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Stages

A Theater Memoir

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Stages

By: Albert Poland
Narrated by: Ron Butler
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About this listen

Albert Poland, legendary Broadway and off-Broadway producer and general manager, presents Stages: A Theater Memoir.

The Shows

Little Shop of Horrors, The Grapes of Wrath, Long Day's Journey into Night, Glengarry Glen Ross, As Is, The Boy from Oz, Steel Magnolias, One Mo' Time, The Fantasticks, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Neon Woman, A Lie of the Mind, Let My People Come, Marry Me a Little, The Waverly Gallery, and many others!

The Stars

Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Hugh Jackman, Vanessa Redgrave, Uta Hagen, Truman Capote, Sam Shepard, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charles Busch, Charles Pierce, Yoko Ono, Mike Nichols, Arthur Miller, David Mamet, Tommy Tune, Liza Minnelli, Quentin Tarantino, Steve Martin, Lotte Lenya, Divine, and many more.

©2019 Albert Poland (P)2021 Tantor Entertainment & Celebrities Entertainment & Performing Arts Celebrity Theatre Memoir Comedy

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Critic reviews

"Everybody I know in the theater world is reading Albert Poland's Stages: A Theater Memoir!" (Michael Riedel, New York Post)
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As a musical Theatre graduate this is amazing I love audiobooks based on musicals and musical theatre producers and performers

Great audiobook

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Detailed, critical and politicised histories of off-Broadway are relatively rare, so this addition provides a welcome insight into how alternative theatre in New York developed and operated from the sixties to the early 21st Century. What's more, Poland's passion for the world of down-town venues enlivens even the most prosaic discussions of spreadsheets and bottom lines. Unlike many of the investors he derides in the commercial theatre today, he is genuinely invested in the creative process.

Often having to rebuild his career when risks don't pay off or his reputation suffers from a flop, his fierce determination to plough his own furrow is remarkable and his unflagging commitment to the shows he produces, manages and promotes inspiring. The sad thing is even he concedes that we shall not see his like again. The good news is we have this witty, entertaining and provocative account to treasure. Essential listening for anyone interested in the evolution of the producers, directors, playwrights, actors, critics and activists whose work has shaped American Theatre over the past 60 years.

An essential record

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