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Here is the story of young Jeremiah Goldberg, a 10-year-old in the
burg of Stillwater, California in 1880, a boomtown with mystery,
murder, and intrigue at its core. For Jeremiah and his trusty pals,
Rachel Burgoyne and Fong Lee, there's adventure to be mined, and
Red Gold delivers the mother lode with aplomb. Like the dime novels
featuring the setting-the-world-to-rights avenger McAlester, so
beloved of our pint-sized hero, Red Gold tells the tale of a Jewish
boy becoming a man when events threaten to turn Jeremiah's actual
life into a story torn from the pages of pulp fiction.
Here is the story of young Jeremiah Goldberg, a 10-year-old in the
burg of Stillwater, California in 1880, a boomtown with mystery,
murder, and intrigue at its core. For Jeremiah and his trusty pals,
Rachel Burgoyne and Fong Lee, there's adventure to be mined, and
Red Gold delivers the mother lode with aplomb. Like the dime novels
featuring the setting-the-world-to-rights avenger McAlester, so
beloved of our pint-sized hero, Red Gold tells the tale of a Jewish
boy becoming a man when events threaten to turn Jeremiah's actual
life into a story torn from the pages of pulp fiction.
Adriana Hofstetter is back and still marching to the beat of
her own sixteen-year-old band. When Hollywood High School puts on a
production of The Music Man, Adriana is there doing a story for the
school paper. But when Bethany Miller, a student and cast member
who has an unhealthy addiction to Instagram, doesn't come home from
school and remains missing, Adriana goes on the hunt to find out
what happened. Talking to irritating students, baffled teachers,
and doubting detectives, Adriana is having no luck piecing anything
together. With each passing day looking worse for Bethany Miller,
Adriana must use all her wiles in trying to solve what happened.
And then she receives a note, a one-word note: Stop. And then
another threatening note is left on her apartment door. Can Adriana
find the culprit before the culprit comes after her? Of course,
best friend Billy Feldman is there to lend his support while
playing one of the leads in The Music Man, mother Margaret is there
to keep her eye on Adriana while listening to her loud, classic
rock-and-roll, and Detectives Ramirez and Coyne are there to listen
to and question what Adriana discovers. With colorful depictions of
Hollywood, Adriana's trademark sense of humor, and a crime to be
solved, Murder at The Music Man is funny, suspenseful, and a
cautionary tale of addiction to social media.
Adriana Hofstetter is back and still marching to the beat of
her own sixteen-year-old band. When Hollywood High School puts on a
production of The Music Man, Adriana is there doing a story for the
school paper. But when Bethany Miller, a student and cast member
who has an unhealthy addiction to Instagram, doesn't come home from
school and remains missing, Adriana goes on the hunt to find out
what happened. Talking to irritating students, baffled teachers,
and doubting detectives, Adriana is having no luck piecing anything
together. With each passing day looking worse for Bethany Miller,
Adriana must use all her wiles in trying to solve what happened.
And then she receives a note, a one-word note: Stop. And then
another threatening note is left on her apartment door. Can Adriana
find the culprit before the culprit comes after her? Of course,
best friend Billy Feldman is there to lend his support while
playing one of the leads in The Music Man, mother Margaret is there
to keep her eye on Adriana while listening to her loud, classic
rock-and-roll, and Detectives Ramirez and Coyne are there to listen
to and question what Adriana discovers. With colorful depictions of
Hollywood, Adriana's trademark sense of humor, and a crime to be
solved, Murder at The Music Man is funny, suspenseful, and a
cautionary tale of addiction to social media.
Just as Frank Sinatra had an additional and invaluable career as
the great preservationist and evangelist of the American popular
song (with particular focus on the Lost and Found), so
author-actor-singer-director Bruce Kimmel has additionally served
the cause of Broadway and Hollywood beyond measure, producing some
of the most memorable vocalists of our time in recordings that give
new life to music that might otherwise be forgotten, while renewing
and revitalizing the theatrical canon with his impeccable taste and
unerring musicality. In his usual engaging and endearing style, he
at last gives us a first-hand view of his process. For this
terrific chronicle, and for his immeasurable contribution to
musical theatre, we can only give our most inadequate thanks.
-Rupert Holmes, Tony and Edgar award-winning playwright and
novelist Bruce Kimmel's rollicking memoir, There's Mel, There's
Woody, and There's You, left his fans begging for more. Thankfully,
the theatre gods are kind and answered our prayers. Actor,
director, composer, playwright, novelist, film-maker...and good at
all of them, Kimmel has reinvented himself more times than Madonna
and had more lives than a cat. In Album Produced by..., he now
shape-shifts into what may be his greatest theatrical
incarnation-as the foremost album producer of theatre music in the
last twenty-five years. Through time and labels, his amazing career
fluctuates with more highs and lows than the sliding dials on a
soundboard and is sweetened with the usual Kimmel witlaced
raconteurism.Whether working with the greats (Carol Channing,
Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Louden, Ann-Margret, to name a few) or
promoting and often discovering the next big musical stars of
Broadway, our intrepid hero battles lessthan- visionary bosses,
broken promises, harried orchestrators, enraged engineers, the
occasional disgruntled diva, and the mysterious crooner, Guy
Haines. But he manages to defeat all obstacles and egos in his way,
emerging triumphant to dance in divine syncopation with the
glorious music he creates. To know the stories behind all those
wonderful albums is to listen to them with fresh ears and a new
appreciation of the talent, tears, and genius that went into them.
-Charles Edward Pogue, screenwriter of Dragonheart, DOA, & The
Fly
Just as Frank Sinatra had an additional and invaluable career as
the great preservationist and evangelist of the American popular
song (with particular focus on the Lost and Found), so
author-actor-singer-director Bruce Kimmel has additionally served
the cause of Broadway and Hollywood beyond measure, producing some
of the most memorable vocalists of our time in recordings that give
new life to music that might otherwise be forgotten, while renewing
and revitalizing the theatrical canon with his impeccable taste and
unerring musicality. In his usual engaging and endearing style, he
at last gives us a first-hand view of his process. For this
terrific chronicle, and for his immeasurable contribution to
musical theatre, we can only give our most inadequate thanks.
-Rupert Holmes, Tony and Edgar award-winning playwright and
novelist Bruce Kimmel's rollicking memoir, There's Mel, There's
Woody, and There's You, left his fans begging for more. Thankfully,
the theatre gods are kind and answered our prayers. Actor,
director, composer, playwright, novelist, film-maker...and good at
all of them, Kimmel has reinvented himself more times than Madonna
and had more lives than a cat. In Album Produced by..., he now
shape-shifts into what may be his greatest theatrical
incarnation-as the foremost album producer of theatre music in the
last twenty-five years. Through time and labels, his amazing career
fluctuates with more highs and lows than the sliding dials on a
soundboard and is sweetened with the usual Kimmel witlaced
raconteurism.Whether working with the greats (Carol Channing,
Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Louden, Ann-Margret, to name a few) or
promoting and often discovering the next big musical stars of
Broadway, our intrepid hero battles lessthan- visionary bosses,
broken promises, harried orchestrators, enraged engineers, the
occasional disgruntled diva, and the mysterious crooner, Guy
Haines. But he manages to defeat all obstacles and egos in his way,
emerging triumphant to dance in divine syncopation with the
glorious music he creates. To know the stories behind all those
wonderful albums is to listen to them with fresh ears and a new
appreciation of the talent, tears, and genius that went into them.
-Charles Edward Pogue, screenwriter of Dragonheart, DOA, & The
Fly
Adriana Hofstetter is back She has just turned sixteen. To
celebrate that occasion, she is writing a story for her journalism
class on the unsolved 1966 murder of a
highly-thought-of-but-vicious acting teacher. Said teacher is found
quite dead after class one night, stabbed over sixty times. All of
the nine suspects (all students) have airtight alibis, and the
police at the time chalk it up to a random killing; case closed.
But that was then, because after reading up on the case Adriana
Hofstetter becomes convinced that one of them is the killer. She
begins a journey that leads her back to a different world and time.
She methodically finds and meets the seven surviving
suspects/students, as well as the teacher's widow. If she's right
and one of them is the killer, she might just find herself in
harm's way. Of course, her mother Margaret is back, listening to
her beloved oldies, as are Adriana's best friend Billy Feldman and
her cat Furball. And Detectives Ramirez and Coyne are back, too, as
skeptical as ever. She still hates Facebook, doesn't want to know
what Twitter is, and marches to the very loud beat of her own
drummer. A cook's tour of current and old Hollywood, Murder at the
Masquers is funny, fast-paced, suspenseful, and a valentine to
out-of-step teens. And, as usual, Adriana Hofstetter will not stop
until she figures out who the killer is.
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