Staging Musicals: An Essential Guide (Backstage)

Staging Musicals: An Essential Guide (Backstage)

by Matthew White (Author), Matthew White (Author)

Synopsis

Staging Musicals describes all the elements involved in putting on a musical production, including: choosing the right show, creating budgets and schedules, auditions, rehearsals and performances, as well as showing you to deal with set and costume design, lighting and publicity. Drawing on his experience as an actor, director and producer of musical theatre, as well as from many interviews with other producers, choreographers and desginers in the UK and the US, Matthew White shows how the ideal production is the result of careful organisation and a dedicated team. Structured as a step by step reference detailing every stage of the work, Staging Musicals is a must-have text for any would-be impresarios planning their production.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 242
Edition: 2
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: 07 Feb 2019

ISBN 10: 1474247717
ISBN 13: 9781474247719
Book Overview: A step-by-step guide to producing musical theatre, from selecting a script, through funding a production, to first night and beyond.

Author Bio
Matthew White is an actor, theatre director and writer. He has taught and directed at many of the leading theatre schools in London, including The Royal Academy of Music, The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Directing in the West End includes; Top Hat (Aldwych Theatre), Sweet Charity (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), and Little Shop of Horrors (Duke of York's Theatre).