The British on Broadway: Backstage & Beyond [Hardcover]

Elizabeth Sharland (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 5, 2006

A guide to historical theatre - a must for theatre lovers.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 110 pages
• Publisher: Elizabeth Sharland Jones (July 5, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0953193012
• ISBN-13: 978-0953193011
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,922,235 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Elizabeth Sharland has written six non-fiction books on the theatre and theatre history. Also two theatre novels,"The Best Actress" which is about an Oscar winning actress whose personal life collapses on the night she winds the Oscar, and the sequel to it "Blue Harbour Revisited"...A Gift from Noel Coward. A group of British actors go to Coward's house in Jamaica for a vacation and dramatic events happen there.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific book about the British Invasion of Broadway, September 4, 1999

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This review is from: The British on Broadway: Backstage & Beyond (Hardcover)

Once again Elizabeth Sharland has managed to combine theatrical and social history in, so far as I know, the first-ever inclusive account of the Brits on Broadway, what the invasion did both to the invaders and the invaded. At a time when, after a couple of decades in apparent slumber, the New York theatre has again awoken to its own native musical and dramatic talent, it is good to be reminded of the years when it was, amazingly, the British who were essentially keeping the fabulous invalid on a life-support machine.

This is the story of how, for a brief shining moment, Leicester Square got to Times Square.