| Ron Fassler´s "The Show Goes On" - highly recommended! | |
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| Posted by: tmwctd (bfreimueller@gmx.at) 07:13 am EST 02/07/25 | |
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| More than 400 pages of theater stories - ´Broadway Hirings, Firings & Replacement` as the subtitle goes. Already one of my favorite theater books ever, very breezily written. Even with often-told stories (e. g. Shirley MacLaine going into ´The Pajama Game` or Sutton Foster starting her career with ´Millie`), Fassler manages to make them interesting by unearthing new information, either from old sources or new interviews. Same goes for Pearl Bailey in ´Hello Dolly´, the trouble with various revivals of ´Pal Joey` or Sheila Smith performing in ´Follies` and ´Company` the same evening. He also brought back stories I remember but have forgotten already (Jeremy Piven in ´Speed-the-plow` or Mary Tyler Moore in Neil Simon´s last play). But there also lots of every-day replacements without rancour or fanfare, simply one actor taking over and how much or little help he got from management or the company. My favorite story: Robert Goulet taking over for Daniel Davis in ´La Cage`- how different they treated Gary Beach was heartbreaking. Really highly recommended, I had to take a break midway through the book because it was so rich... |
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