Music of film and stage

Few musicals have had the impact of Lerner and Loewe's timeless classic My Fair Lady.

From the diverse proto-theatres of the mid-1800s, though the revues of the '20s, the 'true musicals' of the '40s, the politicisation of the '60s and the 'mega-musicals' of the '80s, every era in American musical theatre reflected a unique set of socio-cultural factors.

"e;My Dearest Heart"e; is a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1876.

With their lavish costumes and sets, ebullient song and dance numbers, and iconic movie stars, the musicals that mgm produced in the 1940s seem today to epitomize camp.

Musical theatre is often perceived as either a Broadway based art form, or as having separate histories in London and New York.

This book provides a practical introduction to researching and performing early Anglo-American secular music and dance with attention to their place in society.

Alan Jay Lerner wrote the lyrics for some of the most beloved musicals in Broadway and Hollywood history.

Revised and updated edition of this popular Companion, containing five completely new chapters.

How many times have you experienced a musical that was fabulous or just didn't work at all, but you had no idea how to communicate why?

Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2024Featuring contributions from over eighty original cast members, creatives, crew and audience members, Out For Blood pieces together the surprising, hilarious and often-moving inside story of Carrie The Musical to discover how this 'horror of a Broadway musical' lived, died and was subsequently resurrected as a mainstream success story.

Written to meet the needs of thousands of students and pre-professional singers participating in production workshops and classes in opera and musical theater, Acting for Singers leads singing performers step by step from the studio or classroom through audition and rehearsals to a successful performance.

A handy and engaging chronicle, this book is the most detailed production history to date of the original Broadway version of Cabaret, showing how the show evolved from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories, into John van Druten's stage play, a British film adaptation, and then the Broadway musical, conceived and directed by Harold Prince as an early concept musical.

For nearly a century, New York's famous "e;Tin Pan Alley"e; was the center of popular music publishing in this country.

This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.

The man behind "e;I Could Have Danced all Night"e; and "e;Almost Like Being in Love"e;, lyricist Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986) is widely regarded as one of the most important figures of the American musical stage.

This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the musical Hair and will offer critical analysis which focuses on giving voice to those who are historically considered to be on the margins of musical theatre history.

Saturday Night Fever is simultaneously one of the biggest-selling albums of all time and one of the most reviled.

Durch den teils massiven Publikumsschwund nach der Pandemie stellt sich die Frage, ob diese als Brandbeschleuniger gewirkt hat für bereits vorhandene Trends.

Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance offers new, cutting-edge essays focusing on song and dance as performative gestures that not only entertain but also act on audiences and performers.

What does a musical theatre choreographer actually do?

This comprehensive guide, from the author of Acting in Musical Theatre, will equip aspiring directors with all of the skills that they will need in order to guide a production from beginning to end.

For nearly a century, New York's famous "e;Tin Pan Alley"e; was the center of popular music publishing in this country.

Leslie Stuart (1864-1928) was a British songwriter best remembered as the composer of the hit show, Florodora.

Like many national cinemas, the French cinema has a rich tradition of film musicals beginning with the advent of sound to the present.

How many hit musicals are based on films that were shot in two days at a budget of $30,000?

For the past several years, the American musical has continued to thrive by reflecting and shaping cultural values and social norms, and even commenting on politics, whether directly and on a national scale (Hamilton) or somewhat more obliquely and on a more intimate scale (Fun Home).

Truly powerful vocal performance in musical theater is more than just the sum of good vocal tone and correct notes.

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

In The Ultimate Musical Theatre College Audition Guide, author, acting teacher, and musical theatre program director Amy Rogers offers an honest, no-nonsense guide to the musical theatre audition.

Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical is the first book-length study of a growing performance phenomenon: musical adaptations of Shakespeare's plays in which characters sing existing popular songs as one of their modes of communication.

Derived from the colorful traditions of vaudeville, burlesque, revue, and operetta, the musical has blossomed into America's most popular form of theater.

Denkt man an Filmmusik, kommen einem selten die vielen subtilen Momente in den Sinn, in denen die Tonebene die Erzählung und Stimmung eines Films wesentlich, aber unauffällig prägt – die "ungehörten Melodien", die Claudia Gorbman vor mehr als 30 Jahren zum filmmusikalischen Begriff machte.

The first book to deal exclusively with the British musical film from the very beginning of talking pictures in the late 1920s through the Depression of the 1930s up to the end of World War II.

Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2024Featuring contributions from over eighty original cast members, creatives, crew and audience members, Out For Blood pieces together the surprising, hilarious and often-moving inside story of Carrie The Musical to discover how this 'horror of a Broadway musical' lived, died and was subsequently resurrected as a mainstream success story.

The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical is dedicated to the musical's evolving relationship to American culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Ignaz Franz von Beecke (1733–1803), von den Zeitgenossen gefeierter Pianist und Komponist, diente zeitlebens dem fürstlichen Haus Oettingen-Wallerstein.

Flop Musicals of the Twenty-First Century offers a provocative and revealing historical narrative of a group of musicals that cost millions and had spectacular potential .

Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage as a site of embodied history, cultural memory, and nostalgia, and asks what social dance is doing performatively, dramaturgically, and critically in musical theatre.

Faszination Hochsee-Segeln: Sanni Beucke nimmt uns in ihrer Biografie mit auf die WeltmeereIn ihrer abenteuerlichen Autobiografie erzählt Susann »Sanni« Beucke, wie sie seit ihrer Kindheit ihren großen Traum verfolgt: als Seglerin an den Olympischen Spielen teilzunehmen.

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"e;The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty"e; is a comic musical opera written by Arthur Sullivan and W.

Betty Comden and Adolph Green were the writers behind such classic stage musicals as On the Town, Wonderful Town, and Bells Are Ringing, and they provided lyrics for such standards as "e;New York, New York,"e; "e;Just in Time,"e; "e;The Party's Over,"e; and "e;Make Someone Happy,"e; to name just a few.