Street Where I Live: The Story of "My Fair Lady", "Gigi" and "Camelot" - Brossura

Lerner, Alan Jay

Brossura

ISBN 10: 034025453X ISBN 13: 9780340254530

Casa editrice: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1980

Riassunto

This is a highly personal biography of three great shows: My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Gigi. Warm, witty, loving, often hilarious, and poignant in its affection for a glorious era in the American theater, it is the story of what Mr. Lerner calls "the sundown of wit, eccentricity, and glamour." The author himself, try as he will to keep himself out of his pages, emerges not merely as a great talent, but as a man of laughter and love. His principals, however, are Moss Hart and Fritz Loewe, with a stupendous supporting cast: Julia Andrews, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Cecil Beaton, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Leslie Caron, Vincente Minnelli, Arthur Freed ...and on an on. They are seen intimately in moments of triumph, disaster, doubt and panic, pettishness and hilarity. Sometimes they were amateurs at private living, but they were always professionals at the creation of theater. And the creation of theater is the matrix of this wonderful book. Here is how a show is conceived, financed, written (and rewritten and rewritten), produced, staged, saved, and finally given to the public.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1980
• ISBN 10: 034025453X
• ISBN 13: 9780340254530
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352