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Gonzalez, Mandy Larson, Jonathan Max, D. T. (Daniel T.) Prose, Francine Tan, Dun Yacka, DouglasYacka, Douglas
Summary: Describes the history of the famous street in New York City, detailing the development of the theater district and the shows and stars that have become Broadway legends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 792.0974 YACSummary: Jeff Goldblum may have starred in some of the biggest movies in history, but to secure a green card for his young Canadian fiancée, he's agreed to do a two-week regional theater production of "The music man" in his Pennsylvania hometown. Now he's faced with grueling rehearsals, a furious agent, good friends with their own troubles whom he's convinced to co-star, and the very real prospect of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PITSummary: A combination of percussion; movement; and visual comedy, Stomp can make music out of anything; anytime; anywhere. Now, see them live in one of the most successful stage shows of all time. This performance brings together performers from the West End, New York and Vegas for the very first time, to Stomp's home town and the theatre where many of the routines were originated; Brighton Dome.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC STOSummary: For me and my gal: Musical comedy about a vaudeville song-and-dance team who buck tough times and World War I on their way to success in show business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As live performances on Broadway start up again after an unprecedented absence of eighteen months, an all-star cast tells the inside story of the last time Broadway theater came back from the brink. On Broadway shows how this revival helped save New York City, thanks to innovative work, new attention to inclusion, and the sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Legends of the stage...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONSummary: Featuring the gorgeous music and lyrics of George and Ira Gershwin, this tells the impassioned story of art, friendship, and love between American GI, Jerry Mulligan, and Lise, a beautiful young dancer in the 'City of Light'.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS AMESummary: Bert Kalmar always wanted to be a magician, but all it takes is a disastrous opening night to make his dream go poof! So, Kalmar moves on and finds songwriting magic with collaborator Harry Ruby.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS THRMax, D. T. (Daniel T.)
Summary: "In 2017, New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max began working on a major profile of Stephen Sondheim that would be timed to the eventual premiere of a new musical Sondheim was writing. Sadly , that process - and the years of conversation - was cut short by Sondheim's own hesitations, then the global pandemic, and finally by the great artist's death in November 2021. Now, Max has taken the raw...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SONDHEIM, STEPHEN MAXGonzalez, Mandy
Summary: While rehearsing what may be the last show in the Ethel Merman Theater, twelve-year-old Monica Garcia and other cast members are locked in and must try to appease a ghost and reverse a curse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GONLarson, Jonathan
Summary: Musical drama film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda in his feature directorial debut. Written by Steven Levenson, it is based on the stage musical of the same name by Jonathan Larson, a semi-autobiographical story about Larson's writing a musical to enter the industry.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Masterworks 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The beautiful and young Cinderella finds her life of drudgery at the hands of her stepmother and two wicked stepsisters changed forever in one evening, thanks to a fairy godmother and a handsome prince.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment [distributor 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CINSummary: A musical comedy film about an aspiring songwriter, four single actresses, and the staging of a new musical play on Broadway. Includes dances choreographed by Busby Berkeley.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GOLSummary: Selma, a factory worker in rural America and single mother, is losing her eyesight from a hereditary disease. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma is saving her money to get him an operation. In the evenings, Selma escapes by rehearsing for a production of The sound of music with her best friend. When a neighbor betrays her trust, Selma's life spirals out of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DANSummary: Romance blooms during the summer in New England when Jane Falbury's sister shows up with a theatrical troupe and convinces her to let them stage a musical in the barn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SUMProse, Francine
Summary: "The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children's musical. Mister Monkey--a screwball children's musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee--is the kind of family favorite that survives far...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROSummary: For over three decades, there's been one singular sensation: A Chorus Line. This groundbreaking hit musical inspired by the emotional lives of dancers during the audition process. Now the story comes full circle and offers a revealing, unprecedented look at the auditions for the Broadway revival of the perennial classic. The music, the moves and the real-life drama, bringing you closer to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EVESummary: Examines the life of the controversial master of the Broadway musical and ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins. Features excerpts from Robbins' work, including never-before-seen rehearsal footage, and interviews with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jacques d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Arthur Laurents, Peter Martins, Frank Rich, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harrick, Joseph Stein, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS JERSummary: 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: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPTan, Dun
Contents: Act I. Bach, monks, and Shakespeare meet in water (8:55) -- Act II. Earth dance (6:47) -- Act III. Dialogue with "Little Cabbage" (3:14) -- Act IV. Metal and stone (10:10) -- Act V. Song of Paper (6:40).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL TANSummary: “Opera is usually full of drama, tragedy, and death. In fact the writer George Bernard Shaw once said that he knew when it was the end of an opera because no one was left alive on stage. But there are also many comic operas, operas that are full of comic characters and situations. According to the great composer Giuseppe Verdi, the greatest comic opera ever written is the subject of today’s...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: “What is the most romantic story in history: Romeo and Juliet, or Mayerling, or perhaps La Dame aux Camélias? Well for many, Alexandre Dumas’ story La Dame aux Camélias is by far the most moving and tragic love story ever told,” says host Natalie Choquette in this program. “The composer Giuseppe Verdi thought so too; his operatic adaptation of the book is perhaps the most popular opera in the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: The world of opera has spawned true works of comic genius. There’s Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia, Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, and Mozart’s rather serious comedy of manners Nozze di Figaro. But today’s featured work can be rightfully hailed as a true comic masterpiece. No, I don’t mean the operatic treatment of Corner Gas; I mean Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte or, to give it an equivalent English...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005