Capaccio, George

In 1996, tickets to see the Broadway musical Rent were selling like hotcakes. The show was so popular that many folks saw it multiple times and even dressed up like their favorite characters. Some Rent heads even slept overnight on the sidewalk in order to be sure of getting a ticket for the next performance. Everything about the show was new and exciting. This book not only tells the story of Rent's journey to Broadway, it will also help readers understand why the show was so successful and why it remains both a cultural milestone and an experience well worth having today.

Readers learn some of the finer points in how to make and move these wonderful creations.

This book focuses on some of the methods of advertising and marketing on whom the success of the show depends.

Discusses how to work in advertising for the theater.

No play can be a success if you can't see it or hear it. This book describes the skills needed for people who play such a huge role behind the scenes.

Young readers can learn the skills required to be an actor in a school or community theater production.

This book gives an in-depth discussion of European integration and the influence of Communism on Western Europe.

Education was not universal in the colonial period. Discover the differences in how rich and poor, male and female, and white and minority students were treated.

Describes the history of education and schools in colonial America.

Discusses early Christianity, the Protestant Reformation, religion in the British American colonies, and the differences in religion in New England, the Mid-Atlantic colonies, and the Southern colonies.