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How musicals can change your life...A witty, highly personal look at the wonderful world of the Hollywood shows Film musicals- you either love them or they make you want to kill yourself slowly with plastic cutlery. Nothing has the power to lift your heart or turn your stomach like Howard Keel in fake sideburns singing Bless Your Beautiful Hide or Julie Andrews singing...well, just about anything.There are few situations where the question What would Barbra do? doesn't have relevance in a world which is much better lived to a soundtrack of show-tunes. This is a book for people who know that * People don't tend to die in musicals, but those who do deserve it * True love waits long enough for an element of mistaken identity to be introduced (especially if one of the couple is a Nazi) * Women carry the show. * Talented women wind up alone... * ...But they have the consolation of the torch song, which in Hollywood musicals is more fulfilling than a husband.

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A sharply written and wickedly funny guide ... serious, silly and utterly, compellingly humane. Daily Telegraph Entertaining and witty. Independent on Sunday A warm, funny memoir Mail on Sunday An entertaining, heartfelt, light-as-air romp: much like a good musical in fact. Sunday Times Extremely funny. Daily Express

A sharply written and wickedly funny guide ... serious, silly and utterly, compellingly humane. * Daily Telegraph * Entertaining and witty. * Independent on Sunday * A warm, funny memoir * Mail on Sunday * An entertaining, heartfelt, light-as-air romp: much like a good musical in fact. * Sunday Times * Extremely funny. * Daily Express *

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Emma Brockes is the author of five books, most recently Megan Rapinoe's international best-seller, One Life. Her 2013 book She Left Me the Gun was a New York Times, NPR, Amazon and Salon notable book. Her 2016 memoir An Excellent Choice was bought for the screen by Sharon Maguire and Sony and is currently being made into a movie. She lives in New York with her twin eight year old girls.

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