Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber John Snelson Examines the career of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and his influence in films, rock, and pop music and surveys his life story and commercial success. OL16025275W
Weill's musical theater Weill's musical theater Stephen Hinton In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill’s complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater’s key figures. Hinto… OL16283677W
Stagestruck Stagestruck Sarah Schulman In Stagestruck noted novelist and outspoken critic Sarah Schulman offers an account of her growing awareness of the startling similarities between her novel People in Trouble and the smash Broadway h… OL1849405W
Into the Woods Into the Woods Stephen Sondheim *Into the Woods* brings to musical life Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding hood and other well-known fairy-tale characters. Interwoven with these classic tales is the story of the … OL1867317W
On Sondheim On Sondheim Ethan Mordden xiii, 198 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm OL20018857W
Broadway Musicals Broadway Musicals David H. Lewis "This book is a survey of Broadway musicals all through the 20th century, from turn-of-the century Tin Pan Alley comedies, to the integrated musical plays that flourished midcentury, to the rock era,… OL3273240W
The Making of The Sound of Music The Making of The Sound of Music Max Wilk The Sound of Music was the last--and most successful--collaboration of two giants of the musical theater, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Enjoying a long run on Broadway and then transformed i… OL3348903W
The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera Jerrold E. Hogle "This comprehensive analytical study of The Phantom of the Opera proposes answers to the question, "why do we keep needing this story told and retold in the Western world?" by revealing the history o… OL5094328W