A Chorus Line

Author: James Kirkwood
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557833648
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
(Applause Libretto Library). It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since. For a generation of theater people and theatergoers, A Chorus Line was and is the touchstone that defines the glittering promise, more often realized in lengend than in reality, of the Broadway way. This impressive book contains the complete book and lyrics of one of the longest running shows in Broadway history with a preface by Samuel Freedman, an introduction by Frank Rich and lots of photos from the stage production.

Time Steps

Author: Donna McKechnie
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743255208
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
A poignant and revealing memoir from a legendary Tony Award-winning actress, singer, dancer, and choreographer who has been a mainstay on and off Broadway since 1961 chronicles her life, her triumphs, and her dazzling career.

A Chorus Line and the Musicals of Michael Bennett

Author: Ken Mandelbaum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Choreographers
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description
A portrait of Bennett the man, a teenaged "gypsy" from Buffalo who became the most creative force on Broadway.

A Chorus Line

Author: Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood, Michael Bennett, Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch, Frank Rich, Samuel G. Freedman
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1617746185
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description
(Applause Books). It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since. For a generation of theater people and theatergoers, A Chorus Line was and is the touchstone that defines the glittering promise, more often realized in lengend than in reality, of the Broadway way. This impressive book contains the complete book and lyrics of one of the longest running shows in Broadway history with a preface by Samuel Freedman, an introduction by Frank Rich and lots of photos from the stage production.

A Chorus Line FAQ

Author: Tom Rowan
Publisher: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books
ISBN: 9781480367548
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A CHORUS LINE FAQ: ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT BROADWAY'S SINGULAR SENSATIO

What They Did for Love

Author: Denny Martin Flinn
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN:
Category : Chorus line
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
The reader is escorted behind the scenes and into the hearts and minds of the original cast members of Michael Bennett's award-winning, record-breaking, and longest-running Broadway show, A Chorus Line. 8 pages of photos.

Dancing Man

Author: Bob Avian
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496826981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
Tony and Olivier Award–winning Bob Avian’s dazzling life story, Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer’s Journey, is a memoir in three acts. Act I reveals the origins of one of Broadway’s legendary choreographers who appeared onstage with stars like Barbra Streisand and Mary Martin all before he was thirty. Act II includes teaching Katharine Hepburn how to sing and dance in Coco and working with Stephen Sondheim and Michael Bennett while helping to choreograph the original productions of Company and Follies. During this time, Avian won a Tony Award as the cochoreographer of A Chorus Line and produced the spectacular Tony Award–winning Dreamgirls. For a triumphant third act, Avian choreographed Julie Andrews’s return to the New York stage, devised all of the musical staging for Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard, and directed A Chorus Line on Broadway. He worked with the biggest names on Broadway, including Andrew Lloyd Webber, Carol Burnett, Jennifer Holliday, Patti LuPone, Elaine Stritch, and Glenn Close. Candid, witty, sometimes shocking, and always entertaining, here at last is the ultimate up-close and personal insider’s view from a front row seat at the creation of the biggest, brightest, and best Broadway musicals of the past fifty years.

They're Playing Our Song

Author: Marvin Hamlisch
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573681059
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
America's premier funny man and the Tony Award-winning composer of A Chorus Line; collaborated on this hit musical; a funny, romantic show about an established composer and his relationship with an aspiring young female lyricist, not unlike Carole Bayer Sager. Professionally, their relationship works beautifully, but ultimately leads to conflict on the home front. Of course, there's a happy ending.

The Longest Line

Author: Gary Stevens
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557832214
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Interviews with cast members trace the development of the longest running show in Broadway history

My Broken Language

Author: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 0399590048
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse. LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, New York Public Library, BookPage, and BookRiot • “Quiara Alegría Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away. How lucky we are to have her telling our stories.”—Lin-Manuel Miranda, award-winning creator of Hamilton and In the Heights Quiara Alegría Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced their defiance in a tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her mother and aunts and cousins, but haunted by the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio—even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea of language around her, written and spoken, English and Spanish, bodies and books, Western art and sacred altars. Her family became her private pantheon, a gathering circle of powerful orisha-like women with tragic real-world wounds, and she vowed to tell their stories—but first she’d have to get off the stairs and join the dance. She’d have to find her language. Weaving together Hudes’s love of music with the songs of her family, the lessons of North Philly with those of Yale, this is a multimythic dive into home, memory, and belonging—narrated by an obsessed girl who fought to become an artist so she could capture the world she loved in all its wild and delicate beauty.