When Robert Preston shouted "Ya got trouble!" in River City, when Carol Channing glided down a gilded staircase while waiters serenaded her with "Hello, Dolly!," when Barbra Streisand defied us to rain on her parade in Funny Girl, audiences were instantly enchanted. Showstoppers! is all about Broadway musicals' most memorable numbers—why they were so effective, how they were created, and why they still resonate. Much of it is told through the eyes of the performers, songwriters, directors, and choreographers who first built these explosive numbers and lit the fuse. Gerald Nachman interviewed dozens of iconic musical theater figures, including Patti LuPone, John Raitt, Jerry Herman, Edie Adams, Dick Van Dyke, Joel Grey, Marvin Hamlisch, John Kander, Tommy Tune, Sheldon Harnick, and Harold Prince, uncovering priceless untold anecdotes and details.

The name Busby Berkeley, creator of the dances for films such as 42nd Street, Babes in Arms, and Million Dollar Mermaid, is synonymous with the spectacular musical production number. Films, television commercials, and MTV videos continue to use "Berkeleyesque" techniques long after Berkeley himself and the genre that nourished him have faded from the scene. The first major analysis of Berkeley's career on stage and screen, Showstoppers emphasizes his relationship to a colorful, somewhat disreputable tradition of American popular entertainment: that of P. T. Barnum, minstrel shows, vaudeville, Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, burlesque, and the Ziegfeld Follies. Rubin shows how Berkeley absorbed this declining theatrical tradition during his years as a Broadway dance director and then transferred it to the new genre of the early movie musical. With lively prose and engaging photographs, Showstoppers explores new ways of looking at Busby Berkeley, at the musical genre, and at individual films. Appropriate for both specialists and general readers, Showstoppers is an exuberant study of a figure whose career, Rubin notes, "provides an extraordinarily rich point of convergence for a wide range of cultural and artistic contexts".

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This “inside account captures the energy—and the madness—of the software giant’s race to develop a critical new program. . . . Gripping” (Fortune Magazine). Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary David Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Microsoft a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the computing business. Comparable in many ways to the Pulitzer Prize–winning book The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, Showstopper gets deep inside the process of software development, the lives and motivations of coders and the pressure to succeed coupled with the drive for originality and perfection that can pull a diverse team together to create a program consisting of many hundreds of thousands of lines of code.

This Musical Showstoppers edition of the brilliant Piano Playbook series offers excellent new arrangements of 35 of the greatest, most enduring showstoppers from the biggest musicals of all time. All tunes are arranged for solo Piano, including vocal melody and chord symbols so you can stop your very own shows with these powerfully perennial numbers. Certain songs from certain musicals have that winning combination of emotion, melody and a cracking singer that elevates the tune into the upper echelons of the show itself. These songs are the ones that everyone remembers, the ones that effectively stop the show, and this Piano Playbook collects the best of these Musical Showstoppers so that you, too, can relive those moments that send shivers up your spine. Songs like I Dreamed A Dream from 'Les Misérables,' Can You Feel The Love Tonight from 'The Lion King' and Defying Gravity from 'Wicked.' Each of the tunes in this Musical Showstoppers songbook perfectly encapsulates what the show itself is about, this is why they are so well-loved. You'll be able to play Dancing Queen, Cabaret, A Whole New World and Singin' In The Rain on the Piano, among many others. You can take as your inspiration for learning from this show tunes sheet music the many incredible singers who originally performed such songs and the composers who wrote them. Each song has been beautifully arranged, allowing you to recapture the quintessence of the musicals that you love and the songs to which you keep coming back. This selection has been chosen to reflect a number of moods and has been produced to the highest standards. So if you love musicals, adore accomplished songwriting, or just want some classics to add to your repertoire, the Piano Playbook: Musical Showstoppers will satisfy your desire for musical sheet music mastery.

Clair de Lune * Moonlight Sonata * Fr Elise * Canon in D and two dozen more.

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