At This Theatre: 110 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories, and Stars - Rilegato

Viagas, Robert; Botto, Louis

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ISBN 10: 1557837643 ISBN 13: 9781557837646

Casa editrice: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2010

Riassunto

(Applause Books). Theatregoers' favorite history of Broadway is back in an updated and expanded 2010 edition including more than 500 color production photos, vintage archival photos, and Playbill covers from all forty currently operating Broadway theatres. Thirty-eight of the original chapters have been expanded to cover all the shows that have opened in the ten years since the popular 2000 edition, with two new chapters added to include Broadway theatres recently refurbished and returned to life. This unique chronicle is the first work to present a detailed theatre-by-theatre roundup of players and productions that have enchanted audiences at Broadway's great playhouses from 1900 to 2010. The work is an expanded treatment of "At This Theatre," the popular feature in Playbill's Broadway theatre programs. "At This Theatre" offers playgoers instant nostalgia by listing notable hits (and some famed fiascos) that have played through the years in the theatre that they are attending. The book also pays tribute to the distinguished impresarios who built and managed these houses, and the brilliant architects and interior designers who created them. The original 1984 edition was created by Playbill senior editor Louis Botto. Botto worked with editor Robert Viagas on the 2000 update. With the third edition, Botto has passed the author torch to Viagas, who founded Playbill.com and the acclaimed Playbill Broadway Yearbook series, and who has written the updates in Botto's style.

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L'autore:

Robert Viagas is a New York theatre journalist and author. He founded and managed news services for Playbill.com, Theatre.com, and Broadway Television Network, and currently serves as production editor of PLAYBILL.

Viagas was chosen by the original casts of two record-breaking hit musicals to tell their stories in books: The Amazing Story of "The Fantasticks" (with co-author Donald C. Farber) and On the Line: The Creation of "A Chorus Line" (both from Limelight Editions). He is the author or editor of a dozen theatre books, including The Playbill Broadway Yearbook series and The Alchemy of Theatre, both from Playbill Books, and I'm the Greatest Star: Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today (Applause), which was adapted as a stage revue that debuted at Hofstra University in July 2009. Viagas also served two years as a drama and dance columnist for Amazon.com.

As program director for PLAYBILL BROADCAST, he was chosen to create the first all-theatre Web radio station, PlaybillRadio.com. Viagas hosted the RADIO PLAYBILL magazine show on Sirius Satellite Radio from 2002 to 2006, hosted the weekly interview show Center Stage on PLAYBILL RADIO, and hosted the official live Webcast of the Tony Awards in 2000 and 2002-2006. He currently serves as editor of the special Tony Awards PLAYBILL.
Louis Botto is a senior contributor to PLAYBILL. He is a former senior editor of Look magazine, where he specialized in theatrical features and had a bylined column. As a graduate student in the Speech and Drama Department of Catholic University, he had a musical and a play---which won a Johns Hopkins Award---produced on campus. He has been a guest drama critic on NBC-TV's Eleven O'Clock News and has written articles for The New York Times Magazine, The Daily News Magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, Intellectual Digest, and many other publications. His vast collection of theatrical memorabilia has been exhibited at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and some of his vintage PLAYBILL programs are on display in the lobby of the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. The Broadway Theatre Institute honored Mr. Botto with its 1997 Award for Excellence in Theatre History Preservation.

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• Editore: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1557837643
• ISBN 13: 9781557837646
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 436