age ~54
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This specially priced two volume set brings together Adrian Wright's highly acclaimed two books on the Musical in Post-War Britain. A Tanner's Worth of Tune is not an encyclopaedia of the British musical in the twentieth century, but an examination of its progress as it struggled to find an identity...
Author
Adrian Wright
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
696
Publisher
BOYE6
ISBN #
1843838788
EAN Code
9781843838784
ISBN #
5
A Tanner's Worth of Tune is the first book to be written on the post-war British musical, and the first major assessment of the British musical for a quarter of a century, reviving interest in a vast archive of musicals that have been dismissed to the footnotes of theatrical history. This timely rea...
Author
Adrian Wright
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
320
Publisher
Boydell Press
ISBN #
1843835428
EAN Code
9781843835424
ISBN #
4
West End Broadway' is the first book to deal specifically with the 'Golden Age' of American musicals in London. Here is a history and a re-evaluation not only of the British productions of Broadway's most popular product but of the works themselves, beginning with a brief account of the origins of t...
Author
Adrian Wright
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
378
Publisher
Boydell Press
ISBN #
3
DEATH AT THE TITANIC is a crime and mystery story about risk, exploitation, love and greed. Jack Stagg, former SAS, is a novice private investigator, fresh from the killing fields of Iraq and bored with his failing business. Into his office walks Laura Walters, an haute-coutured and attractive woman...
Author
John Hill
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
275
Publisher
Jaitch Publishing
ISBN #
10
In May 1925, the Society of Glass Technology hosted a Symposium on the Constitution of Glass. This seems to have been the very first meeting, with an international participation, dedicated specifically to the constitution of glass, and is of exceptional interest because it provides a unique summary ...
Author
Adrian C. Wright
Binding
Paperback
Pages
358
Publisher
Society of Glass Technology
ISBN #
0900682647
EAN Code
9780900682643
ISBN #
7
This book is the first full-scale biography of William Alwyn since his death in 1985. Alwyn's early life as a flautist was altered when he became a leading composer of the Documentary Film Movement in the 1930s, going on to a prolific career in writing for feature films, including commissions for Wa...
Author
Adrian Wright
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
364
Publisher
Boydell Press
ISBN #
184383412X
EAN Code
9781843834120
ISBN #
6
Drawing on exclusive access to unpublished private papers, a biography of novelist Leslie Poles Hartley, covering his life and work from his childhood at Fletton Tower, Peterborough, his relationship with his mother, his experiences in the Great War, his homes in Venice, Bath and London, and his str...
Author
Adrian Wright
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
304
Publisher
Andre Deutsch Ltd
ISBN #
0233989765
EAN Code
9780233989761
ISBN #
2
This biography looks at the off-screen life of the actor Kevin Costner and his tenacious climb to the top of the Hollywood tree. The book also includes a discussion of all Costner's work to date, including hit films such as "The Untouchables", "Robin Hood" and "Dances with Wolves". Adrian Wright is ...
Author
Adrian Wright
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
192
Publisher
Robert Hale Ltd
ISBN #
0709047002
EAN Code
9780709047001
ISBN #
8
Adrian Wright (born 1947 in Maidenhead, England) is an actor remembered for his role in the 1970s children's television series Freewheelers.
ISBN #
3