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ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN THE SCREENPLAY

Here''s the script to the winner of "Best Off-Broadway Play of 1989" as voted by the Outer Critics Circle. "Funny, serious, suspenseful, involving, disturbing, and above all, expertly crafted...It concerns the intended hostile takeover of a deserving but obsolescent Rhode Island family business, New England Wire and Cable, honorably and not unprofitably run, that provides jobs for an entire small town''s population...Epic grandeur and intimate titillation combined. It is the most stimulating kind of entertainment." - John Simon, New York magazine

Mix one American director with a German producer on a period extravaganza set the locations in Italy and Spain and start the cameras rolling without enough money to do the job. Then sit back and watch disaster strike. That is the scenario Andrew Yule has painstakingly reconstructed. The more problems and reverses the greater our interest: costly postponements overwhelming language difficulties elephants and tigers turning on their trainers illnesses sets not being ready special effects breaking down and cameo stars (from Marlon Brando to Sean Connery) backing out of the project. You name it Andrew Yule reports it!

INGRID: INGRID BERGMAN A PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY

Noted writer Leon Katz, the champion of the present day commmedia dell''arte, has written a brand-new stage adaptation for children''s theatre. Included are the costume sketches, the stage cues and even a few of the stage tricks used to bring not just Pinocchio but all of the play to real life in its acclaimed original American Children''s Theatre production.

Here is the original story of a true original, the celebrated and internationally renowned director, playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents, whose creative genius continues to energize American stage and screen today. Say his name, and images of West Side Story, Gypsy, Anastasia, The Turning Point, and The Way We Were appear. Laurents'' highly praised memoir is a dazzling portrait of his life - as he recounts the great moments, the trials and the joys of his incredible career. He takes us into his world, peopled with the creative artists, directors, actors and personalities who came of age in the theatre and in Hollywood after WWII. Later, back in New York, he writes about jump-starting Barbra Streisand''s career by casting her in I Can Get It for You Wholesale. He writes about the creation of Gypsy with Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim. And he writes about coming together in a complex, fraught collaboration with his three old pals, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein and Sondheim for West Side Story. Throughout, Laurents is funny, fierce, and frank - a life recounted as richly as it was lived. "This is a historic work. A ''must'' for show biz mavens." - LIZ SMITH, Newsday & Syndicated

"There is no book about Hollywood as riveting as this documentary." - Allan Carr, Vanity Fair There is no question that the 1954 version of A STAR IS BORN holds a special place in the pantheon of classic movies. It was director George Cukor''s first foray into musicals, his first color film, and it was, without a doubt, Judy Garland''s greatest screen performance.With incredible detail and color, Ronald Haver gives us the fascinating story of the making, marketing and restoration of this groundbreaking classic. Here is how producer Sid Luft orchestrated the deal for his wife, how Cukor was selected to direct, how James Mason was cast to co-star and how Moss Hart''s script was developed. Here are the myriad techincal problems, the clashes of personalities and the shocking emotional ups and downs of the film''s star. Here, finally, is the author''s own mission to restore the film to its original length and glory in the 1980s.

QED is a seductive mix of science, human affections, moral courage and comic eccentricity... not to be missed."- John Simon, New York MagazineThe play itself is a kind of proof, dramatically illustrating how a man who happens to be a genius elegantly and movingly works through the human problem of how to face the end of his life." - Nancy Franklin, The New YorkerWith a moving and powerful introduction from Alan Alda.Who knew that quantum electrodynamics could make for a dramatic read? In the hands of the late, great physicist Richard Feynman, it does. Feynman''s theory of QED is just one of the many topics the playwright Peter Parnell explores in this nearly-one-man show, a recent Broadway triumph for star Alan Alda as Feynman.Set in Feynman''s office on the weekend of his realization that he has terminal cancer, this play is an intellectual tour-de-force that captures the unique, hilarious, and puckish genius that Feynman was. From his work on the Manhattan Project to the death of his beloved first wife, from his mission to reconstruct the Challenger space shuttle tragedy to his Nobel-prize winning physics ideas, the resume of Feynman''s life is fascinating. But Parnell gives us more, letting fill in the details of his life. When he reads a letter he wrote to his wife after her death, or flirts with a student, or chillingly recalls walking around Manhattan calculating the damage an atomic bomb could do, we, grow to love the man behind the scientist. And we read in fascination as he puzzles out the problem of his own death.Combining the current interest in science and math in the entertainment world with one of the most entertaining scientists in U.S. history, QED is a tour-de-force.

ÊTheatre and Drama in the MakingÊ introduces readers not only to important primary sources but to the uses made of them by distinguished theorists critics and historians. Unlike other texts it discusses theatre as a whole embracing both the art of dramatic writing and the art of performance. Included in this new edition are greatly expanded sections covering Latin Theatre and Drama and The Golden Age of Spain as well as all the exciting new archaeological information relating to the excavation of the Rose and the Globe. The introduction to each essay has been revised and enlarged so that together they may be read independently as a concise and accurate narrative of theatre history. From Aeschylus to Cald©ron from Agatharcus to Serlio from Thespis to Burbage from Aristotle to Sidney here is the story of Western Theatre in all its glorious variety.

Collects for the first time major lesbian plays from controversial cultural perspectives spanning more than a generation of work in varied theatrical styles representing an amazing gamut of lesbian politics from all over America. ÞIncludes: The Quintessential Image (Jane Chambers) Û The Postcard (Gloria Joyce Dickler) Û A Lady and a Woman (Shirlene Holmes) Û Nasty Rumors and Final Remarks (Susan Miller) Û Desdemona (Paula Vogel) Û and more!

This book is an attempt to trace and illuminate, through interviews with colleagues, friends, and contemporaries, different perspectives about Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

In a series of funny, tender, and touching dialogues, former Saturday Night Live writer Zweibel recalls his buddy-and-almost-lover friendship with SNL actress Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer. Zweibel claims he "merely scribbled the dialogues playing in my head " and, indeed, these recreated conversations have a neurotic, sarcastic, and vulnerable air of aunthenticity. The actress and writer become fast friends on the SNL set and segue into personal revelation.

From the London ÊSunday TelegraphÊ: ÊActing ShakespeareÊ is extraordinary. The tone of the voice is unmistakably Sir John''s the atmosphere congenial. We''re in the company of our greatest actor who holds in his hands the last links of a chain of tradition leading to Shakespeare himself ... this book is crucial for anyone who believes that Shakespeare on the stage should be Shakespeare at his greatest ... Gielgud is by turns wise witty and wicked but unfailingly modest.

The creator of Story Theater, the original director of Second City, and one of the greatest popularizers of improvisational theater, Paul Sills has assembled some of his favorite adaptations from world literature. Includes: The Blue Light and Other Stories, A Christmas Carol (Dickens), Stories of God, Rumi.

SHAKESPEARE:A POPULAR LIFE

Lawrence J. Quirk delves into every personal and professional aspect of Bob Hope''s long, complex and dramatic life; rising by sheer dint of will to great wealth and fame. Why did Hope become so identified with sponsoring the Vietnam War? What''s the real scoop on his relationship with Bing Crosby? How far astray did Hope''s frankly oversexed nature lead him from the marriage he successfully maintained with Dolores for over sixty years? Quirk writes about Hope based on long experience. He knew and interviewed Bob Hope while serving as an army seargeant during the Korean war and later as entertainment editor, and interviewer of top stars for over forty years. Quirk approaches his subject with original observations born of years of studying this most celebrated, yet in some ways most mysterious of entertainment giants.

Shatner takes a comprehensive look at this singular performer, using archival sources and information culled from interviews with friends and colleagues to transport readers through William Shatner's remarkably bumpy career: his spectacular failures and triumphs, tragedies, and, ultimately, the resilience Shatner has shown, time and again, in the face of overwhelming odds.

TOO FAST TO LIVE TOO YOUNG TO DIE: JAMES DEAN'S FINAL HOURS

NATIONAL BLACK DRAMA ANTHOLOGY

FILM SCRIPTS ONE

Heaven's Gate, by comparison, was a party in Paradise. Some of cinema's legendary artists - renowned for their work with Fellini, Godard, Fassbinder, and Herzog among others - would unwittingly unite to create the greatest financial disaster in movie history: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Andrew Yule goes behind the scenes of Gilliam's epic and unravels, twist by agonizing twist, the contorted drama which saw the original budget of $23.5 million rocket to an astronomical $46 million - making it one of the most expensive features in history. Hardcover.

WORDS WITH MUSIC: CREATING THE BROADWAY MUSICAL LIBRETTO

WILLIAM GOLDMAN FIVE SCREENPLAYS WITH ESSAYS

You can't have a big blockbuster of failure, it seems, without the participation of Broadway's biggest talents.

STORY THEATRE FOUR SHOWS

THE THEORY OF THE MODERN STAGE

ONE-ACT COMEDIES OF MOLIERE

THE COMMERCIAL CTI THEATER INSTITUTE GUIDE TO PRODUCING PLAYS AND MUSICALS

STYLE: ACTING IN HIGH COMEDY