About the Book Nostalgia meets modernity in Jazzed Up Fairy Tale Musicals and Bible Plays: Plays for Inner-City Kids. This collection of plays combines the old fashioned charm of fairytales by The Brothers Grimm and traditional biblical stories with contemporary music, giving a unique perspective on these classics. With spinoffs of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Princess and the Pea, and even the birth of Jesus Christ, and more, all containing modernized language and ample humor, Gail Phillips breathes new life into traditional theater. About the Author Gail Phillips has lived in Baltimore, Maryland her whole life. When she was young, she always had an active role in dance group, school plays, and cultural arts programs. In her youth, Phillips joined the Youth Theater at Arena Players. When Phillips became a teacher, she involved herself with andeven directed school plays. She found that going over the plays again and again helped her students with their reading and comprehension. She has also taught drama in several after-school cultural arts programs. Phillips currently volunteers with a food pantry and a neighborhood help center. She loves to needlepoint and travel.

In this toe-tapping jazz tribute, the traditional "This Old Man" gets a swinging makeover, and some of the era's best musicians take center stage. The tuneful text and vibrant illustrations bop, slide, and shimmy across the page as Satchmo plays one, Bojangles plays two . . . right on down the line to Charles Mingus, who plays nine, plucking strings that sound "divine." Easy on the ear and the eye, this playful introduction to nine jazz giants will teach children to count--and will give them every reason to get up and dance! Includes a brief biography of each musician.

Have you heard of the first American musical, "The Black Crook", which opened in 1866 and had fifteen revivals? Its chorus of ladies in pink tights was a sensation! Do you know Oscar Straus' hilarious parody of Wagner's Ring cycle, "Die lustigen Nibelungen" ("The Merry Nibelungs")? Do you know who the Ricci brothers, the Piccinni family, Edmond Audran, David Braham, or Francois-Joseph Gossec were? Look them up in this remarkable, thoroughly researched, lively book. Packed with nuggets of useful and fascinating information, with nearly 1,800 entries, this is a must-have research tool and handy reference for the theater and music lover, student, teacher, professional singer, director, and producer. Meant as a supplement and companion to Blumenfeld's "Dictionary of Acting and Show Business" (Limelight, 2009), this unique dictionary is chock-full of information about all the various genres of musical theater; thumbnail plot summaries of many well-known and some more obscure works; thumbnail biographies of composers and writers; and, dance, theatrical, and music terminology. Historical terms and foreign terms (with pronunciations) are included, along with information on available recordings of many obscure pieces. Convenient lists of the works of Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Gilbert and Sullivan, Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and many others are provided.

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.

Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

In the 1920s, Robert Athlyi Rogers founded the Afro-Athlican Constructive Gaathly religion in the West Indies. He wrote The Holy Piby as a guiding text, seeing Ethiopians - in the classical meaning of all Africans - as God's chosen people, and he preached self-determination and self-reliance. The Holy Piby is a major source of influence to the Rastafarian faith, which holds Haile Selassie I as Christ, and Marcus Garvey as his prophet. The Holy Piby consists of four books, and the seventh chapter of the second book identifies Marcus Garvey as one of three apostles of God. Original copies are extremely rare, and it is not even listed in the Library of Congress. The text was banned in Jamaica and many other Caribbean Islands until the late 1920s.