Combining the glitter and excitement of the first critical reception of the Broadway musical with the expertise of a true insider, here are the voices of the most acclaimed theatre critics, who wrote during the era of such innovative musicals as Brigadoon, South Pacific, The Music Man and West Side Story. Illustrated.

(Vocal Selections). Six has received rave reviews around the world for its modern take on the stories of the six wives of Henry VIII and it's finally opening on Broadway! From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the six wives take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an exuberant celebration of 21st century girl power! Songs include: All You Wanna Do * Don't Lose Ur Head * Ex-Wives * Get Down * Haus of Holbein * Heart of Stone * I Don't Need Your Love * No Way * Six.

A compilation of excerpts from reviews of almost three hundred shows produced during the "Golden Era" of Broadway musicals

Each title in The Applause Libretto Library Series presents a Broadway musical with fresh packaging in a 6 x 9 trade paperback format. Each Complete Book and Lyrics is approved by the writers and attractively designed with color photo inserts from the Broadway production. All titles include introduction and foreword by renowned Broadway musical experts. Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald green skin, is smart, fiery, and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious, and very popular. The story of how these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years.

"Working On A Song is one of the best books about lyric writing for the theater I've read."—Lin-Manuel Miranda Anaïs Mitchell named to TIME's List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World of 2020 An illuminating book of lyrics and stories from Hadestown—the winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical—from its author, songwriter Anaïs Mitchell with a foreword by Steve Earle On Broadway, this fresh take on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has become a modern classic. Heralded as “The best new musical of the season,” by The Wall Street Journal, and “Sumptuous. Gorgeous. As good as it gets,” by The New York Times, the show was a breakout hit, with its poignant social commentary, and spellbinding music and lyrics. In this book, Anaïs Mitchell takes readers inside her more than decade’s-long process of building the musical from the ground up—detailing her inspiration, breaking down the lyrics, and opening up the process of creation that gave birth to Hadestown. Fans and newcomers alike will love this deeply thoughtful, revealing look at how the songs from “the underground” evolved, and became the songs we sing again and again.

Getting a new show up and running? Planning a revival? Taking over a long-running show? Going on the road? On Broadway? Off-Broadway? Regional repertory? On tour? The only book you need as your professional companion is Peter Lawrence's comprehensive and definitive Production Stage Management for Broadway: From Idea to Opening Night and Beyond. Tony-award winning Peter Lawrence transforms his decades of experience on Broadway into a thoroughly modern approach to the business of being a stage manager and the profession of being a production stage manager. Production Stage Management for Broadway: From Idea to Opening Night and Beyond is a map of how to get from the beginning of a production to the end. Book jacket.

This new collection offers excerpted first night reviews of 210 of the most popular Broadway productions in recent memory -- reviews that also serve to chronicle many of the careers that were made and broken during this period of the Broadway theater.