Bøker av Scott Miller

It's the early 1980s and a bunch of Harvard freshmen are trying desperately to make it through to June. Scott Miller (Harvard Class of 1986) wrote Topsiders after his freshman year. The show eavesdrops on six Harvard freshman, as they navigate their first year away from home, surrounded by nothing but other over-achievers - other "topsiders." A full academic year goes by, from freshman orientation through to summer break, with papers, finals, drinking, Hostess snack cakes, all-nighters, more drinking, dating, homesickness, and the legendary final episode of M*A*S*H.

If you thought that one day you would start preparing your own distillates such as whiskey, rum, moonshine and more and finally decided - this book is for you. No more boring theories, only the most necessary knowledge and practicalrecommendations.Complete guide of home distillation, without any special difficulties andsuitable even for those who have just begun to be interested in home distilling.Try to surprise your guests with your own "cuisine". Now you will have something new to taketo your visit as a compliment.In this book you will know:

ASTROturf is a twenty-minute one-act musical written as a special project for a history of astronomy class at Harvard University in 1984. Five major astronomers, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, and Johannes Kepler, come together and present in song their views on the physics of motion and the heavens.

Topsiders eavesdrops on six Harvard freshman, as they navigate their first year away from home, surrounded by nothing but other over-achievers - other "topsiders." A full academic year goes by, from freshman orientation through to summer break, with papers, finals, drinking, Hostess snack cakes, all-nighters, more drinking, dating, homesickness, and the legendary final episode of M*A*S*H.

It's 1959 and there's pot in the Christmas cookies. What could go wrong? "What if Seth Rogen, Charles Dickens, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cheech and Chong, Christopher Hitchens, Hunter S. Thompson, and John Waters decided to have a baby?" - KDHX "A pot-laced, Dickensian, Cheech & Chong-esque holiday spoof that is reminiscent of when Saturday Night Live was in its heyday." - BroadwayWorld "Surreal nostalgic fun... a hilarious and upbeat musical for mature audiences." - The Riverfront Times "A wacky, if pungent, new look... a snarky (and oddly charming) holiday event." - TalkinBroadway "A fun-filled lampoon of Christianity, middle America and the straight-laced culture of the 1950s." - Ladue News "Resembles the audacious dark comedy material that John Waters and Charles Busch specialize in." - PopLifeSTL So what happens when a family's secrets are all revealed on one outrageous, pot-fueled Christmas Eve in 1959? Poor Harry Goodson is about to find out, as he's visited overnight by his dead brother Jerry, Jesus Christ, Sandra Dee, and Johnny Appleweed, and he finally learns what his family already knows, that the answer to all his problems is marijuana! A wacky companion piece to the unintentionally hilarious 1936 scare film Reefer Madness, this new musical is a tongue-in-cheek response to the War on Drugs and the Culture Wars, a comic look at what a little pot and a little truth can do to a normal, average, Midwestern, American family at mid-century, just as America plunges into the chaos of the 1960s. This volume contains all the songs from the adult, stoner, Christmas musical.

No matter how you approach it, Cats is so much more than a silly dance revue based on some silly poems, so much more than a punchline. Why has Cats been such a huge, longstanding commercial success around the world? Why do people see it over and over? Cats is literally about life and death. Cats is about us. "One of Eliot's great tricks with these poems, and one of the reasons they work so well as a theatre piece, is that they all sound like nursery rhymes, but they all deal in adult themes, like death, social class, community, ego, reputation, irony, fear, desire, sexuality, empathy, memory, death. These poems and these songs are wacky enough for kids, subtextual enough for adults..." - Scott Miller, Rescuing Cats "You must remember what the greatest power in the theatre is. It has nothing to do with sets and special effects. It's what's going on in your minds, and how that affects the minds of the audience." - director Trevor Nunn, to the original Broadway cast If you already love Cats, you'll find even more to love.If you hate Cats, this might just change your mind.

White, a blank page or canvas. So many possibilities. Graphic design for the theatre is a unique art form. It has to communicate a lot of information, much of it subliminal; it has to be attractive and eye-catching; and it has to make the viewer want to know more. That's a lot to ask of a single image. But Kris Wright's poster for New Line Theatre's Anyone Can Whistle in 2001 and Matt Reedy's poster for The Wild Party in 2010, both tell you so much about those shows, and both are really intriguing and enticing. That's what a great theatre poster can do. After all these years, it seems like we should celebrate and preserve the outstanding poster art of New Line Theatre, from 1992 to the present, and the great artists who've designed for us: Tracy Collins, Kris Wright, Matt Reedy, Steve Kutheis, Laura Beard Aeling, Scott Hunt, and Alissa Umansky. New Line Theatre is a professional company dedicated to involving the people of the region in the exploration and creation of provocative, adult, alternative, socially and politically relevant work in the musical theatre. New Line was founded in 1991.

One of the most successful, most iconic, most influential musicals of all time is so much cooler than you think it is! Most people underestimate the intelligence and authenticity of Grease, even those who love the show. So it's time to set the record straight. Originally a rowdy, rebellious, vulgar, and insightful piece of alternative theatre, written by two guys who lived it, Grease was inspired by the rule-busting success of Hair, rejecting the happy trappings of other Broadway musicals for a more authentic, more visceral, more radical theatre experience. It's an authentic snapshot of our country's tumultuous crossing over from the 1950s to the 1960s, throwing over repression and tradition for freedom and adventure and cultural chaos, a moment when the styles and culture of the disengaged and disenfranchised became overpowering symbols of teenage power and independence. But even the show's biggest fans can misunderstand it, for example, accepting the widespread belief that Sandy "becomes a slut" to win Danny at the end of Grease, even though the opposite is true. Sandy rejects the cultural oppression of the Fifties, and for the first time, she claims her own body, her curves, her sexuality. Though it might not be obvious, Sandy is the protagonist of Grease, and the story ends not with her submission, but with her newfound freedom and self-possession, with strength. Take another deep dive with musical theatre scholar and historian Scott Miller, to see how Grease was created, what makes it tick, what we can learn from it, how it's changed over time, and so much more. Haven't you ever wondered...What actual 1950s songs inspired the songs in Grease?Why is Sandra Dee such a potent metaphor?Why is "All Choked Up" a better finale than "You're the One That I Want"?What is the end of the show really about?Why is Grease 2 so bad?

ALL YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED.This book is entertaining, informative, and really easy to read and understand. It's short enough to read in one sitting or you can flip open to any page and find something worth thinking about. The second in writer-director Scott Miller's ABCs series, The ABCs of Acting in Musicals: A Civilian's Guide is a fun, easy-to-read, totally non-intimidating way to get a basic understanding of the very difficult craft of creating a solid performance in a stage musical, including a brief history of musicals, a brief survey of acting methods, myths about musicals and about acting, useful musical theatre terms, good books and documentaries, plus a wide array of other related topics, like using silence and stillness, the Fourth Wall, realism and naturalism, playing funny, playing sexy, acting traps, audition tips, the nature of "reality" onstage, and lots more. Even trained, experienced musical theatre actors may learn something from this little book! What exactly is musical theatre acting? How is acting in a musical different from acting in a play? Is acting in a musical harder than acting in a play? What are the acting "methods" actors talk about? How do you navigate the "reality" inside the story and the reality of being onstage in front of an audience, all while singing and dancing? What really makes a musical tick? What kind of work goes into it?

Are you going to direct a musical?Are you thinking about directing a musical?Are you terrified of directing a musical?THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU. ALL YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED.This book is entertaining, informative, and really easy to read and understand. It's short enough to read in one sitting or you can flip open to any page and find something worth thinking about. The third volume in writer-director Scott Miller's ABCs series, The ABCs of Directing Musicals: A Civilian's Guide, is a fun, short, easy-to-digest, totally non-intimidating way to get a basic understanding of the very difficult craft of directing a stage musical, including a brief history of musicals, a brief survey of acting methods, useful musical theatre terms, good books and documentaries, plus a wide array of other related topics, like directing traps, creating expressionistic staging, film tricks for the stage, directing comedy, using stillness, the nature of time and reality in a musical, the Fourth Wall, realism and naturalism, escapism, protecting the actors, and lots more. Even trained, experienced musical theatre directors may learn something from this little book!

Get ready for a mind-blowing trip through the Broadway musicals of the most fearless and influential artist in the history of the American musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim. Enjoy this eye-opening journey through sixteen Sondheim musicals, in-depth explorations of West Side Story, Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone Can Whistle, Evening Primrose, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, The Frogs, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins, and Passion; plus some brief stops at some of his other musical and non-musical projects over the years. Join musical theatre director, writer, scholar, and fanboy Scott Miller for his tenth collection of fascinating, insightful, deep dives into amazing Broadway musicals. See how these ground-breaking shows were created, what makes them tick, what we can learn from them, how Sondheim's work and the art form changed over his career, and so much more.

In the ever-evolving world of content creation, social media, videos, TV and radio shows, podcasts, vlogs and blogs, and search engine optimization, new media expert Scott Miller has established himself as an authority on maximizing media usage and exposure. He's passionate about teaching entrepreneurs how to leverage media to grow their businesses and increase their reach. In this insightful and impactful book, Scott clears the way for business leaders who are confused by the changing media landscape. You'll discover how to: - Utilize content marketing - Grow your audience - Understand media trends - Identify effective content outlets - Implement digital marketing - Establish benchmarks - Measure content campaign success

Jesse Rayburn was the all-American kid that had his dreams within sight and in his grasp, only to see them all disappear with his girlfriends pregnancy and the birth of his daughter. Forced to do the right thing and marry, he begins a long, downward spiral that leads to addiction, drug abuse, isolation, violence, and crime. Twenty-five years later, Jesse steps out of prison and begins the process of trying to start his life over. At first, he doesnt know what to do and again feels that the whole world is out to get him, but he slowly begins to realize that he wants to find the source of the anger that led him down this path, his daughter.

The Freedom Demon. The Minnesota Ice Man. The Silver Crypt. Bigfoot. The West Branch Witch. This book follows true events of a paranormal investigator looking for the answers to reported hauntings and unexplained creature sightings in his home state of Ohio, as well as the tools and resources he has found most useful while attempting to separate fact from fiction. You will learn what sparked his interest to search for the real stories to these sightings. From tales he heard as a boy to the encounters witnesses are reporting to him now.

A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin's bullet shattered the nation's confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging new world order of what would come to be known as the American Century. The President and the Assassin is the story of the momentous years leading up to that event, and of the very different paths that brought together two of the most compelling figures of the era: President William McKinley and Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who murdered him.The two men seemed to live in eerily parallel Americas. McKinley was to his contemporaries an enigma, a president whose conflicted feelings about imperialism reflected the country's own. Under its popular Republican commander-in-chief, the United States was undergoing an uneasy transition from a simple agrarian society to an industrial powerhouse spreading its influence overseas by force of arms. Czolgosz was on the losing end of the economic changes taking place-a first-generation Polish immigrant and factory worker sickened by a government that seemed focused solely on making the rich richer. With a deft narrative hand, journalist Scott Miller chronicles how these two men, each pursuing what he considered the right and honorable path, collided in violence at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.Along the way, readers meet a veritable who's who of turn-of-the-century America: John Hay, McKinley's visionary secretary of state, whose diplomatic efforts paved the way for a half century of Western exploitation of China; Emma Goldman, the radical anarchist whose incendiary rhetoric inspired Czolgosz to dare the unthinkable; and Theodore Roosevelt, the vainglorious vice president whose 1898 charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba is but one of many thrilling military adventures recounted here. Rich with relevance to our own era, The President and the Assassin holds a mirror up to a fascinating period of upheaval when the titans of industry grew fat, speculators sought fortune abroad, and desperate souls turned to terrorism in a vain attempt to thwart the juggernaut of change.Praise for The President and the Assassin "[A] panoramic tour de force . . . Miller has a good eye, trained by years of journalism, for telling details and enriching anecdotes."-The Washington Independent Review of Books "Even without the intrinsic draw of the 1901 presidential assassination that shapes its pages, Scott Miller's The President and the Assassin [is] absorbing reading. . . . What makes the book compelling is [that] so many circumstances and events of the earlier time have parallels in our own."-The Oregonian "A marvelous work of history, wonderfully written."-Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World "A real triumph."-BookPage "Fast-moving and richly detailed."-The Buffalo News "[A] compelling read."-The Boston Globe One of Newsweek's 10 Must-Read Summer Books

Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) is a provision in Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and other international investment agreements that allows investors to enter arbitration with states over treaty breaches. This report is an empirical review of ISDS, based on the record of disputes under existing investment treaties.

This report of the CSIS Congressional Task Force on Trade Capacity Building-cochaired by Representatives Charles Boustany (R-LA) and Jared Polis (D-CO)-focuses on how projects to build trade capacity can be planned and coordinated to maximize the benefits of new trade agreements, both for the United States and its partners.

The link between economic development and state security has been well documented. As policymakers consider that link, the model for international development in the twenty-first century must include both governments and the private sector.