If Broadway\'s triumphant Musical hits are exhilarating, the backstage tales of Broadway failures are tantalizing soap operas in miniature.
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Suskin has compiled and annotated long-forgotten, first-person accounts of 25 Broadway musicals that stubbornly went awry.
Second Act Trouble puts you with the creators in the rehearsal halls, at out-of-town tryouts, in late-night, hotel-room production meetings, and at after-the-fact recriminatory gripe fests.
If Broadway\'s triumphant Musical hits are exhilarating, the backstage tales of Broadway failures are tantalizing soap operas in miniature