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From the first run of "Guys and Dolls" in 1950 to the recent hit "Rent", Broadway producer Stuart Ostrow takes us on a behind-the-scenes historical tour of the Broadway musical. Here is an exciting commentary on the best of the last five decades of Broadway, highlighting those shows that have shaped musical theatre. From his start as an apprentice to Frank Loesser, Ostrow's journey to Tony Award-winning producer of "1776", "Pippin" and "M. Butterfly" spans a pivotal era in musical theatre. His anecdotes of Lerner and Loewe, Bob Fosse, Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Jerry Block and countless others illuminate the personal, tragic, comic or merely human characters and ambition of those he met along they way. Ostrow's perspective on Broadway is an evaluation of those tangible and intangible essentials that make a musical fly, or remain earthbound.
| ISBN | 0275958663 | | Pages | 232 | | ISBN13 | 9780275958664
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | ABC-CLIO | | Weight (grammes) | 562 | | Imprint | Greenwood Press | | Published in | Westport | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 230 | | Publication date | 30 May 1999 | | Width (mm) | 162 | | Library of Congress | ML1711 | | Spine width (mm) | 24 | | DEWEY | 792.6 | | Academic level | General, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Preface | | | | | | Introduction | | | | Pt. I | | 1950-1960 - Broadway Babies: Adler and Ross, Stephen Sondheim, Bock and Harnick, and Meredith Willson | | 1 | | | | 1950-1951 | | 3 | | | | Guys and Dolls | | 3 | | | | Call Me Madam | | 7 | | | | The King and I | | 9 | | | | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | | 10 | | | | Other Musicals | | 11 | | | | 1951-1952 | | 13 | | | | Paint Your Wagon | | 13 | | | | 1952-1953 | | 15 | | | | Wonderful Town | | 15 | | | | Can-Can | | 16 | | | | 1953-1954 | | 19 | | | | Kismet | | 19 | | | | The Pajama Game | | 20 | | | | The Threepenny Opera | | 23 | | | | Other Musicals | | 24 | | | | 1954-1955 | | 25 | | | | Silk Stockings | | 25 | | | | Damn Yankees | | 26 | | | | Other Musicals | | 27 | | | | 1955-1956 | | 29 | | | | My Fair Lady | | 29 | | | | The Most Happy Fella | | 31 | | | | 1956-1957 | | 35 | | | | Bells Are Ringing | | 35 | | | | Candide | | 37 | | | | 1957-1958 | | 39 | | | | West Side Story | | 39 | | | | The Music Man | | 41 | | | | 1958-1959 | | 45 | | | More... | | |
"Stuart Ostrow's Broadway journey through the tunnel of the musical theatre is such an adventure, such a treasure trove of anecdotes and observations, so refreshingly frank, and such a feast of food for thought that it becomes much more than a trip worth taking. Forthcoming and funny to boot, it travels headlong toward the light at the end, searching to find the future of, dare I say it, the Broadway musical."-Jerry Bock Composer, Fiddler on the Roof  Be the first to write a customer review
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