Broadway / Brooks Atkinson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Limelight Editions, 1990 ©1974Edition: Rev. ed., 2nd Limelight edDescription: ix, 564 pages : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0879100478
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 792.097471 ATK
LOC classification:
  • PN2277.N5 A78 1990
Contents:
PART I: 1900-1918 -- Era of Good Feelings -- The Happy World of Stars -- Personal Style in Producing -- The Ready-Made Play -- The Problem of Bernard Shaw -- Play Carpenters -- A Scourge of Critics -- For the Family and Its Tired Businessman -- Dissenters from Mediocrity -- The Royal Family of Actors -- Two Broadway Promenaders -- Broadway Wins World War I -- PART II: 1918-1939 -- Broadway After the War War Over -- We Won't Come Back 'Til the Managers Are Fair -- Theatre for Adults -- The Theater Guild -- The Giddy Times -- The Night Watch -- The Big Five -- Paradox of the Thirties -- All the Sounds on the Stage Are Like Music -- Welcome to the Players -- PART III: 1939-1950 -- World War II -- Withdrawal Symptoms -- No Profit Allowed -- The Leveling Off -- PART IV: 1950-1974 -- "There's a Dance in the Old Dame Yet" -- The Broadway Blues -- The Old Viv Caper -- Inventory -- The Show Goes On.
Summary: "The celebrated critic discourses on the productions, personalities, stars, and showmen of Broadway's lively history from the melodramas of the turn of the century" -- WorldCat
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Books Books Academy of Music & Performing Arts Library General Stacks Non-fiction 792.097471 ATK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A08093

Reprint. Originally published: Rev. ed. New York : Macmillan, 1974.

Includes index.

PART I: 1900-1918 -- Era of Good Feelings -- The Happy World of Stars -- Personal Style in Producing -- The Ready-Made Play -- The Problem of Bernard Shaw -- Play Carpenters -- A Scourge of Critics -- For the Family and Its Tired Businessman -- Dissenters from Mediocrity -- The Royal Family of Actors -- Two Broadway Promenaders -- Broadway Wins World War I -- PART II: 1918-1939 -- Broadway After the War War Over -- We Won't Come Back 'Til the Managers Are Fair -- Theatre for Adults -- The Theater Guild -- The Giddy Times -- The Night Watch -- The Big Five -- Paradox of the Thirties -- All the Sounds on the Stage Are Like Music -- Welcome to the Players -- PART III: 1939-1950 -- World War II -- Withdrawal Symptoms -- No Profit Allowed -- The Leveling Off -- PART IV: 1950-1974 -- "There's a Dance in the Old Dame Yet" -- The Broadway Blues -- The Old Viv Caper -- Inventory -- The Show Goes On.

"The celebrated critic discourses on the productions, personalities, stars, and showmen of Broadway's lively history from the melodramas of the turn of the century" -- WorldCat

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