GEMIGNANI
Subtitle: Life and Lessons from Broadway and Beyond
Publisher: Applause
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Blue Ridge Summit
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9781493061068
Subjects: Conductors (Music); Biography; Musicals; Production and direction
Description: Gemignani tells the life story of Paul Gemignani, who is widely considered to be the most successful Broadway music director living today. A frequent collaborator with Stephen Sondheim, Kander and Ebb, Michael Bennett, and the Roundabout Theater Company, Mr. Gemignani is directly entwined with the history of the American Musical Theater itself.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Contents; title: Introduction; title: Chapter One Childhood; title: Chapter Two College Years; title: Chapter Three Rhythm Section; title: Chapter Four Next Stop, New York; title: Chapter Five Picking Up the Baton; title: Chapter Six Does That Mean I'm the Music Director?; title: Chapter Seven Pacific Overtures; title: Chapter Eight A Little Night Music (Film); title: Chapter Nine Side by Side by Sondheim; title: Chapter Ten On the Twentieth Century; title: Chapter Eleven Sweeney Todd-The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; title: Chapter Twelve Evita; title: Chapter Thirteen Merrily We Roll Along; title: Chapter Fourteen Dreamgirls; title: Chapter Fifteen The Rink; title: Chapter Sixteen Sunday in the Park with George; title: Chapter Seventeen Into the Woods; title: Chapter Eighteen Jerome Robbins' Broadway; title: Chapter Nineteen Crazy for You; title: Chapter Twenty Passion; title: Chapter Twenty-One Fun for the Whole Family; title: Chapter Twenty-Two 1776; title: Chapter Twenty-Three High Society; title: Chapter Twenty-Four Kiss Me, Kate 1999; title: Chapter Twenty-Five Assassins; title: Chapter Twenty-Six Ravinia Festival; title: Chapter Twenty-Seven The Mystery of Edwin Drood; title: Chapter Twenty-Eight She Loves Me; title: Chapter Twenty-Nine The Under 100 Club; title: Chapter Thirty Beyond Broadway; title: Chapter Thirty-One Film Projects; title: Chapter Thirty-Two Kiss Me, Kate 2019; title: Chapter Thirty-Three On Fathers and Sons; title: Chapter Thirty-Four The Importance of Collaboration; title: Chapter Thirty-Five Advice to Artists; title: Coda; title: Paul Gemignani, According to His Colleagues; title: Acknowledgments; title: Career Time Line; title: Show Reference; title: Index