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  Bad Company

  Steve Wick

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  In 1983, Roy Radin, would-be impresario, joined forces with fading movie producer Robert Evans and Elaine "Laney" Jacobs, a woman with the burning ambition to use the millions she had made by drug dealing to buy her way into the movie industry. Together they planned to finance the movie Cotton Club. 
  When Radin's body was found miles away from Los Angeles, the police had few clues and eventually had to put the investigation on hold. At the request of Radin's mother, New York Newsday's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Steve Wick, began looking into Radin's last weeks and soon unearthed the sordid connection between deal making and drug dealing that set all Hollywood on its ear. 
  Bad Company is both a fascinating and strangely repellent look at the darker side of the entertainment industry, as well as a striking portrait of the people who control the drug culture in this country.

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  The History of the Musical

  Richard Fawkes

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  A major production for Naxos AudioBooks and a unique Audiobook, this bold and entertaining undertaking traces the musical from its origins in classical music (Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, Offenbach’s operettas and Gilbert and Sullivan) through to its flowering in America; Showboat, Anything Goes, High Society, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Oliver, Cabaret, A Little Night Music, The Rocky Horror Show, The Phantom of the Opera – the list is endless. So are the stars who made the musicals live the composers, Kern, Porter, Gershwin, Bernstein, Lloyd Webber; the famous partnerships such as Rogers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe; the performers Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Howard Keel, Julie Andrews… and the tempestuous creative background to the productions themselves. With over 120 musical examples illustrating this remarkable story, the history of the musical in all its glory comes alive. Features over 100 musical examples.

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  Know About Jazz

  Peter Gammond, Peter Clayton

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  Fifty five years after it was first released, the best-selling Know About Jazz compendium is being re-released as an Ebook by G2. Written by Peter Clayton, who from October 1968 until his death in August 1991, presented jazz recordings, interviews, studio performances, and live performances on BBC Radio 1, 2, and 3, as well as the BBC World Service; and Peter Gammond, author of more than 50 books on music, who is now 93 years-old and living with his wife Anna in Shepperton, where they listen to jazz most days of the week.

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  A Walk in the Woods

  Lee Blessing

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  An idealistic American diplomat locks horns with a mercurial Soviet negotatior during a series of conversations in the woods outside Geneva. As their mutual friendship and understanding deepens, an awareness that their work may ulimately be pointless casts a shadow over their hopes to achieve a lasting peace.Includes a post-play discussion with playwright Lee Blessing and UCLA Political Science professor Richard Anderson.Lead funding for A Walk in the Woods is generously provided by The John Logan Foundation.Recorded before an audience at UCLA's James Bridges Theater in January 2019.Directed by Cameron WatsonProducing Director Susan Albert LoewenbergAlfred Molina as Andrey BotvinnikSteven Weber as John HoneymanAssociate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Production Manager, Rick V. Moreno. Editor, Julian Nicholson.

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  Directing Adaptations - Nikolai...

  Russ Hope

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  Follow acclaimed theatre director Nikolai Foster throughout preparation and rehearsals for his production of Great Expectations for English Touring Theatre, described by The Reviews Hub as 'a superbly effective reimagining… which breathes a new vibrancy into this well-known story'. First published as part of Getting Directions: A Fly-on-the-Wall Guide for Emerging Theatre Directors.
  With unprecedented access to the rehearsal room, the book outlines exactly what it takes to get a play from the page to the stage, from first concept to first night. It provides an invaluable, practical handbook - part portrait, part masterclass - on how to stage adaptations, and a revealing insight into the work of one of the UK's most exciting young directors.
  Nikolai Foster is Artistic Director of the Curve in Leicester.
  'Vital reading for anyone working or wanting to work as a director' The Public Reviews on Getting Directions

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  Christian Hymns & Chorals 4 -...

  Viktor Dick

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  Christian Hymns & Chorals 4
  Twenty known Christian Songs
  Sheet Music for String Quartet
  Instrumentation: Double Violin, Viola & Cello
  Difficulty Level: Advanced
  Arranged and Produced by Viktor Dick

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