Beyond Broadway

Author : Professor Stacy Wolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190639556

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Beyond Broadway by Professor Stacy Wolf Pdf

The idea of American musical theatre often conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in amateur productions at high schools, community theatres, afterschool programs, summer camps, and dinner theatres. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf looks at the widespread presence and persistence of musical theatre in U.S. culture, and examines it as a social practice--a live, visceral experience of creating, watching, and listening. Why does local musical theatre flourish in America? Why do so many Americans continue to passionately engage in a century-old artistic practice that requires intense, person-to-person collaboration? And why do audiences still flock to musicals in their hometowns? Touring American elementary schools, a middle school performance festival, afterschool programs, high schools, summer camps, state park outdoor theatres, community theatres, and dinner theatres from California to Tennessee, Wolf illustrates musical theatre's abundance and longevity in the U.S. as a thriving social activity that touches millions of lives.

Author : Stacy Ellen Wolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190639525

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Beyond Broadway by Stacy Ellen Wolf Pdf

The idea of American musical theatre often conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in amateur productions at high schools, community theatres, afterschool programs, summer camps, and dinner theatres. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf looks at thewidespread presence and persistence of musical theatre in U.S. culture, and examines it as a social practice - a live, visceral experience of creating, watching, and listening. Why does local musical theatre flourish in America? Why do so many Americans continue to passionately engage in acentury-old artistic practice that requires intense, person-to-person collaboration? And why do audiences still flock to musicals in their hometowns? Touring American elementary schools, a middle school performance festival, afterschool programs, high schools, summer camps, state park outdoortheatres, community theatres, and dinner theatres from California to Tennessee, Wolf illustrates musical theatre's abundance and longevity in the U.S. as a thriving social activity that touches millions of lives.

Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1985-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521278961

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A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 3, Beyond Broadway by C. W. E. Bigsby Pdf

The final volume of Christopher Bigsby's critical account of American drama in the twentieth century.

Author : Bob Lederer
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780062798053

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Beyond Broadway Joe by Bob Lederer Pdf

A celebration of the Jets’ 1968 historic Super Bowl team, filled with exclusive insights and stories from the surviving players, coaches, and management In 1968, Joe Namath, the quarterback of the New York Jets, dominated the headlines as a national celebrity and counterculture figure. The Jets were a vastly talented but underappreciated team that drew constant attention due to Namath, but were not taken seriously by fans. When the Jets earned their way to Super Bowl III to face an eighteen-point favorite Baltimore Colts squad, Namath put all the pressure on himself by shockingly “guaranteeing” a Jets victory. He fulfilled his promise, but knew he didn’t do it alone. As Broadway Joe said in the postgame locker room: “We’ve got the team, brother.” In Beyond Broadway Joe: The Super Bowl TEAM That Changed Football, thirty-six surviving members of that legendary 1968 team share for the first time their funny, poignant, and insightful personal stories about their Super Bowl teammates and coaches, and the historic win that changed football forever. Readers will learn what Namath’s teammates thought about his “guarantee,” find out what Jets coaches discovered on the field early during Super Bowl III that Namath and the defense used to frustrate the Colts, and delight in how the thirty-nine Jets who took the field each week with Namath enabled him to live up to his Super Bowl vow. Author Bob Lederer reviews head coach Weeb Ewbank’s never-before-seen player evaluations—that they didn’t know existed—and provides a rich history of the Jets franchise, from how these thirty-nine forgotten players became Jets, and the road ten of them took to become AFL all-stars in 1968. This definitive review of the entire Jets’ Super Bowl team is a must for every Jets diehard, for fans of the old American Football League, and for all who love the game.

Author : Margaret Hall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781493061068

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GEMIGNANI by Margaret Hall Pdf

Paul Gemignani is one of the titans of the modern musical theater industry. Serving as musical director for more than forty Broadway productions since 1971, his collaborations with Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Hal Prince, Michael Bennett, and Alan Menken have led to countless accolades for his collaborators, but due to the near invisible position of the musical director in the Broadway industry, Gemignani's story is often overlooked. Gemignani seeks to not only bring the reader into the orchestra pit to learn Gemignani's story but also educate the reader as to the crucial role a music director plays in bringing some of the most iconic musicals in Broadway history to life. Born into a second-generation Italian American family during the aftershocks of the Great Depression, Gemignani worked his way up from playing percussion in USO bands to conducting before Leonard Bernstein, all before becoming a pivotal player in the team that brought some of the most successful musicals of the late twentieth century to the stage. Sweeney Todd, Evita, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, and Into the Woods would be quite different without his key contributions, and many of the sonic markers we now associate with the postmodern musical theater can be traced to Gemignani's careful curiosity to expand the bounds of what was possible.

Author : Bettijane Sills
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813063874

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Broadway, Balanchine, and Beyond by Bettijane Sills Pdf

In this memoir of a roller-coaster career on the New York stage, former actor and dancer Bettijane Sills offers a highly personal look at the art and practice of George Balanchine, one of ballet’s greatest choreographers, and the inner workings of his world-renowned company during its golden years. Sills recounts her years as a child actor in television and on Broadway, a career choice largely driven by her mother, and describes her transition into pursuing her true passion: dance. She was a student in Balanchine’s School of American Ballet throughout her childhood and teen years, until her dream was achieved. She was invited to join New York City Ballet in 1961 as a member of the corps de ballet and worked her way up to the level of soloist. Winningly honest and intimate, Sills lets readers peek behind the curtains to see a world that most people have never experienced firsthand. She tells stories of taking classes with Balanchine, dancing in the original casts of some of his most iconic productions, working with a number of the company’s most famous dancers, and participating in the company’s first Soviet Union tour during the Cold War and Cuban Missile Crisis. She walks us through her years in New York City Ballet first as a member of the corps de ballet, then a soloist dancing some principal roles, finally as one of the “older” dancers teaching her roles to newcomers while being encouraged to retire. She reveals the unglamorous parts of tour life, jealousy among company members, and Balanchine’s complex relationships with women. She talks about Balanchine’s insistence on thinness in his dancers and her own struggles with dieting. Her fluctuations in weight influenced her roles and Balanchine’s support for her—a cycle that contributed to the end of her dancing career. Now a professor of dance who has educated hundreds of students on Balanchine’s style and legacy, Sills reflects on the highs and lows of a career indelibly influenced by fear of failure and fear of success—by the bright lights of theater and the man who shaped American ballet.

Author : Michael Lassell
Publisher : Disney Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1484767330

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Disney Aladdin: A Whole New World by Michael Lassell Pdf

The Tony-award winning Aladdin is a veritable hit on Broadway and is just beginning national and international performances. In A Whole New World, readers will discover the journey from ancient legend to screen to stage in the words of its creators.

Author : Stacy Ellen Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Amateur theater
ISBN : 0190639563

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Beyond Broadway by Stacy Ellen Wolf Pdf

'Beyond Broadway' travels across America to illustrate musical theatre's ubiquitous presence as a thriving national folk practice that touches millions of lives.

Author : George Rogers Howell,Jonathan Tenney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1450 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Albany (N.Y.)
ISBN : MINN:319510019605361

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Bi-centennial History of Albany by George Rogers Howell,Jonathan Tenney Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Connecticut
ISBN : YALE:39002005631354

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Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : New Haven Colony Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Connecticut
ISBN : HARVARD:32044051067783

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Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society by New Haven Colony Historical Society Pdf

List of members in each vol.

Author : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). High Court of Griqualand,Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence,William Musgrove Hopley,Shepherd Braithwaite Kitchen,Henry Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112103084408

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Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Griqualand by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). High Court of Griqualand,Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence,William Musgrove Hopley,Shepherd Braithwaite Kitchen,Henry Burton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : UCLA:31158004382395

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Old New York by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sam Freund,Elizabeth Carpenter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1928883001

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Camp Broadway Presents Kids Eat Broadway by Sam Freund,Elizabeth Carpenter Pdf

Author : Frank "Fraver" Verlizzo
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Design
ISBN : 0764355155

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Fraver by Design by Frank "Fraver" Verlizzo Pdf

"For the first time in his five-decade career, this monograph collection will take you behind the scenes into the world of theatrical advertising through a rare look at forty unpublished poster sketches for some of Broadway's favorite shows, hilarious career anecdotes, and commentary from theatre icons, including Bernadette Peters, Dean Pitchford, and Jack Viertel"--Jacket flap.