With guts, love, and her finger on the pulse, rock musical audition coach Sheri Sanders shares the essential tools artists need to interpret rock material with openness, sensitivity, creativity, and authenticity so they may succeed in the audition room and on stage. It includes tips from interviews with industry insiders and innovators.

Two kids, one band, one crucial audition. Noah's a natural on the guitar, and he'd give anything to get through the Rock War audition. But when he betrays his best friend to join another band, he knows he's crossed the line. Will he risk their friendship for the sake of musical stardom?

Countering the misperceptions about Broadway performers leading glamorous lives, the words of more than 150 Broadway stars provide unprecedented insight into their struggle for stardom. With an introduction by Jason Alexander and candid interviews with today's most celebrated Broadway stars, this book offers stories to entertain and astonish theater lovers, as well as serve as a sobering reality check for those considering careers on the stage. This book shares firsthand accounts of professional actors' difficult yet fulfilling journeys to Broadway: moving to New York, finding survival jobs, auditioning, landing roles, avoiding pitfalls, forging a family life, and much more. Interviews Include These Award-Winning Actors: • Jason Alexander • Daisy Eagan • Heather Headley • Wilson Heredia • Randy Graff • Donna McKechnie • Donna Murphy • John Rubinstein • Lea Salonga • Scott Wise • Chita Rivera Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Today's musical theatre world rocks. Now that rock 'n' roll music and its offshoots, including pop, hard rock, rap, r&b, funk, folk, and world-pop music, are the standard language of musical theatre, theatre singers need a source of information on these styles, their origins, and their performance practices. Rock in the Musical Theatre: A Guide for Singers fills this need. Today's musical theatre training programs are now including rock music in their coursework and rock songs and musicals in their repertoires. This is a text for those trainees, courses, and productions. It will also be of great value to working professionals, teachers, music directors, and coaches less familiar with rock styles, or who want to improve their rock-related skills. The author, an experienced music director, vocal coach, and university professor, and an acknowledged expert on rock music in the theatre, examines the many aspects of performing rock music in the theatre and offers practical advice through a combination of aesthetic and theoretical study, extensive discussions of musical, vocal, and acting techniques, and chronicles of coaching sessions. The book also includes advice from working actors, casting directors, and music directors who specialize in rock music for the stage.

(Vocal Collection). Contents: All I Care About * All I Need Is The Girl * All Of You * Alone At The Drive-In Movie * Anywhere I Wander * Being Alive * Blow High, Blow Low * Bring Me My Bride * Buddy's Blues (The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues) * C'est Moi * Can't Help Falling In Love * Celebration * Colorado, My Home * Come Back To Me * Dear Old Syracuse * Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful? * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Empty Chairs At Empty Tables * A Fellow Needs A Girl * Get Me To The Church On Time * Haben Sie Gehort Das Deutsche Band? (Have You Ever Heard The German Band?) * Heaven's Light * I Can See It * I Could Write A Book * I Don't Remember You * I Have Dreamed * I Know About Love * I Met A Girl * I Want To Be With You * I Wish I Were In Love Again * I Won't Send Roses * I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise * I'll Never Say No * I've Just Seen Her (As Nobody Else Has Seen Her) * If Ever I Would Leave You * If I Can't Love Her * If I Loved You * The Impossible Dream (The Quest) * It Only Happens When I Dance With You * It Only Takes A Moment * Jackie (La Chanson De Jacky) * Jailhouse Rock * Joey, Joey, Joey * Kansas City * The Kite (Charlie Brown's Kite) * Let Me Sing And I'm Happy * Lizzie's Comin' Home * Lonely Room * A Lot Of Livin' To Do * Love, I Hear * Loving You * Luck Be A Lady * Make Someone Happy * Man Of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote) * Me * My Defenses Are Down * My Name * My Romance * Nothing Can Stop Me Now! * Old Devil Moon * On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever) * On Broadway * On The Street Where You Live * Once In A Lifetime * Once In Love With Amy * Once Upon A Time * Out Of This World * Out There * People Will Say We're In Love * Put On A Happy Face * The Sadder But Wiser Girl * Santa Fe (from Walt Disney's NEWSIES) * A Secretary Is Not A Toy * She (He) Touched Me * The Shortest Day Of The Year * Some Enchanted Evening * Somebody Loves Me * Someone Like You * Something Was Missing * Something, Somewhere * Stayin' Alive * Steppin' Out With My Baby * Ten Minutes Ago * That's For Me * There's No Reason In The World * They Call The Wind Maria * 'Til Him * (Walking) Among My Yesterdays * Were Thine That Special Face * What Kind Of Fool Am I? * When She Loved Me * Where Is The Life That Late I Led? * Where Or When * Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) * Who Do You Love I Hope * Why Should I Wake Up? * With So Little To Be Sure Of * YesterdayYou're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile * Young And Foolish

From the bestselling author of Tides of Honour and Promises to Keep comes a poignant novel about a young couple caught on opposite sides of the Second World War. In the fall of 1939, Grace Baker’s three brothers, sharp and proud in their uniforms, board Canadian ships headed for a faraway war. Grace stays behind, tending to the homefront and the general store that helps keep her small Nova Scotian community running. The war, everyone says, will be over before it starts. But three years later, the fighting rages on and rumours swirl about “wolf packs” of German U-Boats lurking in the deep waters along the shores of East Jeddore, a stone’s throw from Grace’s window. As the harsh realities of war come closer to home, Grace buries herself in her work at the store. Then, one day, a handsome stranger ventures into the store. He claims to be a trapper come from away, and as Grace gets to know him, she becomes enamoured by his gentle smile and thoughtful ways. But after several weeks, she discovers that Rudi, her mysterious visitor, is not the lonely outsider he appears to be. He is someone else entirely—someone not to be trusted. When a shocking truth about her family forces Grace to question everything she has so strongly believed, she realizes that she and Rudi have more in common than she had thought. And if Grace is to have a chance at love, she must not only choose a side, but take a stand. Come from Away is a mesmerizing story of love, shifting allegiances, and second chances, set against the tumultuous years of the Second World War.

(Easy Piano Vocal Selections). A dozen easy piano arrangements from the Tony Award-nominated 2015 musical adapted from the popular 2003 silver screen production of the same name. Our folio includes the new songs with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Glenn Slater and the title track by Mike White and Samuel Buonaugurio. Includes: Children of Rock * Here at Horace Green * Horace Green Alma Mater * I'm Too Hot for You * If Only You Would Listen * If Only You Would Listen (Reprise) * School of Rock * Stick It to the Man * Time to Play * When I Climb to the Top of Mount Rock * Where Did the Rock Go? * You're in the Band.

Since the death of his wife seven years ago, documentary maker Aoyama has not dated anyone else. Now even his teenage son, Shige, thinks that he should remarry and his best friend Yoshikawa comes up with a plan: to hold fake film auditions from which, he can choose a new bride. Of the thousands who apply, it is a beautiful ballerina, Yamasaki Asami, who captivates Aoyama. Infatuated by her fragile nature and nervous smile, he ignores his increasing sense of unease, putting aside his doubts about his new love, until it may be too late... In Audition, Ryu Murakami delivers his most subtly disturbing novel yet, confirming him as Japan's master of the psycho-thriller.

Best friends Tatum and Lori are used to doing everything together-including a clarinet/flute duet for District Honor Band auditions. But all that changes when Michael transfers to their middle school, and into their band. Suddenly, not only is he competition for Tatum's spot on stage, but he's stealing Lori, too. Tatum doesn't like change no matter its form: not with her good friend Aaron, who seems to believe her fib that they're secretly boyfriend and girlfriend. And not with her mom either, who, to cope with a separation from her dad, is performing in community theater, of all things! Amy Fellner Dominy composes an equally heartwarming and hilarious story of how holding tight to the status quo can mean missing out on the future-and how often times the best way to move forward is by going solo.

Plays, musicals, movies, documentaries, places to visit, books to read, and other stagey surprises. A must-have bucket list for all thespians who are serious about their love for the theatre!