What was the first TV show to air in color? Where did the term "vaudeville" originate? What exactly does a best boy do on a movie set? These questions and many, many more are answered in this compendium of mind-boggling facts, fascinating lore, insider stories, and illuminating statistics about the theater, cinema, and television. Journalist James ...
Born in poverty in the 1930s, Don Black quickly grew accustomed to "wrestling with elephants"--doing the hard work necessary to survive, or to write a good lyric. Black should know. An acclaimed songwriter responsible for "Born Free" and a trio of James Bond title songs, among hundreds, he has won every possible award and worked with the top ...
This book features in-depth interviews with today's major producers of theatre, opera and ballet. They are dictators, often eccentrics, all of them visionaries who beat the odds on a daily basis to achieve their dreams. Includes: Sir Cameron Mackintosh, Sir Peter Hall, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Bill Kenwright, Harvey Goldsmith, Raymond Gubbay, Matthew ...
With hit TV shows picking the leads in productions of "Oliver!" and "The Sound Of Music", and smash musicals like "Hairspray" and "Wicked all the West End" rage, musical theater is as popular as it's ever been. James Inverne provides an indispensable guide to his top one hundred greatest shows of all time - and ten of the worst. Whether you know ...
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