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Words with music : creating the Broadway musical libretto
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- Creator
- Lehman Engel ; updated and revised by Howard Kissel
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books ; Milwaukee, WI : Sales & distribution, North America, Hal Leonard, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- 466 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781557835543, 1557835543
- OCLC
- ocm61295889
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-445) and index.
- Introduction -- Characters -- Subject matter -- The outer shape -- The needs of a musical : feeling -- Subplot -- Romance -- Lyrics and particularization -- Music -- Comedy -- Comedy and entertainment -- The new-old -- Response -- Opera -- Adaptation to libretto -- Failures -- Producers and stars -- Nonplot -- The original music