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Note from author Carol de Giere: Stephen Schwartz has signed a limited number of copies to be sold here. I'll be signing them as well, and will personalize them if you want me to. Autographed copies are $35.00 plus shipping (Connecticut residents add 6% sales tax). I prefer to send them in priority mail boxes, shipped from Danbury Connecticut, so for shipping, you can go to http://postcalc.usps.gov/ and in the blank for weight enter 3 lbs to cover the book and box. Email me to reserve a copy and I'll send you my Paypal email address, or you can mail a check. Please write to carol@defyinggravitythebook.com if you're interested.

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USA
Amazon.com $16.47
Barnes and Noble $18.71 (member price $16.83)
Applause Books $24.95

Buy the book and Wicked products all from one location. Find Defying Gravity in the Wicked collection at the OzDust Boutique:

Wicked Gift Shop USA

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Canada
Amazon.com.ca $15.72
UK
Amazon.co.uk £13.45

Or ask your local bookseller for Defying Gravity, ISBN: 978-1557837455

Chapters 1–6 — Childhood through Godspell

DVD

  • Godspell, Original Motion Picture (amazon.com USA)
  • Shinbone Alley (amazon.com USA)
    • Stephen Schwartz’s neighbor, George Kleinsinger, inspired him to become a musical theatre songwriter. Kleinsinger’s work included the Broadway musical Shinbone Alley, which Schwartz saw on Broadway when a child. This motion picture version is an animated film, and stars the vocal talents of Eddie Bracken and Carol Channing.

Compact Discs

Godspell Sheet Music

  • Godspell (amazon.com USA)
    • Unlike many other Broadway shows, Stephen Schwartz's musical take on the last days of Jesus is scored for a small combo rather than orchestra, which makes this piano reduction hardly a reduction at all. From the raunchy barrelhouse swagger of "Turn Back, O Man" to the soft-shoe of "All for the Best" and the gorgeous lyricism of "Day by Day" and "All Good Gifts," this book is full of fun-to-play selections. Also included is "Beautiful City," a number written for the motion picture.

Books

Chapter 7 — Pippin

DVD

Compact Discs

Books

Chapter 8 — The Magic Show

DVD

Compact Disc

Chapter 9 — The Baker’s Wife

VHS Video Tape

  • The Baker's Wife (amazon.com USA)
    • Schwartz's The Baker’s Wife musical was adapted from this 1940 Marcel Pagnol film that is available on this VHS video (black and white). Not currently availble on DVD.

Compact Discs

Books

Chapter 10–12 — Working, Rags, Children of Eden

DVD

Compact Disc

Books

Chapters 14–15 — Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Prince of Egypt

Coming soon

Chapters 16–29 — Wicked

Wicked Tickets

Please see links at www.musicalschwartz.com/wicked.htm

Wicked Gift Shop USA

OzDust Boutique, The Official Site for Wicked Merchandise

The OzDust Boutique is the offical source of Wicked the musical related merchandise. At the The OzDust Boutique you can find:

  • Wicked logo hoodies, Wicked baseball cap; Popular, Defy Gravity, and Shiz University shirts, long sleeve Tees with flying monkeys up the sleeve
  • Wicked posters and poster frames
  • magnets, key chains, green glasses, lapel pins, umbrella
  • Wicked CDs, karaoke, and Sheet music
  • Sute stuffed animals - monkeys
  • Wicked souvenir programs with photos
  • E-mail or snail mail GIFT CERTIFICATES
  • NEW: Defy Gravity musical glitter globe

Wicked Gift Shop UK

OzDust Boutique, Official Wicked the Musical Merchandise, United Kingdom

Wicked SheetMusic / Songbooks / Play Along CDs

Books

The original novel Wicked by Gregory Maguire and its two sequels

  • Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (amzon.com USA)
    • The novel that triggered Stephen Schwartz's idea for the musical Wicked. Maguire's novel was of course inspired by the Frank L. Baum book The Wizard of Oz and the 1939 movie of the same name.
  • A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years (amazon.com USA)
    • Here’s how Gregory describes his new Lion book: A Lion Among Men follows the peripatetic career of the Cowardly Lion. First seen in the [novel] Wicked as a lion cub culled from his pride for the purpose of laboratory experimentation, the Lion (known as Brrr) makes his name in that little Matter of Dorothy about which all of Oz is still talking. But one doesn’t necessarily become lion-hearted by going after public approval, by racking up those medals and titles and golden statuettes at award ceremonies. Tarnished with scandal of every stripe, Brrr is loathed by the Animals who believe he betrayed them in helping Dorothy do in the Witch. He fares no better trying to live as a lion among men. When civil war breaks out in Oz, Brrr is caught in the line of fire as he interviews the mysterious old oracle, Yackle, about the sources of Elphaba’s power. He must choose how much approval he can live without. A bit player all his life, he may yet be the linchpin on which the prosecution of the war rests.

 

Official website for Defying Gravity: the Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz, from Godspell to Wicked (musical theatre biography)

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