Musical Matters: LGBTQ+ Artists on Inclusivity
Jessye DeSilva Faculty Recital : Talking 'Bout a Revolution, Folk and Rock Songs by LGBTQ Artists
Outsiders and Activists : Heroes / David Bowie -- Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters / Elton John -- The dead / Bryan DeSilva -- Wide open inside / DeSilva -- Someone saved my life tonight / John -- Talkin' 'bout a revolution / Tracy Chapman -- Somebody to love / Freddie Mercury -- Sensuality, Companionship, and Family : Come to my window / Melissa Etheridge -- Bring me some water / Etheridge -- I know you all over again / Trixie Mattel -- Wilder / Brandi Carlile -- Most of all / Carlile -- Jamie Francis / DeSilva -- Book of love / Stephin Merritt.
Why we sing!: gay, lesbian and transgender choruses opening hearts and changing lives through song
Summary: The documentary's focal point is GALA Choruses' (Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses) 7th International Choral Festival. Through song and interviews, the documentary delves into and personalizes many issues on the public's mind today: same-sex marriage, religious views on gay rights, and the emerging transgender rights movement, among others.
Carol
Two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. A young woman in her twenties, Therese is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol, an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, convenient marriage.
Fire
In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage and falls into the supple embrace of Radha.
Mandango: five gay-themed pieces : for piano by
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As one :a chamber opera for two singers and string quartet by 
Franz Ferdinand by
(Guitar Recorded Versions). The matching folio to this self-titled release by rock quartet Franz Ferdinand named for the Austro-Hungarian Archduke whose murder sparked World War I includes all 11 tracks from the album: Jacqueline * Tell Her Tonight * Take Me Out * The Dark of the Matinee * Auf Achse * Cheating on You * This Fire * Darts of Pleasure * Michael * Come on Home * 40'.
Scissor Sisters by
Full of non-stop dance and party anthems, this debut album mixes the influences of vintage Bowie, Roxy Music, and Elton John with burlesque theatre and rock opera. Titles include: Laura * Take Your Mama * T**s on the Radio * Music Is the Victim * Comfortably Numb * Return to Oz and more.
Best of Queen by
(Transcribed Score). Play 15 Queen classics note-for-note with these detailed transcriptions that match every instrument used on the original recordings. Songs include: Bohemian Rhapsody * Crazy Little Thing Called Love * I Want It All * I Was Born to Love You * Killer Queen * Somebody to Love * Stone Cold Crazy * Tie Your Mother Down * We Are the Champions * We Will Rock You * and more.
La Cage Aux Folles by
(Vocal Score). Complete vocal score to the Broadway sensation with 11 songs: The Best of Times * I Am What I Am * A Little More Mascara * Look over There * Song on the Sand (La Da Da Da) * With You on My Arm * and more.
Falsettos by
(Vocal Selections). Includes: 4 Jews in a Room Bitching * I'm Breaking Down * Marriage Proposal * March of the Falsettos * Making a Home * The Games I Play * I Never Wanted to Love You * Father to Son * The Baseball Game * A Day in Falsettoland * Everyone Hates His Parents * What More Can I Say? * Something Bad is Happening * Holding to the Ground * Unlikely Lovers * You Gotta Die Sometime * What Would I Do.
Elton John for Classical Piano by
(Piano Solo Personality). 15 of the Rocket Man's best artfully arranged by Phillip Keveren for classical piano. Includes: Bennie and the Jets * Circle of Life * Daniel * Goodbye Yellow Brick Road * I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues * Sad Songs (Say So Much) * Tiny Dancer * Your Song * and more.
Best of K. D. Lang by
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 14 top songs spanning her 20-year career, including: Constant Craving * Extraordinary Thing * I Dream of Spring * Miss Chatelaine * Nowhere to Stand * Pullin' Back the Reins * Simple * Summerfling * Trail of Broken Hearts * Wash Me Clean * and more.
Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever by
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 15 songs from Eilish's much-anticipated third studio album which debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 album charts. Includes arrangements for piano, voice and guitar for the songs: Billie Bossa Nova * Everybody Dies * Getting Older * Lost Cause * My Future * NDA * Therefore I Am * Your Power * and more.
Indigo Girls - All That We Let In by
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). More than 20 years into their distinguished career, the Indigo Girls return to their roots with this album featuring 11 tracks. This souvenir-quality matching folio includes all of the songs as well as tour photos and a separate lyric section. Titles include: All That We Let In * Cordova * Dairy Queen * Fill It up Again * Perfect World * Something Real * Tether * and more.
Kissing to be clever by 
Fat Ham by
Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' play Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeare's Hamlet in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South. Juicy - a young, queer, Southern man, who is grappling with questions of identity - is visited by the ghost of his father (Pap) at his mother's wedding/family barbecue. Pap demands that Juicy avenge his recent murder. How will Juicy, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man, trying to break a cycle of trauma and toxic masculinity, avenge his father's premature death? Fat Ham was first staged in a filmed production for the Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, in April 2021. It made its Off-Broadway debut at The Public Theater in May 2022, transferring to Broadway in 2023. It was nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Play and Best Director of a Play, and won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
A Strange Loop by
Usher is a black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical: a piece about a black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical. Michael R. Jackson's blistering, momentous new musical follows a young artist at war with a host of demons -- not least of which, the punishing thoughts in his own head -- in an attempt to capture and understand his own strange loop.
Up Your Ass by
Valerie Solanas's legendary play explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces. Valerie Solanas's legendary play, Up Your Ass-never published during her lifetime but full of her signature irreverence and wit, incisiveness, and camp-explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces them. The play, the full title of which is Up Your Ass Or From the Cradle to the Boat Or The Big Suck Or Up from the Slime, marches out a cast of screwy stereotypes- the unknowing john, the frothy career girl, the boring male narcissist, two catty drag queens, the sex-depraved housewife, and a pair of racialized pickup artists, among others. At the center is protagonist Bongi Perez-a thinly veiled Solanas-a sardonic, gender-bending hustler who escorts us through the back alleys of her street life. The fictionalized predecessor to SCUM Manifesto, the play shares the same grand, subversive, implicative language, equally spitting and winking, embracing the margins, the scum, and selling a trick along the way.
Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by
Summary: Three kids -- Kenny, his sister Edith, and their friend Benji -- are all but abandoned on a farm in remotest Middle America. With little adult supervision, they feed and care for each other, making up the rules as they go. But when Kenny's and Benji's relationship becomes more than friendship, and Edith shoots something she really shouldn't shoot, the formerly indifferent outside world comes barging in whether they want it to or not.
Angels in America by
HBO Films will present Angels in America, directed by Mike Nichols from Tony Kushner's own adaptation of his Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. The remarkable cast features Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Justin Kirk, Ben Shenkman, Patrick Wilson, James Cromwell, Michael Gambon and Simon Callow. Angels in America is one of the most remarkable and celebrated plays of our time. Over 350,000 copies have been sold in paperback since their original publication in 1993. Praise for the play: "Angels in America is the broadest, deepest, most searching American play of our time."--Jack Kroll, Newsweek "A vast, miraculous play . . . provocative, witty and deeply upsetting . . . a searching and radical rethinking of Ameri-can political drama."--Frank Rich, The New York Times "Something rare, dangerous and harrowing...a roman candle hurled into a drawing room . . . "--Nicholas de Jongh, London Evening Standard "Playful and profound, extravagantly theatrical and deeply spiritual, witty, and compassionate, furious and incredibly smart . . . It's impossible to imagine anyone captivated by the beginning not wanting--needing--to go back for the end."--Linda Winer, Newsday "An enormously impressive work of the imagination and intellect, a towering example of what theatre stretched to its full potential can achieve."--Clifford A. Ridley, Philadelphia Inquirer "Perestroika is a masterpiece."--John Lahr, New Yorker
June Is the First Fall by
What compels people to cross mountains and seas to another country, another continent, and another culture to find their true selves? What are the journeys we take to find home and belonging? In JUNE IS THE FIRST FALL, Don, a gay Chinese man, returns home to Hawaii to rediscover missing memories of himself and his family that he moved away from. His week-long stay opens wounds with his father and sister that never healed, aggravating Don's struggle to find love and belonging in his life.
Dada Woof Papa Hot by
"Seriously intelligent and deadly accurate" (Jesse Green, New York), Peter Parnell's play Dada Woof Papa Hot smartly captures the urban parent experience at this head-spinning cultural moment--as well as what comes after #LoveWins. It's a fall night in New York City, and two couples that recently met at a parents' group are out to dinner at the hot new restaurant. Alan and Rob, and Scott and Jason, find plenty of common ground as gay couples raising kids in the city, and a play date with the children is set. As their friendship develops, the conversation deepens from after-school pick-up to the cracks in their marriages--struggles which are mirrored in the relationships of their straight friends as well.
I Am My Own Wife by
I Am My Own Wife is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. From the Obie Award-winning author of Quills comes this acclaimed one-man show, which explores the astonishing true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. A transvestite and celebrated antiques dealer who successfully navigated the two most oppressive regimes of the past century-the Nazis and the Communists--while openly gay and defiantly in drag, von Mahlsdorf was both hailed as a cultural hero and accused of colluding with the Stasi. In an attempt to discern the truth about Charlotte, Doug Wright has written "at once a vivid portrait of Germany in the second half of the twentieth century, a morally complex tale about what it can take to be a survivor, and an intriguing meditation on everything from the obsession with collecting to the passage of time" (Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times).
Forbidden Acts by
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books is proud to announce the publication of the first collected anthology of gay and lesbian plays from the entire span of the twentieth century sure to find wide acceptance by general readers and to be studied on campuses around the world. Among the ten plays three are completely out of print.ÞIncluded are ÊThe God of VenegeanceÊ (1918) by Sholom Ash the first play to introduce lesbian characters to an English-language audience; Lillian Hellman's classic ÊThe Children's HourÊ (1933) initially banned in London and passed over for the Pulitzer Prize because of its subject matter; and ÊOscar WildeÊ (1938) by Leslie and Sewell Stokes a major award-winning success that starred Robert Morley.ÞMore recent plays include Mart Crowley's ÊThe Boys in the BandÊ (1968) the first hit out gay play that was the most realistic and groundbreaking portrayal of gays on stage up to that time; Martin Sherman's ÊBentÊ (1978) which daringly focused on the love between two Nazi concentration camp inmates and starred Richard Gere; William Hoffman's ÊAs IsÊ (1985) which was one of the first plays to deal with the AIDS crisis and earned three Tony Award nominations; and Terrence McNally's ÊLove! Valour! Compassion!Ê (1994) which starred Nathan Lane and won the Tony Award for Best Play.ÞThe other plays are Edouard Bourdet's ÊThe CaptiveÊ (1926) Ruth and Augustus Goetz's ÊThe ImmoralistÊ (1954) and Frank Marcus' ÊThe Killing of Sister GeorgeÊ (1967). ÊForbidden ActsÊ includes a broad range of theatrical genres: drama tragedy romance comedy and farce. They remain vibrant and relevant today as a testament of art's ability to persevere in the face of oppression.
Goodbye yellow brick road by 
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