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The twelve stories in Curtain Calls are about love, loss, aloneness and self-discovery told from the view of the very young to the elderly. No matter how heart-tugging the stories may be, there is always the redeeming element of humor. A widow meets her lover during a bank robbery; a nine-year-old confesses to the parish priest her fear she is going to murder someone; a man in his 80's learns that his buddy in assisted living is planning his wife's mercy killing; after hitting a deer, a woman's car catapults into a dark parkway where no one can hear her cries for help; a bored, stay-at-home young mother plots to attract her neighbor, a soldier recently back from the battlefield; a middle-aged bride's obsessions come vicariously close to spoiling her honeymoon in Portugal. In the last story, "Curtain Calls" a once-glamourous Pop singer faces her nineties without her lover, a man who had lived life to the fullest.
Have you ever felt like your dreams were just out of reach? Meet Derek, a struggling actor who has been chasing his Hollywood dream for years, only to land minor roles in B-grade movies. But what if the detour you dread is the path to your destiny? “Meet Derek! From Curtain Calls to Traffic Jams, Derek’s Driving Dreams” follows Derek’s hilarious and heartwarming journey as he stumbles upon an unexpected job as a British driving instructor after years of pursuing an acting career. Navigating nervous students, impatient drivers, and the chaos of maintaining a fake accent, Derek's life takes a wild turn. Just when he thinks his acting career is over, a chance encounter with a group of spunky elderly ladies sparks an idea that could change everything. Imagine turning your biggest struggles into your greatest triumphs. As Derek’s real-life lessons inspire a hit comedy show, he finds himself not only teaching people how to drive but also driving straight into stardom. With genuine humour and touching moments, this story showcases the power of persistence, the importance of community, and the surprising places inspiration can strike. This humourous and exciting book is about: Driving Dreams, Hollywood Journey, Comedy Star Memoir, Hollywood Hopeful, Celebrity Autobiography, Comedy Biography, Journey to Stardom, Comedian Life Story, Hollywood Dreams, Rise to Fame, Comedian Journey, Showbiz Memoir, Showbiz Dreams, Hollywood Success Story, Aspiring Actor Story, Comedian Autobiography, Life in Comedy, Comedy Success Story, From Hollywood Hopeful to Star and Comedy Career Journey. Don't miss “Meet Derek! From Curtain Calls to Traffic Jams, Derek’s Driving Dreams”. Dive into Derek’s uproarious and inspiring adventure, and discover how sometimes, the roadblocks we face are just the detours we need to reach our true destination. Join Derek on a ride filled with laughter, hope, and the pursuit of dreams!Have you ever felt like your dreams were just out of reach? Meet Derek, a struggling actor who has been chasing his Hollywood dream for years, only to land minor roles in B-grade movies. But what if the detour you dread is the path to your destiny? “Meet Derek! From Curtain Calls to Traffic Jams, Derek’s Driving Dreams” follows Derek’s hilarious and heartwarming journey as he stumbles upon an unexpected job as a British driving instructor after years of pursuing an acting career. Navigating nervous students, impatient drivers, and the chaos of maintaining a fake accent, Derek's life takes a wild turn. Just when he thinks his acting career is over, a chance encounter with a group of spunky elderly ladies sparks an idea that could change everything. Imagine turning your biggest struggles into your greatest triumphs. As Derek’s real-life lessons inspire a hit comedy show, he finds himself not only teaching people how to drive but also driving straight into stardom. With genuine humour and touching moments, this story showcases the power of persistence, the importance of community, and the surprising places inspiration can strike. This humourous and exciting book is about: Driving Dreams, Hollywood Journey, Comedy Star Memoir, Hollywood Hopeful, Celebrity Autobiography, Comedy Biography, Journey to Stardom, Comedian Life Story, Hollywood Dreams, Rise to Fame, Comedian Journey, Showbiz Memoir, Showbiz Dreams, Hollywood Success Story, Aspiring Actor Story, Comedian Autobiography, Life in Comedy, Comedy Success Story, From Hollywood Hopeful to Star and Comedy Career Journey. Don't miss “Meet Derek! From Curtain Calls to Traffic Jams, Derek’s Driving Dreams”. Dive into Derek’s uproarious and inspiring adventure, and discover how sometimes, the roadblocks we face are just the detours we need to reach our true destination. Join Derek on a ride filled with laughter, hope, and the pursuit of dreams!
Watch out, Broadway! Babymouse tries out for the school play in the next book in the Babymousetastic, highly illustrated Babymouse: Tales from the Locker series. All of middle school's a play--at least, it seems that way to Babymouse. So when she hears about auditions for the school play, she jumps at the chance. She knows she's destined to be the lead! Or the lead's best friend. Or...Clown #2? Babymouse scrambles to memorize her one line, work on set design, and try to wrap her head around stage directions. But when the big show has a major glitch, it will take all of Babymouse's newfound skills to save the play. Le exhausted sigh.
Young baseball fans discover the sports' most signature moves and celebrations in this dynamic book from Sports Illustrated Kids. Derek Jeter's jump-throw. Ichiro Suzuki's mobile swing. Reggie Jackson's iconic curtain call. These are some of baseball's most signature moves and celebrations! In this high-interest book, discover the history behind these moves and many more--from the athletes who made them famous to their history within the game. Created in collaboration with Sports Illustrated Kids, Rally Caps and Curtain Calls will be a surefire homerun for young readers and sports fans. Other Books in This Series: Chalk Tosses and No-Look Passes Griddy Dances and One-Hand Grabs Jersey Swaps and Ronaldo Chops
"Why do we go on doing it?" asks Bernard Miles in the opening sentence of this glorious book on the theatre. "What keeps us going through the crises, the anxieties, the grinding circuit of agents and auditions and one night stands?" In this book, he and John Trewin have brought together the strolling players, the actors and actresses, the singers, the playwrights, the audiences, the managers, the stage-hands, who share the world of the theatre. They are set before us in all their exuberance, their jealousies, their ill-temper, their stubborn devotion to a profession that is 'love in action'. Linked by Bernard Miles's reminiscences of his own experiences as actor, manager, director and author, and by John Trewin's scholarship (fruit of a long career as critic and historian), Curtain Calls is alive with laughter, affection and surprise. It illuminates from first to last the belief that "the whole human story is a kind of play, a tragi-comedy in many episodes with script still being written in the wings, the mammoth cast under-rehearsed, imperfectly made up, unsure of their cues and dressed in the wrong clothes; the stage-management either very inexperienced, inebriated or blatantly incompetent; and the Great Director tearing his hair in the stalls."
"I here and there o'heard a Coxcomb cry, Ah, rot--'tis a Woman's Comedy." Thus Aphra Behn ushers in a new era for women in the British Theatre (Sir Patient Fancy, 1678). In the hundred years that were to follow -- and exactly those years that Curtain Calls examines -- women truly took the theater world by storm. For each woman who chose a career in the theater world of the eighteenth century, there is a unique tale of struggle, insult, success, good or bad fortune, disaster, seduction, or fame. Whether acting, writing, reviewing, or stage managing, women played a major, if frequently unacknowledged, role in the history of the theater from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries. From Alpha Behn's earliest plays through the glorious celebrity of Sara Siddons, women molded the taste of the age and carved out in the theater one of the few available opportunities for independence and renown. Not all the women who tried succeeded, of course, and even the best faced opposition as they challenged the male stronghold of playwriting and theater managing. Curtain Calls maps the new territory as these pioneering women staked it for their own; it chronicles their lives, their triumphs, and their losses. We begin with Aphra Behn, whose first play was staged in 1670, and conclude in the early decades of the nineteenth century with Inchbald and Siddons. The one hundred and fifty years encompassed by their lives contain the careers of dozens of lesser-known women, a network, as Dr. Johnson would have it, encompassing both talent and tribulation. Contributors include: Edward Langhans, Linda R. Payne, Pat Rogers, Maureen e. Mulvihill, Deborah Payne, Betty Rizzo, Ellen Donkin, Frances M. Kavenik, Jessica Munns, nancy Cotton, Edna L. Steevs, Doreen Saar, Jean B. Kern, Katherine M. Rogers, Constance Clark, William J. Burling, Judith Phillips Stanton, Douglas Butler, Rose Zimbardo, and the editors.
Stage Management offers readers a practical manual on how to stage manage in all theatre environments. Revered as the authoritative resource for stage management, this text is rich with practical resources, including checklists, diagrams, examples, forms and step-by-step directions. In addition to sharing his own expertise, Stern has gathered practical advice from working stage managers of Broadway, off-Broadway, touring companies, regional, community, and 99-seat Equity waiver theaters. In its 11th edition, the book is now fully in color and updated to include new information on Equity contracts, social media applications in stage management, and working with high school productions. This book is written for Stage Management courses in university Theatre programs.
Afrocentric Theatre updates the Molettes' groundbreaking book, Black Theatre: Premise and Presentation, that has been required reading in many Black theatre courses for over twenty-fi ve years. Afrocentric theatre is a culturally-based art form, not a race-based one. Culture and values shape perceptions of such phenomena as time, space, heroism, reality, truth, and beauty. These culturally variable social constructions determine standards for evaluating and analyzing art and govern the way people perceive theatrical presentations as well as fi lm and video drama. A play is not Afrocentric simply because it is by a Black playwright, or has Black characters, or addresses a Black theme or issue. Afrocentric Theatre describes the nature of an art form that embraces and disseminates African American culture and values. Further, it suggests a framework for interpreting andevaluating that art form and assesses the endeavors of dramatists who work from an Afrocentric perspective.