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Biographies of Composers, Lyricists, Playwrights

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A MOST INGENIOUS PARADOX: The Art of Gilbert & Sullivan
Gayden Wren

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER - His Life and Works
Michael Walsh

AS THOUSANDS CHEER - The Life of Irving Berlin
Laurence Bergreen

BOB FOSSE'S BROADWAY
Margery Beddow

COLE PORTER - A Biography
William McBrien

THE COMPLETE LYRICS OF COLE PORTER THE COMPLETE LYRICS OF IRA GERSHWIN THE COMPLETE LYRICS OF LORENZ HART COWARD AND COMPANY - A Light-hearted and Affectionate Evocation of NoÎl Coward and his World
Richard Briers

THE DAYS GROW SHORT - The Life and Music of Kurt Weill
Ronald Sanders

GEORGE GERSHWIN - His Life & Music
Ean Wood

GERSHWIN - A Biography
Edward Jablonski

GILBERT AND SULLIVAN - Interviews and Recollections IRA GERSHWIN - The Art of the Lyricist
Philip Furia

IRVING BERLIN - American Troubadour
Edward Jablonski

KURT WEILL - A Life in Pictures and Documents
David Farneth with Elma Juchem and Dave Stein

LORENZ HART: A POET ON BROADWAY
Frederick Nolan

LYRICS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS
Ira Gerswin

MEMOIRS OF AN AMNESIAC
Oscar Levant

MUSICAL STAGES - An Autobiography
Richard Rodgers

THE NEW YORK MUSICALS OF COMDEN AND GREEN NOEL COWARD - Autobiography
Noel Coward

NOEL COWARD - Pomp and Circumstance (A Novel)
Noel Coward

RICHARD RODGERS
William G. Hyland

RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN
Ethan Mordden

SHOWTUNE - A Memoir
Jerry Herman with Marilyn Stasio

SHOW TUNES : The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers
by Steven Suskin

SONDHEIM'S BROADWAY MUSICAL
Stephen Banfield

STEPHEN SONDHEIM: A LIFE
Meryle Secrest

THE STREET WHERE I LIVE
Alan Jay Lerner

THE WORDSMITHS - OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN 2ND & ALAN JAY LERNER.
Stephen Citron