BIBLIOGRAPHY AND BOOKS OF INTEREST
Abbott, George. “Mr. Abbott”. New York: Random House, 1963.
Alpert, Hollis. Broadway, 125 Years of Musical Theatre. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1991.
- - -. The Story of Porgy and Bess. New York: Knopf, 1990.
Altman, Richard, with Mervyn Kaufman. The Making of a Musical, Fiddler on the Roof. New York: Crown, 1971.
Atkinson, Brooks. Broadway. New York: Macmillan, 1970.
Balk, H. Wesley. The Complete Singer-Actor. CITY: University of Minnesota, 1977.
Beddow, Margery. Bob Fosse’s Broadway. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996.
Bering, Rüdiger. Musicals. Hauppauge, New York: Barron’s, 1998.
Bloom, Ken. American Song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion. New York: Schirmer Books, 1996.
Blum, Daniel, ed. Theatre World-1944-1964. New York: Greenberg, 1944-1957, New York: Chilton, 1967-1964.
Bordman, Gerald. American Musical Comedy from Adonis to Dreamgirls. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
- - -. American Musical Revue from the Passing Show to Sugar Babies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
- - -. American Musical Theatre, a Chronicle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
- - -. American Operetta from H.M.S. Pinafore to Sweeney Todd. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
- - -. Days To Be Happy, Years To Be Sad: The Life & Magic of Vincent Youmans. New York: Oxford University Press,
1982.
- - -. Jerome Kern: His Life and Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Brown, Gene. Show Time, a Chronology of Broadway and the Theatre from Its Beginnings to the Present. New York:
Macmillan, 1997.
Chujoy, Anatole. The Dance Encyclopedia. Riverside, NJ: Simon & Schuster, 1967.
Citron, Stephen. The Musical From Inside Out: A Guidebook. Chicago: Elephant Paperbacks, 1997.
- - -. The Wordsmiths: Oscar Hammerstein 2nd & Alan Jay Lerner. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Clurman, Harold. On Directing. New York: Collier, 1974.
Conrad, Christine. Jerome Robbins, That Broadway Man/That Ballet Man. London: Booth Clibborn Editions,
2000.
Corio, Ann. This Was Burlesque. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1968.
Craig, David. On Perorming. New York: McGraw Hill, 1987.
- - -. On Singing Onstage. New York: Schirmer, 1978.
Davis, Lee. Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern, The Men Who Made Musical Comedy. New York: James H.
Heineman, 1993.
de Mille, Agnes. Dance to the Piper. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1951.
DeVenney, David P. The Broadway Song Companion, An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by
Voice Type and Song Title. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1998.
Donaldson, Michael C. Clearance & Copyright. Los Angeles: Silman-James Press, 1996.
Dunn, Don. The Making of No, No, Nanette. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1972.
Engel, Lehman. The American Musical Theatre: A Consideration. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
- - -. Getting Started In the Theatre. New York: Collier Books, 1973.
- - -. The Making of a Musical. New York: Macmillan, 1977.
- - -. Planning and Producing the Musical Show. New York: Crown, 1966.
- - -. Their Words Are Music. New York: Crown, 1975.
- - -. This Bright Day, An Autobiography. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974
- - -. Words With Music. New York: Schirmer, 1972.
Ewen, David. George Gershwin: His Journey to Greatness. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1970.
- - -. New Complete Book of the American Musical Theatre. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
- - -. The Story of America's Musical Theater. New York: Chilton Co., 1961.
- - -. The World of Jerome Kern. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1960.
Filichia, Peter. Let’s Put on a Musical, How to Choose the Right Show for Your School, Community of
Professional Theatre. New York: Avon Books, 1993.
Fisher, Clive. Noël Coward. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
Fisher, John. The Legends: Twelve All-Time Great Entertainers. New York: Stein and Day, 1976.
Flinn, Denny Martin. Musical! A Grand Tour, The Rise, Glory, and Fall of an American Institution. New York:
Schirmer Books, 1997.
Fordin, Hugh. Getting to Know Him, Oscar Hammerstein II, A Biography. New York: Ungar Publishing
Company, 1977.
Frankel, Aaron. Writing the Broadway Musical. New York: Drama Book Specialists, 1977.
Freedland, Michael. Irving Berlin. New York: Stein & Day, 1978.
- - -. Jerome Kern. New York: Stein & Day, 1978.
Gänzl, Kurt. Musicals, the Complete Illustrated Story of the World’s Most Popular Live Entertainment. London:
Carlton Books, 1995.
Garebian, Keith. The Making of Cabaret. New York: Mosaic Press, 1999.
- - -. The Making of Gypsy. New York: Mosaic Press,
- - -. The Making of My Fair Lady. New York: Mosaic Press
- - -. The Making of West Side Story. New York: Mosaic Press, 1998.
Gershwin, Ira. Lyrics on Several Occasions. New York: Viking, 1973.
Gilbert, Douglas. American Vaudeville, Its Life and Times. New York: Dover Publications, 1940.
Goldberg, Isaac. The Story of Gilbert & Sullivan. New York: Crown, 1935.
Gottfried, Martin. All His Jazz. New York: Bantam Books, 1990.
- - -. Broadway Musicals. New York: Abrams, 1979.
- - -. More Broadway Musicals Since 1980. New York: Abrams, 1991
Green, Stanley. Broadway Musicals Show by Show. 5th ed. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corporation, 1996.
- - -. Encyclopædia of the American Musical Theatre. Dodd, Mead & Co, 1976, New York
- - -. The Great Clowns of Broadway. Oxford University Press: Oxford 1984
- - -. Ring Bells! Sing Songs! Broadway Musicals of the 1930’s. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House,
1971.
- - -. The World of Musical Comedy. New York: Da Capo, 1980.
Grote, David. Staging the Musical, Organizing, Planning and Rehearsing the Amateur Production. New York:
Prentice Hall Press, 1986.
Grubb, Kevin Boyd. Razzle Dazzle, The Life and Work of Bob Fosse. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
Guernsey, Otis, Jr. Curtain Times: The New York Times 1965-1987. New York: Applause, 1987.
- - -, ed. Playwrights, Lyricists, Composers On Theater. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1964.
Hagen, Uta. Respect For Acting. New York: Macmillan, 1973.
Hammerstein, Oscar, II. Lyrics. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1949.
Hart, Dorothy. Thou Swell, Thou Witty: The Life and Lyrics of Lorenz Hart. New York: Harper & Row,
Publishers, 1976.
Herbert, Ian. Who's Who In Theatre. London: Pitman, 1977.
Herman, Jerry, with Marilyn Stasio. Showtune, a Memoir by Jerry Herman. New York: Penguin Books USA,
1996.
Higham, Charles. Ziegfeld. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1972.
Hirsch, Foster. Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Hischak, Thomas S. The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995.
Hischak, Thomas S. Word Crazy, Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim. New York: Praeger, 1991.
Hummel, David. The Collector's Guide to the American Musical Theatre. Benton, MO: D.H. Enterprises, 1978.
Ilson, Carol. Harold Prince: From “Pajama Game” to “Phantom of the Opera”. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research
Press, 1989.
Jablonski, Edward. The Encyclopedia of American Music. New York: Doubleday, 1981.
- - -. Gershwin. New York: Doubleday, 1987.
- - -, and Lawrence D. Stewart. The Gershwin Years. New York: Doubleday, 1958.
Jackson, Arthur. The Best Musicals from Showboat to Sweeney Todd. New York: Crown Publishers, 1977.
Kasha, Al, and Joel Hirschhorn. Notes on Broadway: Conversations with the Great Songwriters. Chicago:
Contemporary Books, 1985.
Kennedy, Michael Patrick, and John Muir. Musicals, A Guide to Over 180 Major Musicals. Glasgow, GA: Harper
Collins, 1997.
Kimball, Robert, and Brendan Gill. Cole. New York: Holt, Rinehard & Winston, 1973.
- - -, and Alfred Simon. The Gershwins. New York: Atheneum, 1973.
King, Larry. The Whorehouse Papers. New York: Viking Press, 1982.
Kislan, Richard. Hoofing on Broadway, A History of Show Dancing. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1987
- - -. The Musical. New York: Applause, 1995.
Kissel, Howard. David Merrick, The Abominable Showman, the unauthorized biography. New York: Applause,
1993
Kosarian, Oscar. The Singing Actor. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall/Spectrum, 1983.
Kreuger, Miles. Showboat, The Story of a Classic American Musical. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Laufe, Abe. Broadway's Greatest Musicals. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1973.
Laurie Jr., Joe. Vaudeville. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1953.
Lees, Gene. Inventing Champagne, The Worlds of Lerner and Loewe. New York: St. Martin’s, 1990.
Lerner, Alan Jay. The Musical Theatre: A Celebration. New York: McGraw Hill, 1986.
- - -. The Street Where I Live. New York: Norton & Co, 1978.
Lewine, Richard, and Simon, Alfred. Songs of the American Theatre. New York: Dodd Mead, 1973.
Little, Stuart, and Arthur, A. Cantor. The Playmakers. Boston: Dutton, 1971.
Mandelbaum, Ken. A Chorus Line and the Musicals of Michael Bennett. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
Martin, Linda, and Kerry Segrave. Women in Comedy. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1986.
Mast, Gerald. Can’t Help Singin’, The American Musical on Stage and Screen. Woodstock, New York: Overlook
Press, 1987.
Mates, Julian. America’s Musical Stage, Two Hundred Years of Musical Theatre. New York: Praeger, 1987.
McCabe, John. George M. Cohan: The Man Who Owned Broadway. New York: Doubleday, 1973.
McGovern, Dennis, and Deborah Grace Winer. Sing Out, Louise! 150 Broadway Musical Stars Remember 50
Years. New York: Schirmer, 1993.
Merman, Ethel. Don't Call Me Madam. London: W.H. Allen, 1955.
Miletich, Leo N. Broadway’s Prize-Winning Musicals, An Annotated Guide for Libraries and Audio Collectors.
New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993.
Miller, Scott. Deconstructing Harold Hill, An Insider’s Guide to Musical Theatre. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann
Press, 2000.
- - -. From Assassins to West Side Story. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996.
Minsky, Morton, and Milt Machlin. Minsky’s Burlesque. New York: Arbor House, 1986
Moore, Sonia. Training an Actor. New York: Penguin, 1979.
Mordden, Ethan. Beautiful Mornin’, The Broadway Musical in the 1940s. New York: Oxford University Press,
1999
- - -. Broadway Babies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
- - -. Coming Up Roses, The Broadway Musical in the 1950s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- - -. Make Believe, The Broadway Musical in the 1920s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
- - -. Rodgers & Hammerstein. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1992.
Morley, Sheridan. Spread a Little Happiness: The First One Hundred Years of the British Musical. London:
Thames and Hudson, 1987.
Novak, Elaine Adams. Performing in Musicals. New York: Schirmer Press, 1988.
Novak, Elaine A., and Deborah. Staging Musical Theatre, A Complete Guide for Directors,
Choreographers and Producers. Cincinnati: Better Way Books, 1996.
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Preminger, Erik Lee. Gypsy & Me, At Home and on the Road with Gypsy Rose Lee. Boston: Little, Brown and
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1974.
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SOURCES
Licensing Agencies
Dramatic Publishing Company (DPC) PO Box 41906, Chicago, IL, 60641, 312-545-2062. Scripts are available for purchase.
Dramatists Play Service, Inc.(DPS) 440 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10016, (212)683-8960. Scripts are available for purchase.
Irving Berlin Music Corporation (Irving Berlin) 1290 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, New York 10019, (Although Rodgers & Hammerstein Library handle the rights to Annie Get Your Gun, the Irving Berlin Music Corporation handles the purchase of the script. Send a check to cover script cost and mailing.
Music Theatre International (MTI) 49 E 52nd Street, New York, New York 10019, (212) 975-6841. They will send up to three perusal copies of scripts and chorus books at a time
Rodgers & Hammerstein Library (R & H) 598 Madison Ave, New York, New York 10022 (212) 486-0643. They will send up to two perusal copies of scripts at a time. The only fee you pay is for the postage and handling. Most of the scores may be ordered from your local music store.
Samuel French Inc (SF) 25 West 45th Street, New York, New York 10036 (212)206-8990. Most scripts and published vocal selections may be purchased. Some scores are available for purchase and some manuscripts are only available for perusal.
Tams Witmark Music Library (TW), 560 Lexington Ave, New York, New York 10022. 1-800-221-7196, (212)688-2525. They will send up to three perusal copies of scripts and scores at a time. They will bill you for the copies they send.
Theatre Maximus (MAX) Sole property is Godspell . 1650 Broadway, New York, New York, 10019, (212) 765-5913.
BOOK, MUSIC AND RECORD STORES
The Collectors Series, 51 West 52nd Street, Room 826, New York, New York 10019. (212) 975-4126.
Drama Book Shop, 723 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019. (212) 944-0595. Specializing in Theatre Books.
DRG Records, 200 West 57th Street, New York, New York, 10019. (212) 582-3040.
Footlight Records, 90 third Avenue (between 12th and 13th streets), New York, New York, 10003, (212)533-1572. A store that specdializes in out of print records with a sizeable collection of Broadway show albums. the proprietor, Gene Dingenary, is extremely helpful and knowledgeable.
Half Price Music, 160 West 56Th Street, New York, New York, 10036, (212) 582-2840 Specializing in out of print music.
Lincoln Square Music, Hotel Ansonia 2109 Broadway, New York, New York, 10023, (212) 724-7370. Specializing in out of print music.
Music Exchange, 151 West 46th Street, New York, New York 10036, (212) 354-5858. Specializing in out of print music.
Music Masters, 25 West 43rd Street, New York, New York 10036, (212) 840-1958.
Original Cast Records, P.O. Box 496, georgetown, Conneticut, 06829. (203) 544-8288.
Records Ltd, 2818 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, California, 90006. (213) 737-2611. Specializing in out of print records.
Richard Stoddard, Out Of Print Theatre Books, 90 E 10th Street, New York, New York 10013 (212) 982-9440,
Theatre Books, Inc., 1576 Broadway-Room 312, New York, New York 10036. (212) 757-2834.
ORGANIZATIONS
The rights to individual show tunes are usually controlled by ASCAP Or BMI. Licenses are available on an annual or per song basis.
ASCAP, 1 Lincoln Plaza, New York, New York, 10023, (212) 595-3050.
BMI, 320 West 57Th Street, New York, New York 10019, (212)
586-2000.
Actors Equity, 165 West 46Th Street, New York, New York 10036. (212) 869-8530. They will forward mail to members.
Dramatists Guild, 234 West 44Th Street, New York, New York, 10036. (212) 398-9366. They will forward mail to members.