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A backstage pass to the groundbreaking, hit musical Hamilton, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Eleven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, including the award-winning libretto, behind-the-scenes photos and interviews, and exclusive footnotes from composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda, now streaming on Disney+ with the original cast.
Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary...
Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary...
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2017.
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"An original musical that explores the poignant desire for human connection in the tumultuous life of one young man. Evan is shy, lonely, and bullied for it -- teeming with the irrepressible emotions all too familiar with anyone who's ever been a teenager. After a tragedy strikes, Evan's life suddenly gets turned around, but is it ultimately for the better?"-- Provided by publisher.
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2013
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1 online resource (pages cm.)
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Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the most versatile and influential of all American theatre and film composers. The Jerome Kern Encyclopedia consists of entries on people, theatre and film musicals, songs, subjects, and themes related to the composer. Not only are all of Kern's stage and screen projects covered, but there are also entries on all the major librettists and lyricists with whom he worked, as well as producers, directors, actors,...
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The new edition of the leading survey of the American musical has been expanded and updated to cover the 1999-2000 season. Covering more than 250 years o musical theater history, the new edition of the book Newsweek called "the best reference of its kind" is an ummatched blend of narrative history, expert critical judgement, and detailed, show-by-show, season-by-season decscription.
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"Eowyn Becker has waited all year to spend her sixth summer at Lamplighter Lake Summer Camp. Here, she's not in the shadow of her Broadway-star older brother--she's a stellar performer in her own right. Here, the pain of her mom's death can't reach her, and she gets to reunite with her best friend, Jules Marrigan--the only person in the world who understands her. But this summer, everything seems wrong. The best friend reunion Eowyn had been dreaming...
13) Gigi
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A musical set in Paris in which a girl trained as a high society courtesan falls in love with a rich and handsome boulevardier.
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Publication Date
2020.
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1 online resource (x, 486 pages).
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The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical is dedicated to the musical's evolving relationship to American culture in the late twentieth and earlytwenty-first centuries. In the past decade-and-a-half, international scholars from an ever-widening number of disciplines and specializations have been actively contributing to the interdisciplinary field of musical theater studies. Musicals have served not only to mirror the sociopolitical, economic,...
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May 2023.
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1 online resource (xvii, 292 pages) : illustrations.
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This book offers a series of essays that show the integrated role that musical structure (including harmony, melody, rhythm, meter, form, and musical association) plays in making sense of what transpires onstage in musicals. Written by a group of music analysts who care deeply about musical theater, this collection provides new understanding of how musicals are put together, how composers and lyricists structure words and music to complement one another,...
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2022.
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1 online resource : color illustrations
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"This book employs the aesthetic principles of musical theater to consider the genre's politics, which can cut against the grain of dominant ideology to establish identities and communities in difference. The musical, a bastion of mainstream theatrical culture, always and already contains a fan culture of outsiders who dream themselves into being in the lineal timespaces of song and dance. This book employs an array of analytical approaches to the...
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[2020]
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1 vocal score (118 pages) ; 31 cm
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"Baz Luhrmann's revolutionary film comes to life in the Broadway musical, Moulin Rouge. Our matching folio includes 13 songs arranged with vocal line and piano accompaniment: Backstage Romance ? Chandelier ? Come What May ? Crazy Rolling ? Elephant Love Medley ? Firework ? Nature Boy ? Only Girl in a Material World ? Shut Up and Raise Your Glass ? The Sparkling Diamond ? Sympathy for the Duke ? El Tango de Roxanne ? Your Song."--Provided by publisher....
