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Showstoppers!

Gerald Nachman

Showstoppers! is all about Broadway musicals' most memorable numbers--why they were so effective, how they were created, and why they still resonate. Gerald Nachman has interviewed dozens of iconic musical theater figures to get their inside stories for this book, including Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Marvin Hamlisch, Joel Grey, Edie Adams, John Kander, Jerry Herman, Sheldon Harnick, Tommy Tune, Harold Prince, Donna McKechnie, and Andrea McArdle, uncovering priceless previously untold anecdotes and details,"--Amazon.com.

GenresMusicalsNew York (State)New YorkHistory and criticism

384 pages

English edition · First published 2017 by Chicago Review Press · ISBN 9781613731024

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