You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
10 best books like You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Clark Gesner): The King and I, Master Class, The Lion King: Pride Rock On Broadway, West Side Story, Chicago The Musical: Vocal Selections, Pippin, Let's Face It, Charlie Brown!, My Mother Said I Never Should, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Follies
| Author | Richard Rodgers |
| ISBN | 0881880280 |
The King and I, based on the book by Margaret Landon, screenplay by Ernest Lehman
Seven out of 10
The story of the British governess who travels to work at the court of the king of Siam, approximately the country of Thailand today, has seen a couple of other adaptations for the big screen,...
| Author | Terrence McNally |
| ISBN | 0822215217 |
Master Class is a pyrotechnical theater—fireworks in a contained space where Maria Callas is brought back to life in Sturm und Drang. Inspired by a series of master classes the great diva conducted at Juilliard toward the end of her career, this drama puts Maria Callas at center stage again as she coaxes,...
The Lion King: Pride Rock On Broadway
| Author | Julie Taymor |
| ISBN | 0786863420 |
The Lion King musical is a stunning visual piece of art that is a breathtaking experience no matter how many times you watch it. Pride Rock on Broadway chronicles the birth of the musical from idea to opening night in Julie Taymor's own words. The concept was a humble one that soon developed into the spectacular...
| Author | Leonard Bernstein |
| ISBN | 0634046780 |
Saw the Chicago Lyric Opera production of this tonight with my daughter, who had never been to the Lyric, which is a pretty amazing building. We read this, will see Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968!), read the play, see the original (1968) movie, and read around these texts a bit together. So fun!
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Chicago The Musical: Vocal Selections
| Author | Stephen Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0910482640 |
This is a musical fable very loosely inspired by the life of Pepin, the son of the emperor Charlemagne.
The title character, here called Pippin, is a naive, inexperienced young man looking to make his mark in the world. He seeks glory and personal fulfillment first as a soldier, then as a lover,...
| Author | Charles M. Schulz |
| ISBN | 0449205479 |
Charles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.
Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul...
My Mother Said I Never Should
| Author | Charlotte Keatley |
| ISBN | 0413684709 |
Charlotte Keatley's first main stage play My Mother Said I Never Should explores the difficult relationships between mothers and daughters, moving the play back and forth between the lives of four generations of women—their desire to love and be loved, their expectations and choices, all set against...
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
| Author | Stephen Sondheim |
| ISBN | 1854591452 |
I had seen the play at least once and the movie several times...and of course enjoyed them. I didn't expect the humor to come through so much in the written form. I was so wrong. I occasionally chuckle when reading my daily fare...but this book actually had me in belly laughs that were so prolonged that it...
| Author | James Goldman |
| ISBN | 1559361964 |
On the eve of its destruction, the once-glorious Weissman Theatre is filled with the ghosts of its past as showgirls from 40 years ago reunite to glamorize the old days and relive bygone memories of promise and splendor. For two jaded middle-aged couples, coming face-to-face with what might have been...
| Author | Arthur Laurents |
| ISBN | 1559360860 |
"Sing out, Louise!" This is the book (or "libretto" if you will) by Arthur Laurents that played Broadway in 1959 with Ethel Merman as the indelible Mama Rose, Julie Styne furnishing the music and Stephen Sondheim the lyrics. It was made into a well-known Warner Bros. musical in 1962 with almost as much...
| Author | W.S. Gilbert |
| ISBN | 0793525861 |
(Vocal Score). The Pirates of Penzance, premiered in 1879, confirmed the comic genius of librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, following on the heels of their wildly successful H.M.S. Pinafore . Pirates invade the rocky coast of Cornwall in this topsy-turvy tale of love and duty,...
