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"Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In [this book], Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate...
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"This is an impressive compilation of the work of 30 top Broadway composers, divided into three parts by generation. Spanning 1905 to June 1985, the productions covered are presented in three sections: Show Data, including relevant dates, theaters and cities, composers, lyricists, and choreographers; Song Information, a guide to all published songs from each show; and Commentary, the author's brief comments on why and how composers wrote what they...
7) Green
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Green, a non-binary middle-schooler, comes into their own in no small part by fighting for gender-free casting in their school's production of The Wizard of Oz.
8) Holiday Inn
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A song-and-dance man leaves show business and opens up a Connecticut inn with his former partner.
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A chronicle of the recording session of the cast album of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy, Company. Includes interviews with record producer Thomas Z. Shepard; composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim; musical director Harold Hastings; producer/director Harold Prince; and playwright George Furth.
12) Next to normal
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"A contemporary musical that explores how one suburban household copes with crisis. With provacative lyrics and an electrifying score of more than thirty original songs, next to normal shows how far two parents will go to keep themselves sane and their family's world intact."--From publisher description.
18) Sondheim
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This volume tells the complete story of Sondheim's remarkable career--from his earliest days under the wing of Oscar Hammerstein II, through his latest controversial musical, Assassins. In between is Sondheim's brilliant but largely unheralded work as a lyric writer for Leonard Bernstein (in West Side Story) and Jule Styne (in Gypsy), his first experience writing both music and lyrics (for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) and the legendary...
19) Luda
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"Luci LaBang is a star: for decades this drag artist has cast a spell over screen and stage. Now she's the leading lady in a smash hit musical. But as time takes its toll, Luci fears her star is beginning to dim. When Luci's co-star meets with a mysterious accident, a new ingenue shimmers onto the scene: Luda, whose fantastical beauty and sinister charm infatuate Luci immediately... and who bears a striking resemblance to herself at a much younger...
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