Break A Leg A Treasury Of Theatre Traditions And Superstitions

Author : Lisa Bansavage
Publisher : Silver Spear Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780996788953
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Break a Leg!: A Treasury of Theatre Traditions and Superstitions written by Lisa Bansavage and published by Silver Spear Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forword -- Break a leg! -- Whistling -- Don't wear green onstage -- More colorful traditions -- Cats -- Candles & curtains -- Peacock-a-mamie -- Mirror begone! -- Flowers, jewelry, thread -- Bas dress, good show -- Opening night! -- Make up -- How many actors does it take -- 10 things that bring good luck -- 18 things that bring not-so-good-luck -- Actors on acting (1) -- Why is it called "the green room"? -- The ghost light -- The gypsy robe -- How many stage managers does it take -- Don't quote the Scottish play! -- St. Genesius and other saintly aids to actors -- "You ... you thespian!"--Those happy-sad theatre masks -- On Broadway -- Who the heck is Walter Plinge? -- The number 13 -- Some unusual theatre terms -- How many playwrights does it take -- Famous actors and their superstitions -- Stage turkeys and their notorious Broadway moose -- Edmund Kean's most peculiar charm -- Theatre ghosts -- Actors on Acting (2) -- Clackers -- Odds and funds -- Acknowledgments -- The authors

Author : Sue Miner
Publisher : J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781897289648
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Break a Leg! written by Sue Miner and published by J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you hear booing from the blue fairies when you tread the boards? Did your clap trap work on the claque? Did that flash pot set off ÒMr. SandsÓ in the first electric? Do you even know what those last three sentences mean? If not, then you need to read this book! Authors Mark Brownell and Sue Miner have compiled this one-of-a-kind glossary of offbeat theatrical phrases, words and superstitions. Break a Leg! is a culmination of theatrical lore from more than 25 years in the business. It also represents a collective knowledge that has been passed down for centuries.

Author : Richard Huggett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Curse of Macbeth, and Other Theatrical Superstitions written by Richard Huggett and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brad Schreiber
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0306902109
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stop the Show! written by Brad Schreiber and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to compile all of theater's glorious bloopers--an uproarious homage to the stage Stop the Show! is the first book to assemble humorous, frightening and bizarre anecdotes about the history of all that went wrong during live theatrical productions in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. It is the publishing equivalent of TV bloopers for the legitimate stage. This book includes stories from top directors, actors, playwrights and technicians from New York, Los Angeles, and points in between, to the United Kingdom, from the 19th century to today. There are stories about missed entrances and exits, onstage unscripted fights between performers, improvised lines, accidental pratfalls, falling scenery, and costume, lighting and makeup screwups. The backstage provides sordid tales of practical jokes, treachery, misplaced props, wild arguments, and generally the kinds of things Michael Frayn created for his farce about a theatrical disaster, Noises Off. This book doesn't leave out the theatergoers either, who snore, fight with each other, talk back to the performers, search for their seats, become suddenly ill, eat, drink, make merry, and are yelled at by the performers--all of which sometimes prompts the show to stop, even though we've always been told it must go on.

Author : Stacy Karyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781795824019
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thespian's Bucket List written by Stacy Karyn and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plays, musicals, movies, documentaries, places to visit, books to read, and other stagey surprises. A must-have bucket list for all thespians who are serious about their love for the theatre!

Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892367857
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luxury Arts of the Renaissance written by Marina Belozerskaya and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : London G. Routledge 1884.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1Z/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conduct of Life written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by London G. Routledge 1884.. This book was released on 1884 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Romances of the West of England, Or, The Drolls, Traditions and Superstitions of Old Cornwall written by Robert Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Book of Golden Deeds written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1927 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Caillois
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252070334
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Man, Play, and Games written by Roger Caillois and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this study, the author defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life.