Assassins: Vocal Score Review

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(More customer reviews)This is, in my opinion, Sondheim's greatest musical to date. The score, although shorter than most of his, contains some of his wittiest lyrics: 'Or we'd have been left / Bereft / Of F.D.R.!', and some of the greatesttunes ('The Gun Song' is a personal favourite). Sondheim cleverly uses themarches of John Philip Sousa to evoke the ironic feeling of patriotism in atale about presidential assassins. He also pastiches the music of AaronCopland in many numbers. The combination of these styles and composersprovides a truly American atmosphere, which, when heard out of context makewonderful songs, but in context of the show carry a deeper underscore ofmenace. Whether you're intending to produce the show or you just want toown a piece of Sondheim history, this score is a must!

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The Ballad of Booth * The Ballad of Czolgosz * Unworthy of Your Love *The Ballad of Guiteau * Everybody's Got the Right.

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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 16-Bar Theatre Audition: 100 Songs Excerpted for Succesful Auditions (Vocal Collection-Baritone/Bass) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great audition resource, as it not only has the songs already broken down into audition-ready length, but it also includes a wide variety. There are pieces from shows old and contemporary. And although some of the music goes a bit over 16 bars, this is generally nto a big deal. It's maybe two-four bars over. Directors are typically more concerned with your voice than PRECISE bar count. These selections keep it close, though.

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Most large audition calls for musical theatre, both professionally and in larger school situations, specify that those auditioning bring in a "16 bar" excerpt. The professionals in musical theatre often complain that singers don't know how to construct an appropriate 16 bar audition, either in choosing a song or in editing an excerpt. With this new series, that problem is solved forever! Editor Michael Dansicker, a composer/producer/music director, is a seasoned musical theatre veteran, with 100 Broadway credits. He brings his expertise and broad knowledge of the literature to this series. Each excerpt has been given a thoughtful, graceful and effective form. No more illegible scribblings for the poor audition accompanist! An enormous variety of literature is represented, from old standards to movie songs to the latest Broadway and Off-Broadway material. With 100 songs per volume, any singing actor, whatever his or her talents and strong suits, will have many choices. In the preface, the editor gives valuable pointers on the nature of a good audition and some factors in choosing songs.

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Cuba Mia: Portrait of an All-Woman Orchestra Review

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(More customer reviews)For those who appreciate culture and classical music and yearn for a refreshing new performance, this DVD is worth owning, watching and sharing for years to come. Unfortunately, AMAZON's description of "actors" is wrong. Celia Cruz and others cited are not in the film. This award winning documentary/film is an enjoyable expression of a group of women who live in Cuba and play deligthfully well and cohesively. The Romeu Camarata provides us with an excellent example of the art of music and specifically, Cuban classical music. With very limited resources, the performers share their passion and devotion. I hope others will enjoy it as much as I have.

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This powerful documentary introduces the Camerata Romeu, a rare group of ten extraordinarily talented musicians and a woman conductor who are among the most popular musical groups in Cuba, and with them a cross-section of stunning Cuban and Latin American

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Company : A Musical Comedy (Vocal Score) Review

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(More customer reviews)When Mr. Sondheim and and Mr. Furth wrote the show they wanted to have something that would make the audience laugh all night and then stay awake the rest of the night thinking about it.And that is EXACTLY what theydid!Mr. Furth developes his characters so well as does Sondheim.Tofully get the show one might consider getting the cd (original cast albumis the best and can be found here on Amazon.com as well)This is seriouslythe best libretto I own.. and I own MANY.

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16 vocal selections from the Broadway musical, including: Another Hundred People * Company * Getting Married Today * Have I Got a Girl for You * The Ladies Who Lunch * The Little Things You Do Together * Side by Side by Side * Sorry - Grateful * Tick Tock * and more.

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Ultimate Sing-Along Female Voice Broadway Divas (Book & CD) (Ultimate Vocal Sing-Along) Review

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(More customer reviews)I buy a lot of music books with accompaniment CD's because I like to be able to get to know a piece very well before I perform it. I bought this book hoping to learn a few new show tunes, but I was terribly disappointed. It's great if all you want to do is sing karaoke, but it's not good for learning a piece for a performance. There is no piano music, just the lead line, so you can't take the book to your accompanist and have him or her play it for you. Even more problematic is that the accompaniment (music) itself is just awful. If you're used to karaoke, you might be ok with this, but I found the accompaniment to be cheesy. Because I can't listen to the accompaniment (it's so annoying) and because the book doesn't contain the piano accompaniment, I don't think I'm going to use this at all. I was extremely disappointed.

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Songbook & Sound Choice Karaoke CD With TNT (ToneNTempo Changer)Alfred s Ultimate Sing-Along books give you everything you need to sing with your favorite songs. Each songbook has the lyrics, music notation, and chords to eight great songs, with lyric-only pages included.There are two versions of every song on the CD: a full-performance track with an amazing sound-alike recording and a professional accompaniment track so you can sing along. When you use the CD in your MAC or Windows-based computer, the TNT (ToneNTempo) Changer lets you easily change the key and tempo to individualize the playback for just your voice and style.Contents:And All That Jazz, (Chicago)Anything Goes,(Anything Goes)Aquarius,(Hair)Dancing Queen,(Mamma Mia!)Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend,(Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) How Could I Ever Know, (The Secret Garden)Send in the Clowns,(A Little Night Music)Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets, (Damn Yankees)

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Fiddler on the Roof: Based on Sholom Aleichem's Stories Review

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(More customer reviews)Wonderful! It's the full script not a novel. It includes some wonderful pictures from the original production.

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The full text and complete lyrics, as well as photographs from the original production.

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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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Flower Drum Song (Score) Review

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(More customer reviews)I read this book many years ago and enjoyed so much that I have read everything I could find by Mr. Lee, and since then other Chinese American authors.
It is a shame that for so many years the book was rejected by young Asian Americans as being "too white face" or "Uncle Tom" as it is not so at all.C.Y. Lee was a Chinese immigrant and wrote of the society as he saw it at that time, which is not the way the younger generation, who did not live through the immigrant experience, want to see it.This is not unusual, many well schooled, well fed sucessful Americans do not want to know that their grandparents arrived in steerage with their belongings tied up in kit bag, unable to speak the language, and worked 18 hours a day in menial jobs so that their children could get ahead.
This is a poignant story of Chinese immigrant families in Southern California during the days of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and the difficulty the young American-raised men had in finding a wife.They were not allowed to bring women in from China, and they were not permitted to marry non Asians.Because of the Communist takeover, many Chinese who had dreamed of returning home to China when they retired after working all their lives were unable to do so. The situtation created an artifically stressed society.The book has tragedy and sadness, as well as hope and joy.
My only criticism of the novel, and a mild one at that, is that it frequently reads like a play script, especially in the last chapter, where there is a lot of dialogue, followed by descriptions of the action which read like stage directions.It is possible that the novel was orignally intended to be a play.
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The musical version of the book which was also filmed was very loosely based on the novel, in fact one of the major characters was created for the musical.Apparently this has been done again with the new version playing on Broadway.Readers expecting to find a printed version of the musical may be disappointed.

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The complete vocal score with 15 songs: Chop Suey * Don't Marry Me * Fan Tan Fannie * Finale * Flower Drum Song * Gliding Through My Memoree * Grant Avenue * A Hundred Million Miracles * I Am Going to like It Here * I Enjoy Being a Girl * Like a God * Love, Look Away * The Other Generation * Ta's Dream * You Are Beautiful.

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Theatre World 1990-1991, Vol. 47 Review

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(More customer reviews)This book contains a wealth of information about every show running in the '90-'91 season, including musicals, plays, Broadway, Off-Broadway, and even some notable out-of-town productions. There are black and white photos of each show, cast lists, and information on the production. There is also a thorough index which enables easy searching for specific actors or productions.

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Theatre World, the statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway and off-Broadway season, touring companies, and professional regional companies throughout the United States, has become a classic in its field. The book is complete with cast listings, replacement producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles, and much, much more. There are special sections with biographical data, obituary information, listings of annual Shakespeare festivals and major drama awards.

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Phantom Vocal Selections (Piano) Review

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(More customer reviews)I have seen the Lloyd Webber version two times and the Yeston version four.There is no way that the Lloyd Webber version can match up to the Yeston version.In this book you learn more about the character of Erik,he has a sense of humor, an aching heart, and a love for Christine.Youlearn how he met Christine, who his parents are and why he loves Christine. The Lloyd Webber version is spectacular and I will always love it, but itis very vaugue, and for those who wish to know Erik (the Phantom) this is avery good book to read.

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30m, 7f, plus ensemble (doubling possible.) / Ints./exts.This mesmerizing Phantom is traditional musical theatre in the finest sense. The Tony award winning authors of Nine have transformed Gaston Leroux' The Phantom of the Opera into a sensation that enraptures audiences and critics with beautiful songs and an expertly crafted book. It is constructed around characters more richly developed than in any other version, including the original novel. "Everything is first rate."- N.Y. Daily News"Rhapsodic music that entrances, moves and haunts...A welcome link to musical theatre's golden past."- The New York Times--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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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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Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)Ted Chapin was the luckiest 20 year old whoever lived.As a "production assistant" (unpaid gofer)for the new Broadway musical "Follies", he had the opportunity and good sense to record the making of one of the greatest musicals of that era."Everything Was Possible" covers the first rehearsals to the abysmal cast recording to what has happened to the people involved. Starting from pre production on, his narrative never gets stale.He tells of how Hal Prince, Stephen Sondheim and Michael Bennett pulled it all off.It wasn't always fun.They had to deal with a group of aging actors who found negotiating a raked stage dangerous and a lot of their vulnerabilites and insecurities.
The book will have significant impact on anyone who saw the show. I did not see it in New York but at the end of its Broadway run it was to go on a national tour starting in Los Angeles.With most of the original cast intact I sat center section at the Shubert Theatre in Los Angeles in September, 1972.
It was one of the most emotional roller coasters I have been on in the theatre.The tour ended two weeks later and "Follies" has seldom been revived.
All musical theatre afficionados will love Chapin's book.Thank you Ted for letting us see those "Beautiful Girls" one more time.

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Carousel: Vocal Score - Revised Edition Review

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(More customer reviews)This is one of my favorite scores from the Rodgers and Hammerstein canon. If you are a musical theater major or musical theater fan (and collect complete vocal scores), this is a great score to have in your collection and worthy of study.

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This exciting revised edition was created to convey in complete and correct form the musical score and lyrics of this beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical as performed in the original Broadway production. Includes: Ballet * Blow High, Blow Low * Geraniums in the Winder/Stonecutters Cut It on Stone * The Highest Judge of All * Hornpipe * If I Loved You * June Is Bustin' Out All Over * Mister Snow * Prologue (The Carousel Waltz) * A Real Nice Clambake * Soliloquy * What's the Use of Wond'rin' * When the Children Are Asleep * You'll Never Walk Alone. Features all new engravings, a synopsis of scenes and cast listings.

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Mario Lanza: Tenor in Exile (Amadeus) Review

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(More customer reviews)Having just read this so called biography, I am amazed at some of the comments from readers and reviewers alike. "Well researched"?"Well documented"? "Balanced"? Thebook is full of errors!There are blatant mistakes and distortions onvirtually every page!E.G.Page 15: Filignano is in the Molise region notAbruzzi. Page 37: The RCA contract was signed in February 1945 not October1944. Page 47: The apartment was not rent free. Lanza paid $75 per monthfor it.Page 219: Lanza and Di Stefano never met. I know Di Stefano. Theyonly spoke twice on the telephone.Need I go on? I have spent a lifetimeresearching the life and career of Lanza (the last 20 years working on abiography.)I cannot believe that Amadeus actually published this almostcompletely inaccurate book. As for Mr. Bessette, I don't know his motivesfor attempting this futile exercise, but the mere fact that he relied on AlTeitelbaum as his main source of information says it all.

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The Great American Book Musical: A Manifesto, A Monograph, A Manual (Limelight) Review

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(More customer reviews)I understand the author of this book was dying as he wrote it.I therefore hate to criticise it too severely, but the truth is, it should not have been published.It is full of factual errors, and absurd assertions, that anyone with a reasonable knowledge of musicals will spot quickly.

The editorial standards for books about musicals seem to be extremely low.This is far from the first book on the topic to be riddled with errors.Is it so hard to send a manuscript to someone with the knowledge to fact-check it?

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I'm trying to leave a record of the technique, to create a blueprint for an ancient art.- Denny Martin Flinn Devoted theatergoers fondly remember Broadway's Golden Age - when musical theatre reached its apex and creativity was infused into every time signature, witty remark, and kick-ball-change. Denny Martin Flinn analyzes the classic musicals of that era, outlining the unique artistic and theatrical qualities that elevate these great American book musicals.

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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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