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Publication Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Do you want to know more about the fascinating history of Broadway musicals, the stars of yesterday and today, and what goes on behind the curtain of a musical production? In Musical Theater For Dummies, Broadway insider and host of Sirus/XM Radio's ON BROADWAY channel Seth Rudetsky takes you backstage and reveals everything you want to know (and what you didn't know you wanted to know) about life in the theatre. How did musical theatre begin? How...
Author
Publisher
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, Bloomsbury Publishing Group, Inc
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Musical theatre performers are akin to Olympic athletes. They need finely tuned minds, bodies, and spirits to perform at a high level, in some cases up to eight times a week. JV Mercanti has trained countless emerging performers in Pace University's acclaimed Musical Theatre program. His teachings take readers through a journey of engaging the full self when it comes to creating a performance, and his extensive knowledge covers everything from script...
Author
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"It's good to be ambitious. Only remember, the nearer you get to the front of the line, the more people with knives can see your back. "That's Louie Riller giving advice to his son, Ben, who happens to be the most successful producer on Broadway. Louie Riller himself happens to be long dead. "Joan of Arc heard voices," Ben Riller's secretary tells him. "Why shouldn't you?" But Ben isn't just hearing voices; he's having a running argument with the...
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Publication Date
2025
Language
English
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Description
"A darkly comic suspense in the vein of All's Well and Yellowface, She's a Lamb! is an edgy and incisive novel that marches toward showtime with a growing unease about the dangers of magical thinking and the depths of delusion. Jessamyn St. Germain is meant to be a star. Not an actor who occasionally books yogurt commercials and certainly not a lowly usher at one of Vancouver's smallest regional theaters. No, she is bound for greatness, and that's...
Author
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children's musical. Mister Monkey--a screwball children's musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee--is the kind of family favorite that survives far past its prime. Margot, who plays the chimp's lawyer, knows...
Author
Publisher
Masterworks
Publication Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Musical drama film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda in his feature directorial debut. Written by Steven Levenson, it is based on the stage musical of the same name by Jonathan Larson, a semi-autobiographical story about Larson's writing a musical to enter the industry.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In 2017, New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max began working on a major profile of Stephen Sondheim that would be timed to the eventual premiere of a new musical Sondheim was writing. Sadly, that process--and the years of conversation--was cut short by Sondheim's own hesitations, then the global pandemic, and finally by the great artist's death in November 2021. Now, Max has taken the raw version of these conversations and knit them together into an unforgettable...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
On her thirteenth birthday April DaSilva is paying more attention to her social media account than to her friends and family, gathered to celebrate her success in the Broadway show Our Time--but then her account is hacked and replaced, and she realizes some things are more important than social media.
Author
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A Self-Help Guide--with Jazz Hands! Life is Like a Musical features 50 wry, witty tips on getting ahead in life and love--all learned in the showbiz trenches.
Before Tim Federle became a bestselling author and a Broadway playwright, he worked as a back-up dancer at the Super Bowl, a polar bear at Radio City, and a card-carrying chorus boy on Broadway. Life is Life a Musical features 50 tips learned backstage, onstage, and in between gigs, with chapters...
Author
Publication Date
2025
Language
English
Description
"How much of yourself are you willing to sacrifice in order to chase your dreams? After her sister Nena's sudden death, Xiomara, an Afro-Latina singer and actress born and raised in Washington Heights, is numb. With her sister gone, Xiomara is painfully close to thirty, living in a tiny apartment with her ultra-Catholic Puerto Rican mother, and having the same shitty sex with the same shitty men that she's been entertaining for years. Behind on rent...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Relly can't wait for his beloved grandfather to finally see him on stage ... Though his grandfather would prefer his grandson pursue something more 'practical,' Relly just knows when he sees the show, he will change his mind ... But right before their night show, a member of the Squad loses their phone down an open manhole. When the entire Squad goes down to help retrieve it, they find themselves in 1950s Manhattan. A big problem, considering the...