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• Buy the book Defying Gravity
• Chapters 1–6 Childhood through Godspell
• Chapter 7 — Pippin
• Chapter 8 — The Magic Show
• Chapter 9 — The Baker’s Wife
• Chapter 10–12 — Working, Rags, Children of Eden
• Chapters 14–15 — Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Prince of Egypt
• Chapters 16–29 — Wicked

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 Original Off-Broadway Cast (amazon.com USA)
• Godspell Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (amazon.com USA)
• Godspell 2000 Off-Broadway Version (amazon.com USA)
• Godspell 2001 National Touring Cast (amazon.com USA)
• Godspell Karaoke 2-CDG Set (amazon.com USA)

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

• The Feast of Fools: A Theological Essay on Festivity and Fantasy (William Belden Noble Lectures) (amazon.com USA)
  • Harvard Professor Harvey Cox's Feast of Fools helped inspire Godspell creator John-Michael Tebelak.
• From Assassins to West Side Story: The Director's Guide to Musical Theatre (amazon.com USA)
  • Another book describing Godspell — especially for directors.

Chapter 7 — Pippin

DVD

• Pippin (amazon.com USA)
  • 1982 video production starring Ben Vereen and William Katt
• Liza with a 'Z' - Concert for Television, Collector's Edition (amazon.com USA))
  • Director/choreographer Bob Fosse finished Liza with a Z, starring Liza Minelli before he started Pippin rehearsals. This sensational concert performance includes Fosse-style dances. Unlike most made for TV productions, Fosse photographed this special with eight 35mm motion picture cameras.

Compact Discs

• Pippin Original Broadway Cast Album (amazon.com USA)
  • Pippin Original Cast Album – Re-release with bonus tracks such as Michael Jackson singing "Corner of the Sky."
• Pippin [Karaoke CD] (amazon.com USA)

• Sing The Hits Of Pippin [Karaoke CD] (amazon.com USA)

Books

• Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part (amazon.com USA)
  • Michael Shurtleff’s Audition includes a description of the formation of "Leading Player" as a character when Ben Vereen was cast.
• All His Jazz: The Life And Death Of Bob Fosse (amazon.com USA)
  • Martin Gottfried’s All His Jazz provides an excellent biography of the choreographer, with several references to Schwartz.

Chapter 8 — The Magic Show

DVD

• The Magic Show with Doug Henning (amazon.com USA)
  • Magic Show DVD – Canadian Film Version

Compact Disc

• The Magic Show 1974 Original Broadway Cast (amazon.com USA)

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

• The Baker's Wife, with Members of the 1976 Original Cast (amazon.com USA)
• The Baker's Wife: A Comedy Musical, 1990 Original London Cast (amazon.com USA)

Books

• David Merrick - The Abominable Showman: The Unauthorized Biography (amazon.com USA)
  • Howard Kissell’s unauthorized biography of David Merrick includes descriptions of his involvement in The Baker’s Wife. Kissell interviewed many of Merrick’s associates to collect this revealing portrait.
• Blue Boy (amazon.com USA)
  • Jean Giano’s Blue Boy is the basis of the movie The Baker’s Wife. This is an English translation.

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

DVD

• Studs Terkel's Working [Broadway Theatre Archive] (amazon.com USA)
  • This DVD version of the musical Working records the TV adaptation of the musical. It is styled more as a documentary rather than a stage show. Directed by Stephen Schwartz.

Compact Disc

• Working, Original 1978 Broadway Cast (amazon.com USA)
  • Working Original Broadway Cast Album: This re-release includes a track with Stephen Schwartz singing “Fathers and Sons.”
• Rags, Broadway Cast Album (amazon.com USA)
  • Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and music by Charles Strouse
• Children of Eden, Papermill Playhouse Cast (amazon.com USA)
  • Stephen Schwartz considers Children of Eden his finest work; its family oriented theme resonates with an amazing variety of people.

Books

• Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (amazon.com USA)
  • Studs Terkel’s Working was the source for the musical.
• Studs Terkel's Working: A Teaching Guide (amazon.com USA)
  • Rick Ayers has written a teaching guide for the book.

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

Coming soon

Chapters 16–29 — Wicked

Wicked Tickets

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

Wicked Gift Shop USA

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

Wicked SheetMusic / Songbooks / Play Along CDs

• Wicked - Vocal Selections
  • Wicked Vocal Selections
• Wicked - Piano/Vocal Arrangement
  • Wicked Piano-Vocal
• Wicked: A New Musical - Easy Piano Selections
  • Easy piano
• Wicked: Piano Solo
  • Piano Soko
• Wicked: Piano Play-Along Volume 46 (Hal Leonard Piano Play-Along)
  • Play along with CD
• Wicked Vol.9 A New Musical BK/CD EZ Play Today CD Play-Along (E-Z Play Today)
  • EZ Play with CD

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.

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