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#26

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 12:06pm

Thanks DM!
Um thanks Lizzie?
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#28

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 12:14pm

I think that this one has a little more substance than most coffee table books, but it's the companion book to PBS' Broadway: The American Musical. It's an interesting read with tons of great pictures.
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#29

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 12:17pm

WickedBoy2, I linked tinyurl.com for The White Half-Mask, but really, for anybody else who can't figure out that pasting a long Amazon URL in a thread and stretching out the page is truly irritating.
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#30

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 12:27pm

OK , What do you mean?
I'm a bit of technophob but i'll go along with you?!?! lol
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!'' Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
#31

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 12:29pm

DM, i love your avatar!
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!'' Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
#32

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 12:29pm

Go to the website and it'll explain it.

Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then you've come to the right place. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.
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#33

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 12:30pm

The Lord of the Rings just came out with one.

Billy Elliot had one.

Chess and Evita had books but they are unlike the current coffee table books you mentioned. They had more history and information than photos.

A Chorus Line had one towards the end of its run.
#34

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 12:32pm

Isn't there a Spring Awakening one coming out?
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#35

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 2:44pm

There is also a "companion" book - soft cover - for the film of PHANTOM. Color photos, background and the shooting script.
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#37

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 2:49pm

I believe I have:

Les Miserables
Phantom of the Opera
Cats
Aspects of Love
Tommy
Aida
Hairspray
Jersey Boys
Chess (original London production)
Rent
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#38

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 2:51pm

They're not show-specific, but also highly-recommended:

THE PLAYBILL YEARBOOK (2004-2005; 2005-2006; 2006-2007)
AT THIS THEATRE
PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE: The Life of a Theatre
BROADWAY: THE AMERICAN MUSICAL
#39

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 3:01pm

As mentioned above EVITA had one, but it was probably around 1977 before Elaine Paige was cast. There are no photos of the stage show, just the lyrics and other information set to pictures of Eva Peron, her family, Peron, and some scenes from Argentina.

It did, however have a HUGE misprint from the U.S. (yellow cover) version. It said Lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composed by Tim Rice!

I have:
EVITA
Phantom of the Opera
Les Miserables
Miss Saigon
The Musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Phantom of the Opera: Movie Companion
Wicked: The Grimmerie

And at one point had T.S. Eliot's version of Cats out there that had production photos where each of the different cat's peom was.

Updated On: 4/28/08 at 03:01 PM

#40

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 3:13pm

Worth a fortune now then!
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!'' Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
#42

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 5:49pm

The Billy Elliot book is HUGE

Your fupa is showing.
#43

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 6:28pm

i love the lion king one..lots of sketches and behind the scenes stuff

also tom schumackers how does the show go on? book is great b/c it has tons of extra pull outs and papers and drawsing and other broadway stuff from disney musicals....
#44

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 6:39pm

I am a coffee table book freak.

I actually won the Tommy coffee table book in a raffle at my old theatre camp. It was so cool.

We Will Rock You has a coffee table book. I bought it while I was in London (didn't see the show though.)
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#45

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 6:56pm

I've got Phantom and Wicked. I love them both, and really enjoyed reading through them. Some of you think they're little more than eye candy which is fine. However, I think they're fantastic! Too bad the entire script isn't included in Wicked, like it is in Phantom.
#46

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 4/28/08 at 8:20pm

This one sounds great.
If I heard the bells and the banjos ring
#49

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 11/19/12 at 9:08pm

I recently discovered two new coffee table books that focus on Broadway musicals in general instead of just a specific show. There's one called BROADWAY MUSICALS by Ben Brantley, and it's a collection of theatre reviews from the early 1900s to today. There's also one on the history of Actor's Equity, but I don't remember the title.

Also, I think Phantom of the Opera released a new 25th anniversary coffee table book, and (as the above poster said), a Book of Mormon coffee table book will be released in early December.
#50

re: Coffee Table Books

Posted: 11/19/12 at 10:00pm

I'd love for there to be a NEXT TO NORMAL companion...won't happen

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