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Highly Recommended Theatre Titles. Works from the musical genre that belong in every theatre-lover's library:

The Age of Hair : Evolution and Impact of Broadway's First Rock Musical (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies, No 42)
Barbara Lee Horn

The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia
Thomas S. Hischak

American Song : The Complete Musical Theatre Companion 1877-1995
Ken Bloom, Books Schirmer

America's Musical Stage: Two Hundred Years of Musical Theatre (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies, No 18)
Julian Mates

American Musical Theatre
Gerald Bordman

American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle
Gerald Bordman

The American Musical Theatre : A Complete Musical Theatre Course
Steven Porter, Stephen Porter

The American Musical Theatre: A Manual for Performers: A Guide to Authors, Directors, Producers, Educators, and Students: A Complete Musical Theat
Steven Porter

American song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion
Ken Bloom

Americas Musical Stage: Two Hundred Years of Musical Theatre
Julian Mates

Assignments in Musical Theatre : Acting and Directing
Jacque Wheeler, Haller Laughlin

Auditioning for the Musical Theatre
Fred Silver

Auditioning for the Musical Theatre; How to Prepare to Get the Parts You Want
Fred Silver

Behold the Mighty Wurlitzer: The History of the Theatre Pipe Organ
John W. Landon

The Best of Broadway/Complete Words and Music for 80 Great Songs of the American Musical

Best of Broadway/Complete Words and Music for 80 Great Songs of the American Musical Theatre

Black Musical Theatre: From Coontown to Dreamgirls
Allen Woll

Book of World-Famous Libretti: The Musical Theatre from 1598 to Today
James J. Fuld

British Musical Theatre/No 48E3C

The Broadway Song Companion: An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style
David P. Devenney

Broadway Stories : A Backstage Journey Through Musical Theatre
Marty Bell

Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ Vol 1
David L. Junchen

Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ Vol 2
David L. Junchen

Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre
Kurt Ganzl

Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre
Stanley Green

From Assassins to West Side Story: The Director's Guide to Musical Theatre
Scott Miller

Ganzl's Book of the Broadway Musical: From H.M.S. Pinafore 1879 to Sunset Boulevard 1994
Kurt Ganzl

Getting the Show on: The Complete Guidebook for Producing a Musical in Your Theatre
Lehman Engel

Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre (Directors in Perspective)
Foster Hirsch

How to Audition for the Musical Theatre: A Step-By-Step Guide to Effective Preparation
Donald Oliver

How to Audition for the Musical Theatre: A Step-By-Step Guide to Effective Preparation (Career Development Book)
Donald Oliver

I Wish It So-Musical Theatre Album
Upshaw, Stern / Audio CD

Making Musicals: An Informal Introduction to the World of Musical Theatre
Tom Jones

More Opening Nights on Broadway: A Critical Quotebook of the Musical Theatre from 1965 Through 1981
Steven Suskin (Editor)

More Than Just Minstrel Shows: The Rise of Black Musical Theatre at the Turn of the Century (Isam Monographs, No 33)
Thomas L. Riis

The Musical Director in the Amateur Theatre

The Musical Director in the Amateur Theatre
William Hoare

Musical Notes: A Practical Guide to Staffing and Staging Standards of the American Musical Theatre
Carol Lucha-Burns

The Musical Theatre: A Celebration (Da Capo Paperback)
Alan Jay Lerner

Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV: Le Mariage De LA Grosse Cathos (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs)
Rebecca Harris-Warrick, Carol G. Marsh

Musical Theatre Classics Baritone Bass/Book and Cassette
Walters

Musical Theatre Classics Mezzo Soprano/660151 Vol 2

Musical Theatre Classics Mezzo Soprano/Book and Cassette Vol 1
Walters

Musical Theatre Classics Soprano/Book and Cassette Vol 1
Walters

Musical Theatre Classics Soprano/Book and Cassette Vol 2
Walter

Musical Theatre Classics Tenor/Book and Cassette
Walter

The Musical Theatre Cookbook: Recipes from Best-Loved Musicals
Mollie Ann Meserve, Walter J. Meserve

Musical Theatre in America: Papers and Proceedings of the Conference on the Musical Theatre in America
Glenn Loney (Editor)

Musicals! Directing School and Community Theatre
Robert Boland, Paul Argentini

The Musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Keith Richmond

New Singing Theatre: A Charter for the Music Theatre Movement
Michael Bawtree

Next! Auditioning for the Musical Theatre

Steven M. Alper, Herbert Knapp (Illustrator)

On Stage: Producing Musical Theatre (The Theatre Student)

Gerald Ratliff, Suzanne Trauth

Opening Night on Broadway: A Critical Quotebook of the Golden Era of the Musical Theatre, Oklahoma! (1943 to Fiddler on the Roof)
Steven Suskin (Editor)

Opera: Dead or Alive: Production, Performance, and Enjoyment of Musical Theatre
Ronald Elwy Mitchell

Singers Musical Theatre Anthology

Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology (Piano-Vocal Series)

The Singers Musical Theatre Anthology : Mezzo-Soprano/Alto

The Singers Musical Theatre Anthology : Tenor Vol 1

Sing Out, Louise!; 150 Stars of the Musical Theatre Remember 50 Years on Broadway
Dennis McGovern

The Singers Musical Theatre Anthology : Soprano Vol 1
Kurt Weill

Stage It With Music: An Encyclopedic Guide to the American Musical Theatre
Thomas S. Hischak

Staging Musical Theatre
Deborah Novak, Elaine Adams Novak

Stars of the American Musical Theatre in Historic
James J. Camner, Stanley Applebaum

Stars of the American Musical Theatre in Historic Photographs : 361 Portraits from the 1860's to 1950
Stanley Appelbaum, James Camner (Editor)

The Story of Starlight Theatre
Kathleen H. Thorne

Theatre Arranged for All Chord Organs (183 Pages)

Theatre in the Victorian Age (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs)
Michael R. Booth

With an Air Debonair: Musical Theatre in America, 1785-1815
Susan L. Porter

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Learn more about the 2008-2009 Season with descriptions of each play, dates and links (when available) to the play's program itself!
 
The Season kicks off with the enchanting The Voice of the Prairie, radio before Garrison Keillor. Next, Educating Rita the classic comedy that explores what it really means to be educated. Then "Mary's Wedding Hot new playwright Stephen Massicotte spins a breathtaking saga about young lovers who must surrender their fate to the uncertainties of their tumultuous times. Then, Candida George Bernard Shaw's story of a love triangle -- and a woman's choice between two men who love her.. Finally, the Los Angeles Premiere of a hilarious, sexy musical No Way to Treat a Lady.
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