Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock - a fully illustrated companion volume to the hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, featuring the book and lyrics for the first time in print, backstage stories and the real history behind the show's events, character design sketches, and songs that ended up on the cutting room floor.
This book examines in detail every Broadway musical which opened during the 1910s. It includes cast and credits, plot, critical reviews, London productions, recordings, published scripts, and film versions. The book also features extensive commentary for 300 musicals which opened during the decade.
Rents importance transcends the musical and its fans-it was and is one of the most important musicals of the twentieth century, and its impact resonates far beyond its own productions. Seasons of Love offers analysis on why Rent has had such a profound impact on the landscape of musical theatre.
The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, swaggering, carefree carnival barker Billy Bigelow captivates and marries naive millworker Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant, and desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family he is coerced into being an accomplice to a ......
Paul Gemignani is one of the titans of the modern musical theater industry. Serving as musical director for more than forty Broadway productions since 1971, his collaborations with Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Hal Prince, Michael Bennett, and Alan Menken have led to countless accolades for his collaborators, but ......
The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
(Applause Libretto Library). Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Book by Quiara Alegria Hudes, Conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda In the Heights is an exciting musical about life in Washington Heights, a tight-knit community where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm ......
The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, this title explores the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys that provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story.