How they got there and how they fared -- what inspired them what drove them what challenged them -- is the story Making It Big tells. Long-time theatre writer and Los Angeles Times correspondent Barbara Isenberg received rare access to every aspect of the creative process and the financial planning that went into this major artistic and commercial enterprise. Hardback
This book is my journalistic behind-the-scenes diary of the high hopes and deep disappointments of creating a musical for the Broadway stage today.I follow the $10.3 million musical "Big" from the earliest meetings of its creative team through its Broadway closing in Oct.1996. The book which is in its second printing is particularly timely now as a rewritten recast version of the show will begin a year-long national tour in Sept that will take it to about 30 cities around the country.  Barbara Isenberg
