High School Musicals
This striking series provides readers with everything they need to know to stage a musical performance of their own. It includes information from planning the original vision to opening night, from downstage to backstage. With colorful photographs and informative charts from high school, amateur, and professional performances, these books will likely be read encore after encore.
* Reviews *
Book Review: Directing"Making no assumptions about the reader's prior knowledge or experience with theater, the book offers a basic glossary, including audition, intermission, and scene, as well as a diagram of stage directions and a sample audition form...There's some good, practical advice here...and little else is available on the topic for young people."
--Booklist
Series Review: High School Musicals
"This series, with its candid photos of diverse teens working on every aspect of productions brings high school musicals from the movie-theater screen into the realm of possibility. Although the authors do not downplay the complexity of staging a performance, they break each of the components into achievable sections ranging from how to select a musical for your school through returning borrowed prop items. Procedures, processes, tools, tips, and a lot of examples are provided, all with an eye to maximizing limited funds and ensuring a smooth performance..."
--Paula Willey, Baltimore County Public Library, Towson, MD, School Library Journal
