The Great Comet: The Journey of a New Musical to Broadway
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (570 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1454923288 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Future projects include adaptations of Moby-Dick and Shakespeare’s Henriad. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.. STEVEN SUSKIN has written 15 books about theater and music, including Show Tunes (Oxford University Press), The Sound of Broadway Music (Oxford University Press), Opening Night on Broadway (Schirmer), and The Book of Mormon: The Testament of a Broadway Musical (Har
"Children of Dust and Ashes" according to Kathryn J. Brown. As a big fan of both Josh Groban and classic Russian novels, I was really intrigued when I learned that he would be starring in this Broadway musical. Then I was really sad that I can't go see it. But this book is an excellent consolation prize.This is a large hardback book. The slipcover is pressure embossed, and the actual cover has a glossy picture surrounded by gold trim. It's really high quality and beautiful.Almost every page has at. Beautiful Beautiful in all aspects you can imagine and for a great price! Along the same lines as the Hamiltome. Beautiful paper and glossy pages with lyric anecdotes. And with a CD of 5 great songs to boot to hold you over until the complete cast recording comes out. Dust and Ashes and Sonya Alone are just brilliant. Sonya sounds like Joni Mitchell. I haven't read the text yet, but even if that isn't great, all the rest of it is and well worth the. John Pierson said I can only say this is a beautifully crafted and produced keepsake. Having seen this remarkable creation twice prior to its move to Broadway and with tickets again in April, I can only say this is a beautifully crafted and produced keepsake! Happy to have it for years to come.
The musical is based on a dramatic 70-page slice of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A behind-the-scenes look at the making of an award-winning musical! Here is the official, fascinating, behind-the scenes journey of the new musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, from its inception, to Off-Off Broadway, to Off-Broadway, to its premiere at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway. Profusely illustrated, the book also includes an annotated script and a special CD with three songs from the Off-Broadway production and two all-new recordings for the Broadway production featuring Josh Groban with a 25-piece orchestra.
On the other side of the footlights, he has served as producer and/or manager of dozens of plays and musicals. He has won two Obie Awards, the Richard Rodgers Award, an ASCAP New Horizons Award, and a Jonathan Larson Grant, and has been a MacDowell fellow, composer-in-residence at Ars Nova, and guest professor in music theater at Princeton University and Vassar College. About the AuthorSTEVEN SUSKIN has written 15 books about theater and music, including Show Tunes (Oxford University Press), The Sound of Broadway Music (Oxford University Press), Opening Night on Broadway (Schirmer), and The Book of Mormon: The Testament of a Broadway Musical (HarperCollins). He has written 11 mu