{"title":"Performing Arts Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"hamilton-the-revolution-hardcover","title":"Hamilton: The Revolution - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLin-Manuel Miranda\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeremy McCarter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA backstage pass to the groundbreaking, hit musical \u003ci\u003eHamilton\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Eleven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, including the award-winning libretto, behind-the-scenes photos and interviews, and exclusive footnotes from composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda, now streaming on Disney+ with the original cast.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical \u003ci\u003eHamilton\u003c\/i\u003e is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. Fusing hip-hop, pop, R\u0026amp;B, and the best traditions of theater, this once-in-a-generation show broadens the sound of Broadway, reveals the storytelling power of rap, and claims our country's origins for a diverse new generation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHamilton: The Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e gives readers an unprecedented view of both revolutions, from the only two writers able to provide it. Miranda, along with Jeremy McCarter, a cultural critic and theater artist who was involved in the project from its earliest stages -- \"since before this was even a show,\" according to Miranda -- traces its development from an improbable performance at the White House to its landmark opening night on Broadway six years later. 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The book does more than tell the surprising story of how a Broadway musical became a national phenomenon: It demonstrates that America has always been renewed by the brash upstarts and brilliant outsiders, the men and women who don't throw away their shot.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLin-Manuel Miranda\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003ci\u003eBook, Music, and Lyrics\/Alexander Hamilton\u003c\/i\u003e) is the Tony and Grammy award-winning composer-lyricist-star of Broadway's \u003ci\u003eIn the Heights\u003c\/i\u003e -- winner of four 2008 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Orchestrations, and Best Choreography with Miranda receiving the award for Best Score. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Additionally, he is the co-composer and co-lyricist of Broadway's Tony-nominated \u003ci\u003eBring It On: The Musical\u003c\/i\u003e and provided Spanish translations for the 2009 Broadway revival of \u003ci\u003eWest Side Story\u003c\/i\u003e. 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She brings to life his colleagues and friends--from Leonard Bernstein and George Balanchine to Robert Wilson and Robert Graves--and his loves and lovers. And she tells the full story behind some of Robbins's most difficult episodes, such as his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee and his firing from the film version of \u003ci\u003eWest Side Story\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on thousands of pages of documents from Robbins's personal and professional papers, to which she was granted unfettered access, as well as on other archives and hundreds of interviews, \u003ci\u003eSomewhere \u003c\/i\u003eis a riveting narrative of a life lived onstage, offstage, and backstage. It is also an accomplished work of criticism and social history that chronicles one man's phenomenal career and places it squarely in the cultural ferment of a time when New York City was truly \"a helluva town.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerome Robbins (born Jerome Rabinowitz in 1918) was one of the most important figures in American dance and musical theater in the twentieth century. He was the Co-Artistic Director with George Balanchine of the fledgling New York City Ballet in 1948, bringing Broadway vernacular energy to complement Balanchine's austere classicism and choreographing such classic ballets as \"Facsimile, \"Dance at a Gathering, and \"Afternoon of a Faun. His ballet to a score by Leonard Bernstein, \"Fancy Free, electrified the dance world and would transmogrify into the immortal musical \"On the Town. On Broadway, he choreographed \"The King and I, \"The Pajama Game, \"Bells Are Ringing, and \"Peter Pan, and choreographed and directed \"West Side Story--probably his most enduring achievement. In his private life he was an ambivalent, semi-closeted homosexual and his cooperation with the McCarthy committee during the witch-hunts of the 1950s estranged him from many of his closest friends. He was an artistic giant whose life embodied many of the tensions and contradictions of the American century. He exemplified, in his life no less than his work, the flowering of American in the mid-twentieth century -in particular the emergence of New York as the capital of world culture. \u003cbr\u003e\"Somewhere by Amanda Vaill is the first and only book with access to the Robbins papers, a voluminous collection of letters, diaries, notebooks, memos, and production notes that form an unrivaled archive of a singular man's life and a singular moment in our cultural history. Supremely accomplished and entertaining, it not only chronicles Robbins's phenomenal career and plumbs his complex private life but will place him squarely in thecultural ferment of his time and his native city. It explains the tangle of contradictions that made him such an infuriating, fascinating, oddly vulnerable human being and such a protean creative figure, and offers a densely populated narrative that will draw readers in and along. \"Somewhere is a major biography of a true entertainment legend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAMANDA VAILL\u003c\/b\u003e i is the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eEverybody Was So Young\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award in biography, and \u003ci\u003eSomewhere\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. 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For her the two are inseparable.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003efrom Peter Brook's foreword to Voice and the Actor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Speaking is part of a whole: an expression of inner life.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCicely Berry has based her work on the conviction that while all is present in nature our natural instinct have been crippled from birth by many processes - by the conditioning, in fact, of a warped society. So, an actor needs precise exercise and clear understanding to liberate his hidden possibilities and to learn the hard task of being true to the 'instinct of the moment'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs her book points out with remarkable persuasiveness 'technique' as such is a myth, for there is no such thing as a correct voice. There is no right way-there are only a million wrong ways, which are wrong because they deny what would otherwise be affirmed. Wrong uses of the voice are those that constipate feeling, constrict activity, blunt expression, level out idiosyncrasy, generalize experience, coarsen intimacy. These blockages are multiple and are the results of acquired habits that have become part of the automatic vocal equipment; unnoticed and unknown, they stand between the actor's voice as it is and as it could be and they will not vanish by themselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo the work is not how to do but how to permit: how, in fact, to set the voice free. And since life in the voice springs from emotion, drab and uninspiring technical exercises can never be sufficient. Cicely Berry never departs from the fundamental recognition that speaking is part of the whole: an expression of inner life.... After a voice session with her I have known actors speak not of the voice but of growth in human relationships. This is a high tribute to work that is the opposite of specialization. Cicely Berry sees the voice teacher as involved in all of a theatre's work. She would never try to separate the sound of words from their living context. For her the two are inseparable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--\u003cb\u003efrom Peter Brook's foreword to\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVoice and the Actor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCover design by Richard Rossiter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCicely Frances Berry\u003c\/b\u003e CBE was a British theatre director and vocal coach. Berry trained under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based at the Royal Albert Hall, London.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Stephen Paul Brook\u003c\/b\u003e, CH, CBE is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s. He has won multiple Tony and Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Praemium Imperiale, and the Prix Italia. He has been called \"our greatest living theatre director\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 8.15 x 5.65 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 1991\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45175956930583,"sku":"9780020415558","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0796\/2096\/4375\/files\/bcf1abWJm39780020415558.webp?v=1781176275"},{"product_id":"the-robin-hood-caper-paperback","title":"The Robin Hood Caper - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFred Carmichael\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharacters: 6 male, 4 female\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Interior Set \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarmichael has again proved himself an inventive and amusing playwright. 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Clytemnestra believes the murder was justified, since Agamemnon had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia before the war, as commanded by the gods. Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, rescued her young, twin brother Orestes from her mother by sending him to Strophius of Phocis. The play begins years later when Orestes has returned as a grown man with a plot for revenge, as well as to claim the throne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 66\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.14 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 18, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45175956865047,"sku":"9780573626951","price":30.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0796\/2096\/4375\/files\/3uqEk6Hgq89780573626951.webp?v=1779916855"}],"url":"https:\/\/thestagedoorexchange.com\/collections\/performing-arts-books.oembed?page=2","provider":"The Stage Door Exchange","version":"1.0","type":"link"}