The Pocket Guide To Musicals
If you are in love with plays, musicals and theatre as a whole, or if you love literature then these three books, the first of which is now on the shelves, are just for you and your members – to read for pleasure, for reference or for study – an ideal Christmas present too. This is the first in a series of three books written by Maureen Hughes. The planned next two are The Pocket Guide to Plays and Playwrights with a foreword by Michael Billington due to be published in February 2009 and The Pocket Guide to Classical Literature due to be published in Summer 2009.
“A handy book with lots of fascinating facts about musicals ranging from who wrote what to short synopses of musicals and short biogs on the writers; want to know where a song came from, or from what source the musical originated, then look no further than this useful book. Find out which musical later became a film and vice versa and discover the history of musicals too. Lots of information for everyone from amateur to professional, student to tutor.”
Maureen is currently Head of Musical Theatre at Laine Theatre Arts and has herself written eight musicals which have played both here, including one at The Dominion Theatre in the West End of London, and in the United States.
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