The Stage Door Cookbook

Lang, Robert

Limelight

This new translation of the original texts of over 750 songs allows the reader to follow, line by line, the English directly opposite the German. “Will no doubt become the standard lieder-resource for the English-speaking world...” – Choice

The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder: The Original Texts of Over Seven Hundred and Fifty Songs (Limelight)

Arts & Photography

Music

Jerome Hines has interviewed 40 singers, a speech therapist, and a throat specialist to provide this invaluable collection of advice for all singers. This collection includes the commentary of Licia Albanese, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Marilyn Horne, Sherrill Milnes, Birgit Nilsson, Luciano Pavarotti, Rose Ponselle, Beverly Sills, Joan Sutherland and many others. “Probably the best book on the subject.” Publishers Weekly

Great Singers on Great Singing: A Famous Opera Star Interviews 40 Famous Opera Singers on the Technique of Singing (Limelight)

Hines, Jerome

This book relays the complete history of gospel music, paying special attention to the relationship between gospel and other African American musical forms in America such as jazz and R&amp;B. It discusses specific gospel music singers as well as the world of the gospel church itself. Includes black-and-white photos.

The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times (Limelight)

Heilbut, Anthony

“This is a riotous story which is reasonably mad and as accurate as a Marx brother can make it. Despite only a year and a half of schooling, Harpo, or perhaps his collaborator, is the best writer of the Marx Brother. Highly recommended.” –Library Journal “A funny, affectionate and unpretentious autobiography done with a sharply professional assist from Rowland Barber.” –New York Times Book Review

Harpo Speaks! (Limelight)

Marx, Harpo

Reference

The lives of Herbie Nichols, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, and Jackie McLean are dicussed through biographical sketches and quotations. Photographs are included.

Four Lives in the Bebop Business

Spellman, A.B.

Humor & Entertainment

The complete 8-year curriculum of Leningrad's famed Vaganova Choreographic School, which trained Nureyev, Baryshnikov, and Makarova, including over 100 photographs. A volume which no teacher, scholar, or student of the dance can afford to miss. “A serious, indeed indispensable, textbook.” –Clive Barnes

100 Lessons in Classical Ballet: The Eight-Year Program of Leningrad's Vaganova Choreographic School (Limelight)

Vera S. Kostrovitskaya

“A double delight: a richly entertaining biography of both screenwriter-director Wilder and his milieu – Hollywood... a fascinating montage of a man whose talents and quirks, virtues and faults, are endlessly engrossing. Electrifying opinions of those with whom he has worked and the original casting choices for his films are often surprising: Mae West was his first choice for Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard and Mary Pickford was his second! A first-rate book about a complicated, talented curmudgeon.” – After Dark

Billy Wilder in Hollywood (Limelight)

Zolotow, Maurice

“Ginger Howard Friedman is one of the most innovative and important teachers of our time.”--Jerry Orbach You got the audition. Now how do you get the part? What can you do to ensure getting a callback? And what can you do at the callback to demonstrate that you're the one for that role? In this invaluable book, veteran casting director-playwright-teacher Ginger Howard Friedman shares her trade secrets for successful auditioning. Through creative visualization techniques and exercises, she prepares you for that first, all-important cold reading, and using those same techniques, she enables you to tap into the dreams and goals of your character – and give the strongest audition you can. With her guidance, you'll learn: What tools to bring with you to a cold reading, how to prepare for a callback at your first audition, how to give your audition the energy of an opening-night performance, and how to get the part – and keep it. The author's exercises in creative visualization utilize scenes from such classic and contemporary plays as A Doll's House, Born Yesterday, Equus, The Lisbon Traviata, and Six Degrees of Separation. The techniques developed from these exercises can be used to prepare for virtually any role, whether on stage, screen or television.

Callback Softcover (Limelight)

Friedman, Ginger Howard

“This magnificent and important biography...is the best ever written on the man.” – The New Republic; “Mr. Schickel's excellent and important biography makes it clear that when the movers of our century are tallied, D.W. Griffith, flawed genius that he was, can never lose his eminent position.” – Peter Bogdanovich, The New York Times Book Review

D.W. Griffith: An American Life (Limelight)

SCHICKEL, RICHARD

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