A new biography of one of the key composers of 20th-century American popular song and jazz,Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm and Race illuminates Blake's little-known impact on over 100 years of American culture. A gifted musician, Blake rose from performing in dance halls and bordellos of his native Baltimore to the heights of Broadway. In 1921, together with performer and lyricist Noble Sissle, Blake created Shuffle Along which became a sleeper smash on Broadway eventually becoming one of the top ten musical shows of the 1920s. Despite many obstacles Shuffle Along integrated Broadway and the road and introduced such stars as Josephine Baker, Lottie Gee, Florence Mills, and Fredi Washington. It also proved that black shows were viable on Broadway and subsequent productions gave a voice to great songwriters, performers, and spoke to a previously disenfranchised black audience. As successful as Shuffle Along was, racism and bad luck hampered Blake's career. Remarkably, the third act of Blake's life found him heraldedin his 90s at major jazz festivals, in Broadway shows, and on television and recordings. Tracing not only Blake's extraordinary life and accomplishments, Broadway and popular music authorities Richard Carlin and Ken Bloom examine the professional and societal barriers confronted by black artists from the turn of the century through the 1980s. Drawing from a wealth of personal archives and interviews with Blake, his friends, and other scholars,Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm and Race offers an incisive portrait of the man and the musical world he inhabited.

The Routledge Guide to Broadway is the second title in our new student reference series. It will introduce the student to the Broadway theater, focusing on key performers, writers, directors, plays, and musicals, along with the theaters themselves, key awards, and the folklore of Broadway.
Broadway is the center of American theater, where all the great plays and musicals make their mark. Students across the country in theater history, performance, and direction/production look to Broadway for their inspiration. While there are illustrated coffee table type books on Broadway, there are few that offer a comprehensive look at the key figures and productions of the last two centuries. The Routledge Guide to Broadway offers this information in an easy-to-use, inexpensive format that will appeal to students, professors, and theatrical professionals.

The Routledge Guide to Broadway is the second title in our new student reference series. It will introduce the student to the Broadway theater, focusing on key performers, writers, directors, plays, and musicals, along with the theaters themselves, key awards, and the folklore of Broadway.
Broadway is the center of American theater, where all the great plays and musicals make their mark. Students across the country in theater history, performance, and direction/production look to Broadway for their inspiration. While there are illustrated coffee table type books on Broadway, there are few that offer a comprehensive look at the key figures and productions of the last two centuries. The Routledge Guide to Broadway offers this information in an easy-to-use, inexpensive format that will appeal to students, professors, and theatrical professionals.

Contents:
Composers & Lyricists Howard Ashman, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Howard Dietz, Vernon Duike, Dorothy Fields, Rudolf Friml, George & Ira Gershwin, Marvin Hamlisch, Jerry Herman, Jerome Kern, Burton Lane, Lerner & Loewe, Frank Loesser, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Strouse & Adams, Jule Styne, Howard Taubman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Kurt Weill Critics Brooks Atkinson, Cliver Barnes, Walter Kerr, George Jean Nathan, Walter Winchell, Alexander Woollcott Organizations Actors' Equity, American Theater Wing, Federal Theater Project, Group Theater, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Save the Theater, Theater Development Fund, Theater Guild Performers Nathan Lane, Mercedes Ruehl, Faith Prince, Fred & Adele Astaire, John & Lionel Barrymore, Fanny Brice, Vernon & Irene Castle, George M. Cohan, Katherine Cornell, Helen Hayes, Anna Held, Al Jolson, Lunt & Fontanne Personalities Diamond Jim Brady, Don Freeman, Texas Guinan, Charlie Knickerbocker, A. J. Liebling, Damon Runyon, Ed Sullivan, Lou Walters Playwrights August Wilson, David Mamet, Kaufman & Hart, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Neil Simon, Tennessee Williams Producers George Abbott, David Belasco, Earl Carroll, Oscar Hammerstein I, Mark Hellinger, Josh Logan, David Merrick, Harold Prince, 'Roxy', The Schuberts, George White, Florenz Ziegfeld Shows Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Cats, Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma! Theaters Ambassador, Apollo, Belasco, Booth, Broadhurst, Brooks Atkinson, Capitol, Casino, Circle-in-the-Square, Cort, Ed Sullivan, Empire, Gaiety, Gershwin, Longacre, Lunt-Fontanne, Lyceum, Lyric, Music Box, Palace, Rialto, Ritz, Rivoli, Royale, St. James, Strand, Town Hall, Virginia, Winter Garden

Contents:
Chapter 1 Off Broadway: 'There Comes a Time', 'Jolly Theatrical Season', 'In The Sack', 'My Type', ' I Wish I Could Say', 'Two a Day', That's Judy Garland', ' Our Hearts Belong to Mary', 'As for the Future I'll Dance', 'The Girls Who Sit and Wait', Chapter 2: Milk and Honey, 'Shalom', 'Milk and Honey', 'There's No Reason in the World', 'Chin Up Ladies', 'That Was Yesterday', 'Let's Not Waste and Moment', 'Like a Young Man', 'I Will Follow You', 'Hymn to Hymiw', 'Finale Act II', Chapter 3 Hello, Dolly!, 'Opening', 'I Put My Hand In', 'Put on Your Sunday Clothes', 'Ribbons Down my Back', 'Dancing', 'Before the Parade Passes By', 'Hello, Dolly!', 'Come and Be My Butterfly', 'It Only Takes a Moment', 'So Long Dearie', 'A Penny in My Pocket', 'Love Look in My Window', 'World Take Me Back', 'Just Leave Everything to Me', 'Love is Only Love', Chapter 4 Mame, 'St. Bridget', 'It's Today', 'Open a New Window', 'The Man in the Moon', 'My Best Girl', 'We Need a Little Christmas', 'The Fox Hunt', 'Mame', 'Opening of Act II', 'Bosom Buddies', 'Gooch's Song', 'That's How Young I Feel', 'If He Walked into My Life', 'It's Today', 'Loving You', Chapter 5 Dear World, 'The Spring of Next Year', 'I'll Be Here Tomorrow', 'I Don't Want to Know', 'I Never Said I Loved You', 'Garbage', 'Dear World', 'Kiss Her Now', 'The Tea Party', 'And I Was Beautiful', 'One Person', 'Have a Little Pity on the Rich', 'Through the Bottom of a Glass', 'Just a Little Bit More', 'A Sensible Woman', Chapter 6Mack and Mabel 'Movies Were Movies', 'Look What Happened to Mabel', 'Big Time', 'I Won't Send Roses', 'I Wanna Make the World Laugh', 'Mack and Mabel', 'Wherever He Ain't', 'Hundreds of Girls', 'When Mabel Comes in the Room', 'Hit 'Em on the Head', 'Time Heals Everything', 'Tap Your Troubles Away', 'I Won't Send Roses', 'I Promise You a Happy Ending', Chapter 7 Grand Tour, 'I'll Be Here Tomorrow', 'Two Possibilities', 'For Poland', 'I Belong Here', 'Marianne', 'We're Almost There', 'More and More/Less and Less', 'One Extraordinary Thing', 'I Think I Think', 'You I Like', 'I Belong Here', Chapter 8, La Cage Aux Folles, 'We Are What We Are', 'Mascara', 'With Anne on My Arm', 'Song on the Sand', 'La Cage Aux Folles', 'I Am What I Am', 'Masculinity', 'Look Over There', 'Dishes', 'The Best Of Times', Chapter 9 Mrs. Santa Claus, 'Mrs. Santa Claus', Avenue A', 'A Tavish Toy', 'Almost Young', ' Mrs. Santa Claus', 'We Don't Go Together At All', 'Whistle', 'He Needs Me', Chapter 10 Miss Spectaular, 'Miss What's Her Name', 'Las Vegas', 'Ziegfeld Girl', 'Sarah Jane', 'Where in the World is My Prince', 'No Other Music', 'I Want to Live Each Night', 'Miss Spectacular', 'My Great Dream', Chapter 11 Broadway Miscellaneous, 'Let's Go to the Movies', 'Nelson', 'Take it all Off', 'Jerry's Girls', 'To Be Alone with You', 'Too Charming', 'I'll Be Here Tomorrow'

Every morning for the thirteen years he was on "Law & Order, " Jerry Orbach wrote his wife a short love poem and placed it next to her coffee cup before he left for work.

Over the years Jerry wrote hundreds of notes -- all of which Elaine cherished and preserved. Now dozens of Jerry's most meaningful poems to Elaine, along with stories from his amazing career and their enduring romance, tell the tale of their life together. With essays from some of Jerry's dearest friends and a foreword by Sam Waterston, Elaine created a collection of funny and moving poetry and a tribute to a wonderful marriage and a dearly loved man.

The world remembers Jerry as a legendary Broadway actor, Baby's father in "Dirty Dancing, " and of course the wisecracking detective Lenny Briscoe on "Law & Order. "But to his widow, Elaine, Jerry was a poet...and the love of her life.

Show and Tell: The New Book of Broadway Anecdotes is a lively, funny and sometimes touching look at the adventures of some of Broadway's most colorful practitioners. From authors, directors, actors, producers and designers to the myriad other folk involved keeping the fabulous invalid alive, Far from a dry repetition of names, facts, and figures, Show and Tell offers up a history of Broadway shows and its practitioners from a skewed prospective in all their idiosyncratic glory.