Title On Broadway : art and commerce on the great white way / Steven Adler

Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) Contents The terrain -- The producers -- Broadway, inc. -- When worlds collide -- The money song -- Page to stage -- The nature of the beast Summary At a critical, transitional moment in the history of Broadway and, by extension, of American theatre itself former Broadway stage manager Steven Adler enlists insider perspectives from sixty-six practitioners and artists to chronicle the recent past and glimpse the near future of the Great White Way. From marquee names to behind-the-scenes power brokers, Adler has assembled a distinctly knowledgeable cast of theatre's elite, including Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, Des McAnuff, Frank Rich, Robin Wagner, Rocco Landesman, Robert Longbottom, Todd Haimes, Bernard Gersten, and Alan Eisenberg.On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way spotlights the differing vantage points of performers, artists, writers, managers, producers, critics, lawyers, theatre owners, union leaders, city planners, and other influential players. Each details his or her firsthand account of the creative and economic forces that have wrought extraordinary changes in the way Broadway theatre is conceived, produced, marketed, and executed. Once the paramount site of American theatre, Broadway today is becoming a tourist-driven, family-friendly, middle-class entertainment oasis in Midtown, an enterprise inextricably bound to the larger mosaic of national and international professional theatre Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-241) and index Notes Print version record Subject Musicals -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- History and criticism Musical theater -- Economic aspects -- New York (State) -- New York Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. Musical theater -- Economic aspects Musicals Theater Muziektheater. Financiële aspecten. SUBJECT Broadway (New York, N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86002484 Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Broadway Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2004010467 ISBN 1429417404 9781429417402

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