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CASTING DIRECTOR'S SECRETS INSIDE TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL AUDITIONS

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ROBERT

A critic and writer on dance for well over twenty years, Barbara Newman has gone in search of teachers and coaches, directors, choreographers and stagers - former dancers who had turned the focus of their own experience on others - to explain the state of ballet today. Among leaders of the dance world the author interviewed were Suki Schorer, Helgi Tomasson, Mark Morris, Violette Verdy and 14 other artists whose work she knew and respected, most of them active outside of New York and London. Newman is not interested in dance as an aesthetic abstraction, and the people who answered her questions were not speaking theoretically. On the contrary, her speculation and their responses bring an elusive subject down to earth, illuminating a process that reaches back in history and forward to today, though its dreams are of a world no one can imagine.

Matt Wolf''s book chronicles ten amazing years for the Donmar and for Mendes combining accounts of numerous productions and extensive interviews with Mendes himself and more than sixty Donmar alumni: Sondheim Nicole Kidman Gwyneth Paltrow Alan Cumming Helen Mirren Stephen Dillane and Jennifer Ehle to name but a few. This celebration of the Donmar''s tenth anniversary is full of candid conversation analyses of its successes as well as its failures and trenchant behind-the-scenes reporting. It is also the Donmar''s farewell to Sam Mendes who is leaving the theatre to pursue other opportunities on the stage and screen. As director of ÊAmerican BeautyÊ for which he won an Academy Award and ÊRoad to PerditionÊ his future is as bright as his past.

CHILDSPLAY

MONTGOMERY CLIFT PB

ACCENTS A MANUAL FOR ACTING AUDIO ONLINE REVISED EDITION

100 LESSONS IN CLASS BALLET

ONLY VICTIMS- STUDY OF SHOW

WAGNER'S RING: TURNING THE SKY ROUND

THE GOSPEL SOUND:GD NEWS BD

A companion guide to one of the bestselling Limelight Edition titles this book by Asaf Messerer a founder of what has become known as the Bolshoi School is one of the most celebrated manuals of classic dance instruction in the world. Messerer has gained an international reputation for his classes in classical technique-models of invention and well-rounded exercise stressing both precision and fluid artistic control. Nearly 500 photographs of principal Bolshoi dancers illustrate the positions and steps indicated and an introductory section by Messerer outlines his basic plan and philosophy of teaching.

ACTING WITH ADLER

The journeys in Acting and Singing with Archetypes are based on the Voices of the Archetypes and Myths workshops that Frankie Armstrong has conducted throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States. Primarily geared toward theatre teachers, directors, and theatre workshop leaders, this groundbreaking, interactive book - with an accompanying CD - shows actors and singers how to expand their creative choices by taking journeys to find the archetypes within themselves. Archetypes are universal essences that we all recognize: the Mother, the Lover, the Trickster, the Spiritual and Temporal Leader. Each one is not a fully developed character but rather its essence - images, forms, voices, bodies and psychological elements - around which a performer can organize a portrayal and begin full character development. The first part of the book contains sixteen archetype journeys. Each archetype journey is accompanied by preparatory explorations for the voice, body, and imagination. The CD, sung by Ms. Armstrong, provides songs and examples of vocal ornamentation to prepare and assist the journeyer. The second part of the book contains suggestions on how to apply the discoveries to real acting situations, explaining how to use the archetypes in the creation of multifaceted characters and in classroom explorations such as mask making, improvisation, monologue, scene and song work, and devising theatre.

WHEN DO I START?

FILM NOIR READER

This collection of hilarious plays from the 15th - 20th centuries is brimming with all the venerable ingredients of French farce. Distinguished drama scholar Bermel has gathered some of the best in the genre, and the merriment, ribaldry, and wit of the works dance through his translations brilliantly.

A follow-up to Nigel Douglas's popular and succesful Legendary Voices, this volume boasts twelve more singers, their private lives and public careers, plus critical comment on their recorded works. Once again his pantheon covers the full range of voices and the whole repertoire from Tosca to TannhÄuser, from Lieder to light operetta. Artists include Maria Callas, Feodor Chaliapin, Kathleen Ferrier, Beniamino Gigli, Maria Jeritza, John McCormack, Lauritz Melchior, Claudia Muzio, Titta Ruffo, Elisabeth Schumann, Conchita Supervia, and Richard Tauber.

ORSON WELLES W/ NEW EPILOGUE

"Mitchum's tales include beatings, hanging producers by their shoelaces, killings in Mexican bars and slapping Teutonic helmer Otto Preminger. And there are classic observations, such as his quip to Variety that 'the best producer is an absent one.' Mitchum editor Jerry Roberts...conducted one of the interviews, and has done a terrific job piecing together vintage conversations with David Frost, Dick Lochte, Richard Schickel and Charles Champlin, as well as collecting a wonderful array of prize quotes by and about Mitchum." - Steven Gaydos, Variety

In two acts that consider what the theatre is and what it does, a star-studded cast of intellects, wits and wags here take center stage to enlighten, provoke, and amuse. A collection of close to 1000 distinctive anecdotes, aphorisms, adages and assaults written and spoken by actors, directors, composers, producers, critics and other observers - everyone from Sophocles to David Mamet, from Buddha to Brando.

D.W. GRIFFITH

LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT

THE FILM COMEDY READER

The ultimate guide to stage fighting technique and basic swordplay this book covers everything an actor must do to give a dynamic and convincing performance as a stage combatant. âThis bookã is more than a manual... A necessity! Richard Lane''s concepts are vital...''Why'' and ''When'' are explained and make ''How'' easier to understand and execute...Read this pay heed and you will avoid sin and suffering...I raise my sword on high and salute you Richard. Well done! äOscar F. Kolombatovich former Fencing Master Metropolitan Opera New York and Executive Secretary Historical Fencing Society

A founder of the Atlantic Theater Company where she now teaches and an acclaimed director Karen Kohlhaas exposes what auditors are looking for in ÊThe Monologue AuditionÊ the first book of its kind to show actors how to stage monologues using specific step-by-step directing and acting techniques. Applicable to auditions for theaters agents casting directors and training programs this is an indispensable guide for any actor looking to master their audition approach.

FROMENTMAL HALEVY HIS LIFE

In this incandescent autobiographical collage, lyricist, playwright and performer Betty Comden takes an exuberant and rueful look back on a lifetime of celebrated triumphs and private sorrow. With her lifelong collaborator Adolph Green, she has achieved glorious success on stage in such musical milestones as On the Town, Wonderful Town and Bells Are Ringing and on screen in the unforgettable Singing in the Rain and The Band Wagon. But this very intimate memoir takes us behind her experiences in theatre and film to her childhood in Brooklyn, her determined exodus to Manhattan and Broadway, her courtship and marriage and the lessons she has learned as a wife and mother. Off Stage is, then, not only of special interest to theatre and movie buffs. It is also the poignant and inspirational story of a woman of many talents and interests who tried to have it all - and very nearly succeeded.

This chatty biography written with the cooperation of the late actor''s family is crammed with anecdotes personal opinions and warm humor said our reviewer (LJ 2/15/76) of this portrait of the horror star who played every baddie from Frankenstein''s monster to Dr. Seuss''s Grinch. The text is buttressed with 150 photos and a complete filmography. This should still be popular in public library collections. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information Inc.

Written with a rare combination of an informed film background and a sophisticated knowledge of literature... a valuable contribution of both literary and film history. - Variety