Romeo and Juliet & West Side Story Libretti composersThe tragedy of love thwarted by fate has always intrigued writers. In the sixteenth century William Shakespeare took this theme and fashioned one of the world's great plays: Romeo And Juliet. In our own time Shakespeare's drama has been used as a basis for the overwhelmingly successful musical play West Side Story. Though one of these works is set among the nobility of Verona and the other among immigrant families of New York's West Side both tell the
Frank Baum first published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 his fans begged for more stories about Dorothy and the Wizard &ndash so he wrote thirteen more books adding delightful new characters and fleshing out the magical history and geography of Oz
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Christmas 1968: with a six week booking at London's Talk of the Town it looks like Judy Garland is set firmly on the comeback trail
Author James Gavin has tracked down rare early stories about the legends who came out of New York nightclubs--and that means Barbra Streisand Woody Allen Nichols and May Johnny Mathis Carol Burnett Lenny Bruce among others
You'll learn what keeps a photo on a casting director's desk and what keeps a casting director on your side
But lasting happiness always eludes some people and there was never any answer to the question with which Judy ended every show: "If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow why oh why can't I
In 1970 renowned writer-composer-lyricist Leslie Bricusse adapted the well-loved Dickens short story A Christmas Carol into the hit screen musical Scrooge
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
InWWWW 1981 Eliot's poems were set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber as "Cats" which went on to become the longest-running Broadway musical in history
_x000D_ How to liberate the singing voice voice that is within each one of us - a comprehensive instruction manual full of practical exercises which starts with overhauling our attitude to our voice From the Author's Introduction: 'This book will be of use to you whether or not you have any experience of singing
Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical
(Copley Soozie) &ldquoSoozie&rsquos and Philippa&rsquos book gives tremendous insight into every aspect of a stage manager&rsquos job: they have communicated their depth of knowledge in a wonderfully accessible way
