Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare I mean, come on. It’s a Shakespeare classic . You should know it anyway . But if you somehow haven’t read it in school yet, and you’re giving the “But it’s not musical theater!” excuse, then let me remind you of West Side Story. You can’t really understand Maria and Tony unless you know their Shakespearean origins.

Roland “Rollie” Matthews used to love playing basketball. He loved the rhythm of the game, how he came up with his best drumbeats after running up and down the court. But playing with the elite team comes with extra, illegal responsibilities, and Rollie isn’t sure he’s down for that life. The new talented-and-gifted program, where Rollie has a chance to audition for a real-life go-go band, seems like the perfect excuse to stop being a dough boy. But how can he abandon his best friend?There is no one who has done a Broadway orchestrator's job as well as Steven Suskin. Suskin, on the other hand, goes into so much detail that he makes the orchestrator's job a celebration of both intelligence and art. The orchestrations of a Broadway show are just as important to how the story is told as the music, book, direction, and design are to how the story is told. This book will help anyone who likes musical theater better understand how to make a composer's music come to life through careful instrumentation, which is what this book is about. American Musical Revue by Gerald Bordman Students participate at their own risk and are obliged to inform Stagecoach and its staff of any existing injuries or medical condition. All application forms must have any known medical conditions stated and any changes to such information must be notified to Stagecoach immediately in writing. This brilliant novel is about a daughter’s quest for the truth about her mother, legendary Irish actor Katherine O’Dell. But the emotional journey is anchored in theatrical detail. We learn of Katherine’s beginnings with Anew McMaster’s touring company, of her mesmerising stillness on stage, of her ability to milk a curtain call (“that clearing of her gaze as though realising the audience had been there – oh my goodness! – all along”). Enright also pins down the penalties of fame: Katherine becomes a national icon through a TV ad for butter and, at 51, winds up stark naked in an avant garde production. Holiday Workshop/Camp" refers to Workshops (including online activities) run by some Stagecoach schools and Stagecoach Performing Arts during the breaks between Terms.

Musical theatre can push the human voice to its limits, and The Vocal Athlete is written specifically to help performers meet the high demands for a sustainable career on stage, providing ideal tools and exercises to help preserve vocal wellness. When it comes to taking care your most important asset, you’ll want all the help you can. Gerald Bordman is considered by many to be the king of documenting musical theatre and so many of his books are wonderful, detailedreads on the genre. Invaluable, however, is American Musical Revue, a detailedchronicle of musical revues from The Passing Show to Sugar Babies. The musical revue is a special brand ofBroadway entertainment and itrequires its own separate study to understand how they are assembled. Bordman navigates this world with his usual precision andcolorful explanations. Since very little has been written on the subject of musical revues,this book (which is not easy to get a hold of)fill is an important gap in musical theatre history. A Stagecoach school may, at its discretion, offer the second child of the same family attending a Main Stage course at the same time, a sibling discount of up to fifty percent (50%) on Course fees. This discretionary sibling discount will only apply if Stagecoach is notified of the sibling relationship at the time the Deposit is paid. Only one discount may apply against the Course fee for an individual child at any one time. This is a biography written by lyricist and book writer Alan Jay Lerner that details the ins and outs of his career, with a major focus on the Broadway musicals My Fair Lady and Camelot. If you ever want to know the details behind the struggle of creating a Broadway musical, Lerner lays down his cards and shows you everything. It is a terrific study in how great musical theatre used to be made.Anna in the Tropicsby Nilo Cruz If you love Lin Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights and are looking for more Latin-American-centric theater, this play can help start you off! Set in Florida, Nilo Cruz’s play Anna in the Tropics is a fantastic story about a cigar factory owned by a Cuban-American family. The factory hires a man named Juan Julien to read stories to the workers throughout the day, and his reading of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina inspires changes within the main characters.