librettos

The script and lyrics to the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.

"Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock - a fully illustrated companion volume to the hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, featuring the book and lyrics for the first time in print, backstage stories and the real history behind the show's events, character design sketches, and songs that ended up on the cutting room floor. The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Come From Away tells the remarkable true story of a small town that welcomed the world. On September 11, 2001, 38 planes and 6,579 passengers were forced to land in the provincial town of Gander, Newfoundland. The local residents opened their arms to the displaced visitors, offering food, shelter, and friendship. In the days that followed, cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships. Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock is the ultimate companion piece to Irene Sankoff and David Hein's smash-hit musical based on that extraordinary experience. Featuring the complete book and lyrics for the first time in print, a foreword by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and exclusive photos of the company and physical production, this essential companion also includes original interviews with passengers, Gander residents, and the actors who portray them. The narrative by theater historian Laurence Maslon details the events of that memorable and challenging week and also traces the musical's development from the ten-year reunion of residents and airline passengers in Gander, where the idea for the musical was born , to the global phenomenon it is today. Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock gives an unprecedented look behind the curtain and demonstrates why the story has touched so many so deeply: Because we come from everywhere, we all come from away." --Amazon.ca.

Offers a behind-the-scenes view of "Hamilton" the musical, which details the many dramatic episodes in Alexander Hamilton's life.

Contains the complete lyrics for songs written by Oscar Hammerstein II from 1916 to 1959, featuring 850 works for operas and operettas, Broadway musicals, and movies, including cut and unused songs, as well as stand-alone selections.

A baker and his wife who long for a child are thwarted by a mischievous witch who lives next door, and run into all kinds of trouble and complications with a host of other fairy tale characters including Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack (of beanstalk fame), princes, giants, wicked stepmothers, and sleeping princesses.

Contains the full text and complete lyrics from the original production.

Presents a retelling of the Greek mythology story of why the seasons change: Demeter, goddess of harvest, becomes so sorrowful when her daughter, Persephone, is stolen by the god of the underworld, that she lets the snow pile up on the world, so that crops wither and die, and spring never comes.

Presents the 1959 musical, based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, in which a stage mother pushes her daughters into careers on the vaudeville circuit, inadvertently turning one of them into a burlesque stripper.