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Title: The Girl Who Fell Down: A Biography of Joan McCracken by Lisa Jo Sagolla ISBN: 1-55553-573-9 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Juicy read for theater buffs
Comment: This extremely readable, informative biography is both the hauntingly sad tale of an enchanting brief candle of a performer and an inside, knowing evocation of the New York theater world of the 40s and 50s. Joan McCracken's singing and dancing eight times a week on Broadway while diabetic, and her premature demise no doubt accelerated by her stage exertions, are heartbreaking to read. The author's explanations of dance steps and narrative accounts of ballets and show choreography are extraordinarily well done in converting dancer shop talk into something palpable and understandable for the lay reader. This book is a reminder that history, artistic and otherwise, is made not just by the superfamous. A show business career like McCracken's is more typical, and more illuminating to read about, than made-to-order rehashes of Stars A to Z. In the retrospect of fifty years, it is fascinating to read Sagolla quoting McCracken commenting on early television being too "commercial" and the servant of too many masters. Sagolla's book becomes not just a portrait of a singular performer but an oblique statement about changing times in the American entertainment industry. A well researched, engaging read to the end.
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Title: Colored Lights : Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz by John Kander, Fred Ebb, Greg Lawrence ISBN: 057121133X Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 05 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical "Follies" by Ted Chapin ISBN: 0375413286 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title:Call Me Madam ASIN: B0001FR55C Publisher: Twentieth Century Fox Home Video Pub. Date: 20 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $12.28 |
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Title:Sherry (2004 Studio Cast) ASIN: B0001CCWV2 Publisher: Angel Records Pub. Date: 24 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $21.99 |
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Title:The Musical of Musicals (2003 Original Off-Broadway Cast) ASIN: B0001EFV6S Publisher: Jay Records Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $18.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.99 |
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