Help with Amazon.com!
Help with Amazon.com!
#0Help with Amazon.com!
Posted: 7/12/05 at 11:29amFor my burfday yesterday, I just got an Amazon gift certificate for 25 bucks -- and have absolutely no idea what I should buy. I think I'd like a book on Broadway -- but don't know what's new, recent, and good. Any recs from you boys?
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Posted: 7/12/05 at 11:34am
How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater - MARC ACITO
Making It on Broadway: Actors' Tales of Climbing to the Top by David Wienir, Jodie Langel
A Year with the Producers, Jeffry Denman
I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2. "unleash the girly"
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CJR
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#2re: Help with Amazon.com!
Posted: 7/12/05 at 11:48amSo You Want to Dance on Broadway? ~ Tina Paul
"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
#3re: Help with Amazon.com!
Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:20pm
OH!
I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2. "unleash the girly"
Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.
Puppies are babies in fur coats.
Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator
The Grovers Corners Yenta
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#4re: Help with Amazon.com!
Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:08pmMy brother always sends me an Amazon certificate for my birthday and I feel like a kid in a candy shop. It usually takes me days to figure out what to get. This year I purchased the PBS Broadway CD.
"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.
#5re: Help with Amazon.com!
Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:34pm
amazon is my best friend. we put as many purchases as possible on our AMAZON VISA card, so we can earn gift certificates 
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Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:36pm
Not Since Carrie! Buy that book!
I will as soon as I have money!
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Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:49pm
A friend of mine gave me the book, Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time. While I do not agree with all of their selections, the book is fantastic. It is loaded with rarely seen color and black and white photos. A gorgeous book filled with great photos and fascinating tidbits. That and Not Since Carrie are my two favorite books on musicals.
Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time
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Updated On: 7/12/05 at 05:49 PM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#9re: Help with Amazon.com!
Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:56pmWhat about Ethan Mordden's books on the Broadway musical? There's one per decade from the 20's to the 70's I think and then one covering up to present day.
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Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:58pm
I second the recomendation for Making It on Broadway: Actors' Tales of Climbing to the Top by David Wienir, Jodie Langel
its an AWESOME book
NCGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/04
#11re: Help with Amazon.com!
Posted: 7/12/05 at 6:39pm
Rlbgbc, the "Broadway Musicals: 101 Greatest Shows" book Mister Matt suggested is definitely worth getting! I bought a copy as a Christmas present to myself, and it was by far the best gift I received. The list is pretty subjective; I was really suprised at some of the musicals left out, but thrilled at some of the less obvious choices ("Little Me," "Spider Woman"). TONS of great photos (the gorgeous color pics of Gwen Verdon in "Sweet Charity" are what sold me on the book in the store, but any number of the photos justify buying it).
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#12re: Help with Amazon.com!
Posted: 7/12/05 at 10:18pm
Books:
COLORED LIGHTS by Kander and Ebb
I'VE GOT THE SHOW RIGHT HERE by Cy Feuer
EVERYTHING WAS POSSIBLE (the making of FOLLIES) by Ted Chapin
ORIGINAL STORY by Arthur Laurents
JUST LUCKY I GUESS by the glorious Carol Channing
REWRITES by Neil Simon
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#13re: Help with Amazon.com!
Posted: 7/12/05 at 10:24pmTotally forgot about Broadway Musicals 101..., and I just gave it to a friend for his birthday!
I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2. "unleash the girly"
Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.
Puppies are babies in fur coats.
Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator
#14re: Help with Amazon.com!
Posted: 7/12/05 at 10:31pm
cturtle - I checked into the Amazon Visa thang - you gotta spend $800 or more in order to get a $25 gift certificate. And the "points" are lost every two years or something like that.
NOT worth it.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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