Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
Title | Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Kopit |
Publisher | Samuel French, Inc. |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780573613333 |
Full Length, Black Comedy / Casting: 4m, 2f, extras / Scenery: 2 int. Wealthy, overbearing Madame Rosepettle with her stuttering, awkward son Jonathan at her heels, arrives at a posh hotel with a man-eating tropical plant, pirahna fish and coffin in tow. Rosalie, a voluptuous babysitter from the couple next door "who never come home" attempts to seduce Jonathan and proves a formidable opponent to Madame herself.
The Perfect Monologue
Title | The Perfect Monologue PDF eBook |
Author | Ginger Friedman |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780879103002 |
In this companion volume to her Callback, veteran casting director, playwright and teacher Ginger Howard Friedman reveals her winning formula for a monologue audition that lands you the part. She explains her essential rules for a successful audition, then selects scenes from 16 plays and adapts them into monologues, comic and serious, for men and women of all ages.--From publisher description.
A Reader's Guide to Modern American Drama
Title | A Reader's Guide to Modern American Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Sanford Sternlicht |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2002-04-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780815629399 |
Sanford Sternlicht presents a comprehensive survey of modern American drama beginning with its antecedents in Victorian melodrama through the present. He discusses the work and achievement of more than seventy playwrights, from Eugene O’Neill to Suzan-Lori Parks—from the golden era of Broadway to the rise of Off-Broadway and regional theater. Stern-licht shows how world theater influenced the American stage, and how the views of American dramatists reflected the great American social movements of their times. In addition, he describes the contributions of early experimental theater, the Federal Theater of the 1930s, African American, feminist, and gay and lesbian drama—and the joyous trends and triumphs of American musical theater.
The Sundance Kid
Title | The Sundance Kid PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence J. Quirk |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Motion picture actors and actresses |
ISBN | 1589792971 |
Documents the career and contributions of the popular film actor and director, describing his breakout performance in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," his activist role in support of endangered species conservation, and his relationships with Hollywood contemporaries.
A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 3, Beyond Broadway
Title | A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 3, Beyond Broadway PDF eBook |
Author | C. W. E. Bigsby |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1985-05-02 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521278966 |
The final volume of Christopher Bigsby's critical account of American drama in the twentieth century.
The Show Makers
Title | The Show Makers PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Thelen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1134001363 |
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Phantom Variations
Title | Phantom Variations PDF eBook |
Author | Ann C. Hall |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2009-08-11 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 078645377X |
This book examines the themes and variations of Phantom of the Opera, exploring the story's appeal to multiple generations through numerous incarnations. After discussing Gaston Leroux's original 1910 novel, the work turns first to Phantom on film from Lon Chaney's 1925 Phantom through Dario Argento's 1998 film. Stage versions of Phantom are then covered in detail, including Webber's spectacular 1986 production and its lesser-known predecessors and competitors, and those that followed. A final section looks at novels and miscellaneous adaptations ranging from erotic fiction to a Donald Barthelme short story.