Rodgers, Mary
Summary: "The memoirs of Mary Rodgers--writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried everything.""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Documentary tracing the creation of the musical Miss Saigon from the completion of the score, through auditions and rehearsals, to the opening night of the original London production on September 20, 1989.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Television Networks 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAKBany-Winters, Lisa.
Summary: Introduces the concepts of music, dance, and acting, suggesting how to create a musical production through games and role-playing and describing all aspects of a show from auditions to curtain call.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 792.6 BANMiranda, Lin-Manuel
Summary: Offers a behind-the-scenes view of Hamilton the musical, detailing the many dramatic episodes in Alexander Hamilton's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 MIRCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 792.6 MIRSummary: The Broadway musical is one of America’s great indigenous popular forms, a glorious hybrid that emerged “out of our speech, our tempo, our moral attitudes, our way of moving” (as Leonard Bernstein put it). Now, in this first volume of a landmark two-volume collection, The Library of America presents eight enduring masterpieces charting the Broadway musical’s narrative tradition from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 AMEToll, Robert C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.12 TOLMordden, Ethan
Summary: Ethan Mordden has been hailed as "a sharp-eared listener and a discerning critic," by Opera News, which compares his books to "dinner with a knowledgeable, garrulous companion." The "preeminent historian of the American musical" (New York Times), he "brings boundless energy and enthusiasm buttressed by an arsenal of smart anecdotes" (Wall Street Journal). Now Mordden offers an entirely fresh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 MORMiranda, Lin-Manuel
Summary: From Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda comes a backstage pass to his groundbreaking hit musical.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Purdum, Todd S.
Summary: "Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had written dozens of Broadway shows, but together they pioneered a new art form: the serious musical play. Their songs and dance numbers served to advance the drama and reveal character, a sharp break from the past and the template on which all future musicals would be built. [This is a portrait of that creative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PURBordman, Gerald Martin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.14 BORSuskin, Steven
Summary: "A carefully curated, cheerfully opinionated guidebook surveying 201 of the most significant selections from the Great American Songbook, ranging from celebrated masterpieces to forgotten gems"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Backbeat Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 SUSMiranda, Lin-Manuel
Summary: Broadway hit musical from Tony Award-winning composrer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda. "Hamilton" is the acclaimed new hip-hop musical about the scrappy young immigrant Alexander Hamilton, the $10 Founding Father who forever changed America with his revolutionary ideas and actions. During his life cut too short, he served as George Washington's chief aide, was the first Treasury Secretary of...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW HamCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC HAMGreen, Stanley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Leonard Pub. Corp. 1994
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 782.14 GRERyan, Jack.
Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYASummary: Fishbone rose to become one of the most original bands of the last 25 years. With a blistering combination of punk and funk, they demolished the walls of genre and challenged the racial stereotypes and political order of the music industry and the nation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012