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Title: Making It Big: The Diary of a Broadway Musical by Barbara Isenberg ISBN: 0-87910-088-5 Publisher: Limelight Editions Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A comprehensive and fascinating look backstage.
Comment: The cost of Broadway musicals in the 1990s was so astronomical that when shows succeeded, they succeeded big. And when they flopped, they flopped even harder. Big was one of the latter. And, though this book often feels like it wants to paint the opposite picture, from the trials and tribulations it covers, when you've finished it, you know why it's failed. Most of the book is wonderfully informative and well-written, but the show's lingering death is glossed over in a very ineffective epilogue, and its post-Broadway life is not even discussed at all. If you are at all interested in how Broadway musicals are conceived of and produced, you shouldn't miss this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: brilliant
Comment: Barbara Isenberg's living diary of "Big" reads like a fast paced novel of suspense. With everything in it's favor, it seems that "Big" will be a big hit, but the personal reflections of cast and crew reveal a deep undercurrent of doubt, fear and troubled feelings. After reading the book and sharing the journey, you feel the pain, the hope, the excitement and the ultimate disappointment. This wonderful work studies and embraces the birth pangs of creating a new work in musical theatre and the grieving period that comes with its closing. This is must reading for any theatre buff. Once you start it, you won't be able to put it down. I read it in one sitting
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Title:The Musical of Musicals (2003 Original Off-Broadway Cast) ASIN: B0001EFV6S Publisher: Jay Records Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $18.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.99 |
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Title:Broadway's Lost Treasures ASIN: B0000BZNDK Publisher: Acorn Media Publishing Inc. Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $18.71 |
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Title: Colored Lights : Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz by John Kander, Fred Ebb, Greg Lawrence, Liza Minnelli ISBN: 057121133X Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 05 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title:Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (London Stage Revival) ASIN: B0000C23HY Publisher: Image Entertainment Pub. Date: 18 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $18.74 |
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Title:Little Shop of Horrors (2003 Broadway Revival Cast) ASIN: B0000CEROJ Publisher: Drg Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.99 |
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