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Meant as a supplement and companion to Blumenfeld's Dictionary of Acting and Show Business (Limelight, 2009), this unique dictionary is chock-full of information about all the various genres of musical theater; thumbnail plot summaries of works well-known and obscure; thumbnail biographies of composers and writers; and dance, theatrical, singing, and music terminology. Historical terms and foreign terms (with pronunciations) are included along with information on available recordings of many obscure pieces. Convenient lists of the works of Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Gilbert and Sullivan, Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and many others are provided.
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Robert Blumenfeld lives and works as an actor, dialect coach, and writer in New York City. He is the author of Using the Stanislavsky System: A Practical Guide to Character Creation and Period Styles (2008); Blumenfeld's Dictionary of Acting and Show Business (2009); and the collaborator with Alice Spivak on her book, How to Rehearse When There Is No Rehearsal: Acting and the Media (2007) – all published by Limelight.
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- PublisherLimelight
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0879103728
- ISBN 13 9780879103729
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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