At This Theatre: 100 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories and Stars - Hardcover

Botto, Louis; Viagas, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557835667 ISBN 13: 9781557835666

Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2002

Synopsis

(Playbill Broadway Yearbook). This is the ultimate backstage tour of Broadway! AT THIS THEATRE tells the complete history of Broadway in the 20th century, theatre by theatre. This gorgeous book is now updated, revised and with a larger format, covering 1900 to 2001. PLAYBILL's columnist, Louis Botto, along with Robert Viagas, opens the doors and lets readers explore the 40 active Broadway theatres in New York. From the conception and design of the buildings, to their original creators, and on to the theatres' transformation, often under duress, from legitimate houses to vaudeville and Burlesque, to movie houses and then back to their original purpose, this book captures the magical world of Broadway. It is a complete and authoritative history that only Botto, the curator of PLAYBILL's incomparable 116-year-old archives, can tell. Expanded from his popular column in PLAYBILL magazine, AT THIS THEATRE is the biography of those living, breathing buildings we call theatres. In this substantially updated version, Botto includes the histories of all the theatres rescued from the wrecker in the last ten years, including the American Airlines Theatre, Disney's New Amsterdam, and the Lyric and the Apollo, now combined into the Ford Center. AT THIS THEATRE is filled with great stories featuring a cast of characters including Ethel Merman, David Merrick, Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and Spencer Tracy. And it's also a theatrical spectacle boasting lavish illustrations of posters, programs, and photographs throughout. This is the gift book for every theatre lover on your list, including yourself!

About this title

About the Author:

Louis Botto is the Senior Editor of PLAYBILL and is a Former Senior Editor of Look magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1557835667
• ISBN 13: 9781557835666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 359