A Producer's Broadway Journey - Ostrow, Stuart
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From the first run of "Guys and Dolls" in 1950 to the recent hit "Rent", Broadway producer Stuart Ostrow takes us on a behind-the-scenes historical tour of the Broadway musical. Here is an exciting commentary on the best of the last five decades of Broadway, highlighting those shows that have shaped musical theatre. From his start as an apprentice to Frank Loesser, Ostrow's journey to Tony Award-winning producer of "1776", "Pippin" and "M. Butterfly" spans a pivotal era in musical theatre. His anecdotes of Lerner and Loewe, Bob Fosse, Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Jerry Block and countless…mehr

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From the first run of "Guys and Dolls" in 1950 to the recent hit "Rent", Broadway producer Stuart Ostrow takes us on a behind-the-scenes historical tour of the Broadway musical. Here is an exciting commentary on the best of the last five decades of Broadway, highlighting those shows that have shaped musical theatre. From his start as an apprentice to Frank Loesser, Ostrow's journey to Tony Award-winning producer of "1776", "Pippin" and "M. Butterfly" spans a pivotal era in musical theatre. His anecdotes of Lerner and Loewe, Bob Fosse, Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Jerry Block and countless others illuminate the personal, tragic, comic or merely human characters and ambition of those he met along they way. Ostrow's perspective on Broadway is an evaluation of those tangible and intangible essentials that make a musical fly, or remain earthbound.
It would be difficult, indeed, to imagine anyone more qualified to give us a celebration, from the perspective of an insider, of the Broadway musical. From the first run of Guys and Dolls in 1950 to the recent debut of Rent, Stuart Ostrow, a prot^D'eg^D'e of the great composer-lyricist Frank Loesser, has been personally involved in many of the major Broadway productions of our time. The steadily growing number of fans of the Great White Way will delight in his reminiscences about the shows that have shaped musical theater, such as Hello Dolly, Funny Girl, Man of LaMancha, Cabaret, 1776, and M. Butterfly-to name just a few. Readers of A Producer's Broadway Journey will certainly be entertained by Ostrow's behind-the-scenes anecdotes of Bob Fosse, Barbra Streisand, Betty Buckley, Cole Porter, Lerner and Loewe, Hal Prince, Ethel Merman, and many other legends encountered in his accomplished career. But in addition to the tales or re-writes, stand-ins, near-disasters, and moments of theatrical magic, the author also provides a unique historical perspective on almost half a century of the musical.
Autorenporträt
STUART OSTROW is the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Theatre at the University of Houston. His many award-winning Broadway and West-End productions include M. Butterfly, Pippin, and 1776. He has also produced La Béte and The Apple Tree, directed Here's Love, was associate director of Chicago, and authored Stages.