We Danced All Night: My Life Behind the Scenes with Alan Jay Lerner

By Carl Bong, Mike O'Connor, Mike O'Connor

Book Overview

This tender, personal story reveals the public and private lives of show-business genius Alan Jay Lerner and his personal assistant, Doris Shapiro--the outsider he took along with him for the ride. Photographs. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688089372
• ISBN13: 9780688089375
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Celebrity high life and musical theatre ...

Doris Shapiro's tough, hard-hitting memoir is an essential piece of theatre history, documenting the frantic, fraught development of several famous musicals, but especially Lerner & Lane's troubled ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER. Anyone who wonders why that show is so uneven, despite its superb score, will find the answer here: Lerner, the author, the show's stars, and what seems like half the celebrities of the 1960s,...