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050 00 $aPN2277.N5$bI8 2004
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245 00 $aIt happened on Broadway :$ban oral history of the Great White Way /$c[compiled by] Myrna Katz Frommer, Harvey Frommer.
260 $aMadison :$bUniversity of Wisconsin Press,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $axxvii, 296 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally published: New York : Harcourt Brace, c1998. With new preface.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 00 $g1.$tBroadway calling -- $g2.$tThe waterfall and the camel were still there -- $g3.$tIt was an exciting time to be in the theater -- $g4.$tThat sense of truth -- $g5.$tSomething wonderful -- $g6.$tWe were the essence of New York -- $g7.$tLook, look, look who's dancin' now -- $g8.$tYou never can tell -- $g9.$tThe X factor -- $g10.$tThat's the craft -- $g11.$tEpilogue : the perpetual invalid.
520 1 $a"Here, in a book filled with the light and magic of Broadway, are the living memories of the people who created it woven together by noted oral historians Myrna and Harvey Frommer. It Happened on Broadway contains not only the stories of actors, directors, producers, composers, lyricists, and playwrights but also critics, publicists, set designers, and stage managers. Together they recreate the lowering musical and dramatic successes of the years before and after World War II, the triumph of the book musical, the emergence of the dance musical, and the era of spectacle musical. There are tales such as the one John Raitt recalls about the time he was handed a fifteen-foot piece of sheet music that turned out to be the soliloquy for Carousel and Carol Chonning's account of her unplanned debut on a grammar school stage. There are evocations of the great comedians, singers, dancers, and dramatic actors who had that indefinable magic that mode them stand out above the rest. There are stories from Gwen Verdon, Marge Champion, and Donno McKechnie remembering their late husbands, the choreographers Bob Fosse, Gower Champion, and Michael Bennett." "It Happened on Broadway tells the story of more than half a century of American theater at its very best."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aTheater$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112860
650 0 $aEntertainers$zUnited States$vInterviews.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009125042
650 0 $aTheater$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vInterviews.
700 1 $aFrommer, Myrna.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81123988
700 1 $aFrommer, Harvey.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79076663
852 00 $bbar$hPN2277.N5$iI8 2004