librettists

"Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had written dozens of Broadway shows, but together they pioneered a new art form: the serious musical play. Their songs and dance numbers served to advance the drama and reveal character, a sharp break from the past and the template on which all future musicals would be built"--Amazon.

A number of noted authors share some of the strategies they use in order to create dramatic narratives and stories, and includes interviews from Neil Simon, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, and others.

The story of the American musical stage as told through the careers of its foremost composers and lyricists.--Title page.

An autobiographical memoir of Lorenzo Da Ponte, who was known for composing librettos for three of Mozart's masterpieces and also wrote for Emperor Joseph II's opera company in Vienna before working as a bookseller and professor of Italian at Columbia University.

Tells the life stories of English composing duo Gilbert and Sullivan, describing their rise to fame in the late nineteenth century and their lasting popularity.