Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)Ted Chapin was the luckiest 20 year old whoever lived.As a "production assistant" (unpaid gofer)for the new Broadway musical "Follies", he had the opportunity and good sense to record the making of one of the greatest musicals of that era."Everything Was Possible" covers the first rehearsals to the abysmal cast recording to what has happened to the people involved. Starting from pre production on, his narrative never gets stale.He tells of how Hal Prince, Stephen Sondheim and Michael Bennett pulled it all off.It wasn't always fun.They had to deal with a group of aging actors who found negotiating a raked stage dangerous and a lot of their vulnerabilites and insecurities.
The book will have significant impact on anyone who saw the show. I did not see it in New York but at the end of its Broadway run it was to go on a national tour starting in Los Angeles.With most of the original cast intact I sat center section at the Shubert Theatre in Los Angeles in September, 1972.
It was one of the most emotional roller coasters I have been on in the theatre.The tour ended two weeks later and "Follies" has seldom been revived.
All musical theatre afficionados will love Chapin's book.Thank you Ted for letting us see those "Beautiful Girls" one more time.

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Curtain Times - The New York Theater 1965-1987 (Applause Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)A very worthwhile read. An extensive view of the American Theatre's straight and musical-theatre works of the period.This is an extensive chronicle and very recommended. The occasional photograph by Martha Swope or drawing by Al Hirschfeld contribute a sense of occasion. Harold Prince suggests this book as a valuable resource, with facts and figures nowhere else available documenting 20 years of New York theatre.

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Curtain Times is a uniquely comprehensive, uniquely detailed and uniquely contemporaneous history of the New York theater in the seasons from 1964-65 up to 1987. This is a collection of more than two decades of annual critical surveys (originally published in the Best Plays series of yearbooks) in a single volume. Each of these surveys is a report and criticism of a whole New York theater season: its hits and misses onstage and off, its esthetic innards. Each is a comprehensive overview which takes in every play, musical, specialty and revival, foreign and domestic, produced on and off Broadway during the theater season. Hardcover.

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