Summary: West Side Story not only brought unconventional subject matter to the musical stage, it ushered in a new breed of director-choreographer and a need for performers who could sing, dance, and act. But by the time Jerome Robbins’ last original musical, Fiddler on the Roof, closed in 1972, the world of Broadway had changed even more radically. Rock ’n’ roll, civil rights, and the Vietnam War took...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: Taking viewers back to the Roaring Twenties, this program examines the Broadway of the Jazz Age-the era of Runnin' Wild, George White Scandals, and Shuffle Along, which helped reopen Broadway's doors to African-American artists. The film also features unique talents like the Marx Brothers, Al Jolson, the Gershwin brothers, and the songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. But the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: In 1893, the intersection of Broadway and 42nd was nobody's idea of "the crossroads of the world." But by 1913, Flo Ziegfeld had transformed the area into an entertainment mecca. This program tells Ziegfeld's story, introduces many of the era's key figures-such as Irving Berlin, Fanny Brice, Bert Williams, and George M. Cohan-and culminates with a look at Ziegfeld's 1927 production of Jerome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: Producer David Merrick conquered Broadway in 1981 with an adaptation of the movie musical 42nd Street. But soon the biggest hits were arriving from an unexpected source-London. This program illustrates the reshaping of the Broadway musical as the curtain fell on the 20th century and reopened on the 21st. From Stephen Sondheim’s contemplative Sunday in the Park with George to blockbusters like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Seeger, Pete
Summary: "In this new book, we hear directly from the artist through the widest array of sources--letters, notes to himself, published articles, rough drafts, stories, and poetry--creating the most detailed picture available of Seeger as a musician, an activist, and a family man, in his own words and from his own perspective... The portrait that emerges is not a saint, not a martyr, but a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Paradigm Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEEGER, PETE SEEGaneri, Anita
Summary: "In simple language, explains how the tongue works to help us taste. Describes how nerves in the tongue send messages to the brain to tell us what we taste"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.87 GANPlatt, Christine
Summary: "This title introduces readers to Joan of Arc and how she became France's shero by delivering the country from English domination." -- page [4] of cover
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 944.026 PLAGaneri, Anita
Summary: "In simple language, explains how the eyes work to help us see. Describes how the parts of the eye take in light and how the nerves in the eye send messages to the brain to tell us what we see"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.84 GANGaneri, Anita
Summary: "In simple language, explains how the nose works to help us smell. Describes how nerves in the nose send messages to the brain to tell us what we smell"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.86 GANSummary: "When Gary Blake's new show starring Mona Merrick premieres, it angers socialite Mimi Carraway. But Mimi's bitterness turns to affection when she falls for Gary."--container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ONDuke, Vernon
Contents: Wade in the water (2:07) -- Cabin in the sky (3:17) -- Make way (1:12) -- The man upstairs (3:05) -- Taking a chance on love (4:13) -- Do what you want to do (2:59) -- We'll live all over again (1:56) -- Gospel & great day (2:11) -- Honey in the honeycomb (2:08) -- Love me tomorrow (3:04) -- Not a care in the world (2:44) -- Not so bad to be good (2:32) -- Do what you want to do (reprise)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Angel 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC CABRodgers, Richard
Contents: Overture (4:51) -- Oh, what a beautiful mornin' (2:35) -- The surrey with the fringe on top (4:52) -- Kansas City (2:34) -- I cain't say no (3:09) -- Many a new day (3:08) -- People will say we're in love (4:20) -- Poor Jud is dead (4:15) -- Out of my dreams (2:23) -- The farmer and the cowman (2:57) -- All er nothin' (2:58) -- Oklahoma (3:16).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway/Angel Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC OAKPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: This title introduces readers to Harriet Tubman and how she became a shero to free as many slaves as possible through the Underground Railroad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: 973.71 PLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLAStyne, Jule
Contents: Overture -- If a girl isn't pretty -- I'm the greatest star -- Cornet man -- Who taught her everything? -- His love makes me beautiful -- I want to be seen with you tonight -- Henry Street -- People -- You are woman -- Don't rain on my parade -- Sadie, Sadie -- Find yourself a man -- Rat-tat-tat-tat -- Who are you now? -- The music that makes me dance -- Don't rain on my parade.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Angel 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC FUNRodgers, Richard
Contents: Oh, what a beautiful mornin' (Bing Crosby and Trudy Erwin with the Sportsmen Glee Club) -- Boys and girls like you and me (Judy Garland with Georgie Stoll and his Orchestra) -- It might as well be spring (Dick Haymes ; orchestra ; Victor Young, conductor) -- I haven't got a worry in the world (Hildegarde with Percy Faith and his Orchestra) -- You'll never walk alone (Judy Garland ; chorus ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Classics 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC RODPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "This title introduces readers to Cleopatra and how she became a shero and one of the most famous female rulers of all time" --www.abdobooks.com
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 932.02 PLAPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "This title introduces readers to Sacagawea and how she became a shero for one of America's most famous expeditions. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Calico Kid is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO."--provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 PLAFrost, Helen
Summary: Simple text and photographs present the sense of smell and how it works.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.86 FROFrost, Helen
Summary: Uses simple text and photographs to explain how the sense of touch works.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.88 FROGaneri, Anita
Summary: "In simple language, explains how the ears work to help us hear. Describes how the parts of the ear take in sound and how the nerves in the ear send messages to the brain to tell us what we hear"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.85 GANSummary: A biography of American actress and singer Lillian Russell, from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor until her retirement in 1912, when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When a cruise ship runs aground, an ocean liner executive is forced to offer a winsome passenger a free trip to Havana in this colorful, zesty musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS WEESummary: The owner of Montmartre's most notorious nightspot, the Café Le Bal Du Paradis, Simone Pistache spends a great deal of her time in court, thanks to the banning of that "lewd and lascivious" dance, the Can-Can. So when her nightlife-loving lawyer and boyfriend, François Durnais, refuses to settle down and marry her, Simone decides to play up to his rival in romance, Parisian judge Philipe...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CANSummary: Millionaire playboy Jervis Pendleton III becomes enamored with a young woman living in a French orphanage, and decides to anonymously sponsor her college education in America. When they finally meet face-to-face two years later, romance blossoms but is complicated by Jervis's hesitance towards their age differences.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005