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Across Musicals, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Genres & Styles, and Music — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell.

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Savin’ Up for Saturday Night The Honky Tonk Musical

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Happy Days A New Musical — Paul Williams

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Anastasia The Musical — Terrence McNally

Anastasia The Musical

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A– My Name is Alice A Musical Review

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Gutenberg! the Musical! — Anthony King

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The 1940’s Radio Hour A Musical — Walton Jones

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The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda — Ishmael Reed

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Tosca Libretto — Giuseppe Giacosa

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Where Are Your Boys Tonight? The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 — Chris Payne

Where Are Your Boys Tonight? The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008

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Fanny Brice The Original Funny Girl — Herbert G. Goldman

Fanny Brice The Original Funny Girl

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Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’be A Play — Frank Norman

Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’be A Play

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The Music of Film Collaborations and Conversations — Steve Saltzman

The Music of Film Collaborations and Conversations

Themes: Musicals • Genres & Styles • Music

The Poets of Tin Pan Alley A History of America’s Great Lyricists — Philip Furia

The Poets of Tin Pan Alley A History of America’s Great Lyricists

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The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist A Handbook for Collaboration — Rebecca Applin Warner

The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist A Handbook for Collaboration

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Staging Rebellion in the Musical, Hair Marginalised Voices in Musical Theatre — Sarah Elisabeth Browne

Staging Rebellion in the Musical, Hair Marginalised Voices in Musical Theatre

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Wonderful Town A New Musical Comedy — Leonard Bernstein

Wonderful Town A New Musical Comedy

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Musical Theatre Choreography Reflections of My Artistic Process for Staging Musicals — Linda Sabo

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Jagged Little Pill — Alanis Morissette

Jagged Little Pill

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