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"In each entry you will find a synopsis of the musical, its cast size, a list of musical numbers, and Flinn's professional comments on the advantages and disadvantages of producing the show. Flinn also provides licensing information, production notes, photos of many of the plays that give you a look at production requirements, commentary, and statistics on the number of performances that reveal just how successful the original production was. Appendixes include contact information for licensing organizations, authors, composers, and lyricists, and an index offers quick access to individual titles." "If you're planning to produce a little musical, or simply want a quick-reference guide, you need this book."--BOOK JACKET.
If all teachers were positive teachers, all students would be stimulated to succeed. A positive first year teacher's astounding achievement - stimulating all of her one hundred and fifty freshmen students to succeed - motivates a new principal to commence a "positive teaching" crusade at Heritage High School, home of the Eagles. All Eagles Are Supposed to Soar communicates a profound story of the power of positive teaching, and conveys a "positive teaching" formula for stimulating all students to succeed.
They've traded punches in knockdown brawls, crashed biplanes through barns, and raced to the rescue in fast cars. They add suspense and drama to the story, portraying the swimmer stalked by the menacing shark, the heroine dangling twenty feet below a soaring hot air balloon, or the woman leaping nine feet over a wall to escape a dog attack. Only an expert can make such feats of daring look easy, and stuntwomen with the skills to perform—and survive—great moments of action in movies have been hitting their mark in Hollywood since the beginning of film. Here, Mollie Gregory presents the first history of stuntwomen in the film industry from the silent era to the twenty-first century. In the...
Despite an often unfair reputation as being less popular, less successful, or less refined than their bona-fide Broadway counterparts, Off Broadway musicals deserve their share of critical acclaim and study. A number of shows originally staged Off Broadway have gone on to their own successful Broadway runs, from the ever-popular A Chorus Line and Rent to more off-beat productions like Avenue Q and Little Shop of Horrors. And while it remains to be seen if other popular Off Broadway shows like Stomp, Blue Man Group, and Altar Boyz will make it to the larger Broadway theaters, their Off Broadway runs have been enormously successful in their own right. This book discusses more than 1,800 Off Br...
A guide for teachers at any level shares ideas on classroom management and designing lessons for academic success.
Baker provides the first comprehensive analysis of the history and structure of the U.S. Attorney General. She documents how attorneys general have differed in their responses, seeing themselves as either advocates of the president or neutral expounders of the law. She focuses in particular on Robert Kennedy, Edwin Meese, Elliot Richardson, Griffin Bell, Robert Jackson, Edward Levi, A. Mitchell Palmer, and Roger Taney.
Johannes Becker was born in Germany in 1816. He came to America about 1842 settling in Wisconsin. Soon afterwards he married Katherine Kastler. They were the parents of eleven children. Although the children survived infancy, at least six died before they could marry as a result of two epidemics during the winter of 1869-1870. One daughter either married or died during this time and has not be located at the present time. Material about their remaining four sons and their families is included in this volume. Descendants now live in Wisconsin, California, Illinois, Washington, Oregon, Arizona and elsewhere.