The Q Guide to Broadway: Stuff You Didn't Even Know You Wanted to Know... about the Hits, Flops, the Tonys, and Life Upon the Wicked Stage

by Seth Rudetsky and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

The Great White Way and has paved the way for some of the most legendary performers in history. But Broadway is more than a street, it's a community. In this Q Guide, a true Broadway expert takes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555839932
• ISBN13: 9781555839932
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Alyson Books
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Great Little Guide to Broadway

Seth Rudetsky is fiercely talented, an encyclopedia of Broadway facts and lore, and (most importantly) hysterically funny. He also knows everyone in the business and is the King (Queen?) of Broadway benefits and concerts. This great little guide gives you all the basics you need to feel like a Broadway insider. Just getting started as a fan? This guide will give you the basics plus some great tips for getting Broadway info and gossip, scoring cheap tickets and how to get wired to Broadway on the Internet. Already hooked on Broadway? You'll still enjoy this quick little read. It was fun seeing whether or not I agreed with Seth's choices of 'essential' cast recordings, and I still picked up a few backstage stories I hadn't heard before. Seth is a-MAH-zing (as he would say) and so is this little Q Guide. Now we just need Seth to write a comic novel that takes place in the backstage Broadway world that he knows and loves so much!

BRAVA!

I listen to Seth all the time on Sirius and love all his Broadway insider info and gossip... I love Broadway..so this is a no brainer, I love this book. You can hear Seth's voice and humor throught the book. I wish we had more behind the scenes on the shows. Look forward to the next one. p.s. Amaaaaahzing

I LOVE this book

This book was a BLAST from start to finish!!! Mr. Rudetsky, clearly a Broadway expert EXTRAORDINAIRE, has written an extremely informative book that is also very, very FUNNY! I definitely wasn't expecting that! I was most shocked at how up-to-the-moment this book is. With inside dirt on shows that have just opened, it made me feel like a bona-fide Broadway INSIDER! I especially enjoyed the list of top ten CD's. I own several of them already, and I really appreciated his in-depth descriptions of what went into the making of particular songs, the artistic process, and the performance details. How does he know about all this stuff?!?! It makes me look forward to listening to these classics again, but through Mr. Rudetsky's expert and appreciative eyes. This guide gave me a new appreciation for Broadway (and the dangers facing it). So here's to Seth, keep up the good fight and keep Broadway alive in all it's colorful GLORY!

The Q Guide To Broadway shows ins and outs of the Great White Way

Seth Rudetsky, a very taleneted Broadway conductor, sub, fundraiser imprasario, radio host, and all-around insider is obsessed with all things Broadway. Seth's writing style is easy, coversational, and informative with lots of spice. The Q-Guide tells the ordinary Broadway fan how to find cheap tickets, what the lingo is all about, some whys and wherefores about the industry, lots of great recommendations to build the "must have" Broadway Cast CD Library, and oodles of stories about the personalities. The book is not a history of Broadway, it's here and now. For fun, there are five quizzes about Broadway lore and facts to test your pre-existing knowledge and send you googling to learn more. Written with a gay sensibility, Seth's new 174-page book is a one sitting cover-to-cover must read for the Broadway fan and the insider as well.

SNARKY FUNNY SMART FUN!!!

WIth Seth Rudetsky guiding your way thru the murky underbelly of Broadway, even those completely unschooled in in the Great White Way can't help but come away with a huge appreciation and tickled funny bone. Buy this book for everybody you know who wants to know more about the ins and outs of the New York Theater scene----they will be naming chilren after you, they'll be so grateful!!!