Help with Amazon.com!

[rlbgbc]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 11:29am

For my burfday yesterday, I just got an Amazon gift certificate for 25 bucks -- and have absolutely no idea what I should buy. I think I'd like a book on Broadway -- but don't know what's new, recent, and good. Any recs from you boys?

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 11:34am

How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater - MARC ACITO

Making It on Broadway: Actors' Tales of Climbing to the Top by David Wienir, Jodie Langel

A Year with the Producers, Jeffry Denman

[CJR]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 11:48am

So You Want to Dance on Broadway? ~ Tina Paul

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:20pm

OH!

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:08pm

My brother always sends me an Amazon certificate for my birthday and I feel like a kid in a candy shop. It usually takes me days to figure out what to get. This year I purchased the PBS Broadway CD.

[cturtle]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:34pm

amazon is my best friend. we put as many purchases as possible on our AMAZON VISA card, so we can earn gift certificates

[Thenardier]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:36pm

Not Since Carrie! Buy that book!

I will as soon as I have money!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:49pm

A friend of mine gave me the book, Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time. While I do not agree with all of their selections, the book is fantastic. It is loaded with rarely seen color and black and white photos. A gorgeous book filled with great photos and fascinating tidbits. That and Not Since Carrie are my two favorite books on musicals.


Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time

Updated On: 7/12/05 at 05:49 PM

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:52pm

Not Since Carrie is a MUST HAVE.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:56pm

What about Ethan Mordden's books on the Broadway musical? There's one per decade from the 20's to the 70's I think and then one covering up to present day.

[Broadway_Bound_Star]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 5:58pm

I second the recomendation for Making It on Broadway: Actors' Tales of Climbing to the Top by David Wienir, Jodie Langel

its an AWESOME book

[NCGuy]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 6:39pm

Rlbgbc, the "Broadway Musicals: 101 Greatest Shows" book Mister Matt suggested is definitely worth getting! I bought a copy as a Christmas present to myself, and it was by far the best gift I received. The list is pretty subjective; I was really suprised at some of the musicals left out, but thrilled at some of the less obvious choices ("Little Me," "Spider Woman"). TONS of great photos (the gorgeous color pics of Gwen Verdon in "Sweet Charity" are what sold me on the book in the store, but any number of the photos justify buying it).

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 10:18pm

Books:

COLORED LIGHTS by Kander and Ebb

I'VE GOT THE SHOW RIGHT HERE by Cy Feuer

EVERYTHING WAS POSSIBLE (the making of FOLLIES) by Ted Chapin

ORIGINAL STORY by Arthur Laurents

JUST LUCKY I GUESS by the glorious Carol Channing

REWRITES by Neil Simon

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 10:24pm

Totally forgot about Broadway Musicals 101..., and I just gave it to a friend for his birthday!

[CapnHook]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 10:31pm

cturtle - I checked into the Amazon Visa thang - you gotta spend $800 or more in order to get a $25 gift certificate. And the "points" are lost every two years or something like that.

NOT worth it.