Conversations in Color (e-book) (used book) | Sean Mayes | bookbook.eu

Description

Conversations in Color offers an exclusive window into the thoughts of some of the most brilliant and prolific artists working in contemporary musical theatre across North America today. The first text of its kind to feature only the perspectives of artists of color, it is a primary and essential text for the theatre industry at this time.

Through uniquely crafted interviews with creatives across a variety of disciplines, including directors, choreographers, musical directors and composers, such as George C. Wolfe, Alex Lacamoire, Savion Glover and Baayork Lee, this book asks the question of how a musical is created within the wider context of contemporary musical theatre performance and practice, illuminating the current absence of this type of collection in musical theatre studies.

Featuring exclusive interviews with a range of the leading creative practitioners on Broadway and regionally across North America, Conversations in Color provides the rare insight of foremost practitioners into their methods of practice ranging from preparation for projects, rehearsal preparation, rehearsal techniques, career andcreative style, anecdotal advice through experience, and other forms of practice-based steps, which can be applied directly back to the practice of professional and non-professional practitioners everywhere in their own work.

For students, this book offers an exemplar of the re-framing that can be done by re-imagining their perspectives being told from the viewpoint of non-white narratives.