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"Reynold Levy joined Lincoln Center in 2002. This book reveals the real story behind the 1.2 billion dollar reinvention of Lincoln Center, and all the trials and triumphs along the way. It contains unique lessons for leaders in all kinds of organizations, cautionary tales for employees, volunteers and donors, and inspiring clarity for anyone who wants to lead an institution they believe in so that it can become the best version of itself. "--
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A book of comedic short stories and long-form jokes about theatre professionals. The title is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the continuous style of vaudeville performance pioneered by B.F. Keith, where acts would appear multiple times over the course of up to 12 hours in an attempt to maximize audience traffic.
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"No art form is as instantly and continuously gratifying as film. When the house lights go down and the lion roars, we settle in to be shocked, frightened, elated, moved, and thrilled. We expect magic. While we're being exhilarated and terrified, our minds are also processing data of all sorts--visual, linguistic, auditory, spatial--to collaborate in the construction of meaning. Thomas C. Foster's Reading the Silver Screen will show movie buffs,...
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Excerpt: "The faithful recording of daily life with one of the "big shows," wandering with it under all vicissitudes, fortunate or adverse, is the errand on which this book is sent. You and I will travel from the distraction and tumult of the summer season to the congenial quiet of winter quarters, and survey operations from the hour when new and unwonted scenes and sounds startle city quiet or country seat retirement until the stealthy breaking of...
6) Swords
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A play set in medieval England, Swords tells a romance story of "those who fight" in the strict caste system of the time.
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The University Society
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1901.
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Thought to have been written between 1591 and 1595, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was first published in 1597. The story of two "star-crossed" lovers, the play is based on an English translation of an Italian version of the tale by Arthur Brooke. The tragedy is now one of the playwright's most popular and frequently performed plays and the famous lines uttered at the balcony scene ("But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?) are among the...
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th Century... In 1834, desperate to create a better life for his family, small-time Connecticut businessman P. T. Barnum moved to New York City. With true entrepreneurial spirit and against all odds, he wowed audiences with his ensemble of musical spectacles, attractions and variety shows - often exploiting the vulnerable...
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A fantastic book for the reader who is not overly familiar with the character and history of Henry VIII and the major "players" in his life. The book actually seeks to give a brief background of King Henry and his other wives and courtiers in order for the reader to have a better grasp on Shakespeare's play "Henry VIII" but it's also a fantastic introduction for anyone beginning the study of Henry VIII.
11) The world's your stage: how performing artists can make a living while still doing what they love
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Filled with insights from leading figures in the arts as well as lessons from thriving artist-entrepreneurs, the authors explain the business side of performing arts, in a book that helps readers understand the numbers, find their niche, market and promote themselves and their venture, network productively , fundraise both online and off and much more.
12) Julius Caesar
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Believed to have been written in 1599, Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar has become the most famous account of Caesar's life and death. Portraying the 44 BC conspiracy against the Roman dictator, his murder and the defeat of his killers at the Battle of Philippi, the play is largely accurate in its references to Roman history. While the play is named after Caesar and the plot centers around his actions, many critics argue that the protagonist...
14) Henry VIII
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Henry VIII - William Shakespeare - King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered, collaborative play, revealing it as a complex meditation on the progress of Reformation which sees English life since Henry VIII's day as a series of bewildering changes...
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"From his early seventies dispatches as a fledgling critic for The Village Voice on rock 'n roll, movies, and television, to the literary criticism of the eighties and nineties that made him both feared and famous, to his must-read reports on the cultural weather for Vanity Fair, James Wolcott has had a career as a freelance critic and an intellectual nearly unique in our time. This collection features the best of Wolcott in whatever guise-connoisseur,...
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T.S. Denison and Company
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1923.
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Throughout the golden age of circuses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, amateur circuses were popular features of fundraisers, church socials and school events. Numerous exercise guides for amateur circus performers were released by circus trainers, and creative tips for producing amateur circuses were compiled by enterprising publishers. In "How to Put on an Amateur Circus," authors Fred A. Hacker and Prescott W. Eames provide everything...
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Herbert S. Stone and Company
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1901.
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The 1871 partnership of P.T. Barnum and W.C. Coup led to an important moment in circus history: the establishment of Barnum's first traveling circus, "P.T. Barnum's Museum, Menagerie and Circus." Barnum was a legendary showman known as the "Shakespeare of Advertising" for his innovative ideas, and as the developer of the circus train and the two-ring circus, W.C. Coup was a circus pioneer in his own right. In this 1901 volume, Coup recalls some of...
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