This book explores the importance of history to Elizabethan and early Stuart gentry and how this led to a vibrant antiquarian culture. The family, town and county histories written by the community, which form the core of the study, had an influence on the development of local history in England which lasted into the twentieth century and is still felt today.
But Fort Worth was never again the same after the Frontier Centennial . . . and memories of that festival linger today, even though the buildings were long ago razed.
As I write this, the Pandemic is the single most discussed issue in the world and I simply can't discuss it again. It's already clearhow (and how much) it impacted the performing arts. Our hyperactive culture screeched to a halt, leaving creatives of all sortsstuck at home in front of their computers, brain cells twitching, inexorably coaxing a substantial new art form into existence.That did happen, in spite of the misery, pain, chaos and death that marked 2020 as a year few of us want to remember.Until the beginning of March, it looked like an ordinary year. The Prototype, Exponential, Insight.Alt, and Frigid Festivals were already festive. Broadway bound Romeo & Bernadette had thrilled us with an incredible score based on 18th-Century Italian art song. The great Len Cariou, and Tony Award winner Judy McLane reminded us that age has no meaning where a great artist is concerned, then everything just stopped.But, not for long. Zoom came out of the closet almost immediately. Basically, software for business meetings, it was cheap and easy to use and it gave New York artists a reach extending far beyond the con nes of their city. The rst few works were somewhat awkward; entertaining but clumsy. Then, the remarkable Kamala Sankaram, a composer of enormous potential, in cooperation with the HERE Arts Center and its superb technical team, created The Zoom Opera, and the medium has been improving ever since. Reviews on thirty-five Zoom works can be found inside, along with twenty-four new plays seen onstage in January and February. They provide a clear picture of artists adapting to the demands of almost universal isolation. If you love the theater and its development, this book is for you." --Amazon.com.
New York in den 1940ern: Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs entsteht innerhalb der pulsierenden Metropole mit Bebop die wohl kontroverseste und vielleicht einflussreichste Stilistik der Jazzgeschichte. Eine Musik, deren Zerrissenheit und Brüchigkeit, irrsinnige Tempi und dissonante Tonsprache eine Zeit zu spiegeln scheinen, die aus den Fugen geraten war. Ist Bebop in seiner Komplexität der musikalische Ausdruck einer ganz bestimmten New Yorker Stadterfahrung? Das Buch widmet sich den Zusammenhängen von Musik und Stadt. Konkret wird untersucht, welche Rolle New York bei der Entstehung und Entwicklung von Bebop gespielt hat. Ökonomische, politische und stadtgeographische Faktoren werden mit musikalischer Analyse verbunden - die ortsgebundene Betrachtung der Stilentwicklung versucht letztlich auch eine Antwort auf die Frage: Ist Bebop der Sound New Yorks in den 1940ern? Jan Bäumer studierte Musik und Germanistik in Köln sowie Musikwissenschaft in Hannover. Derzeit ist er Musikredakteur bei ZDF/3sat und lebt mit seiner Familie in Wiesbaden.
Why does 'Fiddler on the Roof' always win? Jan Lisa Huttner shares over two decades of scholarly research, feminist revisionism, and personal reflection as she sheds light on many unknown-or willfully ignored-facts about Fiddler on the Roof. Huttner writes to the future, ensuring a legacy for all those working on stage and behind-the-scenes, as well as those applauding in the audience.
She tours the tenements of Hell's Kitchen and the Gashouse district, as well as the Foundling Hospital, where the crushing realities of poverty belie the unchallenged exuberance of the age. Taking into account both Social Register and slum, Manhattan '45 celebrates New York's Golden Age as a time when, for one unrepeatable moment in history, anything seemed possible.
Jan Jones' volume on Fort Worth's theatrical heritage presents for the first time a comprehensive history of the showmen, performers, theaters, and events that shaped the city's histrionic fortunes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
The fourth in a series of yearbooks to be published by Pup's Books at the beginning of every year, Ewing Reviewing 2021 provides exposure for, and detailed historical information on a cross-section of independent theater performances drawn more-or-less at random from the previous calendar year in New York City ... and, now, thanks to the Internet, from online sources all over the world. This year, we have included essays on Independent Theater by six well-known Off-Broadway professionals. Thoughts on Independent Theater speaks of inspiration, philosophy, mission and hope - highly recommended for anyone interested in theatrical arts and how they survived and blossomed during a dark, dark time. Off- and Off-Off Broadway is more than holding its own as the pandemic recedes and our city reopens. For a reasonable price one can have a comfortable seat, leg room, and accessible amenities, while experiencing some of the most profound dramatic work seen anywhere in the world. Theater in New York City is MUCH more than just Broadway. Remember that the next time you buy a ticket.
This book is for all the directors and dramaturges, all the cast members on stage and all the crew members behind the scenes, who will pool their talents to present new productions of Fiddler on the Roof from 2017 to 2039. As you gather in high schools, colleges, and community theatres, as you travel from city to town on road tours, whatever country you live in and whatever language you speak, I hope this book will be a reliable companion. I hope you will find answers in these pages to the many questions I know you will have. I hope my words will help you beckon to the fiddler so that you can bring him with you on your journey. And most important, I hope that through you, new audiences will come to see the many facets of this brilliant Jerome Robbins diamond. And to the rest of you, to budding feminists and learned academics and lovers of Broadway, be you Papas, Mamas, Sons, or Daughters, if you are rabbis or butchers or any profession in between, whether you are a rich man or only the wife of a poor tailor, you are entitled to some happiness... so I hope you like it too.
Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy starred on Broadway in this moving chronicle of a husband and wife from their wedding night in 1890 until they leave the house that has been their home, 35 years later. They fret and quarrel, laugh, cry, and make love in the same room in which they began their married life. And standing throughout the evening is the old fourposter, silent witness to all.
A lighthearted manual for getting through each day with humor and giddiness. It is a delightful look at some of our minor, daily irritants that includes marriage, motherhood, football reruns of highlights of last year’s game and the men we love who watch them… again and again. The book is filled with astounding anti-diet/anti-exercise advice in the chapter “How I turned flab into dollars.” While Jan was jogging she thought she heard applause. Regretfully it was simply her thighs hitting together. She was paid extremely well to leave the neighborhood. Franchise anyone? There are time management tips “If you do not polish silver for six years it begins to look like pewter. Pewter is nice!” This joyful philosopher notices most human absurdities, ponders, reflects and then answers such questions as “Can we really leave nagging to strangers? Why is it that for every light on Broadway there is a runny nose? She agrees with Hemingway that though the sun also rises, it also fades the drapes. This witty book will have you shaking with glee (67 calories expended) as you realize the stuff that really annoys you can be thought about in a more amusing, tolerable and weight losing manner.
Studebaker was in the vehicle business for 114 years and has a fascinating history that has been told numerous times by a variety of authors. This book does not retell the grand sweep of the company's history, but instead it fills in the corners, illuminating Studebaker's history with anecdotes, stories and interesting details that other authors either missed or omitted. For instance, it includes biographies of twenty-seven other companies that Studebaker and the Studebaker family were involved in. It extensively traces the growth and development of Studebaker in New York City, probably the company's most important market. It tells the story of a dog fancier. It covers more than fifteen stories of crimes committed with or involving Studebaker cars. And it includes much more, all related to the years between 1852 and 1930, the company's early years.
This first full-length biography of a leading light of the intellectual world of Restoration England draws together the separate strands of William Dugdale's life. As a herald he played a ceremonial role at the courts of three Stuart kings and met statesmen, aristocrats, bishops and hundreds of gentry families across England. As a historian he profoundly influenced the study of medieval and local history, heraldry and genealogy. Throughout he remained a Warwickshire gentleman, deeply embedded in a provincial society torn apart by the civil war and its aftermath.
Known for creating fantastic spectacles and possessing rare charisma, the magnificent and flamboyant Wladziu Valentino Liberace was a world-renowned star in the entertainment industry for more than four decades, and is particularly celebrated for the outrageous costumes that people remember and most associate with him. In Liberace Extravaganza!, Liberace's famous sequined, bejeweled, and rhinestone-studded outfits, as well as his extravagant collection of furs and feather capes, are exhibited in book-form for the very first time. Authors Connie Furr Soloman and Jan Jewett are well-established costume designers and have been given exclusive access by the Liberace Museum and Foundation to photograph Liberace's costumes. They will trace the incredible development of them from Liberace's humble beginnings as a young man performing in his brother's hand-me-downs, to his $24,000 suits (more than 10 of which were worn during his 80 minute performances) covered in layers of silk and satin ruffles, Austrian Swarovski crystal rhinestones, and 14k white gold diamond encrusted buttons, to his "electric" costumes, the first ones ever created, that featured four thousand light bulbs and weighed more than twenty-five pounds. The book will include a foreword from Michael Travis, Liberace's principle designer, interviews with Jim Lapidus and Anna Nateece, two of Liberace's most celebrated designers, and Ray Arnett, Liberace's stage manager. The designers will give first-hand accounts of what it was like to work with the self-proclaimed "Mr. Showmanship." Also featured will be 20 drawings, pulled from the designers' original sketchbooks, that were used to create some of Liberace's most famous costumes. This unique project is timed to the release of a biopic on Liberace directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as his lover, Scott Thorson, as well as the premier of a Broadway musical about Liberace. The film is in preproduction with HBO films and the air date has not yet been set. Costumes for the Broadway show will be designed by Bob Mackie, a nine time Emmy Award winning designer who was also nominated for three Academy Awards, has designed for entertainment icons, such as Cher, Judy Garland, Diana Ross, Liza Minnelli, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, and Mitzi Gaynor, and was the designer for The Carol Burnett Show and the television adaptation of Gypsy. This is the only book on the market authorized and endorsed by the Liberace Foundation, whose Liberace Museum, located in Las Vegas, was open for more than thirty-one years and welcomed 450,000 people during its peak years. With the release of our book, the film and the Broadway show, it will be sponsoring a three-year traveling exhibit of the costumes. Specific venues to come.
This convenient guide takes visitors right to the heart of New York City. Long-time resident and travel writer Jan Aaron shares 101 of the best, the rarest, and the most classic sights and things to do.
From the Anasazi cliff dwellings to tales of Buffalo Bill's bravado, and from an unsolved bank robbery in Denver to the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey, Colorado Myths and Legends examines a fascinating array of puzzling events, unsolved mysteries, and tragic crimes in the often troubled (but always compelling!) history of the Centennial State. Read about the mysterious French miner-turned-hotelier, the incongruous Great Sand Dunes that stretch for miles at the base of towering snow-capped mountains, and the strange disappearance of an entire ancient civilization.
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