Author: Michal Fraley
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1458374327
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
How does a boy from a small California town end up traveling the world-teaching roller skating? Starlight Express, Andrew Lloyd Webber's immensely popular, long-running musical about racing trains is performed entirely on roller skates. "Skating The Starlight Express" tells the story of how Michal, hired to coach and train the performers of the Broadway production "to be comfortable on their skates," went on to become the trainer for Starlight productions around the world. Michal gives you a glimpse behind the scenes and reveals some of the challenges the actors face (his Skate School training is just one!) in preparing themselves for performing Starlight Express on stage.
Skating the Starlight Express
Author: Michal Fraley
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1458374327
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
How does a boy from a small California town end up traveling the world-teaching roller skating? Starlight Express, Andrew Lloyd Webber's immensely popular, long-running musical about racing trains is performed entirely on roller skates. "Skating The Starlight Express" tells the story of how Michal, hired to coach and train the performers of the Broadway production "to be comfortable on their skates," went on to become the trainer for Starlight productions around the world. Michal gives you a glimpse behind the scenes and reveals some of the challenges the actors face (his Skate School training is just one!) in preparing themselves for performing Starlight Express on stage.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1458374327
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
How does a boy from a small California town end up traveling the world-teaching roller skating? Starlight Express, Andrew Lloyd Webber's immensely popular, long-running musical about racing trains is performed entirely on roller skates. "Skating The Starlight Express" tells the story of how Michal, hired to coach and train the performers of the Broadway production "to be comfortable on their skates," went on to become the trainer for Starlight productions around the world. Michal gives you a glimpse behind the scenes and reveals some of the challenges the actors face (his Skate School training is just one!) in preparing themselves for performing Starlight Express on stage.
Starlight Express
Author: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Starlight Specials
Author: Dave Peel
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445641747
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A fascinating look at the special Starlight Express overnight train service between London and Glasgow/Edinburgh
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445641747
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A fascinating look at the special Starlight Express overnight train service between London and Glasgow/Edinburgh
Starmites
Author: Barry Keating
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573691225
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Music and Lyrics by Barry Keating. Book by Barry Keating and Stuart Ross. Characters: 6 male, 6 female, plus 2 droids. Now released...a newly updated version! Dreaming her way into a comic book adventure in Innerspace, Eleanor saves the galaxy in this zingy rock musical. It is Eleanor, Spacepunk, the Starmites and the lizard man against the evil Banshees (weird women with dangerous hair-dos) led by Diva and Shak Graa. Diva's entrance song, "Hard to Be Diva," is a guaranteed show stopper. Every space age possibility for light hearted thrills is thoroughly exploited to delight fun loving comic book fans. "A space age Peter Pan!...Assets include Mr. Keating's eclectic pop rock score, which occasionally pauses for a sweet ballad or gospel number between the hard driving 60's style melodies...A light hearted space flight."-The New York Times"Wonderful entertainment for the young and the young at heart."-WNBC-TV "The score is irresistible."-ABC Radio "A campy adventure aimed at the latent teenager in all of us."-Christian Science Monitor
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573691225
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Music and Lyrics by Barry Keating. Book by Barry Keating and Stuart Ross. Characters: 6 male, 6 female, plus 2 droids. Now released...a newly updated version! Dreaming her way into a comic book adventure in Innerspace, Eleanor saves the galaxy in this zingy rock musical. It is Eleanor, Spacepunk, the Starmites and the lizard man against the evil Banshees (weird women with dangerous hair-dos) led by Diva and Shak Graa. Diva's entrance song, "Hard to Be Diva," is a guaranteed show stopper. Every space age possibility for light hearted thrills is thoroughly exploited to delight fun loving comic book fans. "A space age Peter Pan!...Assets include Mr. Keating's eclectic pop rock score, which occasionally pauses for a sweet ballad or gospel number between the hard driving 60's style melodies...A light hearted space flight."-The New York Times"Wonderful entertainment for the young and the young at heart."-WNBC-TV "The score is irresistible."-ABC Radio "A campy adventure aimed at the latent teenager in all of us."-Christian Science Monitor
The Know-It-All
Author: A. J. Jacobs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743250621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Biography detailing the comic effects on Jacobs' life that occur when he attempts to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica volumes A to Z.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743250621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Biography detailing the comic effects on Jacobs' life that occur when he attempts to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica volumes A to Z.
Merchant Vessels of the United States
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 2684
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 2684
Book Description
Hip-Hop in Musical Theater
Author: Nicole Hodges Persley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350247987
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Hip-Hop culture's explosive arrival on the art scene of New York in the boroughs of Queens and the Bronx in the 1970s began to influence all aspects of musical theater from singing to scenic design. Hip-Hop in Musical Theatre takes an intersectional standpoint to explore Hip-Hop's influence on musical theater practice and aesthetics by giving the reader a comprehensive map of musical theater productions that have been impacted by Hip-Hop music and culture. Offering insightful briefs on musical theater productions that contain aesthetic, musical and embodied references to the global phenomenon of Hip-hop culture, this volume takes the reader through a virtual tour of Hip-Hop's influence on American musical theater. From early traces of hip-hop's rap scene in the 1970s that appeared in musicals such as Micki Grant's Tony Award nominated Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope (1971) and Broadway smash hits such as The Wiz (1974) to international juggernauts such as Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (2015), this introductory book decodes the sights and sounds of Hip-Hop culture within the socio-cultural context in which the musicals are produced. Published in the Topics in Musical Theatre series this volume presents fact-filled and insightful summaries of musicals that give the reader a snapshot of the musical and narrative content while highlighting which aspect of the music and culture of Hip-Hop informs acting, dancing, singing, design, and music in the selected musical while offering insightful analysis on the ways that hip-hop styles and politics have changed the shape of musical theater practice.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350247987
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Hip-Hop culture's explosive arrival on the art scene of New York in the boroughs of Queens and the Bronx in the 1970s began to influence all aspects of musical theater from singing to scenic design. Hip-Hop in Musical Theatre takes an intersectional standpoint to explore Hip-Hop's influence on musical theater practice and aesthetics by giving the reader a comprehensive map of musical theater productions that have been impacted by Hip-Hop music and culture. Offering insightful briefs on musical theater productions that contain aesthetic, musical and embodied references to the global phenomenon of Hip-hop culture, this volume takes the reader through a virtual tour of Hip-Hop's influence on American musical theater. From early traces of hip-hop's rap scene in the 1970s that appeared in musicals such as Micki Grant's Tony Award nominated Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope (1971) and Broadway smash hits such as The Wiz (1974) to international juggernauts such as Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (2015), this introductory book decodes the sights and sounds of Hip-Hop culture within the socio-cultural context in which the musicals are produced. Published in the Topics in Musical Theatre series this volume presents fact-filled and insightful summaries of musicals that give the reader a snapshot of the musical and narrative content while highlighting which aspect of the music and culture of Hip-Hop informs acting, dancing, singing, design, and music in the selected musical while offering insightful analysis on the ways that hip-hop styles and politics have changed the shape of musical theater practice.
New York Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Four Lives
Author: Fred Goodwin
Publisher: Lichtenstein Creative Media
ISBN: 1932479481
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher: Lichtenstein Creative Media
ISBN: 1932479481
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Author: John Snelson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300151136
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300151136
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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.