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

By J.T.

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1165085569
• ISBN13: 9781165085569
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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,...