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Title: The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway by William Goldman, Frank L. Aronson Rich ISBN: 0-87910-023-0 Publisher: Proscenium Pub Pub. Date: November, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thorough Candor
Comment: This is an extraordinary book. It is written by an author with a first class mind and genuine curiosity about his subject. Whilst one may not agree with all of it, the writing is a delight and he does not shirk dealing with controversial issues such as the influence of homosexuality on the stage and the corrupt financial practices in relation to theatre tickets, etc. Even though it was written for the 1967-1968 season, it still resonates and viewed in retrospect, it provides crucial evidence relative to the aetiology of the culture wars.
Rating: 5
Summary: A shattering--yet thoroughly essential--look at Broadway.
Comment: William Goldman's groundbreaking book The Season is all it's cracked up to be and more. Though a number of the people he deals with are no longer with us, many of the shows have been forgotten, and the ticket prices are quite a bit higher, it's astonishing how much the Broadway of the late 1960s resembles the Broadway of today. The same problems, the same headaches, the same disappointments, and the same triumphs are all still a part of the Great White Way. No Broadway enthusiast should be without this book; The Season is a stunning history--and current events--lesson on Broadway theatre.
Rating: 5
Summary: Funny, honest and tragic...
Comment: Having lived in New York for so long it's scary how accurate "The Season" is, although written over 30 years ago.
Broadway has become a tourist trap with very little to offer serious theatergoers anymore except spectacle shows.
Each chapter in this book shows how Broadway was crippled with each passing season...and it makes sense that this is what it's come to.
But the book is very funny (especially the chapter on critics where he launches an all-out assault on then-New York Times reporter Clive Barnes) and explains everything you'll ever need to know about how plays and musicals are put together.
Oh, yes: there's plenty of dirt, gossip, anecdotes and name-dropping...Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, Tennessee Williams, David Merrick and NBC Reporter Edwin Newman drop in for cameos.
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Title: English Pronouncing Dictionary with CD-ROM by Daniel Jones, Peter Roach, James Hartman, Jane Setter ISBN: 0521017130 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 22 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
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Title: Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical "Follies" by Ted Chapin ISBN: 0375413286 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Act One : An Autobiography by by Moss Hart ISBN: 0375508600 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Artistic Home: Discussions With Artistic Directors of America's Institutional Theatres by Todd. London, Peter Zeisler, Lloyd Richards ISBN: 0930452763 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Ghost Light : A Memoir by Frank Rich ISBN: 0375758240 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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