This 353 page large-format hardcover book was published in 1979.

This volume explores the musical theater in all its dimensions with nearly 400 pictures, 112 of them in full color, including original production shots of all the great musicals from SHOW BOAT to CHORUS LINE and SWEENEY TODD.

The text gives a lively account of the musical theater.  You will see and learn how a show is put together from the first draft of the "book" through the early rehearsals and the designing of sets and costumes, to how a large cast, multi-set show looks from backstage as it is being performed. The photographs, drawn from the finest theater archives, include many never before published and some taken especially for this book.

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