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Free Download A Taste of Broadway: Food in Musical Theater (Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy) by Jennifer Packard
English | December 1, 2017 | ISBN: 1442267313 | True EPUB | 214 pages | 4.4 MB
Beyond being just fuel for the body, food carries symbolic importance used to define individuals, situations, and places, making it an ideal communication tool. In musical theater, food can be used as a shortcut to tell the audience more about a setting, character, or situation. Because everyone relates to eating, food can also be used to evoke empathy, amusement, or shock from the audience. In some cases, food is central to show’s Description.

Free Download Michael Riedel, "Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway"
English | 2020 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 1501166638 | EPUB | 45,1 mb
The extraordinary story of a transformative decade on Broadway, featuring gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of shows such as Rent, Angels in America, Chicago, The Lion King, and The Producers-shows that changed the history of the American theater.

Free Download Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity by Ryan Donovan
English | February 24, 2023 | ISBN: 0197551076, 0197551084 | True EPUB | 330 pages | 247 MB
Broadway has body issues.

Free Download Masi Asare, "Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage "
English | ISBN: 147803095X | 2024 | 304 pages | PDF | 7 MB
In Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970. Asare shows how a vanguard of black women singers including Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Pearl Bailey, Juanita Hall, Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, Diahann Carroll, and Leslie Uggams created a lineage of highly trained and effective voice teachers whose sound and vocal techniques continue to be heard today. Challenging pervasive narratives that these and other black women possessed "untrained" voices, Asare theorizes singing as a form of sonic citational practice-how the sound of the teacher’s voice lives on in the student’s singing. From vaudeville-blues shouters, black torch singers, and character actresses to nightclub vocalists and Broadway glamour girls, Asare locates black women of the musical stage in the context of historical voice pedagogy. She invites readers not only to study these singers, but to study with them-taking seriously what they and their contemporaries have taught about the voice. Ultimately, Asare speaks to the need to feel and hear the racial history in contemporary musical theatre.

Free Download Leonard Getz, "From Broadway to the Bowery: A History and Filmography of the Dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids and Bower"
English | ISBN: 0786425350 | 2006 | 364 pages | PDF | 19 MB
In 1935 Sidney Kingsley’s play about streetwise urban kids, Dead End, opened on Broadway featuring 14 adolescent actors. For two years on Broadway and then on tour, Kingsley’s play delivered its social commentary contrasting affluent neighborhoods and tenement slums on New York City’s East River. The film industry picked up the story and in 1937 released Dead End, which spawned 23 more years of films and serials featuring the Dead End kids and their offshoots, Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys. This chronicle follows the street kids through the many assorted incarnations, shifting casts and studios. First the reader is introduced to how the original play and film came about. A cast list and analysis of each production follows. For the major players, the author provides a biography and filmography, and several of these entries include a tribute from a friend or family member. Brief biographical profiles are given for other actors. Sketches of the “Dead End” revivals of 1978 and 2005 follow.

Free Download Roy Liebman, "Broadway Actors in Films, 1894-2015"
English | ISBN: 0786476850 | 2017 | 316 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Many Broadway stars appeared in Hollywood cinema from its earliest days. Some were 19th century stage idols who reprised famous roles on film as early as 1894. One was born as early as 1829. Another was cast in the performance during which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. One took her stage name from her native state. Some modern-day stars also began their careers on Broadway before appearing in films.

Free Download Broadway Butterfly: Vivian Gordon: The Lady Gangster of Jazz Age New York (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D3FDF1YM | 2024 | 8 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 248 MB
Author: Anthony M. DeStefano
Narrator: Romy Nordlinger
Indiana-born Vivian Gordon fluttered to New York in 1920 looking for fame and fortune. Before long, the flame-haired chorus girl parlayed her youth, beauty, and ambition into more profitable means as a tough and glamorous symbol of Prohibition-era excess. She was a speakeasy owner, blackmailer, high-end escort, extortionist, racketeer, and con woman. But given her dangerously intimate associations, Vivian was also a woman who knew too much and who rightfully feared for her life. On February 26, 1931, Vivian’s bludgeoned and garroted body was found dumped in Van Cortland Park in the Bronx.

Free Download Fable Sounds Broadway Big Band v2.2.1 KONTAKT Update ONLY | 427 Mb
Delivering supreme content and groundbreaking technological innovation, Broadway Big Band – Kontakt Edition is a virtual instrument by Fable Sounds with a whopping 100 Gigabyte of audio content and a unique set of powerful features. Exploding with character and attitude, Broadway Big Band – Kontakt Edition has been established as the ultimate virtual instrument for contemporary brass, reeds and rhythm section instruments. With multiple microphone setups, whether for live stage use or studio work, contemporary or an oldie, Broadway Big Band can do it all. It has been used by top industry professionals on major albums, live shows, and high profile film, television, and theater projects. Putting the most detailed, realistic, versatile, and playable instruments at your fingertips, Broadway Big Band™ is an indispensable tool for creating Jazz, Funk, Pop, Blues, R&B, Latin, Hip-Hop, and much more…

Free Download Ruben Santiago-Hudson, "Jitney: A Play – Broadway Tie-In Edition"
English | 2017 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 1468314491 | EPUB | 2,5 mb
Only one of the plays in two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s masterfulThe American Century Cyclehas never been seen on Broadway―until now. In his preface to this Broadway edition ofJitney, director Ruben Santiago-Hudson writes: "There had been nine jewels placed in August Wilson’s formidable crown, each had changed the landscape of Broadway in their respective seasons. Until now, only one gem was missing. With this production of Jitney at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre the final gem is in place."Set in the 1970s, this richly textured piece follows a group of men trying to eke out a living by driving unlicensed cabs, or jitneys. When the city threatens to board up the business and the boss’s son returns from prison, tempers flare, potent secrets are revealed and the fragile threads binding these people together may come undone at last.In addition to the essential and insightful preface by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, this edition boasts production stills from the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway production, directed by Santiago-Hudson and featuring Harvy Blanks, Anthony Chisholm, Brandon J. Dirden, André Holland, Carra Patterson, Michael Potts, Keith Randolph Smith, Ray Anthony Thomas, and John Douglas Thompson.

Free Download How Broadway Works by Sharon Grace Powers
English | December 15, 2023 | ISBN: 1493059947 | 284 pages | PDF | 1.64 Mb
How Broadway Works celebrates the unsung, out-of-sight people on Broadway who bring a production to the stage and shows young people interested in theater that there are myriad of vocations other than acting.