How to direct a musical : Broadway - your way! : with special material for working with youth, teens, the disabled, challenged, retired, and computers / David Young.
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TextPublication details: New York ; London : Routledge, 1995Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 161p.) : illISBN: 9781315059488 (ebook)Subject(s): Musicals -- Production and direction | Performing Arts | Theatre studiesGenre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleOnline access: Click here to access online Summary: This is the author's first-hand account of how one successfully creates a stage musical, offering a practical, do-it-yourself approach for the first-time director. There are also several chapters for the more experienced director. How to Direct a Musical is a lively and practical guide to the seemingly overwhelming task of directing a musical. David Young brings to this handbook his extensive experience as a director of over 100 productions and more than 250 workshops in the US, China, Senegal and Brazil. Young takes a pragmatic, do-it-yourself approach, guiding the reader from planning to casting, rehearsal to opening night. Topics covered include script analysis, collaboration with designers, musical directors, choreographers and crew, eliminating lengthy pauses between scenes, dress rehearsals and curtain calls.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-154) and index.
This is the author's first-hand account of how one successfully creates a stage musical, offering a practical, do-it-yourself approach for the first-time director. There are also several chapters for the more experienced director. How to Direct a Musical is a lively and practical guide to the seemingly overwhelming task of directing a musical. David Young brings to this handbook his extensive experience as a director of over 100 productions and more than 250 workshops in the US, China, Senegal and Brazil. Young takes a pragmatic, do-it-yourself approach, guiding the reader from planning to casting, rehearsal to opening night. Topics covered include script analysis, collaboration with designers, musical directors, choreographers and crew, eliminating lengthy pauses between scenes, dress rehearsals and curtain calls.
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