{"id":138805,"date":"2016-06-03T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=138805"},"modified":"2016-06-01T13:53:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T17:53:25","slug":"the-tony-awards-a-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=138805","title":{"rendered":"The Tony Awards: A Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading list curated by Rachel<\/h3>\n

\"Reading<\/p>\n

Nominees for the 2016 Tony Awards were announced May 3rd<\/sup> and \u2013 no surprise here \u2013 Hamilton<\/em> snagged a record-breaking sixteen, but there\u2019s more to Broadway than just a genre-spanning musical about dead white guys. (Even though it\u2019s awesome!) While there were twenty-six musicals and plays nominated, this list is by no means comprehensive. Peruse the full list at TonyAwards.com<\/a> at your own pace, come back to the library for any recommendations we haven\u2019t yet covered, and don\u2019t forget to watch the live broadcast on Sunday, June 12th<\/sup> on CBS!<\/p>\n

\"american-psycho-musical\"American Psycho<\/strong>, two nominations<\/p>\n

Living the high life in 1980s Manhattan, Patrick Bateman has it all: looks, money, style and status. But privately, Patrick indulges in another kind of transgression. And people \u2013 including those closest to him \u2013 keep disappearing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Revisit the source with Bret Easton Ellis\u2019s 1991 Wall Street satire<\/a> and then ogle over a very young (and not yet Batman) Christian Bale in the 2000 film adaptation<\/a>. Looking for more transgressive fiction? Try either Fight Club<\/em><\/a> or Invisible Monsters<\/em><\/a> by Chuck Palahniuk, Bonfire of the Vanities<\/em><\/a> by Tom Wolfe, White Noise<\/em><\/a> by Don DeLillo, or In the Miso Soup<\/em><\/a> by Ry\u016b Murakami. Into mergers and acquisitions instead of murders and executions? Look at The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine<\/em><\/a> by Michael Lewis and William D. Cohan\u2019s House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street<\/em><\/a>. Seen the play? Watch more of Benjamin Walker in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter<\/em><\/a> and In the Heart of the Sea<\/em><\/a> or listen to the original Broadway cast recording of composer Duncan Sheik\u2019s other<\/em> hit musical, Spring Awakening<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"crucible\"Arthur Miller\u2019s The Crucible<\/strong>, four nominations<\/p>\n

A dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the\u00a0Salem witch trials<\/em> that took place in the\u00a0Province of Massachusetts Bay\u00a0during 1692 and 1693.<\/em><\/p>\n

Revisit Miller\u2019s four-act play<\/a> and then watch Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Ryder in the 1996 film adaptation<\/a>. Interested in some witchy nonfiction? Check out Stacy Schiff\u2019s newest, The Witches: Salem, 1692<\/em><\/a>; Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trial<\/em><\/a> by Marilynne K. Roach; Judge Sewell\u2019s Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of the American Conscience<\/em><\/a> by Richard Francis; and Marion L. Starkey\u2019s The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials<\/em><\/a>. Want to get lost in fiction? Try The Heretic\u2019s Daughter<\/em><\/a> by Kathleen Kent, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane<\/em><\/a> by Katherine Howe, or Elizabeth George Speare\u2019s Newbery Award-winning The Witch of Blackbird Pond<\/em><\/a>. Visual more your style? Pick up the first season of Salem<\/em><\/a>, Three Sovereigns for Sarah<\/em><\/a> or even Hocus Pocus<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"ColorThe Color Purple<\/strong>, four nominations<\/p>\n

This stirring family chronicle follows the inspirational Celie, as she journeys from childhood through joy and despair, anguish and hope to discover the power of love and life.<\/em><\/p>\n

Revisit Alice Walker\u2019s Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel<\/a> and then watch Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Danny Glover in the Steven Spielberg-directed film<\/a>. Looking for more women-centered, character-driven novels by black authors? Try Sula<\/em><\/a> by Toni Morrison, Their Eyes Were Watching God<\/em><\/a> by Zora Neale Hurston, Ruby<\/em><\/a> by Cynthia Bond, or Silver Sparrow<\/em><\/a> by Tayari Jones. Interested in American history during the 1930s? Pick up The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression<\/em><\/a> by Amity Shlaes, The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America<\/em><\/a> by T. H. Watkins, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression<\/em> by Studs Terkel<\/a>, or even Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural Hisory of the Great Depression<\/em><\/a> by Morris Dickstein. Did you enjoy Walker\u2019s epistolary format? Look into Marilynne Robinson\u2019s Gilead<\/em><\/a>, Mary Ann Shaffer\u2019s The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society<\/em><\/a>, or those oft-referenced curiosities, Dracula<\/em><\/a> and Frankenstein<\/em><\/a>. Just here for the music? There\u2019s a CD<\/a> for that, too.<\/p>\n

\"eclipsed-broadway\"Eclipsed<\/strong>, six nominations<\/p>\n

Drawing on reserves of wit and compassion, <\/em>Eclipsed reveals distinct women who must discover their own means of survival in this deeply felt portrait of women finding and testing their own strength in a hostile world of horrors not of their own making.<\/em><\/p>\n

The source material for Eclipsed<\/em> is the all too real (and brutal) Second Liberian Civil War, which spanned from 1999 to 2003. Curious about the play\u2019s setting? Check out Leymah Gbowee\u2019s Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War<\/em><\/a>, Johnny Dwyer\u2019s American Warlord<\/em><\/a>, Colin M. Waugh\u2019s Charles Taylor and Liberia: Ambition and Atrocity in Africa\u2019s Lone Star State<\/em><\/a>, Helene Cooper\u2019s The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood<\/em><\/a>, or the film Pray the Devil Back to Hell<\/em><\/a>. Looking for broader history? Crack open The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavour<\/em><\/a> or The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair: A History of Fifty Years of Independence<\/em><\/a> by Martin Meredith, The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free<\/em><\/a> by Alex Perry, or Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It<\/em><\/a> by James Ciment. Feeling particularly self-loathing? Uzodinma Iweala\u2019s Beasts of No Nation<\/em><\/a> tackles civil war in an unnamed West African country, Majok Tulba\u2019s Beneath the Darkening Sky<\/em><\/a> handles child soldiers and rebel armies, Philip Gourevitch\u2019s We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda<\/em><\/a> explores another brutal African civil war, and, well, Eclipsed<\/em> star Lupita Nyong\u2019o deservedly won an Oscar for her performance in 12 Years a Slave<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"ShuffleShuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed<\/strong>, ten nominations<\/p>\n

The challenges of mounting the original production of\u00a0<\/em>Shuffle Along\u00a0\u2013 <\/em>deeply in debt and set to open at a remote Broadway house on West 63rd Street \u2013 and its effect on\u00a0Broadway\u00a0and race relations.<\/em><\/p>\n

This Shuffle Along<\/em> is actually a meta-revival of the original 1921 Broadway play, which finished its run of 484 performance fourteen months after it opened. Interested in the cultural history of black actors on Broadway? Start with Black Broadway: African Americans on the Great White Way<\/em><\/a> by Stewart F. Lane, The First Black Actors on the Great White Way<\/em><\/a> by Susan Curtis, The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical<\/em><\/a> by Warren Hoffman, or A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927<\/em><\/a> by David Krasner for a chapter specifically on Shuffle Along<\/em>. Want more biography about the original play\u2019s little-known stars? For Josephine Baker, look at Peggy Caravantes\u2019s The Many Faces of Josephine Baker: Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy<\/em><\/a>, Patricia Hruby Powell\u2019s Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker<\/em><\/a>, or Jean-Claude Baker and Chris Chase\u2019s Josephine: The Hungry Heart<\/em><\/a>. For Florence Mills, look at Florence Mills: Harlem Jazz Queen<\/em><\/a> by Bill Egan and Harlem\u2019s Little Blackbird<\/em><\/a> by Ren\u00e9e Watson. For Paul Robeson, look at Lindsey R. Swindall\u2019s Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art<\/em><\/a> and Arnold H. Lubasch\u2019s Robeson: An American Ballad<\/em><\/a>. For Fredi Washington, look at African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960<\/em><\/a> by Charlene Regester.<\/p>\n

\"Hamilton\"Hamilton<\/strong>, sixteen nominations<\/p>\n

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton, and lifelong Hamilton friend and foe Aaron Burr all attend this revolutionary tale of America’s fiery past, told through the sounds of the ever-changing nation we’ve become. This new musical is about taking your shot, speaking your mind, and turning the world upside down.<\/em><\/p>\n

Check out our own reading list<\/a> on all things Hamilton<\/em> then look into Lin-Manuel Miranda\u2019s Hamilton: The Revolution: Being the Complete Libretto of the Broadway Musical, with a True Account of its Creation, and Concise Remarks on Hip-Hop, the Power of Stories, and the New America<\/em><\/a>. Still can\u2019t get enough LMM? Borrow the original Broadway cast recording of Miranda\u2019s Tony and Grammy Award-winning and Pulitzer Prize-nominated musical, In the Heights<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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