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Title: Ghost Light: A Memoir by Frank Rich ISBN: 0-375-75824-0 Publisher: Random House Trade Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Thanks for the memories
Comment: Frank Rich's memoir "Ghost Light" is a painful reenactment of a lonely childhood. His parents divorced and he found solace in the wonderful world of the theatre. His stepfather shared his passion for this although he was abusive and difficult to live with. Personally, it was painful for me to read but I understood so much about my own childhood. Like Mr. Rich I found comfort in the wonderful world of cast albums, dreaming of seeing a Broadway show,keeping a vast collection of programs, etc. Mr. Rich proved to me that there were other kids like me and he had the guts to write about it. My one criticism of the book is that it tends to plod in places. Particularly in the beginning. He describes his bucolic childhood before his parents divorced with a little too much detail. Mr. Rich I salute you. Thanks for the memories
Rating: 5
Summary: Ghost Light Shimmers!
Comment: Fifty years ago, legendary playwright and director Moss Hart published an authobiography entitled Act One that instantly became a classic and held its place among the greatest theatrical memoirs ever written. This month, former New York Times Chief Drama Critic Frank Rich published his own story, full of passion, literacy, and wonder, that at once pays homage to Act One and transcends it. Rich has crafted the definitive stagestruck story, and there is no more significant book on growing up in the theatre. Rich's boyhood becomes a spellbinding play, a story that is joyous, crushing, funny, moving, and indelible. Anyone who cares for the American theatre, who has ever been shaken by the pulse of an orchestra begining an overture, who can find in himself even a glimmer of the passion bursting from Rich on every page, must read this book.
Rating: 3
Summary: yawn.
Comment: I used to live in Washington, DC so this book held some intrigue for me. But because I did not grow up in the 1950s, but rather in a time when divorced parents could be found anywhere, I was not that into this memoir about a boy from a broken home who loved the theater. Perhaps that's because I just finished a really great memoir (The War At Home by Nora Eisenberg) about something similar where the girl and boy have to help each other survive because the parents were so violent .... this seemed like the watered-down version of that. I know it's a memoir, so I don't like critiquing it, but I found it to be just boring and could not get through it.
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Title: Act One: An Autobiography by Moss Hart ISBN: 0312032722 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Hot Seat : Theater Criticism for The New York Times, 1980-1993 by FRANK RICH ISBN: 0679453008 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 13 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway by William Goldman ISBN: 0879100230 Publisher: Limelight Editions Pub. Date: 01 November, 1984 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title:Stephen Sondheim's Passion (Original Broadway Cast) ASIN: B000093NR3 Publisher: Image Entertainment Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $21.74 |
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Title: Gypsy: A Musical by Jule Styne, Gypsy Rose Lee, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim ISBN: 1559360860 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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