Singular Sensation
The Triumph of Broadway
New York : Avid Reader Press, 2020.
Format: Book
Edition: First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Description: xv, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
The "New York Post" theater columnist draws on more than 150 insider interviews to celebrate the productions, artists, and movements that shaped Broadway in the years spanning "Sunset Boulevard" through "The Lion King."
Contents:
Foreword -- I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. Lloyd Webber -- Boulevard of broken dreams -- 508 Greenwich, #4 -- La vie Broadway -- The gambler -- I got the horse right here -- Winging it -- Who's afraid of Edward Albee? -- Razzle dazzle -- The Fran and Barry show -- Everything's coming up Rosie -- The making of a mogul -- Be at the fucking matinee -- The Lion Queen -- The unmaking of a mogul -- The playmakers -- It's good to be the king -- Epilogue: And the show goes on.
Subjects:
Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 21st century.
Broadway (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century.
Broadway (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 21st century.
Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 21st century.
Broadway (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century.
Broadway (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9781501166631
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-317) and index.