Bob
Fosse's Broadway
by Margery Beddow
Beddow, a dancer who appeared in numerous Fosse shows (she replaced
Gwen Verdon in one of his early shows) and recreated some of his choreography
for national touring shows, checks in with a show-by-show account of Fosse's
career, from Pajama Game through Sweet Charity and Pippin to Big Deal --
all told from a dancer's point of view. The book is at its best when it
vividly describes some of Fosse's "lost" dances for lesser-known shows
like Frank Loesser's Pleasures and Palaces, which closed out of town. Included
are many rare photos of Fosse's dancers in action, and a heartbreaking
account of his last rehearsal on the day he died. Amazon.com
Paperback from Heinemann Publishing
Book Published: August, 1996 |
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Broadway
Belter's Songbook: Piano/Vocal
(Paperback - October 1993)
The
Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin
by Irving Berlin, et al
(Hardcover - October 2001)
The Complete Phantom of the Opera
by George Perry
Listed under Andrew Lloyd Webber
Crazy
for You: Complete Vocal Selections
by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
(Paperback - September 2000)
Encyclopedia
of the Musical Theatre
by Kurt Ganzl
(Hardcover - June 2001)
Enter
the Players: New York Stage Actors in the Twentieth Century
by Thomas S. Hischak
Hardcover from Scarecrow Press
Book Published: November, 2003
Everything
Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical "Follies"
by Ted Chapin
Book Description: In 1971, college student Ted Chapin was in the right
place at the right time.
As a production assistant, or gofer, he found himself front row center
at the creation of one of the greatest of all Broadway musicals: Follies.
And since (as part of a college assignment) he kept a journal of everything
he saw and heard, he was able to document–in unprecedented detail–how
a musical is actually made.
Now, thirty years later, he has fashioned that eyewitness account into
an extraordinary chronicle that sheds new light on a still-evolving art
form while vividly capturing an era long gone. “If there has ever been
an account of the creation of a major Broadway production as complete,
candid, and apocrypha-free as this one,” writes Frank Rich in the foreword,
“I have not found it.” Everything Was Possible takes the reader
on the roller-coaster ride that is the musical-making process, from the
uncertainties of casting to drama-filled rehearsals, from the care and
feeding of one-time movie stars like Alexis Smith and Yvonne De Carlo to
the tension of that first performance, from the pressures of an out-of-town
tryout to the exhilaration of opening night on Broadway. But this was not
just any rehearsal process, nor a typical opening night. This was the almost
mythical Follies, the work Rich calls “the most elusive of landmark musicals.”
Its creators were Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Michael Bennett, and James
Goldman–giants in the evolution of the Broadway musical, geniuses at
the top of their game.
“Lord knows at least I was there,” goes a Sondheim lyric from Follies.
In Everything Was Possible, we all are there–at the birth of a
musical that shimmers to this day.
Hardcover from Knopf
Book Published: 30 September, 2003 |
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Feuer
and Martin Present Guys & Dolls: A Musical Fable of Broadway/Vocal
Score/Hl00447926 (Score)
by Frank Loesser, Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Paperback from Hal Leonard
Book Published: December, 1983
Fiddler
on the Roof
by Jerry Bock, Jerome Robbins, Joseph Stein, Sheldon Harnick, Sholem
Aleichem
Paperback from Limelight Editions
Book Published: April, 1990 |
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From
Assassins to West Side Story : The Director's Guide to Musical Theatre
by Scott Miller
From Assassins to West Side Story is that rare theater textbook that
is so articulate, insightful, and downright playful that it can be read
simply for pleasure. If you're planning to direct one of these 16 shows,
though, you'll have a far richer production for having employed its points.
Scott Miller shows an uncommon, detailed understanding of the emotional
machinery of these shows. He explores the use of the dies irae theme throughout
Sweeney Todd; points out how the title character in Pippin becomes extraordinary
only when he resolves to be ordinary; proposes unceasing motion as a staging
concept and a theme in Les Miserables; suggests techniques to best let
an audience grasp that time flows backward in Merrily We Roll Along; and
ponders the nature of reality and unreality at the core of Man of La Mancha.
Keep those cast albums ready, because you'll definitely be putting them
on.
Amazon.com
Paperback from Heinemann
Book Published: June, 1996 |
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George Gershwin -- His Life & Music
by Ean Wood
Listed under George Gershwin
Judy Garland: A Portrait in Art & Anecdote
by John Fricke, Lorna Luft
Listed under Judy Garland
Secret
Garden: Vocal Selections
by Lucy Simon, Carol Cuellar (Editor)
(Paperback - July 2000)
Into
the Woods (Vocal Score)
by Stephen Sondheim
(Paperback - July 1999)
The
Rise and Fall of Little Voice
by Jim Cartwright
Original script of the play from which the movie was developed. One
reviewer wrote, "The only problem with this script, is finding an actress
with the ability to impersonate so many celebrities like Marilyn Monroe
and Judy Garland. If possible, though, this script is surefire winner."
They found one! Db.
Paperback: 86 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.27 x
7.82 x 5.15
Greenwood Publishing Group; ISBN: 0413671305; Reissue
edition (October 1994)
Little
Voice
by Mark Herman
Jane Horrocks (Little Voice) takes center stage as the 14-year old
Lancashire girl who can only relate to the world by mimicking the musical
hits of pre-50s divas in her bedroom; a refuge from her widowed mother's
sniping, boozing and whoring. Amazon.com
(Paperback)
Making
Musicals: An Informal Introduction to the World of Musical Theatre
by Tom Jones
The man who wrote the words to The Fantasticks and several other musicals
shares his hard-earned wisdom in a book that's part history, part how-to,
with just enough memoir thrown in to give it a unique personality and flavor.
Jones (not the pop singer) lays out the rules of writing Broadway-style
musicals, illustrated with examples from the great shows, from Oklahoma!
on. He then explains how he endeavored to break those rules and advises
writers of the new millennium on how they might do the same. Those writers
will likely find their shows competing with Jones's Fantasticks, which
opened in 1960 and is still going strong. Amazon.com
Paperback from Limelight Editions
Book Published: January, 1998
The
Making of West Side Story
by Keith Garebian
(Paperback - October 1998)
A Most Ingenious Paradox: The Art of Gilbert & Sullivan
by Gayden Wren
Listed under Gilbert & Sullivan
The
New York Musicals of Comden & Green: On the Town, Wonderful Town, Bells
Are Ringing
by Adolph Green (Contributor), et al
(Hardcover - October 1996)
Pippin:
Vocal Selections
by Stephen Schwartz
(Paperback - July 1999)
Readings
on West Side Story (Literary Companion Series)
by Mary E. Williams (Editor), Bonnie Szumski (Editor)
(Paperback - April 2001)
Rent
by Jonathan Larson, et al
(Hardcover - June 1997)
Song
& Dance: The Musicals of Broadway
by Ted Sennett, Andrew G. Hager
(Hardcover - September 2001)
Sunday
in the Park With George: Vocal Score
by Stephen Sondheim
(Paperback - September 2000)
The
Ultimate Broadway Fake Book: Over 720 Songs from over 240 Shows for Piano,
Vocal, Guitar, Electronic Keyboards and All 'C' Instruments
by Stanley Green (Spiral-bound - June 1997)
Vocal
Selections from West Side Story
by Hal Leonard (Editor)
(Paperback - July 2002)
A
Chronology of American Musical Theater
by Richard C. Norton
Hardcover from Oxford University Press
Book Published: May, 2002
Jerome
Robbins: That Broadway Man, That Ballet Man
by Conrad Christine Ed
Hardcover from Booth-Clibborn Editions
Book Published: February, 2001
Hairspray
: The Roots
by Mark O'Donnell, Thomas Meehan, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman
Hardcover from Faber & Faber
Book Published: April, 2003
Hairspray:
The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Hit Broadway Musical
by Thomas Meehan Mark O'Donnell Whittman Marc Shaiman and Scott
Paperback from Applause Books
Book Published: April, 2003
Oh,
Jackie!: Her Father's Story
by Melvin Helitzer, Mel Helitzer
Paperback from Univ Sports Pr
Book Published: 01 February, 2003
The
Producers: The New Mel Brooks Musical
by Mel Brooks, Thomas Meehan, Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Paperback from Hal Leonard
Book Published: January, 2002
Cabaret:
The Illustrated Book and Lyrics
by Joe Masteroff, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Joan Marcus, Rivka Katvan,
Linda Sunshine
Hardcover from Newmarket Press
Book Published: May, 1999
Les
Miserables: Piano/Vocal Ward Best Musical
by Todd Lowry, Alain Boubil, Claude-Michel Schonberg
Paperback from Hal Leonard
Book Published: April, 1991
Deconstructing
Harold Hill
by Scott Miller
Paperback from Heinemann Publishing
Book Published: 01 December, 1999
Elton
John and Tim Rice's Aida: The Making of the Broadway Musical
by Michael Lassell
Hardcover from Hyperion Press
Book Published: 01 November, 2000
The
Musical from the Inside Out
by Stephen Citron
Paperback from Ivan R Dee, Inc.
Book Published: October, 1997
A
Chorus Line: With the Printed Music from the Broadway Show
by James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Paperback from Hal Leonard
Book Published: December, 1982
The
Musical: A Look at the American Musical Theater
by Richard Kislan
Paperback from Applause Books
Book Published: December, 1995
I
Will Be Cleopatra: An Actress's Journey
by Zoe Caldwell
Hardcover from W.W. Norton & Company
Book Published: October, 2001
Jesus Christ Superstar Vocal Selections
by Warner Brothers, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice
Listed under Andrew Lloyd Webber
The
Longest Line: Broadway's Most Singular Sensation: A Chorus Line
by Gary Stevens, Alan George
Hardcover from Applause Books
Book Published: October, 1995
Rent
by Jonathan Larson, Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Paperback from Hal Leonard
Book Published: January, 1997 |
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Writing
the Broadway Musical
by Aaron Frankel
(Paperback - August 2000)
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