Broadway, once upon a time. A place where people buy tickets at the
box office, with cash; where patrons dress for theatre, with no
sneakers, no water bottles, and no backpacks; and the only text
messages are the ones put there by the playwright. A place where
iconic legends of stage and screen can be found in plain view,
smiling politely or egotistically preening. Where three dollars
will get you a balcony seat at the biggest hit-or the lowliest
flop-in town. And a place where an innocent teenager from the
suburbs can buy a ticket, slip through the stage door, and wander
o'er the threshold into the magical world backstage. Steven Suskin
introduces Broadway, once upon a time, in Offstage Observations:
Tales of the Not-So-Legitimate Theatre. The drama critic and noted
chronicler of Broadway takes the reader through a decade's worth of
adventures, working his way from a menial pencil sharpener for
producer David Merrick toward a career as a full-fledged manager,
producer, and drama critic. The book follows the author's progress
from the wintry night after his sixteenth birthday, when he
unexpectedly finds himself alone on the empty stage of a Broadway
theatre, peering out at the silent, empty auditorium lit only by a
solitary ghost light to the matinee eight summers later when he
finds himself accidentally and uncomfortably acting in a Broadway
musical, bombarded by roars of laughter from a houseful of
playgoers. A keen observer of the impertinent with an ear for
amusing anecdotes, whimsical curiosities, and exaggerated tales of
life upon the wicked stage, Suskin draws a portrait of a
not-so-long-ago theatre world that has all but vanished.
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