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Comedy FAQs and Answers : How the Stand-Up Biz Really Works
Dave Schwensen
Paperback - $32.95
This guide to the world of stand-up comedy, written in easy-to-use Q & A format, provides current and potential comedians with the no-nonsense advice they need for every stage of their careers. Schwensen's lively book features interviews with many of ...
How to Be a Working Comic : An Insider's Guide to a Career in Stand-Up Comedy
Dave Schwensen
Paperback - $27.95
This truly funny book about being funny is also a serious guide to the business of laughter and how to make it pay off. Comedian Dave Schwensen shows how to get onstage experience and contact bookers, agents, and managers. Illustrations.
Whose Improv is It Anyway? : Beyond Second City
Amy E. Seham
Paperback - $48.95
On both sides of the stage improv-comedy's popularity has increased exponentially throughout the 1980s and '90s and into the new millennium. Presto! An original song is created out of thin air. With nothing but a suggestion from the audience, daring ...
Cabaret Performance : Europe, 1890-1920. Volume 1
Laurence Senelick
Paperback - $33.95
"A unique and spectacular collection of cabaret texts, from virtually every important cabaret in Europe, from Amsterdam to Moscow... A splendid introduction to the world of the European cabaret in the first period of its meteoric rise as a form of ar ...
Sandi C. Shore's Secrets to Stand-Up Success : A Complete Step-By-Step Workbook
Sandi C. Shore
Paperback - $29.95
The Comedy Store in L.A. is a family affair, founded by Sammy and Mitzi Shore, the parents of comedians Pauly Shore and Sandi Shore. In "Secrets to Standup Success, " Sandi offers valuable insider instruction on how to shape a comic persona and devel ...
Discover Me!
Phyllis Shulman
Paperback - $20.95
Phyllis Shulman puts a hysterical spin on ordinary life. She has been working the Comedy Circuit while raising her two teenage sons and husband. She earned an Emmy Nomination for her television work and appeared in the Bill Murray movie "Larger Than ...
The Voice of the City : Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York
Robert W. Snyder
Paperback - $40.95
This entertaining and enlightening book depicts the rise of popular culture in America by brilliantly recapturing the essence and commercial trappings of one of its most vital forms of entertainment--the vaudeville show. A fascinating and highly read ...
How to Start Your Own Improv Comedy Group
Paul Johan Stokstad
Paperback - $36.95
What if all the theatre books in the world taught people how to rehearse but not how to perform? Nothing on presentation. This odd situation exists in the genre of improv theatre books, where there are quite a few published tomes providing improv tra ...