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“Chita Rivera blazed a trail where none existed so the rest of us could see a path forward.”ーLin-Manuel Miranda “This deserves a standing ovation.”ーPublishers Weekly The wildly entertaining memoir……続きを見る

The Music Man stands as one of the greatest achievements in American musical theatre, but few know about its rocky beginnings and the against-all-odds success story of its creator Meredith Willson. ……続きを見る

Female musical theatre singers produce some of the most exciting and expressive singing an audience can experience. They also face a unique and specific set of issues when approaching their craft, f……続きを見る

A pesquisa possui como base e linha norteadora de diálogo o ensaio do filósofo, escritor e tradutor Walter Benjamin, A obra de arte na era de sua reprodutibilidade técnica (1936), com o objetivo de ……続きを見る

This in-depth and original study examines 100 productions and analyses why George Abbott's name became synonymous with the 'golden age' of Broadway. What did Abbott contribute? How did he work? How ……続きを見る

Winner of Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards 2023 Winner of The Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright 2023 'The men with the Piano look up the narrow staircase of our little flat an……続きを見る

Dramaturgy is at the heart of any musical theatre score, proving that song and music combined can collectively act as drama. The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist: A Handbook for Collaboration o……続きを見る

Stephen Sondheim is one of the best-known and most-loved musical theatre composers, but also one of the most misunderstood, often being labelled as 'distant' or 'cynical'. Careful the Spell You Cast……続きを見る

From the first stage production of The Wizard of Oz in 1902, to the classic MGM film (1939), to the musicals The Wiz (1975) and Wicked (2003), L. Frank Baum's children's novel The Wonderful Wizard o……続きを見る

Irene Cara is the youngest daughter of a Latin musician, and she started her career by singing and dancing on Spanish television while playing with her fathers' mambo band. Since she began dazzling ……続きを見る

Global in scope and featuring thirty-five chapters from more than fifty dance, music, and theatre scholars and practitioners, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre introduces the fundamentals o……続きを見る

The politics of Broadway musicals matter a great deal more to U.S. American culture than they appear to mean, and they are especially important to mainstream politics surrounding sex, gender, and se……続きを見る

No Brasil dos dias de hoje, a valsa ainda é uma dança importante nos rituais públicos femininos, bem como permanece no repertório tradicional do choro e da seresta. Em ambientes privados, as mulhere……続きを見る

This is the story of a band that was established by their high school music teacher by chance. As a group and as individuals, they rose to prominence. They reconvene for one more journey 15 years la……続きを見る

After all the curtain calls and the audience's uproarious cheers, Aden Malloy, a new Broadway musical star, is attacked in an alley after opening night. Left broken and crumbled among the hard brick……続きを見る

Songbook with 25 Evergreens from all over the world, notated for the Ocarina with 10 or 12 holes. The tones of the melodies were prepared with fingerings for the Ocarina, the rhythm of the tones is ……続きを見る

What should we consider when thinking about the relationship between an onstage performance and the story the performance tells? A Poetics of Handel's Operas explores this question by analyzing the ……続きを見る

Songbook with 33 Evergreens from all over the world, notated for the Mandolin. Some of the songs are polyphonic (for one player) and notated in tablature and classical notation. The sounds of the so……続きを見る

Revealing, funny, whimsical, and wise, outlaw country legend Willie Nelson shares the untold stories behind the his favorite songs, with all the lyrics and a dynamic assortment of never-before-seen ……続きを見る

Critics and fans alike often mistake theatrical song and dance as evoking a sweeping sense of simplicity, heteronormativity, and traditionalism. Nothing drove home this cultural misunderstanding for……続きを見る

Grigorii Aleksandrov’s musical comedy films, created with composer Isaak Dunaevskii, were the most popular Russian cinema of the 1930s and ’40s. Drawing on studio documents, press materials, and int……続きを見る

Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage: A History chronicles the development of dance, with an emphasis on musicals and the Broadway stage, in the United States from its colonial beginnings to ……続きを見る

British musicals have been wowing audiences since the 1700s. They have the power to produce tears of sadness and joy, to enrapture audiences with spellbinding songs and treat them to the most specta……続きを見る

Musicals are the most popular form of stage entertainment today, with the West End and Broadway dominated by numerous long-running hits. But for every Wicked or Phantom of the Opera, there are dozen……続きを見る

Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2024 Featuring contributions from over eighty original cast members, creatives, crew and audience members, Out For Blood pieces together the surprising, hilariou……続きを見る

A beneficiary of the pioneering incorporation of sound and synchronicity into cinema, the Hollywood musical became the most popular film genre in America’s thirties and forties. Its eastward migrati……続きを見る

Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre introduces readers to a facet of musicals often assumed but misunderstood: how queer approaches in musical theatre extend deeper than fabulosity. Queerness in mus……続きを見る

While most discussions of race in American theater emphasize the representation of race mainly in terms of character, plot, and action, Race in American Musical Theater highlights elements of theatr……続きを見る

Hip-Hop culture's explosive arrival on the art scene of New York in the boroughs of Queens and the Bronx in the 1970s began to influence all aspects of musical theater from singing to scenic design.……続きを見る

There is no movie musical more fun than Singin’ in the Rain, and few that remain as fresh over the years. . . . It is a transcendent experience, and no one who loves movies can afford to miss it.ーR……続きを見る