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Shai & Emmie star in Break an egg!

2018
When Shai Williams, who plans to become a star on Broadway, loses the lead role in the third-grade musical at her performing arts elementary school in Atlanta, she learns an important lesson about adaptability, from her mother, aunt, and grandmother, all actresses.

Rise up!

Broadway and American society from Angels in America to Hamilton
2019
Discusses the history of Broadway, including the impact it has on society.

Pinky and Rex and the school play

Pinky is jealous when his best friend Rex gets the lead in the school play, even though she only tried out to give Pinky moral support.

Apocalypse taco

Twins Axl and Ivan, with Sid as their driver, make a late-night fast-food run for a high school theater crew but return to discover that aliens have made copies of everything.
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No more dead dogs

Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
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American Theatre Wing

an oral history : 100 years, 100 voices, 100 million miracles
Examines over 100 years of history of the American Theatre Wing through oral recollections and stories of actors, actresses, production designers, stage directors, and more who have worked with this theatrical company, from its founding in 1917 to the present. Argues that the American Theatre Wing has historically defended the nation's most romantic ideals and values through two world wars up through the contentious decades of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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Nate expectations

When E.T.: The Musical closes, Nate reluctantly returns home to begin high school and, with his best friend, Libby, makes a project of turning Dickens' Great Expectations into a musical.
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Night play

a bedtime story in three acts
"Arlo is sleepy, but his stuffed toys want to put on a play before bedtime, and the cast of characters appear through die-cut and fold-out pages"--OCLC.
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The callback

2018
After a successful first competition, twelve-year-old Harper is eager to keep on making her mark in Dance Starz, But lately, she s having a bit of dancer s block, In her one-on-one with her teacher, Harper is reminded that dancing isn t just about the spins and leaps; it s about the emotion and passion for dancing, too.
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Eliza Bing is (not) a star

Eliza Bing does her best to conquer the sixth grade, new friendships, afterschool taekwondo, and a role in the school play.
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