Showing results for "Musicals" in Genre Fiction

Three bank robbers are on the run following a rather unusual heist. They decide to seek shelter for the night in a tiny, seemingly harmless town. However, the following morning they awaken to discover that the town they chose is actually some form of disturbingly cheery utopia complete with sickly sweet citizens who have the rather odd habit of breaking into perfectly choreographed song and dance numbers. When they try to leave, they discover that getting out of this bizarre little village may not be as easy as they thought.

Crush Hour: A Musical presents a series of heart-warming and hilarious chance encounters via London’s transport links, in the run up to Christmas.

Famed singer-songwriter Melissa Manchester stars in her new musical about romance and longing in small-town America in the 1950s. Based on the novel by Bernice Rubens, with music by Melissa Manchester, book by Jeffrey Sweet, and lyrics by Jeffrey Sweet and Melissa Manchester.

First published in 1921, Karel Capek's ultra-prescient play R.U.R has become a classic of dystopian literature, giving us the word 'robot' and inspiring movies and TV series from Blade Runner to Westworld. Set in Capek's 1920s version of the future, this radio reimagining blends music, comedy and drama to tell the story of a world dominated by mechanisation and the pursuit of profit.

Un uomo a cui la vita ha riservato solo un'enorme solitudine, pensa che niente cambierà fino alla sua morte. Un giorno, camminando su un marciapiede, trova una banconota da cinquanta euro e da quel momento in poi nulla sarà più come prima. La banconota lo condurrà in viaggio senza ritorno. Conoscerà Lizzie, una bambina di otto anni che suona il pianoforte. E nota dopo nota, senza dire una parola, rivivrà ogni attimo del suo passato.

2020 Audie Awards Finalist - Audio Drama 2019 SOVAS Voice Arts Award—Best Voiceover in Children's Audiobook 2019 SOVAS Voice Arts Award—Outstanding Production in Audiobook Puss in Boots, a fractured fairytale musical, is a tale of conquering fears, finding your truth, discovering your...

Tendo como pano de fundo a agitada cena musical de Nova York dos anos 1950, Terra estranha é um retrato franco sobre bissexualidade e relações inter-raciais, publicado em uma época em que esses assuntos eram tabu. Este romance de fôlego, publicado em 1962, tem como pano de fundo os clubes...

Rise Up Babylon is a mythic memoir and immersive musical journey about family, grief, forgiveness, and the healing power of music. Blending lyrical storytelling with original songs, the work follows Maeley, a young pianist raised within the privilege and pressure of a powerful family shaped by...

2019 Audie Winner – Best Original Work 2018 SOVAS Voice Arts Award – Best Voiceover in Children's Audiobook 2018 SOVAS Voice Arts Award – Outstanding Production in Audiobook 2018 Parents Choice Award – Silver Honor for Audiobook SPIN - THE AUDIOBOOK MUSICAL: A witty musical re-imagining...

From syndicated humor columnist Marc Acito comes a wildly inventive and hysterically funny novel that is equal parts Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fame, Risky Business, Dead Poets Society, and The Catcher in the Rye.

Dead End the Musical is a powerful and entertaining adaptation of Dead End, Sidney Kingsley’s landmark 1935 stage production. Like Kingsley’s play, Dead End the Musical shines a light on the social ills of a time and place that still resonate today: poverty, crime, class struggle, and economic and social inequality. It is also a story about justice and redemption, love and desire, hopes and dreams.

Unconditional love and acceptance of who we are, is what we all want, need, and deserve. We will all meet the love of our lives, reside in a perfect fairytale existence, and achieve complete and total world peace... Just as soon as we lose 20 pounds. We are all just WEIGHTING. Join award-winning songwriter Sandy Knox on a hilarious and heartfelt journey (inspired by her real-life experience) to Foundation House- a diet center where pounds are lost, but friendships are gained.

The award-winning, “quick-witted and razor-sharp” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six) author of Limelight and Small Admissions returns with a funny and heartwarming summer novel about love, family drama, secrets, and second chances. “Poeppel...

The Mozinskis experience music like no family you've ever met. Struggling musicians Vincent Mozinski and Grace Klinefelter marry in the early 1960s, drawn together by the shared ability to see the music they play. The two pass this unique skill along to their ever-growing family of musical prodigies: Clara, Ellington, Bix, Allegro, Thelonious, and Viola. After the children record a radio commercial for a local business, Vincent realizes the best chance of achieving his dream of musical stardom is with and through his children.

A Musical Affair is a novel about divorce, deception, love affairs, expensive secrets, long-overdue forgiveness, the power of beautiful music, and just how Celeste, with a little help from some new friends, manages to raise more than $300,000 to fund an international music festival and turn her life around.

At 23, Oaklynn Rucker is forced to drop out of art school to take care of her younger brother, River, after a terrible accident. With money growing tight, a family friend takes it upon herself to find Oaklynn a job. The job in question? Pretending to be Jethrow Collins' girlfriend.

Linda Harner Metzner has spent almost 40 years away from the town where she met and married her recently deceased husband, Alex. Nostalgia leads her to buying the old Victorian house where they had lived briefly and had been very happy. But Linda’s desire to find healing is disrupted by a singing spirit, determined to draw her back into the past.

Now (some decades and many disasters later) a single mother suffering the crippling effects of “Aphallatosis” a rare mental disorder arising from the lack of sex, in frantic search of the happily ever after...

An ancient song composed by King David’s chief musician Asaph, discovered by the Teutonic Crusaders to the Holy Land, returned to Germany, then divided into four fragments and hidden to prevent the fearsome powers of God unleashed if the Song is ever played … This is the legend pursued by the 15-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach and his schoolmate Georg Erdmann in 1700 as they walk the 250 miles from their small town of Ohrdruf to the northern city of Lüneburg to join the St. Michael’s School choir.

In remote Montana. Did Lucy Smith's husband deserve to die? She thought so; she killed him. Now she's on the run from his family - The Snakes. They are meanest band you will ever see - purveying "Snake Rock", gratuitous violence and drugs. Lucy makes it to San Francisco, but can her new friends, her new songs, or Skulk Rock save her? Can Jimmy "English" Smith (no relation) help her? Do they have Guardian Angels? Hell's Angels maybe? Pray for Lucy. Pray for James. Pray for San Francisco. Just pray; The Snakes are coming!