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On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way
Steven Adler
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Description for On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way
Paperback. At a critical, transitional moment in the history of Broadway - and, by extension, of American theatre itself - former Broadway stage manager Steven Adler enlists insider perspectives from sixty-six practitioners and artists to chronicle the recent past and glimpse the near future of the Great White Way. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 367.
At a critical, transitional moment in the history of Broadway—and, by extension, of American theatre itself—former Broadway stage manager Steven Adler enlists insider perspectives from sixty-six practitioners and artists to chronicle the recent past and glimpse the near future of the Great White Way. From marquee names to behind-the-scenes power brokers, Adler has assembled a distinctly knowledgeable cast of theatre’s elite, including Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, Des McAnuff, Frank Rich, Robin Wagner, Rocco Landesman, Robert Longbottom, Todd Haimes, Bernard Gersten, and Alan Eisenberg. On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way spotlights the differing vantage points of performers, ... Read more
At a critical, transitional moment in the history of Broadway—and, by extension, of American theatre itself—former Broadway stage manager Steven Adler enlists insider perspectives from sixty-six practitioners and artists to chronicle the recent past and glimpse the near future of the Great White Way. From marquee names to behind-the-scenes power brokers, Adler has assembled a distinctly knowledgeable cast of theatre’s elite, including Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, Des McAnuff, Frank Rich, Robin Wagner, Rocco Landesman, Robert Longbottom, Todd Haimes, Bernard Gersten, and Alan Eisenberg. On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way spotlights the differing vantage points of performers, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809325931
SKU
V9780809325931
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About Steven Adler
Steven Adler is a professor and vice chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California San Diego and the author of Rough Magic: Making Theatre at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has been a stage manager on and off Broadway, as well as for several television productions.
Reviews for On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way
"On Broadway is the best book on producing I've ever read.... Winning interviews with some of the luminaries in this volume would have been admirable; to have had conversations with all of them is exceptional." -Barbara W. Grossman, Tufts University"