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2024.
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Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway. Crucial to this plan is to bring back her high school's spring musical, but when Riley takes her mom's car without permission, she's grounded and stuck with the worst punishment: spending her after-school hours working at her dad's game shop. Riley can't waste her time working when she has a musical to save, so she convinces Nathan-a nerdy teen employee-to cover her shifts and,...
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The high school or college English class offers a long list of technical terms: Symbolism, Irony, Metafiction, Allegory, Metaphor… With such a barrage, it can be tough to sort them all out. Yet here's the list, from Absurdity to Zeugma, all defined through the clever wordplay of Hamilton. In fact, musicals use all the rhythm and rhyme patterns of history's top poets, and the literary skill of crafting characters and straddling genre. Further, the...
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Get the Summary of Mary Rodgers & Jesse Green's Shy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Shy" is the memoir of Mary Rodgers, co-written with Jesse Green, chronicling her life from a musically enriched childhood to her multifaceted career as a composer, author, and arts philanthropist. Mary grew up in a household where her father, a dedicated composer, and her mother, a creative inventor, nurtured intellect and music...
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Hamilton, the hip-hop rap musical, has revolutionized theater. It's the story of an immigrant, "young, scrappy, and hungry," who kicked off the Revolutionary War and built the central government of today. Within this book appears the musical's backstory with many deeper insights. How do the Schuyler Sisters' signature colors reveal their personalities? Which stage equipment best amplifies the themes? What of the words like "Satisfied" and "My Shot,"...
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Oklahoma! premiered on Broadway in 1943 under the auspices of the Theatre Guild, and today it is performed more frequently than any other Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. In this book, Tim Carter offers the first fully documented history of the making of this celebrated American musical. Drawing on research from rare theater archives, manuscripts, journalism, and other sources, Carter records every step in the development of Oklahoma! The book is...
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Get the Summary of Jinger Vuolo's Becoming Free Indeedin 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Becoming Free Indeed" by Jinger Vuolo is a memoir that chronicles her journey from growing up in the public eye on reality television to finding her own path of faith and freedom. Jinger reflects on her life, starting from her childhood fears and her family's adherence to the conservative Christian values taught by Bill Gothard....
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One of the most beautiful seasonal transitions is the replacement of the joyous laughter of your grandchildren with the calming sound of the snow as it falls softly upon the ground. Thinking of your grandchildren on quiet winter nights allows you to think of your own childhood and the time you spent with your grandparents many years ago.
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Have a large cast? Need speaking roles for everyone?Want everyone to shine? Love the classics but want something new and challenging as well?Here are ten short plays for large casts in which everyone gets a spot IN THE LIMELIGHT ! Volume One in the Short Plays for Large Casts Series:Aesop's Fabulous Fables (Cast of 21-23 - Running time ~8-10 minutes)The Boy Who Cried Wolf on Old MacDonald's Farm (Cast of 21-24 - Running time ~15 minutes)The Bremen...
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Act out the story of a group of children who need to set rules for their camping trip! They use the U.S. Constitution as an example, discovering the reasons it was written, what it means for democracy in our country, and how it gives citizens rights, laws, and freedoms. Will the children be able to make a camping constitution of their own? This Spanish script includes six roles, each of which match a different reading level. Teachers can apply differentiation...
10) Torero / Sexapil
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Torero
Antonio quiere llegar a ser un torero reconocido, como lo fue su abuelo. Su papá es un carnicero que no tiene nada que ver con ese "toreo sin sentido". Quiere que su hijo Antonio trabaje junto a él en la carnicería. Algún día el abuelo de Antonio se sentirá orgulloso de él. Y su abuela también aunque ella ya no esté. Antonio cree que ella puede verlo desde el cielo. Antonio está enamorado de María. María le dice: "enséñame que...
11) Cabin in the Sky
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During a bizarre dream in which God and Satan battle for his soul, a lazy gambling husband is guided towards redemption.
12) Flash Nude
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Flash Nude est une pièce criante de vérité. Un grand voyage à travers l'actualité, le quotidien o l'on croise cette violence que nous ctoyons sans la saluer. Une pièce qui nous fait rire, nous fait réfléchir, mais surtout nous oblige à regarder avec les yeux ouverts et à écouter ce que l'on entend, malgré les rires stridents d'une triste réalité mise à nue. Flash Nude, là o tout le monde n'est personne et o personne n'est tout le monde....
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Winner of three Tony Awards, including Best Book, Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann's Urinetown: The Musical is a tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold.
After a twenty-year drought made water a scarce commodity, private toilets became outlawed. Now, all restroom necessaries are controlled by the Urine Good Company (UGC), a megacorporation that charges fees for using public toilets. Anyone unable...
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A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the soundtrack to the American Century
They stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, whose songs have never lost their popularity or emotional power. Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II...
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The American theatre comes alive in Mary McCarthy's provocative anthology of essays Her literary writings and dramatic criticism have appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles gathers together a wide-ranging collection featuring a cast of playwrights, actors, and directors that reads like a "who's who" of American theatre. With chapters ranging from "The Unimportance of Being Oscar" to...
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A perfect children's adventure story with a happy ending. A child's fantasy cast of characters: an adorable dog, a ballroom dancer, helpful firefighters, protective police officers, and a bride and groom! You will love this book, and it is all true. The best of Washington DC's Capitol Hill neighborhood life without the politics!
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When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone...
Inspired by the original Hogwart's textbook by Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original screenplay marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved and internationally bestselling...
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At the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured in New York with the help of Newt Scamander. But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escapes custody and sets about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings.
In an effort to thwart Grindelwald's plans, Albus Dumbledore enlists Newt, his former Hogwarts...
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