The Playbill

Author : Gillian Russell
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780642277381

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The Playbill and Its People by Gillian Russell Pdf

In 2007 a librarian at the Library and Archives Canada Library came across a fragile sheet of paper inserted inside a book. It was the playbill advertising an evening of entertainment that had taken place halfway across the world, over two centuries before. The playbill is the earliest printed document in the history of Australia to be so far discovered and in 2011 it was included on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register. As a piece of ephemera the playbill offers tantalizing glimpses of the social and cultural life of the early colony. What is the significance of the plays performed? Who were the players and their audiences? What kind of theatre did they play in? Gillian Russell answers all of these questions and more, in this fascinating account of the history and significance of the playbill.

Author : Maureen Crisp
Publisher : marmac media
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780473439774

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The Playbill by Maureen Crisp Pdf

A strange letter and code propels the circus into a tour they will never forget. The mysterious Puzzle Master has invited Circus Charles to once again compete to find the best circus in the world. But not everyone wants them to win. Will they be stopped like last time? Join Kestrel and Skye on a circus tour filled with codes, villains, and DANGER The Circus Quest Series follows a traveling circus on tour as they hunt down and solve clues to become Circus Challenge Champions. With codes, circus stunts and slapstick humour these books are sure to delight beginning independent readers. Reader Age: 6 yrs and up

Author : John Van Druten
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822201046

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Bell, Book and Candle by John Van Druten Pdf

THE STORY: Gillian Holroyd is one of the few modern people who can actually cast spells and perform feats of supernaturalism. She casts a spell over an unattached publisher, Shepherd Henderson, partly to keep him away from a rival and partly becaus

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1982-04
Category : Playbills
ISBN : UCAL:B5180679

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The Playbill by Anonim Pdf

Author : Majestic Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Musicals
ISBN : UOM:39015064994794

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The Playbill for the Majestic Theatre, South Pacific by Majestic Theatre (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781603784931

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Shrek the Musical (Songbook) by Anonim Pdf

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Features 18 piano/vocal selections from this Broadway hit that won both Tony and Drama Desk awards. Includes a plot synopsis, sensational color photos, and these tunes: The Ballad of Farquaad * Big Bright Beautiful World * Build a Wall * Don't Let Me Go * Donkey Pot Pie * Finale (This Is Our Story) * Freak Flag * I Know It's Today * I Think I Got You Beat * Make a Move * More to the Story * Morning Person * Story of My Life * This Is How a Dream Comes True * Travel Song * What's Up, Duloc? * When Words Fail * Who I'd Be.

Author : Billy Crystal
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780759569348

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700 Sundays by Billy Crystal Pdf

To support his family, Billy Crystal's father, Jack, worked two jobs, having only one day a week to spend with his family. Based on Crystal's one-man Broadway show of the same name, "700 Sundays"--referring sadly to the time shared by an adoring father and his devoted son--offers a heartfelt, hilarious memoir.

Author : Maureen Crisp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 047343976X

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The Playbill by Maureen Crisp Pdf

Join Kestrel and Skye on a circus tour filled with codes, villains and danger! The mysterious Puzzle Master has invited Circus Charles to compete to find the best circus in the world. But not everyone wants them to win. Will they be stopped like last time? With codes, circus stunts and slapstick humor these books will delight beginning readers. 6+

Author : Ron Engle,Tice L. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993-05-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521412382

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The American Stage by Ron Engle,Tice L. Miller Pdf

This book focuses on the economic and social forces which shaped American theatre throughout its history. Alone or as a collection, these essays, written by leading theatre historians and critics of the American theatre, will stimulate discussions concerning the traditionally held views of America's theatrical heritage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Theater
ISBN : UCSC:32106017192938

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Playbill by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Robert Allman
Publisher : Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780593377871

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A Is for Audra: Broadway's Leading Ladies from A to Z by John Robert Allman Pdf

Broadway babies, it's never too early to learn about the great women of American musical theater! From Audra McDonald to Liza with a "Z," this is a showstopping alphabet board book featuring your favorite leading ladies of the Broadway stage. Step into the spotlight and celebrate a cavalcade of Broadway's legendary leading ladies. Start with "A" for six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, then sing and dance your way through the alphabet with beloved entertainers like Carol Channing, Angela Lansbury, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Lea Salonga, and Liza Minnelli! With their signature voices and iconic roles, these talented women have created some of the greatest moments in musical theater history. Broadway fans and theater lovers everywhere will give a standing ovation to this one-of-a-kind tribute full of toe-tapping rhymes, with illustrations as bright and beautiful as the shining lights on any marquee.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : College and school drama
ISBN : NYPL:33433015470770

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The Playbill of Alpha Psi Omega by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elna Mortara
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611687910

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Writing for Justice by Elna Mortara Pdf

In Writing for Justice, Elna Mortara presents a richly layered study of the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, through close readings of the life and work of Victor SŽjour, an expat American Creole from New Orleans living in Paris. In addition to writing The Mulatto, an early story on slavery in Saint-Domingue, SŽjour penned La Tireuse de cartes (The Fortune-Teller, 1859), a popular play based on the famed Mortara case. In this historical incident, Pope Pius IX kidnapped Edgardo Mortara, the child of a Jewish family living in the Papal States. The details of the play's production - and its reception on both sides of the Atlantic - are intertwined with the events of the Italian Risorgimento and of pre - Civil War America. Writing for Justice is full of surprising encounters with French and American writers and historical figures, including Hugo, Hawthorne, Twain, Napoleon III, Garibaldi, and Lincoln. As Elna Mortara passionately argues, the enormous amount of public attention received by the case reveals an era of underappreciated transatlantic intellectual exchange, in which an African American writer used notions of emancipation in religious as well as racial terms, linking the plight of blacks in America to that of Jews in Europe, and to the larger battles for freedom and nationhood advancing across the continent. This book will appeal both to general readers and to scholars, including historians, literary critics, and specialists in African American studies, Jewish, Catholic, or religious studies, multilingual American literature, francophone literature, theatrical life, nineteenth-century European politics, and cross-cultural encounters.

Author : Elisabeth H. Kinsley
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271084213

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Here in This Island We Arrived by Elisabeth H. Kinsley Pdf

In this book, Elisabeth H. Kinsley weaves the stories of racially and ethnically distinct Shakespeare theatre scenes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Manhattan into a single cultural history, revealing how these communities interacted with one another and how their work influenced ideas about race and belonging in the United States during a time of unprecedented immigration. As Progressive Era reformers touted the works of Shakespeare as an “antidote” to the linguistic and cultural mixing of American society, and some reformers attempted to use the Bard’s plays to “Americanize” immigrant groups on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, immigrants from across Europe appropriated Shakespeare for their own ends. Kinsley uses archival material such as reform-era handbooks, theatre posters, playbills, programs, sheet music, and reviews to demonstrate how, in addition to being a source of cultural capital, authority, and resistance for these communities, Shakespeare’s plays were also a site of cultural exchange. Performances of Shakespeare occasioned nuanced social encounters between New York’s empowered and marginalized groups and influenced sociocultural ideas about what Shakespeare, race, and national belonging should and could mean for Americans. Timely and immensely readable, this book explains how ideas about cultural belonging formed and transformed within a particular human community at a time of heightened demographic change. Kinsley’s work will be welcomed by anyone interested in the formation of national identity, immigrant communities, and the history of the theatre scene in New York and the rest of the United States.

Author : Lynn Nottage
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781636700182

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Clyde's by Lynn Nottage Pdf

“A deceptively simple flavor-bomb of a new comedy about survival, second chances, and digesting whatever life serves up.” —Naveen Kumar, Variety With a chance at reclaiming their lives, the formerly incarcerated people working at Clyde’s, a roadside sandwich stop, strive hard to overcome their personal challenges. Not so easy under their boss Clyde. In this razor-sharp comedy, this motley crew of line cooks, under a visionary chef, are given purpose and permission to dream through their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.