The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 3

by Jennifer Ashley Tepper

Have you ever wanted to spend time with Stephen Sondheim in the lobby during one of his shows?Did you know that Patti LuPone once had a Broadway ghostly encounter?Have you ever wondered what it was like to be in the landmark Broadway premiere of Angels in America?From opening nights to closing nights. From secret passageways to ghostly encounters. From Broadway debuts to landmark productions. Score a front row seat to read hundreds of stories about the most important stages in the world, seen through the eyes of the producers, actors, stagehands, writers, musicians, company managers, dressers, designers, directors, ushers, and door men and women who bring The Great White Way to life each night. You'll never look at Broadway the same way again.This is the third book in the multi-volume series that tells the stories of all of the Broadway theaters. This volume includes the Broadhurst, the Belasco, the Edison, the Lyric, the Majestic, the Schoenfeld, the St. James and the Walter eight Broadway theaters that light up New York City.

Genres: Theatre, Nonfiction

649 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 6, 2021

About the author

Jennifer Ashley Tepper is an acclaimed theatre historian, author, and producer. She has been the Creative and Programming Director at 54 Below for the past decade. She has curated or produced over 7000 shows in this position. Her leadership at the beloved venue has gained praise from publications including The Huffington Post, The New York Times, Buzzfeed, Playbill, Newsday, The New York Post, and more. Tepper's four volumes of The Untold Stories of Broadway book series have been called an "inspiring Must- Read" by NBC New York and occupied the #1 spot on Amazon.com's Best Sellers List in Broadway & Musicals. She is the producer of the musicals Be More Chill, Broadway Bounty Hunter, and Love In Hate Nation, recent projects that are part of a decade-long collaboration with the
group known as Joe Iconis & Family. On Broadway, Tepper has also worked on [title of show], The Performers, Godspell, Macbeth, and The Parisian Woman. She is the conceiver and director of The Jonathan Larson Project, historian consultant on the tick, tick... BOOM! movie (directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda for Netflix) and co-creator of the Bistro Award- winning concert series, If It Only Even Runs A Minute. Her work as a theatre historian also encompasses celebrated live talks and events, including at TEDxBroadway, BroadwayCon, The Museum of Broadway, Thespian Festivals, and more. Tepper received a 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award. She was named one of the 10 professionals on Backstage Magazine's "1st Annual Broadway Future Power List" which stated: "Proving herself both a zeitgeist predictor and theatrical historian with her eclectic programming, Tepper is leading the conversation on contemporary musical theatre.”

Reviews

[Alexis · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's an oral history of Broadway theaters. Tepper talks with performers, creatives, technicians, audience members, ushers, etc. She also provides timelines for shows, longest and shortest-running shows, date established, and former names for the theaters. It took me forever to get through (reading literally a couple of pages a night), but I loved reading about the theaters, and it made me even more appreciative of the ones I have been in. The history those buildings have housed is incredible.