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Author
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
3rd ed.
Language
English
Description
Viola Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the very nature and practice of modern theater. The first two editions of Improvisation for the Theater sold more than 100,000 copies and inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theater, television, film. These techniques have also influenced the fields of education, mental health, social work, and psychology.-Print ed.
Author
Series
Grimmtastic girls volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Red Riding Hood, who has a bad case of stage fright, decides to help her friends save Grimm Academy from the E.V.I.L. Society, but when she gets lost in the Neverwood Forest and runs into Wolfgang, who might be part of E.V.I.L., she needs her magic basket and a great performance to figure what is going on.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After a talent scout spots her performing with her dog Boi at a charity gala, Sharpay Evans sets off for the bright lights of NYC, convinced instant fame and fortune are in the bag. But the theatre is a dog-eat-dog world, as she and Boi discover when they encounter a scheming Broadway starlet who will do anything to crush the competition.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dara Palmer dreams of being an actress, but when she does not get a part in the school play she wonders if it is because of her different looks as an adopted girl from Cambodia, so Dara becomes determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight.
Author
Series
Publisher
EDC Pub
Pub. Date
2012, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
When Georgie messes up on the audition for her dream role in the school play, she finds herself in trouble when she is secretly attending the play's rehearsals.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Acton, Oregon, sisters Alex, Stevie, and Joey take turns telling about their lives, including auditioning for the same part in the school musical, baking contest-worthy cupcakes, and becoming obsessed with "Little Women."
Author
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water and Mr. Nobody comes “an unputdownable mystery about the nightmares that abound in the pursuit of Hollywood dreams” (Caroline Kepnes, author of the You series).
“Stylish, riveting, hugely atmospheric—I couldn’t put it down.”—Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List
A woman has...
“Stylish, riveting, hugely atmospheric—I couldn’t put it down.”—Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List
A woman has...
12) The Sisters Club
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Acton, Oregon, sisters Alex, Stevie, and Joey take turns telling about their lives, including their long line of actor ancestors, creative family dinners, toe marshmallows, swearing in Shakespeare, and the Sisters Club.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys secret files volume 12
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Aladdin paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a film crew sets up shop to film the latest zombie flick, Frank, Joe, and their friends are really psyched that there will be fake zombies running around, until someone claims they saw a real zombie.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray an imprint of HarperCollins Publisher
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A heartfelt and funny story about a shy eleven-year-old who learns to manage her anxiety through improv classes--and discovers her activist voice. From Margaret Dilloway, author of Summer of a Thousand Pies, and perfect for fans of Sharon Draper, Lynda Mullaly Hunt, and Holly Goldberg Sloan. Eleven-year-old Ava Andrews has a Technicolor interior with a gray shell. On the inside, she bubbles with ideas and plans. On the outside, everyone except her...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While older sister Alex is trying to orchestrate a perfect first kiss with her heartthrob and younger sister Joey prefers frogs to boys, Stevie Reel wonders if she is ready for a boyfriend while being pursued by a new boy in her class.
16) Nobody's fool
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1986
Language
English
Description
Cassie is blue, bored, and bewildered. After several failed suicide attempts, she gives her baby up for adoption-- but now regrets it. A travelling theater company comes to town and she meets their stage technician who starts wooing her. She signs up for the company's acting classes, but can she trust this stranger who offers her a chance to leave town?
17) Free spirit
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Kellie, one of the girls at the Stardust stunt-riding stables, is working as a stunt double on a movie--but when the actress comes down with food poisoning she is called upon to step into the leading role.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It's 1949 and South Philadelphia bursts with opportunity during the post-war boom. The Palazzini Cab Company & Western Union Telegraph Office, owned and operated by Dominic Palazzini and his three sons, is flourishing: business is good, they're surrounded by sympathetic wives and daughters-in-law, with grandchildren on the way. But a decades-long feud that split Dominic and his brother Mike and their once-close families sets the stage for a rematch....
19) Ballet shoes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the fortunes of three adopted sisters who take dancing and stage training, one to become an actress, the second a ballerina, and the third an aviatrix.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 8
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Clue Crew gets the chance to visit a movie set thanks to one of Mr. Drew's connected clients, but fun turns to business when the film's star, famous feline Fluffington, disappears.
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