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applause books, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 370 pages. nhng.

Yale University Press, 2001. first printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. As new in as new dust jacket. Hardcover. First printing. 380 pages, with index. Illustrated with photographs. From the Parisian operettas of the 1850s to the modern blockbuster musicals such as Les Miserables, Rent , a lively illustrated history of popular musical theater. The author examines the development of the European operatta style from French and Viennese works to such less well known scholls as the Spanish zarzuela; he also traces the evolution of English-language works from comic operas by Gilbert and Sullivan and American vaudeville, and late 20th century Broadway and West end musicals. For each significant work he gives information on composers, lyricists and librettists, leading perfromers, directors, and other creative influences.

1879. Very Good. Broadside of 12" x 5 `1/2", blank backed. Engraving of Uncle Tom and Little Eva lower portion. Advetisement for a performance of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at English's Dramatic Lyceum Mechanic Hall (place not specified) on a Wednesday evening, Nov. 12. (presumably 1879). It trumpets "Mr. E.W. Beattie" as Uncle Tom and Little Helen as Eva; the rest of the cast is identified as well by their last names. The play was " interspersed with Singing and Dancing.." with four musical numbers specified including "Old Folks At Home" sung by Uncle Tom. Some light staining here and there. A note on the presumed dating: E.W. Beattie was noted in December 1876 in "The Clipper" newspaper as having played in Uncle Tom at the Music Hall in Portland, Maine on Nov. 20-22; in the second paragraph from the bottom a performance of this company amd particularly Little Helen in Portland is noted as "the Greatest Dramatic Triumph ever Achieved in That City". November 12 was a Wednesday in 1879. In terms of… Leer más

New York: Playbill, 1948. Softcover. Near Fine. Staple bound in photo illustrated wrappers. 48 pp. Generally fine with a tiny flaw right edge of front cover and a small "1948" handwritten date lower right. Original Playbill Magazine for the week of November 15, 1948 for the Broadway performance of "Mr. Roberts" at the Alvin Theater in New York. This performance featured the original cast of Henry Fonda as Mister Roberts, Robert Keith as Doc, William Harrigan as The Captain, David Wayne as ensign Pulver. "Mister Roberts" won the "Best Play" Tony for 1948. The play was based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Heggen. Henry Fonda originated the role of the title character, having been released for a movie contract in order to accept the part, and won the Tony Award as Best Actor. He reprised his role for 1955 film version.

Boston: Walter H. Baker, 1919. Softcover. Near Fine. 61 pp. in printed wrappers. Near fine. Laid in are In Mrs. Berry's kitchen on an Oklahoma farm, Gladys Mae meets Merridew, the city slicker, who meets his match in Sis, the tomboy, thereby causing the downfall of Aaron Slick. There follows a charming widow who gets a proposal, a mysterious fellow who spots poetry, discovery of oil on the farm. Aaron goes to Chicago and falls under the spell of The Girl In Red, then back to Oklahoma. Laid in are four 4-page short pieces in the "March's Funny Farces" series, each a complete piece in itself: "The Physical 'Totrture' Club" (1912), "An Up Tp Date Proposal" (1920), "Aunt Jane Visits School" (1920), and "Aunt Jerusha and Uncle Josh" (1912).

New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. First edition thus. Softcover. Very Good. Illustrated softcovers. First printing of this, the revised editon. Very good, internally clean and unmarked. xxii+ 381 pp. with annotated list of references, index. Photographs. Classic exploration nof how theatre has always been a vital force in gay culture. This revised edition includes a new chapter covering the explosion of gay drama in the 1990s.

New York: Harper & Bros, 1938. Second edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Slim hardcover in orange paper covered boards. 36 pp. From the personal library of former Princeton University president and U.S. Ambassador to India Robert F. Goheen, with his ownership signature and date of Jan., 1939 during student years. Near fine, a bit faded along the spine side of the covers.

New York: Samuel French, 1977. Softcover. Fine. Printed blue stiff wrappers. 154 pp. plus publisher's ads at rear. Foreword by Le Gallienne. Fine, unused copy (play retailer sticker on front cover and with their royalty notice tipped in after title page). Interior bright and unmarked. Le Gallienne and Friebus originally wrote the play, based on Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through The Looking Glass" the play in 1932 when it premiered with the Civic Repertory Theatre Company; they revised and rewrote it in 1947 when it opened on Braodway with Le Gallienne herself playing the White Queen. It was revived on Broadway in 1982 with Le Gallienne co-directing. In 1985 , a Great Performances televison presentation was made with an all star cast that included Eve Arden, Kaye Ballard, Kate Burton (in the title role), Richard Burton, James Coco, Colleen Dewhurst, Nathan Lane, Donald O'Connor,a nd others.

New York: Oxford Univ Pr, 1995. Second edition. Hardcover. fine/near fine. Hardcover. 749 pp. with index of songs, index of people, index of shows and sources. Definitive refernce work on the American musical. arranged season-by-season and show-by-show beginning in 1866. Fine in near fine, price clipped dust jacket. (EXTRA SHIPPING REQUIRED ON EXPEDITED OR INTERNATION ORDERS. Also, Amazon, B&N, and Borders orders will ONLY ship media mail and will not ship to Canada).

Theatre Communications Group, 1994. Book Club. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Fine in generally fine dust jacket with a couple tiny flaws reat panel tips. Hardcover. Book club edition. 158 pages.

London: Constable, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. fine/good. Firts printing. Hardcover in pale lime green cloth. xxix )preface by the author) + 78 pp. Fine in dust jacket with significant chips to the spine strip. This play first opened in Warsaw in the Polish version in 1928 and premiered in England in 1929. It is a satirical comedy in which a King and his Prime Minister debate on several political philosophies.

New York: Breakthrough Press, 1971. First edition. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition (stated). 20 pp. in orange stiff wraps printed in black. Inscribed on the title page "For Mother Wright, with warm regards/ Tom" An obscure one act play that was first performed at the Playboy Studio on St. Mark's Place in tne East Village in 1969. Near fine, some light spotting to the bottom of the front cover.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1941. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. First printing of this extract from the larger work published the same year; xvii pps. plus two pages of notes and two illustrated plates. INSCRIBED BY PERCY MACKAYE (the editor and Steele Mackaye's son) on the front wrapper. Near fine, in the original printed wrappers a bit browned at the edges.

faber and faber, 1989. Reissue. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Fine in very good dust jacket. Hardcover. 92 pgs. Illustrated with black and white photographs. An elderly painter names Donner lies dead at the bottom of a staircase in the studio he shares with fellow artists Martello and Beauchamp, both of whom ae accusing each other of murder.

New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1991. Book Club. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Hardcover. xi+ 107 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket. BCE. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman. Stageplay about a fraternity of presidential assassins and would-be assassins acrossa hundred years of out history (including Booth, Squeaky Fromme, Hinckley, Oswald, Guiteau, Czolgosz) that examines success, failure and celebrity in American society.

1900. Short holograph note on unlined paper thanking an unidentified person for the "very kind donation". Signed with her initials "E.T." and dated Sep.6 1900. Aprox 5 x7" one edge roughly torn not affecting the writing. Folds.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Book Club. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Book club edition. 145 pages.

New York: Dutton, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition (stated). Hardcover. 288 pp. Introduction by George M. Cohan. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Biography of late 19th and early 20th century actor, director and theatrical producer Henry Miller (1859-1926). Born in England, he debuted on the stage in Toronto in 1878; around 1884, he came to New York where he became a leading amn in the Lyceum Theater company. As a director an dproducer he was instrumental in helping launch the careers of several early 20th century actors. Broadway's Henry Miller Theater , located at 124 W. 43 Street in New York City, was replaced by a modrn structure in 2009 and is now named for Stephen Sondheim.

Nelson Doubleday, 1974. Book Club. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Very good in very good dust jacket. Hardcover. Book club edition. 88 pages.

Hill and Wang, 1984. Book Club. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Book club edition. 115 pages. Illustrated with photographs.