Theater Reads

[harrisbenjaminco]

Posted: 6/22/15 at 6:47pm

 I'm extremely interested in theater, and I want to read up on it. Any recommendations on great reads.

[Fantod]

Posted: 6/22/15 at 6:48pm

Here are your basic three

 

http://www.amazon.com/Broadway-Musicals-Revised-Updated-Greatest/dp/1579128491/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435013276&sr=1-1&keywords=broadway

 

http://www.amazon.com/Broadway-American-Musical-Applause-Books/dp/1423491033/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435013276&sr=1-6&keywords=broadway

 

http://www.amazon.com/Showtime-History-Broadway-Musical-Theater/dp/0393067157/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435013276&sr=1-9&keywords=broadway

[matildathemiracle2]

Posted: 6/22/15 at 6:59pm

Jen Tepper's The Untold Stories of Broadway and the Playbill Yearbooks are my favorites.

[harrisbenjaminco]

Posted: 6/22/15 at 7:27pm

Thank you

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 6/22/15 at 7:35pm

THE FERVENT YEARS by Harold Clurman

A DIRECTOR PREPARES by Anne Bogart (Pricey, but worth it)

 

[notalwaysontime]

Posted: 6/22/15 at 7:43pm

Don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for, but a book that I really enjoyed was Unnaturally Green by Felicia Ricci (an Elphaba stand by for the San Francsico run of wicked in 2010. It's about her journey from auditions to SF's closing night. It's really a book about her, and what the experience was like, but at the same time, there's a lot of bts information on what the audition and rehearsal processes were like, how it all works trying to move across the country, what it's like back stage, all that kind of stuff, and I really loved it. (It's also really funny, because she has a wonderful kind of self deprecating, but very honest humor)

[RaiseYouUp]

Posted: 6/22/15 at 8:02pm

I really enjoyed Patti LuPone's memoir. It has lots of juicy stories about her career in theatre in both the West End and on Broadway.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 6/22/15 at 10:03pm

Some of my favorites:

The Season by William Goldman
Not Since Carrie by Ken Mandelbaum
Nothing Like a Dame by Eddie Shapiro
Hello Gorgeous by William J. Mann
Look, I Made a Hat & Finishing the Hat by Stephen Sondheim
Sondheim & Company by Craig Zadan
Broadway Musicals: From the Pages of the New York Times

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 6/22/15 at 10:38pm

EVERYTHING WAS POSSIBLE by Ted Chapin

GHOST LIGHT by Frank Rich

ACT ONE by Moss Hart

Updated On: 6/22/15 at 10:38 PM

[fyeahmaria]

Posted: 6/23/15 at 5:59am

I second Moss Hart's Act One, just finished it and absolutely loved it. 

Also Jenn Tepper's Untold Stories of Broadway gives a lot of insight into the individual theaters through stories from the shows that have been in them.