Selected Musical Plays By Noel Coward A Critical Anthology

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350234710
Total Pages : 553 pages
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Download or read book Selected Musical Plays by Noël Coward: A Critical Anthology written by Noël Coward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Noël Coward's work as playwright, songwriter and actor has long been celebrated, his contributions to the British musical have largely been forgotten. Selected Musical Plays by Noël Coward: A Critical Anthology rectifies this omission from the musical theatre landscape, demonstrating how Coward's adaptability, creativity, and myriad of styles is imitated in the incredible musicals he authored. From flop shows at Drury Lane with Mary Martin through to his Broadway hits with Elaine Stritch, this anthology chronicles the variety of styles written by Coward, from revue to musical comedy to operetta. The works in this volume provide a contemporary critical introduction that illustrates the breadth and depth of his work, and highlighting the diverse identities of the collaborators and performers with whom he worked. Though the style of these works varies, they are linked together by his creative thread, and his ability to craft barbed and witty observations of his social world. A timely portrait of Coward's oeuvre and its lasting influence on the wider world of the British musical, Selected Musical Plays by Noël Coward contains previously unpublished musical plays by a central figure in theatre history, collected together with critical apparatus for students, scholars, and fans.

Author : Noel Coward
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780879518967
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noel Coward written by Noel Coward and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of a prolific and talented songwriter. His lyrics seduced and satirized the lives of the Smart Set, depicting the world of high society and its high jinks. Some 475 songs are collected, with some published for the first time, and illustrated with 279 bandw photos and drawings, many from Coward's personal albums, as well as programs, sheet musics, photos from original productions and revivals, and Coward's own handwritten manuscripts. Text by the author, augmented by Coward's own comments, sets the songs in context of their productions and their times. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408177358
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coward Plays: 5 written by Noël Coward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing Coward's best work from the last two decades of his life, this volume includes Relative Values, which ran for over a year in 1951-2, Look After Lulu (1959), his perennially popular Feydeau adaptation, Waiting in the Wings (1960), a bravura piece set in a home for retired actresses, and Suite in Three Keys (1965), a trilogy of plays which gave Coward his last roles on stage. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Coward's first biographer, and includes an extensive chronology of Coward's work.

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 9780413461209
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coward Plays: 4 written by Noël Coward and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 1979-09-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume Four of Noël Coward's plays contains a selection of Coward's plays from the thirties and forties which includes Blithe Spirit, a comedy that centres around the spirit medium Madame Arcati. The play that mocks sudden death was produced at precisely the moment when bombs were bringing it to Britain "I shall ever be grateful, for the almost psychic gift that enabled me to write Blithe Spirit in five days during one of the darkest years of the war." The play was for years the longest-running comedy in the history of British theatre. Present Laughter follows the life of Garry Essendine, a world-weary, middle-aged projection of the dilettante, debonair persona - self-obsessed and dressing-gowned who struts through the play like an educated peacock. It is a comedy about the 'theatricals' that Noël best knew and loved, and was originally a star vehicle for himself. It is the closest to an autobiographical play that Coward ever wrote. This Happy Breed is a saga of a lower middle-class family; and three shorter pieces fromTonight at 8.30 - is a farce set in the South of France, and serves as an oblique tribute to Frederick Lonsdale; The Astonished Heart is about the decay of a psychiatrist's mind through personal sexual obsession. Red Peppers, which closes the volume, was a cynical tribute to the lost music halls of the First World War.

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Total Pages : 856 pages
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Author : Bernard Simon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Simon's Directory of Theatrical Materials, Services & Information written by Bernard Simon and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Noel Coward
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573624629
Total Pages : 26 pages
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Download or read book Shadow Play written by Noel Coward and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characters: 5 male, 4 female Scenery: Suggested sets One of the Tonight At 8:30 series produced in London and New York. Victoria has just returned from the theatre where she saw a romantic musical. She quells a headache with three Anytal tablets just before her husband enters and announces divorce plans. Victoria, head buzzing, attempts to understand his reasons. She slips into a fantastic dream that reviews their meeting, courtship and marriage. Coming to, she clings to her husband and he reconsiders. Also published in Tonight at 8:30.

Author : California State Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1118 pages
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Author : Dorothy A. McGinniss
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
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Download or read book Guide to the Selection of Books for Your Secondary School Library written by Dorothy A. McGinniss and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 404 pages
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Download or read book The Baker & Taylor Secondary School Selection Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: