Best of
Musicals

2010

Avenue Q - The Musical: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical


Jeff Marx - 2010
    Hairspray (978-1-5578-3514-7); Rent (978-1-5578-3737-0); Fiddler on the Roof (978-0-8791-0136-7)

Wicked: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical


Stephen Schwartz - 2010
    Each Complete Book and Lyrics is approved by the writers and attractively designed with color photo inserts from the Broadway production. All titles include introduction and foreword by renowned Broadway musical experts. Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald green skin, is smart, fiery, and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious, and very popular. The story of how these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years.

American Idiot - The Musical: Vocal Selections


Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Company - 2010
    This collectible piano vocal songbook of the critically acclaimed Broadway show features four pages of full-color photographs and sheet music for all 22 of the show's songs. Titles: American Idiot * Jesus of Suburbia (Jesus of Suburbia, City of the Damned, I Don't Care, Dearly Beloved, Tales of Another Broken Home) * Boulevard of Broken Dreams * Favorite Son * Are We the Waiting * St. Jimmy * Give Me Novacaine * Last of the American Girls/She's a Rebel * Last Night on Earth * Too Much Too Soon * Before the Lobotomy * Extraordinary Girl * When It's Time * Know Your Enemy * 21 Guns * Wake Me Up When September Ends * Whatsername * When It's Time (Bonus Song) * and more.

The Addams Family: Piano/Vocal Selections


Marshall Brickman - 2010
    The creepy and kooky Addams Family hit Broadway in April 2010 with this musical adaptation of the characters created by cartoonist Charles Addams in his single-panel gag cartoons for The New Yorker starting in 1938. This songbook features piano/vocal arrangements (with the melody in the piano part) for 14 musical numbers from the Tony Award-nominated show: The Addams Family Theme * Crazier Than You * Happy/Sad * In the Arms * Just Around the Corner * Let's Not Talk About Anything Else but Love * Live Before We Die * The Moon and Me * Morticia * One Normal Night * Pulled * Waiting * What If * When You're an Addams.

A Tale of Two Cities


Jill Santoriello - 2010
    Two cities swept up in revolution. One last chance for a man to redeem his wasted life and change the world. Based on Charles Dickens' masterpiece, A Tale of Two Cities is a musical that focuses on the love triangle between young beauty Lucie Manette, French aristocrat Charles Darnay and drunken English cynic Sydney Carton - all caught in the clutches of the bloody French Revolution. Fresh off its Broadway run, A Tale of Two Cities is the perfect addition to any theatre's season! Appropriate for all ages and audiences, this classic story of love, revolution, and redemption is what the Associated Press called, "the return to the era of big blockbusters such as Les Miserables, Phantom, and Miss Saigon." Samuel French is excited to release the acting edition, available later this year "A Broadway must see!

Hair: The Story of the Show that Defined a Generation


Eric Grode - 2010
    This stand-out book features over 200 4/c photographs and a stunning removable poster.