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Author:   Dom O'Hanlon
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
ISBN:  

9781350398757

ISBN 10:   1350398756
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   25 July 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Act 1: Directing Preparation Why Direct and Amateur Musical? Approaching a Production Who’s Who? Show Selection Production Schedule Auditions and Casting Rehearsal Schedule Props List Costume Concepts and Understanding a Show Act 2: Directing Process Welcome to the Rehearsal Room The First Rehearsal - Setting the Tone Examples of Warm Up Exercises Structuring a Rehearsal Directing the Ensemble Ensemble Exercises Directing Child Actors Directing Principal Actors Blocking, Staging and Directing Directing a Book Scene Directing Musical Numbers Directing a ‘Problematic’ Musical Directing Sensitive Scenes Putting it Together Act 3: Curtain Up, Light the Lights Production Week Schedules The Technical Rehearsal The Dress Rehearsal The Run of the Show Closing a Show Glossary

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This book is an absolute necessity for anyone directing (or hoping to direct) AmDram or community theatre! Working on the Disney+ series Encore!, I discovered firsthand how special the required skills are when mounting musicals with amateur casts. This wonderful and exhaustive book covers everything you could possibly need to know about this tricky – but just as often magical – theatrical medium. * Adam Wachter, Music Director/Author/Composer *

Author Information

Dom O’Hanlon is a director of musical theatre who has over fifteen years of experience directing and working within amateur theatre in the UK and USA. His experience spans university and college productions, summer camp and summer stock, educational and TIE musicals as well as many London and regional amateur theatre societies and companies. He has worked in a range of capacities on productions with amateur performers from ages 6 to 70 in all manners of spaces from traditional theatres to outdoor arenas and converted swimming pools and on a range of work from classic to new musicals. He holds an MA Distinction in Text and Performance from RADA and Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He is currently a Senior Publisher of Plays and Musical Theatre at Methuen Drama.

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