The Stage Door Cookbook

Lang, Robert

Limelight

The lives of Herbie Nichols, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, and Jackie McLean are dicussed through biographical sketches and quotations. Photographs are included.

Four Lives in the Bebop Business

Spellman, A.B.

Humor & Entertainment

The complete 8-year curriculum of Leningrad's famed Vaganova Choreographic School, which trained Nureyev, Baryshnikov, and Makarova, including over 100 photographs. A volume which no teacher, scholar, or student of the dance can afford to miss. “A serious, indeed indispensable, textbook.” –Clive Barnes

100 Lessons in Classical Ballet: The Eight-Year Program of Leningrad's Vaganova Choreographic School (Limelight)

Arts & Photography

Vera S. Kostrovitskaya

Music

“Ginger Howard Friedman is one of the most innovative and important teachers of our time.”--Jerry Orbach You got the audition. Now how do you get the part? What can you do to ensure getting a callback? And what can you do at the callback to demonstrate that you're the one for that role? In this invaluable book, veteran casting director-playwright-teacher Ginger Howard Friedman shares her trade secrets for successful auditioning. Through creative visualization techniques and exercises, she prepares you for that first, all-important cold reading, and using those same techniques, she enables you to tap into the dreams and goals of your character – and give the strongest audition you can. With her guidance, you'll learn: What tools to bring with you to a cold reading, how to prepare for a callback at your first audition, how to give your audition the energy of an opening-night performance, and how to get the part – and keep it. The author's exercises in creative visualization utilize scenes from such classic and contemporary plays as A Doll's House, Born Yesterday, Equus, The Lisbon Traviata, and Six Degrees of Separation. The techniques developed from these exercises can be used to prepare for virtually any role, whether on stage, screen or television.

Callback Softcover (Limelight)

Friedman, Ginger Howard

A necessary book with a necessary goal – stressing the importance of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and citing the dangers of what happens when its cherished tradition is jeopardized. In the name of combating Communism liberties were jettisoned, while the art of stool pigeon information dissemination reached a feverish pitch during Hollywood's blacklist period beginning shortly after World War Two with the advent of the Cold War.

Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting (Limelight)

Vaughn, Robert

Reference

“This jam-packed little volume is worth its price many times over if you work in theatre and want to keep every dollar you legally can from the IRS. Not only does Hanlon tell you all the deductions that are available to show business people, but best of all he tells you how to organize your records, what to keep, even what to do it you are audited.” – Educational Theatre News

The New Tax Guide for Performers, Writers, Directors, Designers & Other Show Biz Folk (Limelight)

Business & Money

Hanlon, R. Brendan

Industries

In this incandescent autobiographical collage, lyricist, playwright and performer Betty Comden takes an exuberant and rueful look back on a lifetime of celebrated triumphs and private sorrow. With her lifelong collaborator Adolph Green, she has achieved glorious success on stage in such musical milestones as On the Town, Wonderful Town and Bells Are Ringing and on screen in the unforgettable Singing in the Rain and The Band Wagon. But this very intimate memoir takes us behind her experiences in theatre and film to her childhood in Brooklyn, her determined exodus to Manhattan and Broadway, her courtship and marriage and the lessons she has learned as a wife and mother. Off Stage is, then, not only of special interest to theatre and movie buffs. It is also the poignant and inspirational story of a woman of many talents and interests who tried to have it all – and very nearly succeeded.

Off Stage (Limelight)

Comden, Betty

With disciplined lyricism and entirely devoid of technical jargon, Bruce Adolphe's book probes into the heart of such matters as the role of memory and imagination in creative expression, the meaning of inspiration, spirituality in music, the challenge of arts education and how music communicates.

What to Listen for in the World (Limelight)

Literature & Fiction

Adolphe, Bruce

Poetry

A detailed overview of Hitchcock's skill in developing the story from intriguing start to shattering climax. A shot-by-shot analysis, using the shooting script as text, describes how Hitchcock's technique accomplished its magic.

The Art of Looking in Hitchcock's Rear Window (Limelight)

Sharff, Stefan

The ultimate guide to stage fighting technique and basic swordplay, this book covers everything an actor must do to give a dynamic and convincing performance as a stage combatant. “âThis bookã is more than a manual... A necessity! Richard Lane's concepts are vital...'Why' and 'When' are explained and make 'How' easier to understand and execute...Read this, pay heed and you will avoid sin and suffering...I raise my sword on high and salute you, Richard. Well done!” –Oscar F. Kolombatovich, former Fencing Master, Metropolitan Opera, New York, and Executive Secretary, Historical Fencing Society

Swashbuckling: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Art of Stage Combat & Theatrical Swordplay (Limelight)

Lane, Richard

Movies

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