This is an an assemblage of first-night reviews from a variety of theatre critics, including Brooks Atkinson and Walter Kerr, on shows such as "Brigadoon", "Peter Pan" and "West Side Story". Over 300 musicals are described, and credits are provided for each. Each show's initial critical reception is gauged, and the financial profits or losses ...
A Must See! is a must-have for any Broadway fan. It's a bonanza of a browse-book - overstuffed with rare, original theatrical artwork from the annals of Broadway. Curtain up! From tegendary musicals to classic dramas to ignominious failures, A Must See! proudly presents a visual feast of Broadway ballyhoo. For this compendium of graphic design ...
Broadway Yearbook 1999-2000 is a unique and detailed guide to the theatrical year presenting 46 different shows. The volume features a comprehensive discussion of every show that opened on Broadway during the 1999-2000 season as well as several non-Broadway productions of importance or general interest. Each entry is accompanied by credits and ...
If Broadway's musical hits are exhilarating, the backstage tales of Broadway's failures are tantalizing soap operas in miniature. Behind every flop is a set of claims, counter-claims, and recriminations from some of the biggest egos around! "Second Act Trouble" puts you with the creators in the rehearsal halls, at out-of-town tryouts, in late ...
Broadway Season 1999-2000 is a unique and detailed guide to the theatrical year presenting 46 different shows. The volume features a comprehensive discussion of every show that opened on Broadway during the 1999-2000 season as well as several non-Broadway productions of importance or general interest. Each entry is accompanied by credits and cast ...
A complete record of each show that opened on Broadway between May 2001 and May 2002. Suskin presents vivid descriptions and intelligent commentary along with credits and cast lists, and finishes with dates and length of run, performance and preview totals as compiled by the League of American Theaters and Producers, plus grosses and profit/loss ...
This comprehensive musical theatre reference book chronicles the work of Broadway's greatest composers, from 1904 through today. Nine hundred shows and almost 9,000 show tunes are included, comprising the entire theatrical output of 36 important Broadway composers along with notable musicals by others. Listings include production data and ...
Broadway Yearbook 2000-2001 is a relevant and irreverent record of the theatrical year. A vivid album of the year on the Great White Way, Broadway Yearbook gives readers front-row seats for the phenomenon of The Producers and the rest of the season's hits and misses. Steven Suskin's acclaimed new theatre annual delivers a vibrant, candid, and ...
Picking up where Suskin's earlier "Opening on Broadway" leaves off, this new collection offers excerpted first night reviews of 210 of the most popular Broadway productions of recent memory--"A Chorus Line, Hair, Pippin, Grease, Cabaret, Annie, Ain't Misbehavin', Jesus Christ, Superstar" and many more. The reviews also serve to chronicle many of ...
From Irving Berling to Andrew Lloyd Weber, from Assassins to Zorba, here are more than 750 shows, 6,000 songs, and the careers of every important Broadway composer of this century, reexamined in a and indispensable musical theatre reference book.
Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book ever written about these unsung stars of the Broadway musical whose work is so vital to each show's success. The book examines the careers of Broadway's major ...
Broadway Yearbook 2000-2001 is a relevant and irreverent record of the theatrical year. A vivid album of the year on the Great White Way, Broadway Yearbook gives readers front-row seats for the phenomenon of The Producers and the rest of the season's hits and misses. Steven Suskin's acclaimed new theatre annual delivers a vibrant, candid, and ...
This new collection offers excerpted first night reviews of 210 of the most popular Broadway productions in recent memory -- reviews that also serve to chronicle many of the careers that were made and broken during this period of the Broadway theater.
This new collection offers excerpted first night reviews of 210 of the most popular Broadway productions in recent memory -- reviews that also serve to chronicle many of the careers that were made and broken during this period of the Broadway theater.
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