Things to Check Out--The "Is it Musical Theater or Musical Theatre?" edition

Greetings!

This edition of Stuff to Check Out is mostly for the Musical Theater majors, but really for anyone who likes musicals.

We have some shiny new goodies for you. Our fearless leader, Tracey, has heard from the music theater faculty that we were missing a lot of material you need. To correct this, there has been a steady stream of compact discs, librettos and vocal scores for new (or newish) musicals flowing through the back room. We have Spamalot; Light in the Piazza; The Producers; Wicked; Legally Blonde; Jersey Boys; Spring Awakening; Thoroughly Modern Millie; In the Heights; Next to Normal; Avenue Q; Caroline, or Change; Hairspray; Billy Elliot; The Wedding Singer and The Wild Party. I'm probably missing some, but you get the idea.

Your best bet for finding musicals is to search the catalog for the item(s) you want. (If you need help, ask at the desk, that's why we're here.) The vocal scores (piano/vocal sheet music) for these will be housed in Closed Stacks because there has been a history here of theft and vandalism (i.e. people tearing out pages instead of checking out scores or photocopying portions they need). You'll still be able to check them out, but you'll need someone to retrieve them and check them out to you like we do for reserves and CDs. The libretti (texts/librettos/whatever you'd prefer to call them) are housed with the opera libretti in the ML50's. These you can browse by yourself. And the compact discs are behind the desk, as always.

So, come on in and see us. All the world may be a stage, but we're a music library, so that's pretty cool too.