Assassins: Vocal Selections Review

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(More customer reviews)The music to Assassins is incredibly written.There's no doubt that it's Sondheim at his best.The unusual rhyming schemes and clever lyrics make this musical one of my favorites.You can't escape the underlying humor ofa musical about a bunch of U.S. presidential assassins.The music may be alittle difficult for beginners to play (or sing, for that matter), but ifyou're up for a challenge, I say definetely go for it!

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The Ballad of Booth * The Ballad of Czolgosz * Unworty of Your Love * The Ballad of Guiteau * Everybody's Got the Right * Something Just Broke.

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The Best Plays of 2000-2001: The Otis Guernsey/Burns Mantle Theatre Yearbook Review

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(More customer reviews)The title is totally misleading.The book contains essays ABOUT plays, not the actual plays themselves.What a waste.

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The 82nd edition of this popular series, which began in 1920, features essays by prominent theater writers, illustrations by Al Hirschfeld and comprehensive reference on the theater season in New York and around the United States.

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Cabaret (Vocal Score) Review

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(More customer reviews)The reviews by Mr. Church and Hailey Haven are not about this item (the Full Vocal Score), but about the Vocal Selections (as is stated). I agree completely with Mr. Church that the Vocal Selections from the film are pourly cut.

The Full Vocal Score however contains ALL the music from the stage show (original version, not the Sam Mendes revival in which three songs from the film were added), including Playouts, Changes of Scene, Entr'acte, Curtain calls and Exit music. Also it gives you the instrumentation of different musical layers. (Don't bother to "Look Inside TM" to see what I mean: this link brings you to the Vocal Selections which as I already pointed out is a completely different item). Furthermore: spiral bound, so it stays open on your piano!

Nevertheless there are two negative notes:
- only songs from the show (not Mein Herr, Maybe this time, Money-money)
- no chord symbols

If you only look for the songs (and ALL the songs with chords, both show ànd film) I'd recommend "The Complete Cabaret Collection - Author's edition". But then you miss all incidental music and notes about instrumentation.

So I (preparing and musically arranging a production of the whole show) settled for this solution: the Full Vocal Score with most of the music (204 pages of sheet music and only 4 pages of accompanying text!) and photocopying of the songs that are not in the original show (but in the film). Too bad there's no "Definitive Cabaret Collection" to suit every man's wishes...

Update June 2008: my show has been played 5 times to great succes and good reviews, especially praising the orchestra. This orchestra could only have played so good thanks to the arrangements, for which I have made thorough use of the Full Vocal Score I bought in November 2007. This item has helped me a lot!

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Movie selections include: Willkommen
* Mein Herr
* Two Ladies
* Maybe This Time
* Money, Money
* Married
* If You Could See Her
* Tomorrow Belongs to Me
* Cabaret.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change: P/V/G Vocal Selections Review

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(More customer reviews)The production at Theatre at Old Town (San Diego) was fun, funny, fabulous, worth every cent, charming, and when it comes back (especially with the cast I saw!) I will definitely see it again.After all . . . 8 times was simply not enough!!

Don't miss this ... and listening to the CD brings it all back ... and allows me to sing-a-long!!

Gentle as you go ...

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Features 8 vocal selections from this hilarious off-Broadway send-up of "the relationship" that Variety calls, "Smartly conceived...(with) catchy tunes and witty lyrics." Songs include: Always a Bridesmaid * The Baby Song * I Can Live with That * I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change * I Will Be Loved Tonight * Marriage Tango * Shouldn't I Be Less in Love with You? * Tear Jerk.

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Cowgirls (Vocal Selections) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a strong woman's musical with great music that doesn't get tiring to listen to. I'd recommend it for anyone wanting to perform a great musical for theatre.

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15 selections from the 1996 musical, including: Cowgirls * Don't Call Me Trailer Trash * Don't Look Down * Every Saturday Night * From Chopin to Country * Heads or Tails * Honky Tonk Girl * House Rules * It's Time to Come Home * Kingdom of Country * Love's Sorrow/Looking for a Miracle * Saddle Tramp Blues * Songs My Mama Sang * Sunflower * They're All Cowgirls to Me.

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The Best Plays of 1998-1999 Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a true treasure of a book.What the editor does is he: Reviews the year in theatre for New York (Broadway, Off Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway), which is great for theatre enthusiasts (like myself) who don'tlive anywhere near New York. Produces synopsis of the prize winning playsof the season (He covers the New York Critics, The Lortel, The Tony, andThe Pulitzer prizes/awards).He used to choose ten of the best plays ofthe season, but changed to the abover system in the 1996-97 season.Thisseason, the plays he covers are: Wit, Side Man, Fosse, Closer, Parade, andNot About Nightingales.
Also included are a whole schwak of picturesand lists of the award winners, the longest running plays, and an entirelist of plays that made the Best Plays Yearbook before.
This is anabsolute must for anyone with love for theatre.The reviews are great andintelligent, the synposis are fun to read, and the Hirschfelds are great tolook at.This book will provide hours of a old-fashioned broadway lore,and you will be blissfully lost at home.

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"An incredible source of information about everything you ever wanted to know about Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway shows..." - Back Stage. This 80th edition features the New York season review by David Lefkowitz and Mel Gussow, programs and statistics, photographs of the year's highlights, a season of Al Hirschfeld drawings, and scenes from the prizewinning plays: Wit * Fosse * Closer * Side Man * Parade * Not About Nightingales. 556 pages, hardcover.

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Passion (Vocal Selections) Review

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(More customer reviews)While this book is simply amazing... you should either get thecd to listen to while reading this script or watch the movie tohear/see the fabulous performances and Sondheim's glorious music. This book is still worth buying even if you aren't able to hear the score.This play works in mysterious ways and bring out many passionate feelings in anyone with a heart.It conveys and brings forth emotions from anger to pity with Fosca, love and hate, hapiness and depression... This is a truly beautiful book!

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1994 Tony Award Winner-- Best Musical and Score! The titles are: Happiness * I Read * Love Like Ours * They Hear Drums * I Wish I Could Forget You * Loving You * No One Has Ever Loved Me. Includes four pages of color photos.

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Your Arms Too Short to Box With God Review

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(More customer reviews)Unsatisfied. I was under the impression that I was ordering a CD: instead, I received sheet music

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Titles include: Something Is Wrong in Jerusalem * We're Gonna Have a good Time * Beattitudes * It's Too Late, Judas * We Are the Priests and Elders.

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The Producers (Easy Piano Songbook) Review

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(More customer reviews)I am a big fan of Mel Brooks and more recently a fan of his newest hit musical formerlly starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.Since then I have been reading The Producers forum at the official website, and almost every week someone asks "Where can I get a copy of the sheet music" or some variation there of.Well here it is!This collection of 19 catchy tunes and hillarious lyrics is great for singing along with a piano accompament.The songs include ...'Til Him, Along Came Bialy Betrayed, Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop, Goodbye!, Haben Sie Gehort Das Deutsche Band? (Have You Ever Heard The German Band?), Heil Myself, I Wanna Be A Producer, In Old Bavaria, Keep It Gay, Opening Night, Prisoners Of Love (Leo & Max), Springtime For Hitler, That Face, The King Of Broadway, We Can Do It, When You Got It, Flaunt It, Where Did We Go Right?, and You Never Say Good Luck On Opening Night!This is almost everysong on the CD (with the exception of the Oventure and the reprise of Opening Night).With this book you'll have an opportunity to sing, hum, clap and hail Mel the way you may have done when you saw this great Broadway hit!

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This songbook contains easy piano arrangements of a dozen songs from Mel Brooks' Broadway blockbuster, the winner of a record 12 Tony Awards! Includes: Along Came Bialy * Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop * Goodbye! * Haben Sie Gehort Das Deutsche Band? * I Wanna Be a Producer * In Old Bavaria * Keep It Gay * Prisoners of Love * Springtime for Hitler * That Face * 'Til Him * When You Got It, Flaunt It.

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A Man of No Importance Review

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(More customer reviews)From me,that is high praise indeed. A soaring score. So simple and yet so elegant. A show that I missed at Lincoln Center. But I'll not make that mistake again.
The cast is very talented and sings beautifully. Roger Rees is so good in the lead that I've now forgiven him for "The Red Shoes", my all-time worst musical.
I do not give 5 star reviews often. I truly recommend this cd.

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Another great selection from the musical theater duo Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Arranged for Piano/Voice/Chords. Titles include: Books, The Burden Of My Life, The Cuddles Mary Gave, First Rehearsel, Going Up, Love Who You Love, Man In The Mirror, A Man Of No Importance, Princess, The Streets Of Dublin, Tell Me Why, Welcome To the World.

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Elegies A Song Cycle Review

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(More customer reviews)An incredible collection spanning a wide variety of musical styles and emotions, all based around love and loss. The songs range from hysterically funny (Passover, My Dogs) to incredibly intimate and heartfelt (Anytime, Saying My Goodbyes). The piano reductions in the book have been rhythmically simplified from what is played on the soundtrack, but the chords are very specific and what is there is very good for the average player. Some of William Finn's best work!

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Arranged for Piano & Guitar With Lyrics. Piano Arrangements by Vadim Feichtner and Carmel Dean.Songs from multi Tony Award winning composer, William Finn. Contents: Mister Choi And Madame G, MArk's All-Male Thanksgiving, Only One, Passover, Infinite Joy, Anytime (I Am There), My Dogs, 14 Dwight Ave., Natick, Massachusetts, When The Earth Stopped Turning, Saying My Goodbyes.

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The World of Jekyll and Hyde (Vocal Selections) Review

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(More customer reviews)I have this as I love this musical, and I also have the "Original Broadway Cast" Vocal Selections version of this fantastic show... One reason I had to get this in addition to the "OBC" Vocal Selections is that this has one of my Most Favorite Songs in the "Complete Gothic Musical" (the 2 CD set) which is Linda Eder's song "BRING ON THE MEN." This is the song that really introduces Lucy to the audience, and it is such a fun, rowdy, exciting song, I wish that it had been included on Broadway...You will not regret purchasing this if you are a fan of this amazing show!

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Features 15 songs not included in the current Broadway production: Bring On the Men * Girls of the Night * Hospital Board * I Need to Know * It's Over Now * Letting Go * Love Has Come of Age * Possessed * Retribution * Seduction * Till You Came into My Life * Transformation * We Still Have Time * and more. Includes an article by Leslie Bricusse, comments on each song by Frank Wildhorn, biographies, and international program covers.

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Candide: Scottish Opera Version Vocal Score Review

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(More customer reviews)As the rather pithy description of this "Candide" score states, this is complete vocal score according to the 1989 Scottish Opera performance, conducted by Leonard Bernstein.There have been alterations made to the original lyrics, and anyone familiar with the 1956 Broadway production will notice that "The Best of All Possible Worlds" is no longer about marriage, but is now deals with multiple topics of absurdity (and, as this is my review, I feel as though I can say I like the updated version more).The new lyrics are thanks to a slew of folks, including Stephen Sondheim and Bernstein himself.

The score has been beautifully set by Boosey and Hawkes and includes a page detailing the different character's vocal ranges.The publisher also lists possible doublings of chorus members and differentiates between singing and non-singing roles.A breakdown of the orchestration follows (it's a fairly large pit, too).As is standard with show music, the score contains a piano reduction of the orchestration.There are no instrumental cues (the only flaw, in my opinion). Several appendices are included which include an alternate musical number, and the running order of several different productions of the show.

This is just my opinion, but I say buy it before it goes out of print.

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Complete vocal score to the Scottish Opera 1989 edition.

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Piano/Vocal/Chords) Review

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(More customer reviews)Although the information above is wrong, (the book is 102 pages) this book is worth far more than the $21.95, they're asking for.True to form, William Finn keeps putting out comprehensive songbooks with exciting arrangements of his music dramas.The lyrics in 25th Annual are a bit more rational than his exercises in stream-of-consciousness poeticism like Falsettos or A New Brain, but Finn continues to be a hilarious, accomplished lyricist.Although I was disappointed at the omission of the reprises and a few finales, overall, I was quite pleased with this book, and I recommend it to auditioners, amateur musical theatre actors, or simply fans of the show.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee spells out one thing for sure: F-U-N.

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Arranged for Piano/Guitar With Lyrics. Contains all of the songs from the Tony Award winning musical plus full color photographs of the cast. Titles: The I Love You SongI Speak Six LanguagesI'm Not That SmartMagic FootMy Friend, The DictionaryMy Unfortunate ErectionPandemoniumPrayer of the Comfort Counselor25th Annual Putnam County Spelling BeeWoe is Me

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Annie Get Your Gun (Vocal Selections) Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this book after seeing the show, and decided to use some songs in auditions. This book is very good because they give you most of the songs from the musical. Most of the songs are in there but not all of thereprises are there. The confusing part of the book is the fact that theydon't give the names of the characters singing the songs.Clear and easyto read music adds to the benefits of this book! Great for those justlearning to read music. Would be challenging for a beginning pianist.

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Twelve songs from this Irving Berlin favorite, which won the 1999 TonyAward for Best Musical Revival. Includes: Anything You Can Do * Doin' What Comes Natur'lly * The Girl That I Marry * I Got Lost in His Arms * I Got the Sun in the Morning * I'll Share It All with You * Moonshine Lullaby * My Defenses Are Down * An Old Fashioned Wedding * There's No Business Like Show Business * They Say It's Wonderful * You Can't Get a Man with a Gun.

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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Vocal Score) Review

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(More customer reviews)Your a good man charlie brown is the best musical ever and I'm obsessed with it.I wish I could see it but it unfortunely it closed and I could'nt see it But this is the best book I've found but it doesn't have "Beetoven Day".

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The complete vocal score to the endearing Broadway musical.

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Titanic: A New Musical Review

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(More customer reviews)The musical score for Titanic a New Musical, is limited.
The score contains some of the main music from the musical, but lacks some of the more important connecting pieces. It is a beginners book so I'd caution others before buying.

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Titanic

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