Steven Suskin If Broadway's triumphant musical hits are exhilarating the backstage tales of Broadway failures are tantalizing soap operas in miniature. Second Act Trouble 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 long-forgotten first-person accounts of 25 Broadway musicals that stubbornly went awry. Contributions come from such respected writers as Patricia Bosworth Mel Gussow Lehman Engel William Gibson Lewis H. Lapham and John Gruen. No mere vanity productions these you can't have a big blockbuster of failure it seems without the participation of Broadway's biggest talents. Caught in the stranglehold of tryout turmoil are Richard Rodgers Jule Styne Jerry Herman Cy Coleman Charles Strouse John Kander Mel Brooks and even Edward Albee. The infamous shows featured include Mack and Mabel Breakfast at Tiffany's The Act Dude Golden Boy Hellzapoppin' Nick and Nora Seesaw Kelly and How Now Dow Jones. Paperback - 384 Pages
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