Broadway's Greatest Musicals

by Abe Laufe

Book Overview

1977 Funk & Wagnalls HB, revised edition, 10th printing. From Oklahoma to How to Succeed in Business with Really Trying, author Abe Lauffe gives the reader the down and dirty on the greatest musical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0308103173
• ISBN13: 9780308103177
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls
• Length: 519 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent

A 519 page book of the American musical theatre, full of personal observation and the prevailing critical consensus. This is easy reading, sometimes spending 4 or 5 pages on a single musical, with gossip about the cast or a recent television appearance. Abe Laufe had an old-fashioned-gentleman prose style that is endearing and he clearly loved his work. The book begins with the early hits of 1884 and concludes with the arrival of 'A Chorus Line'. The last pages of this edition has an extensive list of hit musicals, replete with song-titles and original cast members.