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Author:   David Young
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9780878300525

ISBN 10:   087830052
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   05 April 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I: Before Rehersals Begin: 1. The Guide; 2. The Diary; 3. Director's Book; 4. Plot of the Musical Fanny; 5. Checklist of Important Points in Each Musical Production; 6. Script Analysis; 7. Setting the Style of Your Musical - Exploring the Musicals of the 1980s and 1990s; 8. First Exercise; 9. Collaborating with Designers, Crew, and Staff (first production meeting); 10. Specifics: costumes and wigs, sets (design and sketches), makeup, sound and lights, props and set dressing, stage manager, production book, rehearsal pianist; 11. Musical Director and Choreographer; 12. The Director Who Stages His/Her Own Dances; 13. For the Director Who Has Never Staged a Dance Number; Part II: Auditions and Casting: 14. Sample Notice; 15. Early Challenges; Part III: The Beginning - First Rehearsals: 16. Rehearsal Schedule; 17. Sample Autobiographies; 18. Blocking (samples to use); 19. Staging the Musical Numbers (Diagrams Included); 20. Comparison of Similarities in Musical Numbers; 21. Putting Together a Multicultural Musical Revue; Part IV: Working With Singer/Dancers on Acting - The Early Stages: 22. Where Are We?; 23. Listening: a Most Important Tool; 24. Characterization; 25. Think Time for the Director; 26. Improvisation Theatre Games - To Help Strengthen and Enliven Rehearsals as the Pressure Begins; Part V: Specific Challenges - Midway: 27. Pulling the Musical Numbers Together; 28. Talking about Comedy; 29. Farce - A Special Kind of Comedy; 30. Stage Fights - How We Did Them!; 31. Accents; 32. Helping Singers to Age Realistically; 33. Aging Americans and the Theatre; 34. More Production Meetings; 35. Microphones; 36. Orchestra Rehearsals; 37. Update and Relaxers; 38. Run Through; Part VI: Pacing, Blending, Streamlining: 39. Pauses, How to Eliminate the Unwanted Ones; 40. Special Rehearsal; 41. Sorting Out; 42. Plugging Along - Then Disaster; 43. Concentration - The Dustin Hoffman Story; 44. Videotaping could Help; 45. Publicity and Photographs - Necessary Interruption

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David Young is Producing Director of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

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