MAKING IT ON BROADWAY

It's a good read, but I found the book rather skewed. I wrote a lengthy post about some issues I had with the book, which initiated a rather interesting thread (see link below).

Someone has commented that the book has a bias, which it then attempts to justify through oblique interview snippets and gently prodding the reader. It also doesn't help that Jodie Langel had a very short career on the Great White Way, and some readers have accused her of imposing her experiences onto her research (it's a valid argument, when you consider the unusual negative focus on Les Miz and Martin Guerre, but practically no word on Phantom, the biggest megamusical giant of them all). In any case, the primary research is tainted by this involvement of a Broadway performer.

It's good that you're now questioning a career in the performing arts (it isn't a walk in the park), and the book does make some very valid points, but also take the extremities of what the book says with some skeptism.
Making It On Broadway - thoughts

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Updated On: 8/9/04 at 08:44 PM

I just found the official website. Haven't really surfed it, though.

http://www.makingitonbroadway.com

The entire book is made up of interview segments with actors who have been in a Broadway musical at least once; their quotations are organized into themed chapters. This gives it an air of journalistic accuracy, but again, if you look/read closely you'll find that everything's not quite what it seems....

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