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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.

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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.

AND THE SHOW GOES ON

While some of the thirty-two speeches included here - those from Hamlet, Henry V and As You Like It, for example - are well known and favorites for audition purposes, most are less familiar and so provide challenging new opportunities for an actor to grow. The author, a producer, director and teacher for more than 40 years, carefully analyzes the meaning of each monologue as a whole and various sentences and phrases within it. He goes on to explain point by point everything the actor needs to know about that moment in the play when the monologue is delivered. In her foreword, Joan Plowright extols, "...he''s done an excellent job of de-mystifying Shakespeare in his book...No actor attempting his first Shakespearean role (or even his second) should be without it."

"Michael Pennington...is sharply intelligent, scrupulously careful, hugely knowledgeable and, above all, wonderfully readable." -The Shakespeare Institute

"The story of Prince''s career is inseparable from the history of the American musical theatre for the past 40 years...In-depth accounts of musicals Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, Cabaret, Company, and Sweeney Todd will be of interest to any musical theatre buff." - American Theatre

Half a century after its opening ÊThe Third ManÊ remains an unquestioned masterpiece of film artistry and for many the greatest British movie ever made. Whether it is Harry Lime''s magical first appearance or the celebrated cuckoo clock speech or the climactic chase through the sewers beneath Vienna or the haunting theme music of Anton Karas the film contains some of the most memorable moments in screen history. Drawing on both contemporary documents and accounts of the people involved ÊIn Search of The Third ManÊ explores the many myths that over the years have grown around this extraordinary film and seeks to unravel the facts from the fiction.ÞÞ ...you''ll want to read The Third Man...The story of the film''s creation is as intriguing as the film itself äLeonard Maltin Playboy

ÊDetours and Lost HighwaysÊ begins with the Orson Welles film ÊTouch of EvilÊ (1958) which featured Welles both behind and in front of the camera. That movie is often cited as the end of the line noir''s rococo tombstone...the film after which noir could no longer be made or at least could no longer be made in the same way... It is my belief Hirsch writes that neo-noir does exist and that noir is entitled to full generic status. Over the past forty years since noir''s often-claimed expiration it has flourished under various labels. Among the movies he discusses as evidence: ÊChinatownÊ (1974) ÊBody HeatÊ (1981) John Woo''s Hong Kong blood-ballets (e.g. ÊThe KillerÊ 1989) and the pulpy oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino. ä ÊWashington Post Book WorldÊ

The exhilarating mix of humor, philosophy, fact and whimsy that marks these essays derives from more than 200 lectures Bruce Adolphe has given over most of the past decade, at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at music festivals around the country. The composer of four operas as well as chamber music, concertos and orchestral works, Adolphe has written for Itzhak Perlman, David Shifrin, Beaux Arts Trio, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and many other renowned musicians. His essays, however divergent their apparent subjects, all serve a common purpose: to deepen our understanding of how music comes to be and how it may be enjoyed.

Looking back on a century that witnessed the emergence of motion pictures to become, almost immediately, a dominant cultural force in our lives, this penetrating and provocative book argues that "movies (like cathedrals) cannot help but display the subconscious impulses oftheir society." From D.W. Griffith to the Marx Brothers to film noir, "what are conceived and consumed as innocent pop movies ... are in fact manifestations of wild horror, superstitious ignorance, fatalistic dread and bigoted savagery."

The luminous star of ÊMr. Smith Goes to Washington ShaneÊ and other classic films was as the subtitle aptly puts it the actress nobody knew. Jean Arthur (1900-91) kept her personal life private disdained the Hollywood publicity machine and was called difficult because of her perfectionism and remoteness from costars on the movie set. John Oller a lawyer tracked down kinsfolk and friends never before interviewed to capture the elusive personality of a free spirit best embodied in her favorite role Peter Pan. Arthur herself might have appreciated his warm respectful portrait. ...âAnã insightful painstakingly researched analysis of Arthur''s life and career raises the curtain on the complex conflicted person behind the screen persona...Captures the special shine of a unique star who turned out to be a genuine eccentric. ä ÊChicago TribuneÊ

Sam Peckinpah is by his own admission and that of almost everyone else in this richly entertaining book a director who needs adversity to get the juices flowing. As shooting goes on complications multiply and tensions increase. The wild man fortified by booze and shots of vitamin B12 rides the whirlwind he creates firing the incompetents beneath him baiting the ones over him and bullying and testing and goading the rest...âThis book givesã a nuts and bolts account of the...complex interplay of power and art or movie and myth-making as practiced by an idiosyncratic but skillfull manipulator. ä ÊNew York TimesÊ Book Review

The Third and most recent edition of The Vampire Film featuring a new chapter, "The Vampire at the Millennium " was released in October 1996 to coincide with the centennial of Stoker''s novel Dracula. More vampire films have been produced since the First Edition of The Vampire Film appeared in 1974 than in the entire history of motion pictures prior to that year. The first completely revised and updated edition was published in 1993. The Third Edition insures that what began as the first book-length study of the subject in 1974 remains the most comprehensive available.

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.

This is the bittersweet life story of a beloved bandleader who rose to fame and fortune, then spent the last 20 years of his life working to pay $1.6 million in back taxes. Written with Troup, jazz critic for New York Newsday, the book is a straightforward account of a successful career gone awry because of bad business judgment and misplaced trust. Long passages in which friends and band members reminisce about Herman add another dimension, for he was a humorous and compassionate man who helped a great number of musicians in their careers. - Publishers Weekly

"...his economical writing style ... manages to pack lots of information - and opinion - into a few carefully chosen words ... Besides detail work well-grounded in scholarship...the author isn''t afraid to interpolate such generalizations and speculations as he sees fit; he may be the Stephen Hawking of jazz criticism." - Bob Tarte, The Beat

"Reading like a who''s who of Broadway and Hollywood...âthisã is a valuable piece of theatrical history...Lloyd is a self-effacing, articulate actor-director-producer whose stories are as insightful as they are warm and often humorous." -Choice

Written between the late '30s and the early '90s, these pieces by John Cage here acquire the permanence they deserve. Some have never been published before. Many appeared only in magazines, journals, and catalogues; others in concert programs and on record covers. Also included are the texts of lectures and - of crucial importance to the appreciation of his music - Cage's notes on the performance of his compositions, courtesy of his music publisher, C.F. Peters.

Screenplay to John Lahr''s successful dramatization of The Orton Diaries that chronicles the last eight months of Joe Orton''s life, his growing theatrical celebrity, and the corresponding punishing effect it had on his relationship with his friend and mentor Kenneth Halliwell, who murdered him on August 9, 1967, and then took his own life.

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

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.

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.