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If Broadway's triumphant musical hits are exhilarating the backstage tales of Broadway failures are tantalizing soap operas in miniature. ESecond Act TroubleE 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. Suskin has compiled and annotated…


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1 author picked Second Act Trouble as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I am a huge Broadway buff, and this book takes you backstage as the entries are written by top notch reporters who had the chance to watch a project disintegrate in real time. The stories are often heartbreaking, other times enraging. A few times I gasped out loud at the shenanigans and craziness that sent a show hurtling toward its doom!

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