Penned by one of America's best-known daily theatre critics and
organized chronologically, this lively and readable book tells the
story of Broadway's renaissance from the darkest days of the AIDS
crisis, via the disaster that was Spiderman: Turn off the Dark
through the unparalleled financial, artistic and political success
of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. It is the story of the embrace of
risk and substance. In so doing, Chris Jones makes the point that
the theatre thrived by finally figuring out how to embrace the bold
statement and insert itself into the national conversation - only
to find out in 2016 that a hefty sector of the American public had
not been listening to what it had to say. Chris Jones was in the
theatres when and where it mattered. He takes readers from the
moment when Tony Kushner's angel crashed (quite literally) through
the ceiling of prejudice and religious intolerance to the triumph
of Hamilton, with the coda of the Broadway cast addressing a new
Republican vice-president from the stage. That complex performance
- at once indicative of the theatre's new clout and its inability
to fully change American society for the better - is the final
scene of the book.
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