Book Review Of Acting And Stage Management By Biiane Bezdecheck

“There’s no business like show business!” Musical theater is a type of performing art that all kinds of people can participate in. The book “Acting and Stage Management” written by Biane Bailey and Bethany Bezdecheck, is a book about how to improve your acting skills and how to be a stage manager. The author attempts to educate the audience on the details of theater. The organizational style, author’s purpose, intended audience, and major points all help the author inform the reader about musical theater. Organization style is the way an author chooses to organize information in a book. The style of this book is organized by subject and topic. In the text it states, “This process is necessary to the craft of acting, and it’s called character

By using subjects and topics, the author explains the important parts of musical theater. The author’s purpose is the author’s main reason for writing the book. The author wrote this book in order to inform readers about theater production and stage management. The evidence that shows this is, “High school musicals typically rehearse for two months, so try to keep your after-school schedule as free as possible.” This shows that the author is trying to explain to readers the process of a musical production. The text states, “Whether it’s a ripped costume, a burned-out light, or a broken set, if it can’t be fixed by the person who found the problem, it falls to the stage manager.” This evidence informs the reader of some of the many jobs a stage manager has. The author informs the reader about everything they have to do in a musical production. The intended audience is the author who is writing the book for. The author wrote this book for beginners or people who are interested in theater. The intended audience is beginners because the author tells the audience how to start doing theater if a person has never done it

The major points are the most important topics that an author writes about in their book. This book has several major points that the author wrote about. Some major points in the book are, “Developing Your Character and Learning Your Lines” and “From Curtain to Curtain”. “Developing Your Character and Learning Your Lines”, is about how someone might get into character and get to know their character. It also talks about good ways to memorize your lines for a musical. “From Curtain to Curtain”, explains how the stage manager spends time before the show checking the stage, sets, and cast and crew. The author does a good job at showing what are the major points in the book. The author uses major points, intended audience, author’s purpose, and organizational style to educate the reader about theater and stage management. Paula Willey on Rosenclassroom.com stated, “This series, with its candid photos of diverse teens working on every aspect of productions, brings high school musicals from the movie-theater screen into the realm of possibility. Although the authors do not downplay the complexity of staging a performance, they break each of the components into achievable sections ranging from how to select a musical for your school to returning borrowed prop