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Product Description: Most introductory theatre textbooks are written for theatre majors and assume the student already has a considerable amount of knowledge on the subject. However, such textbooks may be counterproductive, because they reference several works that may be unfamiliar to students with limited exposure to theatre...read more

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9781442260993 | 2 edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, March 25, 2016), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Most introductory theatre textbooks are written for theatre majors and assume the student already has a considerable amount of knowledge on the subject.

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9781442261006 | 2 edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 26, 2016), cover price $45.00
9780810856868 | Scarecrow Pr, December 30, 2005, cover price $39.00

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9781442245495 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, April 16, 2015, cover price $95.00
9780403013661, titled "Violin Makers of Bohemia" | Scholarly Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $85.50 | also contains Violin Makers of Bohemia

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Product Description: Choice Outstanding Academic Title. ALA Outstanding Reference Source New York City's Broadway district is by far the most prestigious and lucrative venue for American performers, playwrights, entertainers and technicians. While there are many reference works and critical studies of selected Broadway plays or musicals and even more works about the highlights of the American theater, this is the first single-volume book to cover all of the activities on Broadway between 1919 and 2007...read more

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9780786434480 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, March 30, 2009, cover price $295.00

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9780786497546 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 31, 2015, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

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9780810869370 | Scarecrow Pr, August 30, 2009, cover price $58.00

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9781589797130 | Updated edition (Scarecrow Pr, November 5, 2012), cover price $18.95

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Product Description: Although the venue Off Broadway has long been the birthplace of innovative and popular musicals, there have been few studies of these influential works. Long-running champs, such as The Fantasticks and Little Shop of Horrors, are discussed in many books about American musicals, but what of the hundreds of other Off-Broadway musicals? In Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919, Thomas Hischak looks at more than 375 musicals, which are described, discussed, and analyzed, with particular attention given to their books, scores, performers, and creators...read more

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9780810877719 | Scarecrow Pr, February 1, 2011, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: Although the venue Off Broadway has long been the birthplace of innovative and popular musicals, there have been few studies of these influential works.

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Product Description: As the popularity of film grew and audiences demanded longer stories, Hollywood began borrowing plots as well as actors and directors from Broadway - some of these play-to-films were triumphs and others were inexplicable duds. This reference work is an annotated guide to American stage productions remade for film and television, with works ranging from late 19th-century American plays and musicals, through silent and sound films, to made-for-video productions by PBS, A&E, HBO, and others...read more

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9780786420032 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, December 30, 2004, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: As the popularity of film grew and audiences demanded longer stories, Hollywood began borrowing plots as well as actors and directors from Broadway - some of these play-to-films were triumphs and others were inexplicable duds.

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Offers background information and commentary on 1,200 popular songs from a variety of styles and genres written between the mid-nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century. (view table of contents)

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9780313319921 | Greenwood Pub Group, September 30, 2002, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Offers background information and commentary on 1,200 popular songs from a variety of styles and genres written between the mid-nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century.

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9780313360619 | Greenwood Pub Group, September 30, 2002, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Many books have been written about Tin Pan Alley―the colloquial name assigned to popular music before the advent of rock 'n' roll―yet little is available about the individual songs defining this enormously significant style of American music.

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Product Description: Following the successful, The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 1995), this new encyclopedia reviews in-depth individual songs written for the American musical film over the past seventy years. Over 1,800 songs from over 500 musical films are identified and described...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780313307379 | Greenwood Pub Group, March 30, 1999, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Following the successful, The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 1995), this new encyclopedia reviews in-depth individual songs written for the American musical film over the past seventy years.

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Product Description: As a concise study of the American theatre, this work explores the past and present by looking at major aspects of theatregoing in America over the past 250 years. Diverse topics include plays On and Off Broadway, ticket prices, critics, playwrights, awards, musicals, actors, theatre groups and organizations, and theatre publications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780313302466 | Greenwood Pub Group, April 30, 1997, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: As a concise study of the American theatre, this work explores the past and present by looking at major aspects of theatregoing in America over the past 250 years.

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Product Description: The first encyclopedia of theatre songs from Broadway shows ranging from The Black Crook (1866) to the 1994 Tony Award-winning Passion, this handy guide features over 1,800 songs from over 500 musicals. It gives such information as the songs' authors, original performers, and dates and history of recordings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780313294075 | Greenwood Pub Group, May 30, 1995, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The first encyclopedia of theatre songs from Broadway shows ranging from The Black Crook (1866) to the 1994 Tony Award-winning Passion, this handy guide features over 1,800 songs from over 500 musicals.

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Product Description: A one-stop, up-to-date source for information on the history of the American musical theatre, Stage It with Music packs an astonishing quantity and variety of facts as well as insights and anecdotes into a convenient dictionary format...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780313287084 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1993, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: A one-stop, up-to-date source for information on the history of the American musical theatre, Stage It with Music packs an astonishing quantity and variety of facts as well as insights and anecdotes into a convenient dictionary format.

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Traces the development of the American musical and looks at the work of top lyricists (view table of contents)

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9780275938499 | Praeger Pub Text, May 1, 1991, cover price $132.00 | About this edition: Traces the development of the American musical and looks at the work of top lyricists

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