Finalists
for
The George Freedley Memorial Award
(for an outstanding book in theatre or another area of live performance)
The list of finalists for the Association's Awards includes every title which appeared among a juror's first five choices during the final voting process as well as every title mentioned by more than one juror in the final balloting period.
These books truly represent the best of the best, and the Theatre Library Association congratulates their authors and thanks their publishers for submitting them for consideration for this year's awards.
The Theatre Library Association invites publishers, if they choose, to promote any of these distinguished works as a FINALIST for the award(s) indicated among those books which were not recipients of the Freedley, TLA, or Special Jury Prize honors.
2005
Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Show; by Louis S.
Warren; Alfred A. Knopf
Before the Parade Passes By: Gower Champion and the Glorious American
Musical; by John Anthony Gilvey; St. Martin’s Press
Charlotte: Being a True Account of An Actress’s Flamboyant Adventures in
Eighteenth-Century London’s Wild and Wicked Theatrical World; by Kathryn
Shevelow; Henry Holt and Company (FREEDLEY AWARD)
The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the
Beginnings of Superstardom in America; by Larry McMurtry; Simon & Schuster
Elia Kazan: A Biography; by Richard Schickel; HarperCollins
Eugene O’Neill’s Last Plays: Separating Art from Autobiography; by
Doris Alexander; University of Georgia Press
Irving Berlin’s Show Business: Broadway—Hollywood—America; by David
Leopold; Harry N. Abrams
The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance;
by Charlotte M. Canning; University of Iowa Press
Olivier; by Terry Coleman; Henry Holt and Company
Puppetry: A World History; by Eileen Blumenthal; Harry N. Abrams
Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama; by Carol Ockman and Kenneth
E. Silver; Yale University Press
Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times; by Linda Ben-Zvi; Oxford
University Press (SPECIAL JURY PRIZE)
Theaters; by Craig Morrison; W.W. Norton & Company
Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India
Since 1947; by Apana Bhargava Dharwadker; University of Iowa Press
Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Cultural in the
1850s; by Sarah Meer; University of Georgia Press
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599; by James Shapiro;
HarperCollins
2004
Acts of Courage: Vaclav Havel's Life in the Theater; by Carol
Rocamora; Smith and Kraus
The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity; by Raymond
Knapp; Princeton University Press
Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee; by Mona Z. Smith;
Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time; by Ken
Bloom and Frank Vlastnik; Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers (SPECIAL JURY
PRIZE)
Broadway: The American Musical; by Michael Kantor and Laurence
Maslon; Bulfinch Press
Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American
Culture; by Thomas F. DeFrantz; Oxford University Press
Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance by Deborah Jowitt;
Simon & Schuster
Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle; by
Roslyn Poignant; Yale University Press
Shakespeare After All; by Marjorie Barber; Pantheon Books
Shakespeare's Songbook; by Ross W. Duffin; W. W. Norton & Company
Sidney Howard and Clare Eames: American Theater's Perfect Couple of the
1920s; by Arthur Gewirtz; McFarland
Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show; by Rachel
Shteir; Oxford University Press (FREEDLEY AWARD)
Summer Stock!: An American Theatrical Phenomenon; by Martha
Schmoyer LoMonaco; Palgrave
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; by Stephen
Greenblatt; W. W. Norton & Company
Women, Modernism, and Performance; by Penny Farfan; Cambridge University
Press
2003
Arthur Miller: His Life and Work; by Martin Gottfried; Da Capo
Press
The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool; by Brenda
Dixon Gottschild; Palgrave
Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century; by John
Houchin; Cambridge University Press
Eleonora Duse: A Biography; Helen Sheehy; Alfred A. Knopf
Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical "Follies"; by
Ted Chapin; Alfred A. Knopf (SPECIAL JURY PRIZE)
The Girl Who Fell Down: A Biography of Joan McCracken; by Lisa Jo
Sagolla; Northeastern University Press
A History of African American Theatre; by Errol G. Hill and James V.
Hatch; Cambridge University Press (FREEDLEY AWARD)
Imagining Shakespeare; by Stephen Orgel; Palgrave
Kenneth Tynan: A Life; by Dominic Shellard; Yale Universtiy Press
No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century; by Nancy Reynolds
and Malcolm McCormick; Yale University Press
Notes on Directing: The Classic Guide to the Director's Craft; by
Frank Hauser and Russell Reich; RCR Creative Press
Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American
Celebrity; by Renee M. Sentilles; Cambridge University Press
Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions; by Mark Eden
Horowitz; Scarecrow Press
White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies
and Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown's African and American Theater;
by Marvin McAllister; University of North Carolina Press
2002
Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in
Contemporary China; by Xiaomei Chen; University of Hawaii Press
A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theater, Drama, and Performance
in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927; by David Krasner; Palgrave
Black Theater: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora; edited by Paul
Carter Harrison and others; Temple University Press
The Circus Age: Culture and Society Under the American Big Top; by
Janet M. Davis; University of North Carolina Press
Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends; by Jody Enders;
University of Chicago Press
Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway; by Foster Hirsch;
Alfred A. Knopf
The Moliere Encyclopedia; edited by James F. Gaines; Greenwood Publishing
Group
On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early
Twentieth-Century American Art; edited by Patricia McDonnell; Yale
University Press
Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam; by
David Kaufman; Applause Theatre & Cinema Books (FREEDLEY AWARD)
The Staging of Drama in the Medieval Church; by Dunbar H. Ogden;
University of Delaware Press/Associated University Presses (HONORABLE MENTION
AWARD)
Tom Stoppard: A Life; by Ira Nadel; Palgrave
Voices of the Puppet Masters: The Wayang Golek Theater of Indonesia;
by Mimi Herbert with Nur S.Rahardjo; University of Hawaii Press
2001
Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins; by Greg Lawrence; G.
P. Putnam's Sons
Dario Fo & France Rame: Artful Laughter; by Ron Jenkins; Aperture
(Honorable Mention Award)
Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart; by Steven Bach; Alfred A. Knopf
Drama, Play, and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and
Early Modern Period; by Lawrence M. Clopper: University of Chicago
Press
The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater; by Karin
Barber; Indiana University Press
Hamlet and the Baker's Son: My Life in Theatre and Politics; by
Augusto Boal; Routledge
Harlequin Unmasked: The Commedia dell' Arte and Porcelain Sculpture;
by Meredith Chilton; Yale University Press (FREEDLEY AWARD)
The Kid Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements;
by Woody Register; Oxford University Press
Mielziner: Master of Modern Stage Design; by Mary C. Henderson;
Watson-Guptill Publications
Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing,1840-1880; by Jim
Davis and Victor Emeljanow; University of Iowa Press
A Triptych from the Russian Theatre: An Artistic Biography of the
Komissarzhevsky Family; by Victor Borovsky; University of Iowa Press
2000
Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway; by Eve Golden; University
Press of Kentucky
Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers;
by Constance Valis Hill; Oxford University Press (also a TLA Award Finalist)
Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History by
Joy S. Kasson; Hill & Wang
The Changing Room; Sex, Drag and Theatre; by Laurence Senelick;
Routledge (HONORABLE MENTION AWARD)
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde; edited by Merlin Holland and
Rupert-Hart Davis; Henry Holt
The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914; by Tracy C. Davis;
Cambridge University Press (FREEDLEY AWARD)
From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond...; by Annette Lust;
Scarecrow Press
George Jean Nathan and the Making of Modern American Drama Criticism; by
Thomas F. Connolly; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/Associated University
press
Ghost Light: A Memoir; by Frank Rich; Random House
Illegitimate Theatre in London, 177-1840; by Jane Moody; Cambridge
University Press
Joseph Jefferson: Dean of the American Theatre; by Arthur Bloom;
Frederic C. Beil Publisher
Kurt Weill: A Life in Pictures and Documents; by David Farneth with
Elmar Juchem and Dave Stein; Overlook Press
Moliere: A Theatrical Life; by Virginia Scott; Cambridge University
press
The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage;
by Jeffrey Veidlinger; Indiana University Press
O'Neill: Life with Monte Cristo; by Arthur and Barbara Gelb;
Applause Books
Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard on Stage
and Screen to 1939; by Mark Evan Swartz; Johns Hopkins University
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Martha S. LoMonaco.
