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by Gerald Nachman


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Showstoppers! is all about Broadway musicals' most memorable numbers--why they were so effective, how they were created, and why they still resonate. Gerald Nachman has interviewed dozens of iconic musical theater figures to get their inside stories for this book, including Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Marvin Hamlisch, Joel Grey, Edie Adams, John Kander, Jerry Herman, Sheldon Harnick, Tommy Tune, Harold Prince, Donna McKechnie, and Andrea McArdle, uncovering priceless previously untold anecdotes and details.

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  • Title Showstoppers!: The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs
  • Author Gerald Nachman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 408
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Chicago Review Press
  • Date 2016-11-01
  • ISBN 9781613731024 / 1613731027
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Musicals - New York (State) - New York -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016012969
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.140

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/01/2016, Page 21
  • Library Journal, 10/15/2016, Page 89

About the author

Gerald Nachman has been writing about musicals for over fifty years. His reviews, columns, and profiles have been published in the New York Times, the New York Post, GQ, Cosmopolitan, the New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, the San Jose Mercury News, and Theater Week. He is the author of six books, including Seriously Funny, Raised on Radio, and Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!: Ed Sullivan's America.
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