Choir! - The Musical

Show Choir! - The Musical
Author: Donald Garverick
Publisher: Steele Spring Stage Rights
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2020-07-17
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781647230197

Long before Glee, there was Show Choir! - The Musical, a melodious mockumentary about America's favorite teen pastime? with jazz hands!Follow the journey of high school drama teacher Jake Jonathan and choir director Monica Susans as they form a show choir that unexpectedly become world-renowned pop superstars, the Symphonic Sensations. Will the choir buckle under the incredible pressures of modern celebrity of will they maintain perfect harmony?An international hit with audiences and critics alike, this hysterical and heartfelt original musical comedy is an effervescent, high-kicking delight!

Let's Put on a Musical!

Let's Put on a Musical!
Author: Peter Filichia
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1997
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780823088171

Doing a show is great fun—but how do you know which one to do? This practical resource will guide your school, community, or professional theater group to a musical that perfectly fits your budget, creative team, production capabilities, and audience. WithLet’s Put on a Musical!you’ll discover more than 200 famous and little-known shows—all cleverly categorized and described in terms of: • Story • Best-known songs • Musical requirements, including instrumentation • Chorus and dance numbers • Staging—the sets, costumes, and props you’ll need And it’s packed with nuggets about the original Broadway versions and useful tips on casting, publicity, and other practical matters relating to production. Whether it's a big classic likeMy Fair Ladyor an all-but-forgotten show likeTop Banana, if there's a musical in your future—or if you’re just a fan of the genre—Let’s Put on a Musical!will be an essential and fun-to-read addition to your theater library.

A Handbook for Beginning Choral Educators

A Handbook for Beginning Choral Educators
Author: Walter Lamble
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2004-06-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780253216984

Walter Lamble offers guidance and expert advice to beginning choral educators. He covers many areas which are widely discussed among experienced professionals, but are not covered in a music education class.

Let's Put on a Show

Let's Put on a Show
Author: Gail Brown
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2010-09-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1581158432

• Everything a group needs, from first inspiration to closing night • Makes the complexities of a theatrical production easy for a non-pro to master • Filled with amusing, enlightening anecdotes from producers, directors, and players. Stop fussing with bake sales and overpriced gift wrap! The real money in fundraising—and the real fun in fundraising—is in putting on a show. A theatrical show can raise significant sums and, at the same time, create enduring community spirit. Step by step, Let’s Put on a Show covers everything needed: securing rights, choosing material, finding a venue, budgeting, scheduling, working with children, using musicians, building sets, handling lights, publicizing, and much more. Anecdotes from producers, directors, and participants share the agony, the ecstasy, and the just plain fun of getting a show up and making money for a good cause while doing it. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Murder for Choir

Murder for Choir
Author: Joelle Charbonneau
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2012-07-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101581077

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Testing trilogy comes the first novel in the pitch-perfect Glee Club mystery series. Even as a struggling opera singer, Paige Marshall has never seen anything like the cut throat competition of the Prospect Glen High School show choir. As their new coach, she’s getting an icy reception from championship-hungry students who doubt she can take them to a first-place trophy. Toughing this gig out may prove harder than scoring her big break... Especially now that her best young male singer is suspected of killing the arrogant coach of Prospect Glen’s fiercest rival choir. For Paige to clear his name, she’ll have to sort through a chorus of suspects—and go note-for-note with a killer who’ll do anything to knock her out of the spotlight for good.

The Choir Director 2

The Choir Director 2
Author: Carl Weber
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-08-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1455505226

Carl Weber takes readers back to church in his latest drama-filled novel, the much-anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller, The Choir Director. It's been three years since Aaron Mackie succeeded in helping his friend and mentor, Bishop T.K. Wilson, dig his ministry out of financial ruin. Aaron is also responsible for re-energizing the almost defunct choir into something special. His success has drawn national attention, and he's on the verge of signing a huge recording contract. With his life in order, Aaron decides the time is right to propose to Tia Gregory, the church secretary who caught his eye and inspired him to shed his Tiger Woods-like tendencies to become a one-woman man. The stage is set for what might be the wedding of the year, but quickly becomes the disaster of the year when Aaron is left at the altar without explanation. Now, during his own hour of need, Aaron turns to the bishop for help. Unfortunately, the line he asks T. K. to cross will force the bishop to choose between faith and friendship, or as he puts it, "between heaven and hell." As the investigation into Tia's disappearance continues, the two men are challenged in ways they never imagined.

Developing and Designing Your Glee Club Performance

Developing and Designing Your Glee Club Performance
Author: Anastasia Suen
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2012-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1448868890

With the popularity of Glee, many students are asking themselves, "How can I start a glee club at my school?" With this come other pertinent questions: what do you do in schools with rapidly depleting music budgets, how do you find support from teachers and parents, and many others. This volume, in the Glee Club series, answers these questions and more. Readers will be well on their way to forming their own glee club with this fun and engaging guide to all things glee club.

Sweat, Tears, and Jazz Hands

Sweat, Tears, and Jazz Hands
Author: Mike Weaver
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2011
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1557837724

Sweat, Tears, and Jazz Hands: The Official History of Show Choir from Vaudeville to "Glee" features more than 100 competitive show choirs from around the U.S. in photos, quotations, and stories. The book details the pop culture and theater influencers that, over time, built this unique entertainment genre into the mecca of music lovers that it is today. Read real-life accounts of show choir performers, directors, and choreographers. Catch a glimpse into a once practically unknown society of "swing choirs." Discover what P. T. Barnum, Fosse, speakeasies, cigarette companies, the modern-day blender, and Lady Gaga have to do with this glitter-drenched community of singers and dancers. Take a step beyond the hit show Glee and learn about the real drama, the hard work, the sweat, and the tears. Find out what it takes to build an award-winning competition set; the branding, the budgets, the strategy and the performance. Meet the characters. Learn the lingo. Fall in love with show choirs.

The Voice Teacher's Cookbook

The Voice Teacher's Cookbook
Author: Brian Winnie
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2018-04-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1574634771

(Meredith Music Resource). 57 experts from across the U.S. working as professors, studio teachers, professional singers, choral directors, composers, vocologists, and speech-language pathologists have all contributed to this amazing collection of quick-to-read, yet deeply insightful strategies. It's like finding expert trade secrets all placed in one easy source. With outstanding records of performance, workshop clinics, recordings, research, composition, leadership, and teaching, the authors provide their favorite "recipes" that will expand your current knowledge and inspire all levels of voice teachers and singers.