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1) The world's your stage: how performing artists can make a living while still doing what they love
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If you're like most performing artists, you're not in it for the money. Whether you're a musician, a dancer, or an actor, you've spent years mastering your craft. But to make it your career-you need to figure out how to get paid. Jobs are scarce and talent alone no longer assures success. Today's performers need to hone their entrepreneurial skills and create their own careers. Inspired by the celebrated Juilliard course, The World's Your Stage explains...
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"Baldwin transcends his public persona, making public facets of his life he has long kept private. In this ... memoir, he introduces us to the Long Island child who felt burdened by his family's financial strains and his parents' unhappy marriage; the Washington, DC, college student gearing up for a career in politics; the self-named 'Love Taxi' who helped friends solve their romantic problems while neglecting his own; the young soap actor learning...
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Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
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"While performing artists have many educational opportunities to perfect their craft, they are often on their own when it comes to learning the business skills necessary to launch their careers. At the end of the day, show business is, well, a business. In [this book] ... Rachel Moore shares how to make life as a performer more successful, secure, and sustainable by approaching a career in the arts like an entrepreneur"--
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021
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RuPaul Andre Charles always knew he was meant to be a performer. Even as a young child, he loved to dress up and imitate the glamorous women he saw on television. When he turned fifteen, he began studying theater in a performing arts school in Atlanta and never looked back. Ru developed his drag-queen personality and launched his career in the 1980s. He now hosts and judges the widely popular and long-running show RuPaul's Drag Race, which has raised...
7) Take a bow
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Emme, Sophie, Ethan, and Carter are seniors at a performing arts high school in New York City, preparing for the senior recital and feeling the pressure to perform well and take the next step in their careers and their lives--whether they want to or not.
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2016.
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"Comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show. Who but Carol Burnett herself has the timing, talent, and wit to pull back the curtain on the Emmy-Award winning show that made television history for eleven glorious seasons? In Such Good Company delves into little-known stories of the guests, sketches and antics that made the show legendary, as well as some favorite...
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The Thea Sisters are thrilled about the new performing arts program being offered at Mouseford Academy. That is, until they meet the head of the department--the demanding and strict Professor Ratyshnikov. The mouselets will have to audition just to get into her class! On top of the that famouse ballerina is an old friend of Headmaster de Mousus, but the two no longer get along. It's up to the Thea Sisters to find out why. -- Back cover.
10) Yes please
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The actress best known for her work on "Parks and Recreation" and "Saturday Night Live" reveals personal stories and offers her humorous take on such topics as love, friendship, parenthood, and her relationship with Tina Fey.
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Welbeck Editions
Pub. Date
2021
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Learn how to [move] and groove like the [animals] do with this bright, fun and silly book aimed at younger readers to engage them in [movement]! Scuttle sideways like a [crab], leap like a [lemur], and waggle dance like a [bumble bee]. Meet a collection of animals from around the [world] and discover how they move, and why. The book features a different creature on each spread, along with [step-by-step] [actions] to help the kids move just like the...
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"Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn't "look" autistic. But, as he's quick to point out in this memoir, autism "looks" different for just about everyone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Diagnosed with ASD at age five, McCreary got hit with the performance bug not much later. During a difficult time in junior high, he started journaling,...
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Kageki Shojo volume 3
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Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"The Kouka School of Musical and Theatrical Arts might not be your average school, but it still has a sports festival! Sarasa and the other girls are eager to take part, but what they're really excited about is performing in the half-time show! Will they succeed on and off the stage?"--Provided by publisher.
14) 5 Little Monkeys
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Flowerpot Press
Pub. Date
2022
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Five little monkeys jumping on the bed, but what happens when they all fall off and bump their heads in this fairytale mashup featuring characters from "Five Little Monkeys" and Goldilocks and the Three Bears?
15) Act cool
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August Greene just nailed the audition of a lifetime. Now he's landed a coveted spot as a junior at the prestigious School of Performing Arts in New York, where real-deal actors are made. There's only one problem?he had to run away from his small-town, conservative parents who do not accept that he's transgender. If he wants to stay with his aunt in the city, he must promise his parents he won't transition and continue to play the role of their daughter....
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POW!
Pub. Date
2023.
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"The Big Wig Parade follows the drama between a collection of forest friends who are panicking over the upcoming Big Wig Parade. The animal with the biggest wig gets to be Grand Marshall! Naturally, they try a lot of different options, including wearing a skunk and a clod of dirt, but Peltie, their least favorite friend, has the answer. Peltie might stink, and he might shed too much, but he has a brilliant idea that might make everyone a winner"
18) I got the rhythm
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Bloomsbury
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2014.
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On a trip to the park with her mother, a young girl hears a rhythm coming from the world around her and begins to move to the beat, finally beginning an impromptu dance in which other childen join her.
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Chronicling the remarkable, sprawling history of the Academy Awards and the personal dramas that have played out on the stage and off camera, this entertaining exploration of the Oscars features a star-studded cast of some of the most powerful Hollywood players of today and yesterday.
20) Open book
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Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she's kept since age fifteen, and brimming with her unique humor and down-to-earth humanity, Open Book is as inspiring as it is entertaining. This was supposed to be a very different book. Five years ago, Jessica Simpson was approached to write a motivational guide to living your best life. She walked away from the offer, and nobody understood...
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