Music - Genres & Styles - Musicals

A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable...

Charts the evolution of musicals on television from song-based shows to the notorious musical episode The musical genre has a fraught history on US television, remembered too frequently for spectacular failures than stellar performances. While the first written-for-TV musical aired in 1944, prime-time musical...

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,...

Winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Musical "Dear Evan Hansen lodges in your head long after you've seen it or heard it or read it. It feels like a pure expression from young writers at a crossroad of coming to terms with...

Revealing, funny, whimsical, and wise, outlaw country legend Willie Nelson shares the untold stories behind the his favorite songs, with all the lyrics and a dynamic assortment of never-before-seen photos and ephemera.From his earliest work in the 1950s to today, Willie looks back at...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - Titled after perhaps Stephen Sondheim's most autobiographical song, from Sunday in the Park with George--Finishing the Hat not only collects his lyrics for the first time, it offers readers a rare...

This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories - that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and of immortal King Hades and Lady Persephone - Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey...

Hairspray is the 2003 Tony Award(R) winner for Best Musical! Based on filmmaker John Waters' affectionately subversive homage to his Baltimore youth, Hairspray takes place in 1962. Chubby Tracy Turnblad (Marissa Jaret Winokur, 2003 Tony winner for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in...

An "incisive...heartwarming" (The New York Times Book Review) exploration of the powerful and universal lessons from the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, the genius behind such musical theater masterworks as Company, West Side Story, and Into the Woods. Stephen Sondheim died on November...

An "incisive...heartwarming" (The New York Times Book Review) exploration of the powerful and universal lessons from the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, the genius behind such musical theater masterworks as Company, West Side Story, and Into the Woods. Stephen Sondheim died on November...

"That joyous rarity, a work of sophisticated artistic ambition and deep political purpose that affords nonstop pleasure."--William A. Henry III, TimeAuthor: Stephen Sondheim,James LapinePublisher: Theatre Communications GroupPublished: 01/01/1993Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.50dISBN: 9780930452933

The first lyricist to win the Pulitzer Prize, Ira Gershwin (1896-1983) has been hailed as one of the masters of the Great American Songbook, a period which covers songs written largely for Broadway and Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1950s. Now, in the...

An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells...

When the Atlanta-born Paul Ford first fell in love with the American musical theatre at the age of five, after seeing the movie version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, he never imagined that his future skills as a "piano thumper" would lead him...

The lyricist/librettist of The Fantasticks, the longest-running show in the history of the American theater, takes on a new role as your guide through the magical world of the stage musical.Author: Tom JonesPublisher: LimelightPublished: 08/01/2004Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.46h x 5.55w x 0.50dISBN:...

From the musical director of Rent comes a thirtieth-anniversary account of how Broadway's iconic grunge rock show and its music were made and how they would forever reshape musical theater. Thirty years after Rent, Jonathan Larson's groundbreaking rock opera, opened on Broadway, you would...

RENT: THE COMPLETE BOOK AND LYRICS OF THE BROADWAY MUSICALAuthor: Jonathan LarsonPublisher: Applause BooksPublished: 04/01/2008Pages: 182Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.40dISBN: 9781557837370About the AuthorJonathan Larson (1961-1996) died of an aortic aneurysm at the age of thirty-five after attending the final dress...

Step behind the curtain of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with photographer Mick Rock in this one-of-a-kind slipcased collection of rarely seen photographs and behind-the-scenes anecdotesKnown as "the man who shot the seventies," Mick Rock had exclusive access to the set during the original...

Complete libretto to the 1921 ground breaking musical. One of the most significant musicals of the 20th Century, "Shuffle Along" was a rarity, written, produced, and acted wholly by African Americans. For the first time racially diverse audiences celebrated the uniqueness of this musical...

"An extraordinary oral history of the making of a modern musical masterpiece." - Buzz Magazine "Fascinating ... Provides a rare insight into the very process of theatre itself." - The Irish Times The incredible journey of a musical from potential disaster to success, and...