Hollywood Pinafore Or The Lad Who Loved A Salary

Author : Arthur Sullivan
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822216476
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Pinafore, Or, The Lad who Loved a Salary written by Arthur Sullivan and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1999 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Joseph Porter heads Pinafore Pictures amid a swirl of recognizable Hollywood types: Louhedda Hopsons, a gossip columnist; a veritable chain gang of imprisoned screen writers and dumb blondes looking to become famous; a devious agent; a

Author : Dan Dietz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144224528X
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals written by Dan Dietz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut of Oklahoma! in 1943 ushered in the modern era of Broadway musicals and was followed by a number of successes that have become beloved classics. Shows produced on Broadway during this decade include Annie Get Your Gun, Brigadoon, Carousel, Finian’s Rainbow, Pal Joey, On the Town, and South Pacific. Among the major performers of the decade were Alfred Drake, Gene Kelly, Mary Martin, and Ethel Merman, while other talents who contributed to shows include Irving Berlin, Gower Champion, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Agnes de Mille, Lorenz Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Cole Porter, Jerome Robbins, Richard Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein II. In The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz examines every musical and revue that opened on Broadway during the 1940s. In addition to providing details on every hit and flop, this book includes revivals and one-man and one-woman shows. Each entry contains the following information: Opening and closing dates Plot summary Cast members Number of performances Names of all important personnel, including writers, composers, directors, choreographers, producers, and musical directors Musical numbers and the names of performers who introduced the songs Production data, including information about tryouts Source material Critical commentary Details about London and other foreign productions Besides separate entries for each production, the book offers numerous appendixes, such as a discography, film versions, published scripts, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and non-musical productions that utilized songs, dances, or background music. A treasure trove of information, The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals provides readers with a complete view of each show. This significant resource will be of use to scholars, historians, and casual fans of one of the greatest decades in musical theatre history.

Author : John Stewart
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476603294
Total Pages : 6404 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004 written by John Stewart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 6404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 31, 1943, the musical Oklahoma! premiered and the modern era of the Broadway musical was born. Since that time, the theatres of Broadway have staged hundreds of musicals--some more noteworthy than others, but all in their own way a part of American theatre history. With more than 750 entries, this comprehensive reference work provides information on every musical produced on Broadway since Oklahoma's 1943 debut. Each entry begins with a brief synopsis of the show, followed by a three-part history: first, the pre-Broadway story of the show, including out-of-town try-outs and Broadway previews; next, the Broadway run itself, with dates, theatres, and cast and crew, including replacements, chorus and understudies, songs, gossip, and notes on reviews and awards; and finally, post-Broadway information with a detailed list of later notable productions, along with important reviews and awards.

Author : Laurence Maslon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199832544
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadway to Main Street written by Laurence Maslon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of Broadway is one of America's most unique and popular calling cards. In Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America, author Laurence Maslon tells the story of how the most beloved songs of the American Musical Theater made their way from the Theater District to living rooms across the country. The crossroads where the music of Broadway meets popular culture is an expansive and pervasive juncture throughout most of the twentieth century--from sheet music to radio broadcasts to popular and original cast recordings--and continues to influence culture today through television, streaming, and the Internet. The original Broadway cast album--from the 78 rpm recording of Oklahoma! to the digital download of Hamilton--is one of the most successful, yet undervalued, genres in the history of popular recording. The challenge of capturing musical narrative with limited technology inspired the imagination of both the recording industry and millions of listeners: between 1949 and 1969, fifteen different original cast albums hit number one on the popular music charts, ultimately tallying more weeks at number one than all of the albums by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles combined. The history of Broadway music is also the history of American popular music; the technological, commercial, and marketing forces of communications and media over the last century were inextricably bound up in the enterprise of bringing the musical gems of New York's Theater District to living rooms along Main Streets across the nation. Featuring new interviews with Stephen Schwartz, Chita Rivera, Steve Lawrence, and prominent record producers and music critics, the story of this commercial and emotional phenomenon is told here in full--from the imprimatur of sheet music from Broadway in the early 20th century to the renaissance of Broadway music in the digital age, folding in the immense impact of show music on American culture and in the context of the recording industry, popular tastes, and our shared national identity. A book which connects cherished cultural artifacts to the emotional narratives at the core of American popular music, Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America is an ideal companion for all fans of American musical theater and popular music.

Author : Carolyn Williams
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231148054
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gilbert and Sullivan written by Carolyn Williams and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and how parody was used in the culture wars of late-nineteenth-century England.

Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199790841
Total Pages : 703 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Broadway Music written by Steven Suskin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the careers of Broadway's major orchestrators and follows the song as it travels from the composer's piano to the orchestra pit.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Theatre Critics' Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre critics' reviews brings you the complete reviews from these New York publications and stations whenever covered by the critic: New York daily news, Wall Street journal, Time, New York post, Women's wear daily, WABC-TV, CBS-TV, New York times, Christian Science monitor, Newsweek.

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822223962
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DPS: Catalogue of New Plays 2009-2010 written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opening Night on Broadway written by Steven Suskin and published by Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the glitter and excitement of the first critical reception of the Broadway musical with the expertise of a true insider, here are the voices of the most acclaimed theatre critics, who wrote during the era of such innovative musicals as Brigadoon, South Pacific, The Music Man and West Side Story. Illustrated.

Author : Roberta Newcomer Mohan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George S. Kaufman, Librettist written by Roberta Newcomer Mohan and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: