Musicals!: Directing School and Community Theatre

…this superb book addresses every aspect of musical theatre…a key resource for all of those concerned with the staging of a musical on every scale from a school production to a major staging at a large capacity…theatre. It provides comprehensive step-by-step guidance for musical directors and choreographers, teachers, administrators, actors and students…presented in a clear, concise format with loads of illustrations, this book…is quite a find and a super addition to your library.

Through accessible prose and you-can-do-it tone, the authors provide an overview of preproduction planning, auditioning and casting, blocking, stage composition, rehearsals, and choreography, as well as the more technical layers of set design.

…invest in this book, which, as the playwright William Gibson says in the foreword ”should be in every high school and college library.” And public library I might add…remarkably complete…

For those in need of a primer, this comes highly recommended.

The book has an accessible upbeat feel to the text which is dotted with inspirational quotes to enthuse and energize the prospective director into action.