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...[Schreiber], a theatre professional and columnist for the LA [weekly] Entertainment Today, has a fun idea that doesn't quite hit its mark. A collection of theater anecdotes meant to be both bizarre and funny, the execution suffers from an overload of voices and inside jokes. At over 250 pages, the short tales-most less than a page each-tend to blend together. And while the better anecdotes feature stars such as Katherine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier, [Schreiber] has relied on far too many stories from and about virtual unknowns [...] whose gossipy stories may play well at parties but fall flat on the page. [Schreiber]'s biggest misstep, however, is his own faltering humor; too often, he uses glib irony to pad out or wrap up tales: after an actor forgets all her lines, another goes to the hospital at intermission, and another falls down a flight of steps on-stage, [Schreiber] quips, "But other than that, opening night was an utter success." Though it frustrates, theater lovers will get a few chuckles from this book, and perhaps some stories to pass along over cocktails.
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...[Schreiber], a theatre professional and columnist for the LA [weekly] Entertainment Today, has a fun idea that doesn't quite hit its mark. A collection of theater anecdotes meant to be both bizarre and funny, the execution suffers from an overload of voices and inside jokes. At over 250 pages, the short tales-most less than a page each-tend to blend together. And while the better anecdotes feature stars such as Katherine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier, [Schreiber] has relied on far too many stories from and about virtual unknowns [...] whose gossipy stories may play well at parties but fall flat on the page. [Schreiber]'s biggest misstep, however, is his own faltering humor; too often, he uses glib irony to pad out or wrap up tales: after an actor forgets all her lines, another goes to the hospital at intermission, and another falls down a flight of steps on-stage, [Schreiber] quips, "But other than that, opening night was an utter success." Though it frustrates, theater lovers will get a few chuckles from this book, and perhaps some stories to pass along over cocktails.
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Stop the Show! is the first book to assemble humorous, frightening and bizarre anecdotes about the history of all that went wrong during live theatrical productions in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. It is the publishing equivalent of TV bloopers for the legitimate stage. This book includes stories from top directors, actors, playwrights and technicians from New York, Los Angeles, and points in between, to the United Kingdom, from the 19th century to today. There are stories about missed entrances and exits, onstage unscripted fights between performers, improvised lines, accidental pratfalls, falling scenery, and costume, lighting and makeup screwups. The backstage provides sordid tales of practical jokes, treachery, misplaced props, wild arguments, and generally the kinds of things Michael Frayn created for his farce about a theatrical disaster, Noises Off. This book doesn't leave out the theatergoers either, who snore, fight with each other, talk back to the performers, search for their seats, become suddenly ill, eat, drink, make merry, and are yelled at by the performers — all of which sometimes prompts the show to stop, even though we've always been told it must go on.
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