Theater Reads
Theater Reads
#1Theater Reads
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#2Theater Reads
Posted: 6/22/15 at 6:59pm
Jen Tepper's The Untold Stories of Broadway and the Playbill Yearbooks are my favorites.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#4Theater Reads
Posted: 6/22/15 at 7:35pm
THE FERVENT YEARS by Harold Clurman
A DIRECTOR PREPARES by Anne Bogart (Pricey, but worth it)
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#5Theater Reads
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)
#6Theater Reads
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.
#7Theater Reads
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
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
#8Theater Reads
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
#9Theater Reads
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.
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