Enchanted Evenings

Author : Geoffrey Block
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0199741506

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This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals. Readers will find such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Phantom of the Opera. Geoffrey Block provides a documentary history of each of the musicals, showing how each work took shape and revealing, at the same time, how the American musical evolved from the 1920s to today, both on stage and on screen. The book's particular focus is on the music, offering a wealth of detail about how librettist, lyricist, composer, and director work together to shape the piece. Block also includes trenchant social commentary and lively backstage anecdotes. Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Kurt Weill, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and other luminaries emerge as hardworking craftsmen under enormous pressure to sell tickets without compromising their dramatic vision. The second edition includes a greatly expanded chapter on Sondheim, a new chapter on Lloyd Webber, and two new chapters on the film adaptations of the main musicals featured in the text (including such hard to find films as the original 1936 version of Anything Goes and the 1959 film adaptation of Porgy and Bess). Packed with information, including a complete discography and plot synopses and song-by-song scenic outlines for each of the fourteen shows, Enchanted Evenings is an essential reference as well as a riveting history. "A solid and fascinating work that should become a model of how to investigate and report on the evolution of a musical. Block's research is persuasive and his writing vivid. . . Indispensable for anyone who cares to know more about Broadway musicals than Playbill can provide." --Steven Bach, The Los Angeles Times Book Review

Author : Geoffrey Holden Block
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195167309

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Discusses the great Broadway hits, how they were conceived, written and performed.

Author : Lynn Kurland
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101187067

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One Enchanted Evening by Lynn Kurland Pdf

Time-travel romances have made Lynn Kurland a bestseller in the here-and-now. A duty-bound knight has taken on the task of rebuilding the most dilapidated castle in all of England. A costume designer gets her chance to shine by showcasing her fairy- tale designs at an upscale party in an authentic medieval castle. And the magic that whispers along the castle's hallways is about to orchestrate an improbable happily-ever-after.

Author : David Kaufman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250031761

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Some Enchanted Evenings by David Kaufman Pdf

Mary Martin was one of the greatest stars of her day. Growing up in Texas, she was married early to Benjamin Hagman and gave birth to her first child, Larry Hagman. She was divorced even more quickly. Martin left little Larry with her parents and took off for Hollywood. She didn't make a dent in the movie industry and was lured to New York where she found herself auditioning for Cole Porter and his new show "Leave It to Me!". After she sang the bawdy "My Heart Belongs to Daddy", she ended up on the cover of Life magazine. Six years later, she became the Toast of Broadway when she starred in "South Pacific". After that, she flew as "Peter Pan", yodeled in "The Sound of Music", took "Hello, Dolly!" on the road and shared a four-poster with Robert Preston in "I Do! I Do!". Her personal life was just as interesting: In NYC, she met and married Richard Halliday, a closeted upper-class homosexual who adored her, Broadway and interior decorating (though probably not in that order). They were a powerful twosome. There were rumors about Martin, too, being in a lesbian relationship with both Janet Gaynor and Jean Arthur. Peopled with legends like Ethel Merman, Ezio Pinza, Noel Coward and a starry cast of thousands, David Kaufman's "Some Enchanted Evenings" is the delectable story of the one and only Mary Martin, a woman who described herself as a chicken farmer from Texas only to become Peter Pan and capture America's heart.

Author : Geoffrey Block
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199888825

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Enchanted Evenings by Geoffrey Block Pdf

This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals. Readers will find such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Phantom of the Opera. Geoffrey Block provides a documentary history of each of the musicals, showing how each work took shape and revealing, at the same time, how the American musical evolved from the 1920s to today, both on stage and on screen. The book's particular focus is on the music, offering a wealth of detail about how librettist, lyricist, composer, and director work together to shape the piece. Block also includes trenchant social commentary and lively backstage anecdotes. Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Kurt Weill, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and other luminaries emerge as hardworking craftsmen under enormous pressure to sell tickets without compromising their dramatic vision. The second edition includes a greatly expanded chapter on Sondheim, a new chapter on Lloyd Webber, and two new chapters on the film adaptations of the main musicals featured in the text (including such hard to find films as the original 1936 version of Anything Goes and the 1959 film adaptation of Porgy and Bess). Packed with information, including a complete discography and plot synopses and song-by-song scenic outlines for each of the fourteen shows, Enchanted Evenings is an essential reference as well as a riveting history. "A solid and fascinating work that should become a model of how to investigate and report on the evolution of a musical. Block's research is persuasive and his writing vivid. . . Indispensable for anyone who cares to know more about Broadway musicals than Playbill can provide." --Steven Bach, The Los Angeles Times Book Review

Author : Washington Geoffrey Block Professor of Music University of Puget Sound
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : Musicals
ISBN : 9780199769889

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Enchanted Evenings : The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim by Washington Geoffrey Block Professor of Music University of Puget Sound Pdf

The classic musicals of Broadway can provide us with truly enchanted evenings. But while many of us can hum the music and even recount the plot from memory, we are often much less knowledgeable about how these great shows were put together. What was the inspiration for Rodgers and Harts Pal Joey, or Rodgers and Hammersteins Carousel? Why is Marias impassioned final speech in West Side Story spoken, rather than sung? Now, in Enchanted Evenings, Geoffrey Block offers theatre lovers an illuminating behind-the- scenes tour of some of the best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals of Broadways Golden Era. Readers will find insightful studies of such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Anything Goes, Porgy and Bess, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, My Fair Lady, and West Side Story. Block provides a documentary history of fourteen musicals in all--plus an epilogue exploring the plays of Stephen Sondheim--showing how each work took shape and revealing, at the same time, production by production, how the American musical evolved from the 1920s to the early 1960s, and beyond. The book's particular focus is on the music, offering a wealth of detail about how librettist, lyricist, composer, and director work together to shape the piece. Drawing on manuscript material such as musical sketches, autograph manuscripts, pre-production librettos and lyric drafts, Block reveals the winding route the works took to get to their final form. Block blends this close attention to the nuances of musical composition and stagecraft with trenchant social commentary and lively backstage anecdotes. Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Kurt Weill, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Sondheim, and other luminaries emerge as hardworking craftsmen under enormous pressure to sell tickets without compromising their dramatic vision and integrity. Opening night reviews and accounts of critical and popular response to subsequent revivals show how particular musicals have adapted to changing times and changing audiences, shedding light on why many of these innovative shows are still performed in high schools, colleges, and community theaters across the country, while others, such as Weills One Touch of Venus or Marc Blitzsteins The Cradle Will Rock, languish in comparative obscurity. Packed with information, including a complete discography and plot synopses and song-by-song scenic outlines for each of the fourteen shows, Enchanted Evenings is an essential reference as well as a riveting history. It will deepen readersappreciation and enjoyment of these beloved musicals even as it delights both the seasoned theater goer and the neophyte encountering the magic of Broadway for the first time.

Author : Anton Du Beke
Publisher : Zaffre
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1785764829

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One Enchanted Evening by Anton Du Beke Pdf

Prepare to be swept off your feet by the romantic and irresistible debut novel from Anton Du Beke. London, 1936. Inside the spectacular Grand Ballroom of the exclusive Buckingham Hotel, the rich and powerful, politicians, film stars, even royalty, rub shoulders with Raymond de Guise and his troupe of talented dancers from all around the world, who must enchant them, captivate them, and sweep away their cares. Accustomed to waltzing with the highest of society, Raymond knows a secret from his past could threaten all he holds dear. Nancy Nettleton, new chambermaid at the Buckingham, finds hotel life a struggle after leaving her small hometown. She dreams of joining the dancers on the ballroom floor as she watches, unseen, from behind plush curtains and hidden doorways. She soon discovers everyone at the Buckingham--guests and staff alike--has something to hide...the storm clouds of war are gathering, and beneath the glitz and glamour of the ballroom lurks an irresistible world of scandal and secrets. Let's dance...

Author : Deems Taylor
Publisher : Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:49015000703455

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Some Enchanted Evenings by Deems Taylor Pdf

Author : Mark Kimball Moulton
Publisher : Lang Graphics
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0741204398

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One Enchanted Evening by Mark Kimball Moulton Pdf

Queen Spider and Sir Fieldmouse find love at the Annual Midsummer Eve Dance in the land just beyond sunrise, where loons sing love ballads, caterpillars tap dance, and shared dreams mean more than differences of social rank or physical form.

Author : Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781603060608

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Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming by Rheta Grimsley Johnson Pdf

Nationally syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson, winner of the Ernie Pyle Award for human interest reporting, turns her sharp eye on herself in this frank, exhilarating, wise, poignant, and brave memoir. Her territory ranges from childhood memories of ritual pre-interstate trips in the family station wagon to visit foot-washing Baptist relatives to young-girl fixations on the Barbie dolls of the title, from the simultaneous exuberance and proto-feminist doubts of young marriage to the aches of loves lost through divorce and death. Her memorable journalism career, which began on her college newspaper and rural weeklies and moved on to prestigious big-city dailies, was punctuated by her distinctive writing voice and an unerring knack for revealing her much-loved South through uncommon stories about its common people. This is a big-hearted book that will leave no reader unaffected.

Author : Anna Harrington
Publisher : Rose Garden Books
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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One Enchanted Evening by Anna Harrington Pdf

ONE ENCHANTED EVENING… ONE VERY SPECIAL MEETING Mason Granger is a victim of proximity. Although the wealthy businessman spurns all society events, his townhouse sits next to Lord and Lady Whitwell’s, which means he’s caught up in their ball against his will—and with their guests when a little girl sneaks into his rear garden to watch the fireworks…and when her alluring mother Nora chases after. Emmeline hasn’t spoken a word since the carriage accident that killed her father. Nora would do anything to help her daughter, but all the experts in England haven’t been able to regain her voice. But with the help of his shaggy hound Brutus, Mason does the seemingly impossible of getting Emmeline to speak again—that is, to the dog. Stubbornly, she refuses to speak to anyone else, but Mason is determined to help both her and Nora. As Mason and Nora help Emmeline find the courage to overcome the past’s tragedies, can they also find the courage to embrace their own future’s happiness? This novella was originally published in the A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S ROMANCE anthology.

Author : J.M. Vasques
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780557351251

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SOME ENCHANTED EVENING a ghostly romance by J.M. Vasques Pdf

A crumbling mansion is the setting for a gothic romance of young love and true friendship that spans the early decades of the 20th century. A young boy finds himself in another -- but which is it, the boy in the mirror or the boy lost in shadows beyond time? SPECIAL EDITION - TRADE SOFTCOVER.

Author : J. M. Vasques
Publisher : J.M. Vasques
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557104505

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Some Enchanted Evening, a Gothic Romance by J. M. Vasques Pdf

A crumbling mansion is the setting for a gothic romance of young love and true friendship that spans the early decades of the 20th century. A young boy finds himself in another -- but which is it, the boy in the mirror or the boy lost in shadows beyond time? No sexual situations. CLICK ON TITLE LINK FOR PREVIEW AND BOOK DETAILS. ALSO AVAILABLE AT AMAZON.

Author : John Hadamuscin
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0517575086

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John Hadamuscin's Enchanted Evenings by John Hadamuscin Pdf

Romantic entertaining that's as much fun for the host as the guests. The author of The Holidays and Special Occasions uses savory menus, inspired tips, and full-color photographs to help every reader set the stage for intimacy. 150 full-color photographs.

Author : Dominic McHugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190051549

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The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations by Dominic McHugh Pdf

Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the heightened experience of song and dance drew attention to the novelty of the technological development. Until the near-collapse of the genre in the 1960s, the film musical enjoyed around thirty years of development, as landmarks such as The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St Louis, Singin' in the Rain, and Gigi showed the exciting possibilities of putting musicals on the silver screen. The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved, starting with screen adaptations of operettas such as The Desert Song and Rio Rita, and looks at how the Hollywood studios in the 1930s exploited the publication of sheet music as part of their income. Numerous chapters examine specific screen adaptations in depth, including not only favorites such as Annie and Kiss Me, Kate but also some of the lesser-known titles like Li'l Abner and Roberta and problematic adaptations such as Carousel and Paint Your Wagon. Together, the chapters incite lively debates about the process of adapting Broadway for the big screen and provide models for future studies.