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A backstage pass to the groundbreaking, hit musical Hamilton, 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.
Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary...
Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary...
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Celebrating ten years since they first recorded together, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga returned to the studio for another collaboration featuring the very best of the Cole Porter songbook. The album features duets as well as solo performances by both artists accompanied by Tony Bennett's quartet, the Brian Newman Quintet, along with big band and orchestral arrangements by Marion Evans and Jorge Callandrelli.
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"An original musical that explores the poignant desire for human connection in the tumultuous life of one young man. Evan is shy, lonely, and bullied for it -- teeming with the irrepressible emotions all too familiar with anyone who's ever been a teenager. After a tragedy strikes, Evan's life suddenly gets turned around, but is it ultimately for the better?"--
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Winner of the 2018 Tony Award for Best Musical
After a mix-up at the border, Egypt's Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra, bound for the cosmopolitan Israeli city Petah Tikvah, is stranded in a small desert town. With no transportation until the next day, the band is taken in by the locals. By morning, the lives of visitors and hosts are forever altered. Itamar Moses and David Yazbek's stunning musical adaptation of the
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"Hamilton" is the acclaimed new hip-hop musical about the scrappy young immigrant Alexander Hamilton, the $10 Founding Father who forever changed America with his revolutionary ideas and actions. During his life cut too short, he served as George Washington's chief aide, was the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, a loving husband and father, despised by his fellow Founding Fathers, and shot to death by Aaron Burr in a legendary duel.
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This updated edition of one of the bestselling and comprehensive Broadway reference books, first published in 1985, has been expanded to include many of the most important and memorable productions of American musical theater, including revivals. Arranged chronologically, beginning with musicals from just after the Civil War, each successive edition of the book has added valuable updates about trends in musical theater as well as capsule features...
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OBD 100 Notable Books of 2021 New York Times Book Review - Adult
Best Books of 2021 - Adult
HPL Best Books of 2021
OBD 100 Notable Books of 2021 New York Times Book Review - Adult
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"A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George"--
In 1982 Lapine, at the beginning of his career as a playwright and director, met Stephen Sondheim, nineteen years his senior and already a legendary Broadway composer and lyricist. Shortly thereafter, the two decided to write a musical inspired by Georges Seurat's nineteenth-century painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte....
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"Contains interviews that expound in great depth and detail on [Sondheim's] craft ... Sondheim discusses the art of musical composition, lyric writing, the collaborative process of musical theater, and thoughts regarding his own work."--From publisher's description.
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