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050 00 $aML400$b.V48 2009
100 1 $aViagas, Robert.
245 10 $aI'm the greatest star :$bBroadway's top musical legends from 1900 to today /$cRobert Viagas.
260 $aNew York :$bApplause Theatre & Cinema Books,$c2009.
300 $axi, 425 p. :$bill. ;$c29 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [393]-406) and index.
505 0 $aPreface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Nobody / Bert Williams -- 2: Man who owned Broadway / George M Cohan -- 3: Terrible tot / Fanny Brice -- 4: You ain't heard nothin' yet / Al Jolson -- 5: Look for the silver lining / Marilyn Miller -- 6: Banjo eyes / Eddie Cantor -- 7: You irreplaceable you / Fred and Adele Astaire -- 8: Bugle boy / Bobby Clark -- 9: You're the top / William Gaxton -- 10: Life would be a ding-a-derry / Ray Bolger -- 11: Sweet mama stringbean / Ethel Waters -- 12: Be a lion, not a mowess / Bert Lahr -- 13: Merm / Ethel Merman -- 14: Where is the life that late I led? / Alfred Drake -- 15: I'm flying / Mary Martin -- 16: Geet-got-gittle-oddle-got-go-say / Danny Kaye -- 17: Dolly / Carol Channing -- 18: When you are king / Yul Brynner -- 19: Comedy tonight / Zero Mostel -- 20: You with the stars in your eyes / John Raitt -- 21: Two lost souls / Gwen Verdon -- 22: Glitter and be gay / Barbara Cook -- 23: Music man / Robert Preston -- 24: Out of the commonplace into the rare / Richard Kiley -- 25: All that jazz / Chita Rivera -- 26: I could have danced all night / Julie Andrews -- 27: Lullaby of Broadway / Jerry Orbach -- 28: Open a new window / Angela Lansbury -- 29: Look what happened to Mabel / Bernadette Peters -- 30: Music and the mirror / Donna McKechnie -- 31: Famous feet / Tommy Tune -- 32: Just a little bit of star quality / Patti Lupone -- 33: I only have eyes for you / Christine Ebersole -- 34: Bright as a penny / Donna Murphy -- 35: Good old reliable Nathan / Nathan Lane -- 36: Wheels of a dream / Brian Stokes Mitchell -- 37: Is it really me? / Audra McDonald -- 38: Show off / Sutton Foster -- 39: My new philosophy / Kristin Chenoweth -- Sources -- About the author -- Index.
520 $aFrom the Publisher: Here is the first major survey of Broadway musical theatre stars, telling the life stories of 40 stage luminaries from Al Jolson, Fanny Brice and Gwen Verdon, to Nathan Lane, Patti Lupone and Audra McDonald. Author Robert Viagas describes each star's most important stage roles as well as the triumphant, tragic, inspiring, and cautionary tales of how they achieved-and maintained-their status as top Broadway stars.
650 0 $aSingers$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aActors$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aMusicals$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory and criticism.