Showstoppers!: The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs

"need to read the book in order (often a great advantage) and can skip to show you are more" according to donald bourgeois. You don't need to read the book in order (often a great advantage) and can skip to show you are more familiar with. I haven't read much but I did enjoy very much those selections I read.. Toga gal said Four Stars. So interesting and a great book for vacation. If one story bores you flip to another.. Tabatha said Enjoyable. My mother who is a broadway fan enjoyed reading this book.

"The fertile fields of musical theatre have been tilled so well and so often you might think all the gold nuggets have been plucked, published and repeated till they’re lore. Gerald Nachman is a determined, tenacious prospector in addition to being an engagingly witty showbiz historian. In his latest and liveliest tone, SHOWSTOPPERS!, he comes up with some new wrinkles in the old gypsy robe." —Playbill magazine  . Well, think again

Showstoppers! is all about Broadway musicals’ most memorable numbers—why they were so effective, how they were created, and why they still resonate.  . Gerald Nachman has interviewed dozens of iconic musical theater figures to get their inside stories for this book, including Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Marvin Hamlisch, Joel Grey, Edie Adams, John Kander, Jerry Herman, Sheldon Harnick, Tommy Tune, Harold Prince, Donna McKechnie, and Andrea McArdle, uncovering priceless previously untold anecdotes and details