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Musical Theatre
 Anne & Gilbert: A Musical
Jeff Hochhauser, Bob Johnston & Nancy White
Based on the sequel novels to Anne of Green Gables, this new Canadian musical continues the story of Anne Shirley's life. Set in the village of Avonlea and the Redmond College in Halifax, Anne and Gilbert follows Anne's journey to young adulthood and her romance with high school academic rival, Gilbert Blythe. Softcover, 113 pp. $12.99.
Ira Gershwin: Selected Lyrics
Robert Kimball
Heartfelt, high-spirited, sparkling with vernacular eloquence, the lyrics of Ira Gershwin defined the spirit of an era and have lived on as part of the American tradition. In his classic collaboration with his brother George and in his later songs, Ira distilled ordinary American speech into indelible verse. Here are more than 80 lyrics embodying his wit, romance, and dazzling virtuosity. Hardcover, 169 pp. $25.00.
 Forbidden Broadway: Behind the Mylar Curtain
Gerard Alessandrini
This journey through the creation and history of Forbidden Broadway offers a dazzling, whimsical inside glimpse at the evolution of the show in its twenty incarnations to date, with zany parodies, hilarious lyrics, and behind-the-scenes stories. Told with dozens of outrageous pictures from the productions, as well as photos of major celebrities who attended the show, this one-of-a-kind story is narrated by the creator-writer-director of Forbidden Broadway, Gerard Alessandrini. Hardcover, 265 pp. $24.99.
 Musicals
James Inverne
With hit TV shows picking the leads in productions of Oliver! and The Sound of Music, and smash musicals like Hairspray all the West End rage, musical theatre is as popular as it's ever been. James Inverne provides an indispensable guide to his top one hundred greatest shows of all time -- and ten of the worst. Whether you know your Pal Joey from The Producers, or your West Side Story from your Which Witch?, this book is packed with entertaining behind-the-scenes stories, essential songlists and comprehensive recording guides. Softcover, 293 pp. $10.99.
 Geniuses of the American Musical Theatre: The Composers and Lyricists
Herbert Keyser
For the first time, the biographies of Broadway's greatest songwriters, composers, and lyricists, including Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and many more are collected in a single volume. Fans of the theatre will not want to be without this wise, witty, and warmhearted new perspective. Hardcover, 305 pp. $29.95.
 Loving Repeating
Frank Galati
Loving Repeating brings Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas to the stage in song through a series of vignettes that encapsulate the joy and passion of Stein's life and work and the tenderness of a lesbian romance. In the libretto, Frank Galati uses Stein's own words to illustrate her ideas about language and human nature, beginning with her reflections on how her art evolved from a youthful fascination with the repitition of human behaviour. Softcover, $20.50.
 Contemporary Broadway Comedy Songs
Various authors
30 humourous Broadway showtunes, completely transcribed for voice, piano, and guitar. Included are selections from: Avenue Q, The Drowsy Chaperone, Hairspray, The Lion King, Monty Python's Spamalot, The Producers, and several other hit shows. Softcover, $17.99.
 Andrew Lloyd Webber for Singers: Women's Edition
Andrew Lloyd Webber
A collection of 30 incredible songs from Aspects of Love, Cats, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Phantom of the Opera, Song & Dance, Starlight Express, Sunset Boulevard, and Whistle Down the Wind. Softcover, $19.99. Also available: Men's Edition.
 I'm the Greatest Star: Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today
Robert Viagas
The brightest stars in Broadway's heavens shine anew in I'm the Greatest Star. Here in a single volume are the life stories of forty Great White Way luminaries who fascinated, moved, delighted, and intrigued five generations of audiences from 1900 to the present. Hardcover, 425 pp. $29.95.
 Mainly On Directing Gypsy, West Side Story, and Other Musicals
by Arthur Laurents
Playwright, screenwriter, director, Arthur Laurents has been at the birth and rebirth of the American musical theatre's greatest creations for the past five decades. At the age of ninety one, he has just directed the wildly acclaimed new production of West Side Story on Broadway.
This book revels in the author's love for and understanding of, musical theatre, the people who make it and the audiences who attend.
He writes from experience, in rich detail about his work and the work of other great directors. There isn't a page in this book that doesn't entertain or give the reader a fascinating insight into the art of directing.
This is a book inspired by love, which we can be thankful for. Hardcover $28.95.
 The Great American Book Musical: A Manifesto, A Monograph, A Manual
Denny Martin Flinn
By analyzing the scores, lyrics, librettos, and choreography of innovative and revolutionary shows such as Oklahoma!, On the Town, A Chorus Line, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, and Dreamgirls, as well as looking at what propelled certain shows to success (and what caused some to flop), The Great American Book Musical provides the current generation with a thorough history and practical guide to the creation of Great American Book Musicals of their own. Softcover, 261 pp. $24.94.
 The American Musical
and the Performance of Personal Identity
Raymond Knapp
The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them. By considering specific themes -- fairy tales and fantasy, idealism and inspiration, gender and sexuality, and personal relationships -- Raymond Knapp explores how musicals enable us to perform alternative versions of ourselves and thereby "try on" alternative identities. Softcover, 470 pp. $32.95.
 In The Heights
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Vocal selections from the Tony Award-winning musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Softcover, 166 pp. $22.95.
 Kander and Ebb
James Leve
John Kander and Fred Ebb, one of the greatest and longest lasting composer-lyricist partnerships in Broadway history, created some of the most memorable musicals of all time, including Chicago, Cabaret, and Zorba. This book examines their artistic accomplishments as individuals and as a team. Kander and Ebb is essential reading for students of Musical theatre and lovers of Kander and Ebb's songs and shows. Hardcover, 365 pp. $49.99.
 Ug, The Caveman Musical
Jim Geoghan
Ug and his feisty tribe of Neanderthals are feasting on a tasty dinner of wild boar when he decides to tell one of his many feats of bravery by reenacting the event. Without knowing it, Ug has invented theatre. So gripping and lifelike is this new form of entertainment, that the tribe decides to stage the performance for a rival group; however, rehearsals and creative differences cause nothing but friction. It seems that the problems that face theatre artists of today, have roots that go way back. 6M, 2W. Softcover, 69 pp. $10.99.
 Spring Awakening: In The Flesh
The Official Companion to the Broadway Musical
David Cote
Spring Awakening: In The Flesh is more than just a companion book. It is a new opportunity to experience the show. Designed to resemble a vandalized book, this beautiful volume offers more than one hundred photographs, handwritten drafts of its hit songs, original sketches of costumes and sets, an annotated, unabridged libretto, and unprecedented acces to the hit show. Hardcover, 170 pp. $47.00.
 The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Hammerstein
Collected for the first time are the complete lyrics of one of the most prolific song writer's in the history of American musical theatre. From every "beautiful mornin'" to "some enchanted evening," the songs of Oscar Hammerstein II are part of our daily lives, his words part of a nation's fabric. Hardcover, 425 pp. $75.00.
 Acting in Musical Theatre
Joe Deer & Joe Rocco
Acting in Musical Theatre is the only complete course in approaching a role in a musical. It is the first to combine acting, singing, and dancing into a comprehensive guide, combining what have previously treated as three separate disciplines. This book contains fundamental skills for novice actors, practical insights for professionals, and even tips to help veteran musical performers refine theri craft. Softcover, 448 pp. $33.00.
 Put On A Happy Face: A Broadway Memoir
Charles Strouse
In Put On A Happy Face, the man behind the hit shows Annie
Get Your Gun and Bye Bye Birdie pulls back the
curtain for a behind the scenes tour of his remarkable life and achievements.
With a sparkling wit, Charles offers an inside glimpse of Broadway,
Hollywood and beyond. With prose tuned to capture both soaring highs
and operatic lows, the composer whose music has delighted audiences
for decades now adds words to his repetoire. Hardcover, 326 pp. $21.95
 The Happy Prince: The Musical
Karen Dooley & David Perkins
A touching musical based on the well-loved story by Oscar Wilde...the golden statue of the Happy Prince stands high above the city looking down on the misery and poverty beneath him. Desperate to bring hope and happiness to the poor people, he asks a swallow to distribute his gold and jewels to them. The generosity of the Happy Prince and the courage of the swallow help to overcome the greed of the powerful mayor and we are shown that the most precious things in like are often the least obvious. Softcover, 77 pp. $11.99.
 The Cambridge Companion to the Musical
Edited by William A. Everett & Paul R. Laird
Tracing the development of the musical both on Broadway and in London's West End through a series of essays, this updated Companion provides a thorough overview of one of the most popular forms of musical performance. This updated and revised edition contains five new chapters covering: ethnic musicals in the US; the european musical; Broadway revival musicals; television adaptations; most recent shows; and a case study of the creation of Wicked based on interviews with its creators. Softcover, 412 pp. $25.95.
 Musical Theatre: A History
John Kenrick
Musical Theatre: A History covers it all, from the opening number to curtain call, offering readers the most up-to-date history of the art form. As informative as it is entertaining, Musical Theatre is richly illustrated with anecdotes of shows and show people. It is cause for celebration for those working in the theatre as well as its legion of devoted fans. Hardcover, 408 pp. $49.95.
 The Oxford Companion to the American Musical
Thomas Hischak
With more than two thousand entries, this illustrated guide offers a wealth of information on musicals, performers, composers, lyricists, producers, choreographers and much more. This well-researched and entertaining source is the first place to turn for reliable information on virtually every aspect of the American musical. Hardcover, 923 pp. $43.95.
 Mary Poppins: Anything Can Happen If You Let It
Brian Sibley & Micheal Lassell
This is an illustrated tribute to the world's favourite flying nanny, who blew in on the east wind one day, unpacked her carpetbag, and took up residence in the collective imagination of the world. The main book features her story and is divided into three sections - one for the books, one for the film, and one for the musical. Additionally, there are two seperate portfolios: one presents the inspired artwork of Tony award-winning set and costume designer Bob Crowley, and the other features dozens of colourful photographs showcasing every scene in the fully realized Broadway production. Hardcover, 107 pp. $58.00.
 See What I Wanna See
Michael John LaChiusa
See What I Wanna See, a musical about lust, greed, murder, faith and redemption, was named by New York Magazine as one of the Best Musicals of 2005 and nominated for nine Drama Desk Awards, including Best Musical. It is based on three short stories by the Japanese writer Ryunsuke Akutagawa and unfolds like a classical Japanese screen painting. Softcover, 61 pp. $11.99.
 The Drowsy Chaperone: Piano/Vocal Selections
Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison
These piano and vocal selections from the hit musical The Drowsy Chaperone include such musical numbers as Cold Feets, Show Off, As We Stumble Along, Toledo Surprise, and I Am Aldolpho. Softcover, 76 pp. $19.95.
 Spring Awakening
Frank Wedekind, Steven Sater & Duncan Sheik
In their dynamic re-imagining of Spring Awakening, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik have created a groundbreaking rock musical about adolescent love, the trials of puberty and the friendships that young people build in the face of an uncomprehending world. Inspired by Frank Wedekind's once-banned and still provocative German play from 1891, this Spring Awakening holds up a mirror to our own time, and has become the must-see musical of a new generation. Softcover, 94 pp. $15.95.
 Frank Loesser
Thomas L. Riis
Immensely prolific and a personally magnetic man, Loesser was a major figure during the Broadway golden age that included Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, and Bernstein. Here, Thomas L. Riis, in a deeply informed and lively discussion of Loesser's life and musical career, presents a critical look at one of the mmost important -- though often overshadowed -- Broadway composers. Hardcover, 329 pp. $47.95.
 The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century
Alex Ross
The Rest Is Noise takes the reader inside the labyrinth of modern sound. It tells of maverick personalities who have resisted the cult of the classical past, struggled against the indifference of a wide public, and defied the will of dictators. Whether they have charmed audiences with pure beauty or battered them with pure noise, composers have always been exuberently of the present, defying the stereotype of classical music as a dying art. Hardcover, 624 pp. $33.00.
 The Routledge Guide to Broadway
Ken Bloom
This is an A-to-Z reference guide aimed at students of performance, theatre history, direction and production, as well as anyone with an interest in Broadway. Includes a comprehensive history of Broadway theatre, focusing on key performers, writers, directors, plays, musicals, and the folklore of Broadway. Softcover, 288 pp. $23.95.
 Broadway Babylon: Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way
Boze Hadleigh
Discerning fact from fiction, quoting hundreds of players, and revealing the stories behind over a century of major headlines, this hilarious and poignant volume raises the curtain on a legacy of top-of-the-line talent, outsized and clashing personalities, unprecedented greed, embarrassing disasters, and barely masked discrimination. Written with affection and audacity its subject demands, Broadway Babylon celebrates life on the Great White Way - warts and all. Hardcover, 342 pp. $31.00.
 The House That George Built
Wilfrid Sheed
For four glittering decades, geniuses like Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen ran their fingers over piano keys, enticing unforgettable melodies out of thin air. Critically acclaimed writer Wilfrid Sheed knew the legends, mingled with the greats, and gossiped with the insiders. Now he's crafted a dazzling, authoritative history of the era that "tripled the world's total supply of singable tunes." Sparkling with wit, insight and the grace notes of wonderful songs, The House That George Built is a heartfelt, intensely personal portrait of an unforgettable era. Softcover, 330 pp. $19.00.
 Sigmund Romberg
William A. Everett
Hungarian-born composer Sigmund Romberg arrived in America in 1909 and within eight years had acheived his first hit musical on Broadway. This early success was soon followed by others, and in the 1920s his popularity was unsurpassed. William Everett offers the first detailed study of this gifted operetta composer, examining Romberg's key works and musical accomplishments and demonstrating his lasting importance in the history of American musicals. Hardcover, 362 pp. $58.95.
 The Making of The Sound of Music
Max Wilk
The Making of The Sound of Music tells the full story of the making of the show, from the first rough ideas through the tryouts, fine tuning, and eventual triumph - all from an eyewitness to the events themselves. Max Wilk brings a musical theatre historian's eye to the work, along with his passionate involvement as a witness to this history. For anyone and everyone who has ever been thrilled by The Sound of Music, this book is a must. Softcover, 111 pp. $21.50.
 Grey Gardens: The Complete Book and Lyrics
Doug Wright, Michael Korie, Scott Frankel
Based on the Maysle Bros. 1975 film about the eccentric Beales who languished in an East Hampton manor, this touching and heart wrenching musical examines the dysfunctional relationship between mother and daughter. Softcover. $20.95. Coming in August.
 The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2006 - May 2007
Robert Viagas
Taking the form of a school yearbook, this third edition is packed with photos, facts and memorabilia fro the 2006-2007 Broadway Season. Crammed with backstage stories on all 67 Broadway production of the season gathered from excellent sources including dressers, stage doormen, stage managers and cast members, this is the definitive “ go-to” for Broadway fans everywhere. Hardcover. $37.95. Coming in September.
 What Would Barbra Do? How Musicals Changed My Life
Emma Brockes
From An American in Paris to Oklahoma!, Brockes explores the history, art and politics of musicals, and how they have become an indelible part of our popular culture. At the heart of What Would Barbra Do? is a touching story about a daughter, a mother, and how musicals kept them together. Softcover, 270 pp. $28.95.
 All That Glittered: The Golden Age of Drama on Broadway, 1919-1959
Ethan Mordden
From the 1920s to the late 1950s, the Broadway theatre was the center of America's cultural universe. Ethan Mordden, long one of the liveliest chriniclers of Broadway's history, re-creates this lost world as only he can, telling us how those fifteen square blocks of Manhattan real estate became every American's touchstone for sophistication, intelligence, and wit. Hardcover, 340 pp. $40.95.
The Routledge Guide to Broadway
Ken Bloom
This is an A-to-Z reference guide aimed at students of performance, theatre history, direction and production, as well as anyone with an interest in Broadway. Includes a comprehensive history of Broadway theatre, focusing on key performers, writers, directors, plays, musicals, and the folklore of Broadway. Softcover, 288 pp. $24.95.
 Field of Stars: Songs of the Canadian Musical Theatre Volume 1 ed Jim Betts
This compilation spans 52 years of Canadian musical theatre. It includes the sheet music for 17 songs from these hit show, a CD of the piano/vocal performances of each song, and a bonus CD of the individual piano accompaniments. Among the shows included are Pelagie, Eight to the Bar, House of Martin Guerre, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Dracula: A Chamber Musical. Coil Bound, 2 CD's. $41.95.
 The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg
Margaret Vermette
The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg is the first book to offer a comprehensive look behind the closed doors of the two intensely private musical theatre giants Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg. Boublil and Schonberg take center stage and talk openly about their methods and the creative processes involved in writing the book, the music, and the lyrics of their shows. A Fact File gives information on all their productions in London, New York, and worldwide with plot synopses and details of the creative teams, casts, reviews, awards, and recordings as well as some intriguing trivia. Softcover, 345 pp. $25.95.
 Billy Elliot: The Musical
Chris Harvey
Every track from the Olivier-Award winning hit musical Billy Elliot. Arranged for piano, voice and guitar, complete with full lyrics. Softcover, 102 pp. $37.95.
 The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan
Ed Glinert
Gilbert and Sullivan's operas are some of the world's best-loved musical
works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsy-turvy logic
and extravagant wordplay. This glorious treasury is the definitive
annotated edition of all fourteen of the Savoy Operas. Also containing
original illustrations from Gilbert's Bab Ballads, as well as extensive
notes for every work, this ultimate Gilbert and Sullivan collection
will delight all devotees of the incomparable duo. Hardcover, 866
pp. $55.00.
 Broadway
North: The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre
Mel Atkey
Did you know that the idea behind the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes was first
tried out in Toronto? That Canada produced the world's longest-running annual
revue? Or that Anne of Green Gables has played more performances
at the Charlottetown Festival than South Pacific did in its
original Broadway production? All this and more is illuminated in Mel Atkey's
enthusiastic tribute to Canadian musical theatre. Softcover, 309 pp. $29.95.
 The
Color Purple: A Memory Book of the Broadway Musical
Lise Funderburg
This glorious book takes the reader inside the hit show with interviews, photographs,
and personal mementoes from the cast, writers, and producers. See pages from
Alice Walker's original handwritten version of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel;
learn how Tony Award-winning actress LaChanze transforms night after night into
Celie; see the original sketches of the costumes and sets. Designed to resemble
a family album, this book is a piece of the show that is a must-have for anyone
moved by Celie's story. Hardcover, 183 pp. $49.95.
 The Musical as Drama
Scott McMillin
Derived from the colorful traditions of vaudville, burlesque, revue, and
operetta, the musical has blossomed into America's most popular form
of theater. Scott McMillin has developed a fresh aesthetic theory
of this underrated art form, exploring the musical as a type of drama
deserving the kind of critical and theoretical regard given to Chekhov
or opera. Hardcover, 230 pp. $32.95.
 The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical
Mark Grant
Many of today's Broadway shows, from Rent to The
Lion King to Movin' Out,
have become commercial hits, but do they have the cultural importance
or the dramatic and musical artistry of such enduring productions
as Oklahoma!, Show Boat, or Kiss
Me, Kate? This is just one of the
compelling questions considered by Mark N. Grant in his highly original,
incisive, and spirited examination of the rise, heyday, and decline
of American musical theatre. Softcover, $29.95.
 Writing the Broadway Musical
Aaron Frankel
Brimming with advice and techniques, this essential reference, the
only one of its kind, demonstrates the fundamentals of the three crafts
of the musical -- the book, the music, and the lyrics. Using many
examples from
both contemporary and classic musicals and accounting for the "British
Invasion" and Disney on Broadway, this is the ideal musical writer's
guide to the art, and will increase the theatergoer's pleasure as well.
Softcover, 182 pp. $29.00.
 America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood,
and Tin Pan Alley
Phillip Furia & Michael Lasser
America's Songs tells the fascinating, funny, and sometimes
poignant stories behind the greatest songs ever to emerge from the Broadway
musical,
Hollywood movies, and the music industry of Tin Pan Alley. In addition
to recounting
each song's inspiration, creation, and enduring popularity, America's
Songs shows how these "standards" mirror American life from the
years before World War I through the years after Vietnam. Softcover,
327 pp. $20.95.
 The Light in the Piazza
Adam Guettel
"Statues and Stories", "The Beauty Is", "Il Mondo
Era Vuoto", "Passeggiata", "Dividing Day", "Say
it Somehow", "The Light in the Piazza", "Let's Walk", "Love
to Me", and "Fable": here are the songs from the multiple
Tony award-winning musical sensation.
Softcover, 95 pp. $23.95.
 Monty Python's Spamalot
Eric Idle
Colour photographs and all of the songs from the 2005 Tony Award-winning
musical based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Softcover, 84 pp.
$23.95.
 The Playbill Broadway Yearbook
2004-2005
Robert Viagas
Packed, cover-to-cover, with full-colour photographs and encyclopedic information,
The Playbill Broadway Yearbook is the ultimate one-volume record of the
Broadway season. Hardcover, 422 pp. $38.95.
 Little Musicals for Little Theatres
Denny Martin Flinn
This comprehensive, practical, and entertaining handbook contains essential
information on more than 150 small musicals that any theatre or school
can produce with limited resources. In each entry you will find a
synopsis of the musical, its cast size, a list of musical numbers,
as well as the author's professional comments on the advantages and
disadvantages of producing the show. Softcover, 293 pp. $23.95.
 Today in History: Musicals
Joe Stollenwerk
Today in History: Musicals takes you through a year's worth of ups and
downs in the history of Broadway and movie musicals, day by day.
Packed with memorable events in musicals history, trivia, insider
tidbits, and quotable lines from the best of musical theater, this
is the perfect companion for any fan. Softcover, $19.50.
 Second Act Trouble: Behind the Scenes at Broadway's Big Musical Bombs
Steven Suskin
If Broadway's triumphant musical hits are exhilararting, the backstage tales
of Broadway failures are tantalizing soap operas in miniature. Behind
every fabled flop is a set of claims, countercharges, and recriminations
from
some of the biggest egos in the public eye, struggling to save face.
In Second Act Trouble Steven Suskin has compiled and annotated long-forgotten,
first-person accounts of 25 Broadway musicals from the 1930s to the 1990s
that stubbornly went awry. Hardcover, $36.95.
 Staging Musicals for Young Performers
Maria C. Novelly & Adele Firth
This unique, step-by-step guidebook is designed to help teachers and directors
successfully mount a musical with young performers. Every aspect
of production is covered: casting and rehearsals, costumes and make-up,
scenery and props,
lighting, sound effects, and publicity and promotion. This is an
invaluable resource for anyone teaching acting, singing, and dancing.
Softcover, 229 pp. $22.95.
 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
David Yazbek
Vocal selections and sheet music from the multi-Tony Award-nominated musical.
Softcover, 119 pp. $23.95.
 Essential Songs: Broadway
A complete selection of Broadway favourites including over 90 songs
from the greatest shows in musical theatre. Each song is arranged
in Piano/Vocal/Guitar
format. Included are songs from Chicago, Guys
and Dolls, Urinetown,
Camelot, South Pacific, The
Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Annie,
Cats, Paint Your
Wagon, and dozens of others! Softcover,
400 pp. $32.95.
 Musicals: Facts, Figures & Fun
Mike Evans
A beautifully researched trawl through the glamorous world of musicals
on stage and screen. Perfect material for a music-based quiz or just
a quiet read in the smallest room in the house. Hardcover, 96 pp.
$7.95.
 Unfinished Business: Broadway Musicals as Works-in-Progress
Bruce Kirle
In this fresh approach to musical theatre history, Bruce Kirle challenges
the commonly understood trajectory of the genre. Drawing on the notion
that the world of the author stays fixed while the world of audience
is ever-changing, Kirle suggests that musicals are open, fluid products
of
the particular cultural moment in which they are performed. Incomplete
as printed texts and scores, musicals take on unpredictable lives
of their own in the complex transformation from page to stage. This
lively study
will appeal to students, scholars, and lifelong musical theatre enthusiasts.
Softcover, 252 pp. $87.99.
 Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000
David Velsey & Don Jenness
What happened to American popular song after 1950? While 1950 is seen as
the end of an era, the tap of popular song creation hardly ran dry after
that date. This book tackles the issue head on, answering questions such
as: Was there a decline in quality or quantity of pop song after 1950?
Were the highly successful writers who emerged after 1950 working in
an antiquated
style? Did they adopt new musical and verse techniques, and thus shape
a new genre to be judged in retrospect as a new classic style? Are the
post-1950 songs as memorable, viewed now after another 50 years, as those
that
came
before? Will they last as long, and mean as much? Finally, if indeed
there is still a great tradition, how vital is this tradition as of 2000?
Hardcover, 385 pp. $46.50.
 Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time
Ken Bloom & Frank Vlastnik
This lush celebration of musicals chronicles the 101 most influential,
popular and enduring shows, along the way profiling dozens of composers,
writers, performers and designers. A vast array of 850 ravishing
photographs leap off the pages and, in themselves, make this book
a publishing milestone.
Broadway Musicals is
made complete by an extensive collection plot synopses, cast and song lists,
and much more. Hardcover, 336 pp. $52.00 .
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Before the Parade Passes By: Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical 
Wicked: The Grimmerie 
Contemporary Broadway
Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters 1880-1930
The Art of the American Musical: Conversations with the Creators 
The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical
The Amazing Story of The Fantasticks
Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre
Noel & Cole: The Sophisticates 
Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies 
Sing for Your Supper: The Broadway Musical in the 1930s 
Avenue Q - The Musical
tick, tick . . . Boom!
The Songwriter Goes to War
Broadway: The American Musical
Musicals
The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity
The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen: The Last 25 Years of the Broadway Musical
A Must See! Brilliant Broadway Artwork
Jerry Herman: Poet of the Showtune
Kurt Weill On Stage: From Berlin to Broadway
The Impossible Musical: The "Man of La Mancha" Story
Jerry Herman: The Lyrics A Celebration 
The New American Musical: An Anthology From The End Of The Century 
Colored Lights: 40 Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration,
and All That Jazz
The Cambridge Companion to the Musical
Open A New Window: 
The Lyrics of Noel Coward
Reading
Lyrics
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