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A Performer Prepares: A Guide to Song Preparation for Actors, Singers and Dancers (Applause Acting Series) [Hardcover]

David Craig (Author)

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Series: Applause Acting Series | Publication Date: April 1, 2000

A Performer Prepares is a 13-part master class on how to perform on any stage from bleak rehearsal room to the Palace Theatre. The class covers the basic Broadway song numbers, from show ballad to showstopper. With precise, logical steps and dynamic and entertaining dialogues between himself and his students, David Craig takes anyone with the desire to shine from an audition to final curtain call. These lessons on the pages recreate as closely as possible the unique interpersonal dynamic of Craig's legendary coaching encounters in New York, Los Angeles and across the country.

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Hardcover: 316 pages
Publisher: Applause Books; First Edition edition (April 1, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1557831335
ISBN-13: 978-1557831330
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds

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The Show Ballad is a basic building block in the construction of a musical and, as such, it can be found in every musical threater piece. Read the first page

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Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Show Ballad, Theater Blues, Performer Prepares, Jule Styne, Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin, True Blues, Burton Lane, International Copyright Secured, Jerome Kern, All Rights Reserved, New York, Pop Blues, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Patter Song, Richard Rodgers, David Shire, Duke Ellington, Frank Loesser, Jerry Bock, Noel Coward, Swinging Ballad

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