Broadway Yearbook 1999 2000

Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195165551
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadway Yearbook, 1999-2000 written by Steven Suskin and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadway Season 1999-2000 is a unique and detailed guide to the theatrical year presenting 46 different shows. The volume features a comprehensive discussion of every show that opened on Broadway during the 1999-2000 season as well as several non-Broadway productions of importance or general interest. Each entry is accompanied by credits and cast lists, scorecards summarizing overall critical reception for each show, and a recap of each show's financial performance. A new kind of theatre annual, this distinctive volume discusses what the shows are actually like (instead of merely relying on plot synopses or photographs). It is an interpretive record, featuring not only dates and names but also the stories behind the statistics. Opening night title pages illustrate each show discussion. Appendices include a roundup of the season's major awards, memorable performances of the year, obituaries, long run leaders, shows still running from prior seasons, scheduled shows that never reached Broadway, and a comprehensive index. Steven Suskin has provided a relevant and irreverent record of the year's memorable high points (and low points). Written from an insider's perspective, the book is knowledgeable, intriguing, provocative, and entertaining.

Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195139556
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadway Yearbook, 1999-2000 written by Steven Suskin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We define our conscious experience by constructing narratives about ourselves and the people with whom we interact. Narrative pervades our lives--conscious experience is not merely linked to the number and variety of personal stories we construct with each other within a cultural frame, but is subsumed by them. The claim, however, that narrative constructions are essential to conscious experience is not useful or informative unless we can also begin to provide a distinct, organized, and empirically consistent explanation for narrative in relation to consciousness. Understanding the role of nar.

Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019534815X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadway Yearbook 2000-2001 written by Steven Suskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadway Yearbook 2000-2001 is a relevant and irreverent record of the theatrical year. A vivid album of the year on the Great White Way, Broadway Yearbook gives readers front-row seats for the phenomenon of The Producers and the rest of the season's hits and misses. Steven Suskin's acclaimed new theatre annual delivers a vibrant, candid, and thoughtful account of every show to hit the boards: exciting musicals such as The Full Monty and the revival of 42nd Street; intriguing new plays like Proof and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; and fascinating failures, including Jane Eyre and the beleaguered Seussical. Broadway Yearbook tells us what the shows were actually like. It is an interpretive record, featuring not only dates and names but also the stories behind the statistics. Each entry is accompanied by credits and cast lists, scorecards summarizing overall critical reception for each show, a summary of each show's financial performance, and copies of the illustrative program covers and title pages. Appendices provide a roundup of the season's major awards, memorable performances of the year, obituaries, long run leaders, shows still running from prior seasons, scheduled shows that never reached Broadway, and a comprehensive index. Steven Suskin has provided a unique and detailed record of the season's memorable moments and high points (and low points as well). Written from an insider's perspective, the book is knowledgeable, intriguing, provocative, and entertaining. Broadway Yearbook brings the shows of the 2000-2001 season back for an encore.

Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195158776
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002 written by Steven Suskin and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called the "theater equivalent of longtime New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael" by Matinee Magazine, critic and producer Steven Suskin chronicles the 2001-2002 theater season in his latest installment in the Broadway Yearbook series. Commenting with wit and erudition on each show that opened on Broadway between May 2001 and May 2002, Suskin's vivid descriptions recall Tony winners like Thoroughly Modern Millie and Urinetown and commercial smashes like Mamma Mia! and The Graduate. A great read for theater buffs, the book is also a valuable sourcebook for critics, Broadway historians, and theater professionals, providing an array of statistics on every Broadway production of the season, as well as noteworthy off-Broadway performances. The intelligent and witty Broadway Yearbook, 2001-2002 will engage theater lovers, performers, and critics alike.

Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190289260
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002 written by Steven Suskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-29 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called the "theater equivalent of longtime New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael" by Matinee Magazine, critic and producer Steven Suskin chronicles the 2001-2002 theater season in his latest installment in the Broadway Yearbook series. Commenting with wit and erudition on each show that opened on Broadway between May 2001 and May 2002, Suskin's vivid descriptions recall Tony winners like Thoroughly Modern Millie and Urinetown and commercial smashes like Mamma Mia! and The Graduate. A great read for theater buffs, the book is also a valuable sourcebook for critics, Broadway historians, and theater professionals, providing an array of statistics on every Broadway production of the season, as well as noteworthy off-Broadway performances. The intelligent and witty Broadway Yearbook, 2001-2002 will engage theater lovers, performers, and critics alike.

Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195148824
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadway Yearbook 2000-2001 written by Steven Suskin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A vivid album of the year on the Great White Way, "Broadway Yearbook" gives readers front-row seats for the phenomenon of "The Producers" and the rest of the season's hits and misses. 31 halftones.

Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195347944
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002 written by Steven Suskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-29 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called the "theater equivalent of longtime New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael" by Matinee Magazine, critic and producer Steven Suskin chronicles the 2001-2002 theater season in his latest installment in the Broadway Yearbook series. Commenting with wit and erudition on each show that opened on Broadway between May 2001 and May 2002, Suskin's vivid descriptions recall Tony winners like Thoroughly Modern Millie and Urinetown and commercial smashes like Mamma Mia! and The Graduate. A great read for theater buffs, the book is also a valuable sourcebook for critics, Broadway historians, and theater professionals, providing an array of statistics on every Broadway production of the season, as well as noteworthy off-Broadway performances. The intelligent and witty Broadway Yearbook, 2001-2002 will engage theater lovers, performers, and critics alike.

Author : Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher : Amadeus Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879109554
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Plays of 1999-2000 written by Otis L. Guernsey and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides containing abridged excerpts from the most important plays and musicals, the Theater yearbook also gives information about the New York season, on and off Broadway, about the season throughout the U.S., and gives facts and figures about the American theater.

Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199831076
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Broadway Music written by Steven Suskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadway's top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book ever written about these unsung stars of the Broadway musical whose work is so vital to each show's success. The book examines the careers of Broadway's major orchestrators and follows the song as it travels from the composer's piano to the orchestra pit. Steven Suskin has meticulously tracked down thousands of original orchestral scores, piecing together enigmatic notes and notations with long-forgotten documents and current interviews with dozens of composers, producers, conductors and arrangers. The information is separated into three main parts: a biographical section which gives a sense of the life and world of twelve major theatre orchestrators, as well as incorporating briefer sections on another thirty arrangers and conductors; a lively discussion of the art of orchestration, written for musical theatre enthusiasts (including those who do not read music); a biographical section which gives a sense of the life and world of twelve major theatre orchestrators, as well as incorporating briefer sections on another thirty arrangers and conductors; and an impressive show-by-show listing of more than seven hundred musicals, in many cases including a song-by-song listing of precisely who orchestrated what along with relevant comments from people involved with the productions. Stocked with intriguing facts and juicy anecdotes, many of which have never before appeared in print, The Sound of Broadway Music brings fascinating and often surprising new insight into the world of musical theatre.

Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493064649
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offstage Observations written by Steven Suskin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadway, once upon a time. A place where people buy tickets at the box office, with cash; where patrons dress for theatre, with no sneakers, no water bottles, and no backpacks; and the only text messages are the ones put there by the playwright. A place where iconic legends of stage and screen can be found in plain view, smiling politely or egotistically preening. Where three dollars will get you a balcony seat at the biggest hit—or the lowliest flop—in town. And a place where an innocent teenager from the suburbs can buy a ticket, slip through the stage door, and wander o'er the threshold into the magical world backstage. Steven Suskin introduces Broadway, once upon a time, in Offstage Observations: Tales of the Not-So-Legitimate Theatre. The drama critic and noted chronicler of Broadway takes the reader through a decade's worth of adventures, working his way from a menial pencil sharpener for producer David Merrick toward a career as a full-fledged manager, producer, and drama critic. The book follows the author's progress from the wintry night after his sixteenth birthday, when he unexpectedly finds himself alone on the empty stage of a Broadway theatre, peering out at the silent, empty auditorium lit only by a solitary ghost light to the matinee eight summers later when he finds himself accidentally and uncomfortably acting in a Broadway musical, bombarded by roars of laughter from a houseful of playgoers. A keen observer of the impertinent with an ear for amusing anecdotes, whimsical curiosities, and exaggerated tales of life upon the wicked stage, Suskin draws a portrait of a not-so-long-ago theatre world that has all but vanished.