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  • Bert and I
    Marshall Dodge / Robert Bryan
    Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan began swapping funny Down East stories when they students at Yale in the 1950s. Their fascination and appreciation for Maine and its people triggered the production of several “Bert and I” records, from which 14 stories were selected. ...
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    18,60 €

  • Working to Laugh
    James M. Thomas / James MThomas
    For decades, stand-up comedy has been central to the imbrication of popular culture and political discourse, reshaping the margins of political critique, and often within the contexts of urban nightlife entertainment. In Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues, James M. Thomas (JT) provides an ethnographic analysis of urban nightlife sites whe...
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    125,22 €

  • Third Swan from the Left
    Debbie Wilson
    When the applause dies down and the stage lights are turned off, the dancer takes a bus home to sit in a tub of hot water to soak aching muscles. In Third Swan from the Left, author Debbie Wilson makes it clear that life in the world of professional dance is not all champagne and tutus. The stories in her memoir offer a synopsis of a rich journey-from beginning dance at age fou...
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    20,98 €

  • Third Swan from the Left
    Debbie Wilson
    When the applause dies down and the stage lights are turned off, the dancer takes a bus home to sit in a tub of hot water to soak aching muscles. In Third Swan from the Left, author Debbie Wilson makes it clear that life in the world of professional dance is not all champagne and tutus. The stories in her memoir offer a synopsis of a rich journey-from beginning dance at age fou...
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    32,22 €

  • Behind Sach
    Jim Manago
    This is the hardback edition. 'Your father is the American Chaplin.'- Groucho Marx (speaking to Gary Hall)'Huntz Hall was a complicated person: extremely generous and loving on the one hand, scarily angry and violent on the other....As I get older I understand my father much better-he was emotionally deprived as a kid, and then he was unprepared for fame and money when they arr...
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    36,80 €

  • The Imperfection of Being
    Dave Burke
    Peter Smith sets about his normal daily routine only to find his day, his world and his whole life turned upside down as a series of rather unfortunate events; unravel around him. Unfortunately for them he also drags three relative strangers into it all, as his problems go from bad to worse and Peter goes from being rather annoyed to near insanity. Things all start to go wrong ...
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    47,74 €

  • The Imperfection of Being
    Dave Burke
    Peter Smith sets about his normal daily routine only to find his day, his world and his whole life turned upside down as a series of rather unfortunate events; unravel around him. Unfortunately for them he also drags three relative strangers into it all, as his problems go from bad to worse and Peter goes from being rather annoyed to near insanity. Things all start to go wrong ...
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    28,17 €

  • Global Movements
    Global Movements is the first comprehensive examination of the relationship between global mobility and dance. It includes chapters from geographers, dance historians, and other humanities scholars and examines how the diffusion of global cultures has impacted dance and given new meaning to the everyday spaces where dance occurs. ...
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    132,05 €

  • Afro Latin Rhythm Romance Dance
    Gary Sowell
    I am a native of Colorado My father Booker T. Sowell was the first Black family to own property in Jefferson County. Our family was the first Blacks to attend and graduate from a Jefferson County School. I wrote and published the history for the school district as well as for the city of Lakewood, Colorado. I am the author of 'Moral obligation' as well as 'Just One Moment In Ti...
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    17,52 €

  • Hail, Hail, Euphoria!
    Roy Blount
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    15,07 €

  • Mad Movies with the LA Connection
    Mike White
    Shirley Temple possessed by demons? Danny Kaye singing like Michael Jackson? Are the characters in Night of the Living Dead planning a party? There’s nothing wrong with your television set. It’s Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection, the television show that ran from 1985-1989 in the wee hours of the night. Founded in 1977, The L.A. Connection is still going strong with sketch c...
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    22,41 €

  • Crazy Janitors
    Ruth Toby
    Cathy and Rick are the owners of a janitorial company. Their employees are ruining homes and annoying their employers. Janitor Fat John eats the oysters, a treat for Mrs. Schmitt’s daughter. In another house, Fat John was chased out with ripe tomatoes. Stale Kronchy, who starts shooting at Rick, is chasing Rick in the freeway. Stale was held by a fat black policewoman who kept ...
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    20,50 €

  • Reeling with Laughter
    Michael V. Tueth / Michael VTueth
    In this book, Tueth looks at some of the most enduring comic movies of all time. Beginning with the anarchic romp Duck Soup (1933), each chapter explores a specific sub-genre by examining a representative film. Tueth delves into the background of each film’s production and discusses their audience reception and critical appraisal. ...
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    43,24 €

  • Earth in Flower - The Divine Mystery of the Cambodian Dance Drama
    Paul Cravath
    An extraordinary account of Southeast Asia’s most esoteric female performing art: the ancient Cambodian ballet. Since the dawn of recorded history, Khmer royalty nurtured a spiritual dance unique to their kingdom. Today, people worldwide instantly recognize the style, mistakenly associating it with Siam and Thailand. In fact, the Siamese captured the mystical dancers and their ...
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    40,42 €

  • Whose Improv Is It Anyway?
    Amy E. Seham
    On both sides of the stage improv-comedy’s popularity has increased exponentially throughout the 1980s and ’90s and into the new millennium. Presto! An original song is created out of thin air. With nothing but a suggestion from the audience, daring young improvisers working without a net or a script create hilarious characters, sketches, and songs. Thrilled by the danger, the ...
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    49,99 €

  • How to Be a Sitcom Writer
    Marc Blake
    Everyone loves - and hates - sitcom. On TV it’s the goldmine genre, the one watched by millions. There’s a special place in our hearts for Fawlty, Frasier, Blackadder and Brent. An absurd predicament, witty banter, a group of hilariously dysfunctional people: it all seems so easy. But is it? If you’ve ever said ’I can do better than that’, then this is the book for you. How to ...
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    11,80 €

  • All Joking Aside
    Rebecca Krefting
    A professor of American Studies--and stand-up comic--examines sharply focused comedy and its cultural utility in contemporary society.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceIn this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, 'charged humor,' and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric ...
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    33,85 €

  • Saturday Night
    Doug Hill / Jeff Weingrad
    Saturday Night is the intimate history of the original Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy. This is the book that revea...
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    23,93 €

  • Body Magic
    John Fisher
    An entertaining handbook of magic tricks you can perform without fancy, costly equipment. ...
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    12,16 €

  • No Fairytales
    Sarah Sharp
    No fairy tales is about three couples who are different stages in there lives. The couples have to overcome obstacles such as divorce, affairs and health scares. With the help of crazy friends and amazing new ones these couples overcome all the obstacles in there way. No fairy tales is full of laughter, tears and good old fashioned friendship. 3 ...
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    22,77 €

  • Gabustle Make My Body Hustle
    Move It Media
    Gabustle is about funny words and funny dancing, letting loose, and getting some movement in your day. It’s a celebration of natural-born movers and the freedom to create. 3 ...
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    24,81 €

  • Ward Hall - King of the Sideshow!
    TIM O'BRIEN / Tim O’Brien
    Ward Hall ran across town and joined the circus for a part time gig in 1944 when he was a 'kid' living in Colorado. A year later, as a 15 year old 10th grade dropout, he ran away for good, joining the Dailey Bros. Circus. He never looked back. By 16 he was performing in a sideshow and by age 21, he owned a sideshow!Today, 70 years later and countless circus and side show, vaude...
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    31,56 €

  • Ward Hall - King of the Sideshow!
    TIM O'BRIEN / Tim O’Brien
    Ward Hall ran across town and joined the circus for a part time gig in 1944 when he was a 'kid' living in Colorado. A year later, as a 15 year old 10th grade dropout, he ran away for good, joining the Dailey Bros. Circus. He never looked back. By 16 he was performing in a sideshow and by age 21, he owned a sideshow!Today, 70 years later and countless circus and side show, vaude...
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    22,77 €

  • Life Dances Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - Poetry Remembering the Company’s Second Decade
    Robértu Ras Riley
    Life Dances is a book of poetry which captures the world-famous Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre from 1970-1980. The Introduction starts where the critics first begin to call Alvin Ailey 'a genius,' just after his company returns from its triumphant tour of Russia, 'the first American modern dance company to go behind the Iron Curtain.' The fact that this is 'a black company'...
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    19,79 €

  • Great Choreographers-Interviews
    Natasha Hassiotis
    In this book, the reader will find some of the most important choreographers, artists who helped to shape the dance scene as it is today, from icon Pina Bausch to still-thriving figures such as Xavier Le Roy, Sasha Waltz, and more. Through this compilation of interviews conducted over the course of twenty years, Natasha Hassiotis aims to show on the one hand the choices made by...
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    21,35 €

  • Women and Comedy
    Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women’s comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences of comedy, only as its targets. Only more recently have scholarly studies of ...
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    124,76 €

  • The Victorian Clown
    Ann Featherstone / Jacky Bratton
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    57,89 €

  • Two Voices
    Brett Konen / Peg Kehret
    Finally a collection of duets from the best-selling author of "Winning Monologs for Young Actors" and her granddaughter. These humorous and thoughtful scenes present distinctive viewpoints on issues meant to provoke and inspire discussion as well as to entertain. Most roles can be played by either gender. The short length of each scene makes it easy for students to memorize the...
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    19,76 €

  • Singing Simpkin and other Bawdy Jigs
    Lucie Skeaping / Roger Clegg
    A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise. This performance edition presents for the first time nine examples of English dramatic jigs from the late sixteenth century through to the Restoration. ...
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    67,05 €

  • How to Be a Working Comic
    Dave Schwensen
    The classic business book on stand-up comedy is back - revisited, revised and revamped. Considered 'The Guidebook' by many aspiring and working comics, the author shares more insider advice than any other manual including how to try out material; get onstage experience; create promotional material and market your act to talent bookers; work with managers and agents; book yourse...
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    17,15 €


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