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INSPECTOR AND OTHER PLAYS

PLAYWRIGHT'S WORKBOOK

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What does a producer actually do? How does one travel from that great idea for a show to a smash hit opening night on Broadway? John Breglio cannot guarantee you a hit but he does take the reader on a fascinating journey behind-the-scenes to where he himself once stood as a child dreaming about the theatre.ÞPart memoir part handbook ÊI Wanna Be a ProducerÊ is a road map to the hows and wherefores the dos and don''ts of producing a Broadway play written by a Broadway veteran with more than 40 years of experience. This comprehensive and highly informative book features practical analysis and concepts for the producer ä and is filled with entertaining anecdotes from Breglio''s illustrious career as a leading theatrical lawyer and producer. Breglio recounts not only his first-hand knowledge of the crucial legal and business issues faced by a producer but also his experiences behind the scenes with literally hundreds of producers playwrights composers and directors including such theatre luminaries as Michael Bennett Joe Papp Stephen Sondheim Andrew Lloyd Webber Patti Lupone August Wilson and Mel Brooks. Whether you are a working or aspiring producer an investor or are just curious about the backstage reality of the theater Breglio shares his knowledge and experience of the industry conveying practical information set against the real-life stories of those who have devoted their lives to the craft.

A documented screenplay of the Oliver Stone film complete with historical annotation with 340 research notes and 97 reactions and commentaries by Norman Mailer Tom Wicker Gerald R. Ford and many others.ÞÞ It''s a lesson in craft to watch ÊJFKÊ on video while reading along charting what got cut softened and rethought. äÊEntertainment WeeklyÊ

ENVIRONMENTAL THEATRE

In 1971, college student Ted Chapin found himself front row center as a production assistant at the creation of one of the greatest Broadway musicals, Follies. Needing college credit to graduate on time, he kept a journal of everything he saw and heard and thus was able to document in unprecedented detail how a musical is actually created. Now, more than thirty years later, he has fashioned an extraordinary chronicle. Follies was created by Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Michael Bennett, and James Goldman - giants in the evolution of the Broadway musical and geniuses at the top of their game. Everything Was Possible takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride, from the uncertainties of casting to drama-filled rehearsals, from the care and feeding of one-time movie and television stars to the pressures of a Boston tryout to the exhilaration of opening night on Broadway. Foreword by long-time NY critic Frank Rich.

BEFORE BRECHT: FOUR GERMAN PLAYS CLOTH

THE STAGE PLAYS OF PADDY CHAYEFSKY

Here is the first-ever collection of classic comic sketches from the bawdy, rowdy world of our slum music halls! HabituÉs of Burlesque (and sons of habituÉs) will revel in the boisterous stock scenes and blackouts of this uniquely American form of popular entertainment. Features a foreword by Dick Martin.

This Applause edtiion allows the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Readers and students are faced with real theatrical choices in each speech as the editors point out the challenges and opportunities to the actor and director at each juncture. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the imagination in the process.

Voices of Color is a trailblazing collection of scenes and monologues by African American playwrights. This major omnibus of contemporary American writing will serve as a primary resource for African American artists in search of their own voice for the stage. Actors and directors will now have access to a much larger spectrum of work in which to shine. Readers will be introduced to a rich, vibrant medley of work of the human spirit. And schools, colleges and libraries will, at last, have the book we all need to fully explore America''s potential for drama.

John Russell Brown demonstrates just how much is in Shakespeare''s texts; how the language is awakened colored emphasized sensualized and extended in performance. Shakespeare''s intended readers were his collaborators not his commentators. Brown invites all Shakespeare lovers to seek their insights in Shakespeare''s natural habitat: the stage.

A collection of eleven short plays from 1989. Includes: The Author''s Voice San Antonio Sunset There is No John Garfield The Mask of Hiroshima Penguin Blues Haiku Chemical Reactions Dolores April Snow Trout and A Poster of the Cosmos.

Startling discontinuities and surprises erupt throughout these avant-garde landscapes by Poland''s outstanding modern dramatist where duchesses and policemen, gangsters and surrealist painters, psychiatrists and locomotive engineers wander in and out, kill one another, and carry on philosophical conversations at the same time.

LA GUERRE EST FINIE

DEFYING GRAVITY: THE CREATIVE CAREER OF STEPHEN SCHWARTZ FROM GODSPELL TO WICKED 2ND ED

UNSEEN HAND

Noted film biographer Charlotte Chandler interviewed Bette Davis extensively in the last decade of her life resulting in a biography in which the great actress speaks for herself. Chandler also spoke with directors actors and others who knew and worked with Davis and includes brief synopses of all of her theatrical films.ÞHere are some more examples of Bette''s wit to be found within these pages:Þ I''m the one who didn''t get the man which is the more interesting character on the screen but in real life sometimes I wish I could just have been the girl who got the man and kept him. I got four husbands and several lovers but I didn''t keep any of them. I was invited to the White House but no man stayed to share my white cottage. Þ My favorite actor with whom I never played professionally or personally was Laurence Olivier. I admired everything about him. He was a great actor and he was my dream man. Literally and figuratively. Larry was my fantasy lover the perfect man or at least I thought he would be. He was not only beautiful but intelligent.

There has been a great change in the last twenty years to actor auditions which now require the demonstration of enormous flexibility. The actor is often expected to show more range than ever before and often several shorter audition speeches are asked for instead of one or two longer ones. To stay at the top of his or her game the Shakespearean actor needs more knowledge of what makes the play tick especially since the early plays demand a different style from the later ones. Each genre (comedy history tragedy) has different requirements. No current monologue book deals directly with the bulk of these concerns. ÊOne More unto the Speech Dear FriendsÊ now fills that gap. This three volume set will help actors discover the extra details of humanity that the original folio texts automatically offer. Of Shakespeare''s 37 plays only ÊPericlesÊ is not included. In the trilogy of books there are over 900 separate audition possibilities. This represents about 600 more monologues than are available in any other series.ÞÞThere are four parts to each speech: Û A background giving context and approximate timing; Û A modern text version; Û The original folio version; Û Commentary to explain the differences between the two texts including full discussion of the devices peculiar to that speech''s genre the age and gender of the character and more.

NEW YORK THEATRE WALKS: 7 HISTORICAL TOURS FR TIMES SQ TO GREENWICH VILLAGE & BEYOND

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When CLERKS opened at cinemas across the country in 1994, it took everyone, especially the film industry, by surprise. Filmed on a shoestring budget after hours at a convenience store, it was crude (in technique and language), realistic and, above all, hilarious. The movie''s nationwide success helped launch the indepedent film boom of the 1990s and catapulted its director, Kevin Smith, to full-fledged stardom. Smith''s work is explored in AN ASKEW VIEW, the first ever study of his films. John Kenneth Muir examines all of Smith''s movies. including MALLRATS, CHASING AMY, and the hugely controversial and variously interpreted DOGMA. Muir discusses Smith''s themes and obsessions in depth: his New Jersey boosterism, the cast of characters that pop in and out of all of his films, and the references to STAR WARS and other icons of pop culture. AN ASKEW VIEW is a fascinating and detailed history of the art of this visionary filmmaker, New Jersey''s favorite local-boy-makes-good since Bruce Springsteen.

SOUND OF THEIR MUSIC THE STORY OF RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN

Combine Kafka''s eerie vision with a soulless world run by computers and the result is this comic nightmare of a play. Strand''s play - revolving around a bug in the system - premiered at the Actor''s Theatre in Louisville Humana Festival, and has been produced by other theatres across the country.