Stop the Show! is the first book to assemble humorous, frightening
and bizarre anecdotes about the history of all that went wrong
during live theatrical productions in the U.S. and the United
Kingdom. It is the publishing equivalent of TV bloopers for the
legitimate stage. This book includes stories from top directors,
actors, playwrights and technicians from New York, Los Angeles, and
points in between, to the United Kingdom, from the 19th century to
today. There are stories about missed entrances and exits, onstage
unscripted fights between performers, improvised lines, accidental
pratfalls, falling scenery, and costume, lighting and makeup
screwups. The backstage provides sordid tales of practical jokes,
treachery, misplaced props, wild arguments, and generally the kinds
of things Michael Frayn created for his farce about a theatrical
disaster, Noises Off. This book doesn't leave out the theatergoers
either, who snore, fight with each other, talk back to the
performers, search for their seats, become suddenly ill, eat,
drink, make merry, and are yelled at by the performers -- all of
which sometimes prompts the show to stop, even though we've always
been told it must go on.
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