Music of film and stage

The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre: 1943-1965 provides synopses, cast and production credits, song titles, and other pertinent information for over 180 musicals from Oklahoma!

In 2004, the original Broadway production of Wicked earned 10 Tony nominations, including best musical.

What began as an underground 60s Mod scene in unlicensed, no-frills clubs in the North West of England became a youth craze that has long surpassed all others.

For Broadway audiences of the 1980s, the decade was perhaps most notable for the so-called "e;British invasion.

Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the most versatile and influential of all American theatre and film composers.

Stephen Sondheim is widely regarded as the most important composer and lyricist of musical theater in the second half of the 20th century.

Of all the elements that combine to make movies, music sometimes seems the forgotten stepchild.

'An embrace of a book' Florence Welch'Poetry was my place, my little clearing in the forest, where I could quietly put everything I was holding.

In West Side Story: Cultural Perspectives on an American Musical, Wells presents a major scholarly study of the famous American musical West Side Story, viewing the work from cultural, historical, and musical perspectives.

The Ziegfeld Follies: A History in Song presents an account of the Follies through the musical productions contained in the show.

The Book of Broadway Musical Debates, Disputes and Disagreements is purposely meant to start arguments and to settle them.

Exploring musical theater on film for fans of the genre, Listen to Movie Musicals!

This wide-ranging guide introduces (or reintroduces) readers to movie musicals past and present, enabling them to experience the development of this uniquely American art form-and discover films they'll love.

This wide-ranging, two-volume encyclopedia of musicals old and new will captivate young fans-and prove invaluable to those contemplating staging a musical production.

It began as an artist's desperate desire to express himself inside a worldwide pandemic, but in one year's time it has grown into a theater industry and country-wide outlet for healing, grief, justice, and hope in the theater community.

The first comprehensive collection of the letters of one of the most successful American songwriters of the twentieth century From Anything Goes to Kiss Me, Kate, Cole Porter left a lasting legacy of iconic songs including "You're the Top," "Love For Sale," and "Night and Day.

The Ziegfeld Follies: A History in Song presents an account of the Follies through the musical productions contained in the show.

In West Side Story: Cultural Perspectives on an American Musical, Wells presents a major scholarly study of the famous American musical West Side Story, viewing the work from cultural, historical, and musical perspectives.

To see a Broadway musical is to experience how a drama, using melody, harmony, and rhythm, evokes the emotion needed to perpetuate a story line.

To see a Broadway musical is to experience how a drama, using melody, harmony, and rhythm, evokes the emotion needed to perpetuate a story line.

For Broadway audiences of the 1980s, the decade was perhaps most notable for the so-called "e;British invasion.

Of all the elements that combine to make movies, music sometimes seems the forgotten stepchild.

The Broadway musical has greatly influenced both American and world culture.

An important figure during the golden age of Broadway, John C.

Exploring musical theater on film for fans of the genre, Listen to Movie Musicals!

This wide-ranging guide introduces (or reintroduces) readers to movie musicals past and present, enabling them to experience the development of this uniquely American art form-and discover films they'll love.

This wide-ranging, two-volume encyclopedia of musicals old and new will captivate young fans-and prove invaluable to those contemplating staging a musical production.

The Book of Broadway Musical Debates, Disputes and Disagreements is purposely meant to start arguments and to settle them.

It began as an artist's desperate desire to express himself inside a worldwide pandemic, but in one year's time it has grown into a theater industry and country-wide outlet for healing, grief, justice, and hope in the theater community.

Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the most versatile and influential of all American theatre and film composers.

In 2004, the original Broadway production of Wicked earned 10 Tony nominations, including best musical.

The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre: 1943-1965 provides synopses, cast and production credits, song titles, and other pertinent information for over 180 musicals from Oklahoma!

Stephen Sondheim is widely regarded as the most important composer and lyricist of musical theater in the second half of the 20th century.

On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Filin.

A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls.

Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall.

A remarkable memoir from the legendary drummer with The Police.

The first comprehensive collection of the letters of one of the most successful American songwriters of the twentieth century From Anything Goes to Kiss Me, Kate, Cole Porter left a lasting legacy of iconic songs including "You're the Top," "Love For Sale," and "Night and Day.

The extraordinary story of Vivian Stanshall, lead singer of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, true British eccentric.

An important figure during the golden age of Broadway, John C.

Oper ist elementar mit Bewegung verbunden: in der dramatischen Entwicklung der Handlung, in der Darstellung auf der Bühne, in der Wanderung der Sujets genauso wie der Operntruppen.

Leopold Mozart, oft im Schatten seines berühmten Sohnes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart betrachtet, war selbst eine faszinierende Persönlichkeit seiner Zeit – Musiker, Pädagoge und Visionär.

This volume uses the historic staging and legacy of the 1903 production of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, directed and conducted by Gustav Mahler, to explore a wide range of interdisciplinary issues in the history of the opera, performance, and the reception and interpretation of Wagner's work.

This volume uses the historic staging and legacy of the 1903 production of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, directed and conducted by Gustav Mahler, to explore a wide range of interdisciplinary issues in the history of the opera, performance, and the reception and interpretation of Wagner's work.

Participatory Opera offers a critical analysis of spectator immersion and participation in contemporary opera, and explores resultant intersections with notions of individuality and community within these emerging contexts.

Participatory Opera offers a critical analysis of spectator immersion and participation in contemporary opera, and explores resultant intersections with notions of individuality and community within these emerging contexts.

Situated at the interstices of music and theatre studies, Theatrimusicality:  Spectauralising Performance reframes the dynamic interplay of theatricality and musicality and theorises theatrimusicality as a conceptual consequent of analysing contemporary performance practices that lie in the intersection between theatre and music.

Situated at the interstices of music and theatre studies, Theatrimusicality:  Spectauralising Performance reframes the dynamic interplay of theatricality and musicality and theorises theatrimusicality as a conceptual consequent of analysing contemporary performance practices that lie in the intersection between theatre and music.