THE SEASON A Candid Look At Broadway
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (794 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0879100230 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 434 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Movies he has written include "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Stepford Wives," "All the President's Men," "Marathon Man," and "A Bridge Too Far."Frank Rich served from 1980 to 1993 as the chief drama critic of "The New York Times," and is now an op-ed columnist at the paper as well as senior writer for "The New York Times Magazine." He lives in New York City with his wife, the writer Alex Witchel. About the Author William Goldman is a novelist and screenwriter whose books include Boys and Girls Together, Marathon Man, and The Silent Gondoliers: a Fable by S. Morgenstern
How peculiar I'm really torn on this. On one hand Goldman's book offers some terrific and unusual pieces about Broadway that make for fascinating reading: Jean Arthur's disastrous comeback in the The Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake, a brutal and deserved take down of Clive Barnes, and pretty much the only cont. R. Patrick Baugh said The more things change, the more they stay the same. A brilliant book about Broadway, I only wish that a similar book was done each year about the previous "season" (like Presidential campaign books). Of course, no one currently working would speak openly, knowing that they'd be quoted, but I had to subtract one star, however, for the rampant homoph. Broadway Laid Bare This is a fascinated book on the backstage world of Broadway but I suspect it is a little out-of-date. The Times Square revitalization has changed Broadway a lot and most theater goers obtain tickets online. However, as an aspiring playwright, reading this book did get me to thinking that I ought
Movies he has written include "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Stepford Wives," "All the President's Men," "Marathon Man," and "A Bridge Too Far."Frank Rich served from 1980 to 1993 as the chief drama critic of "The New York Times," and is now an op-ed columnist at the paper as well as senior writer for "The New Yor
Playwright/novelist/screenwriter Goldman analyzes Broadway from the perspective of the audiences, playwrights, critics, producers and actors. "Very nearly perfect It is a loose-limbed, gossipy, insider, savvy, nuts-and-bolts report on the annual search for the winning numbers that is now big-time American commercial theatre." Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times. (Limelight)