By Helene Hanff
"Each yr, thousands of stagestruck little ones arrive in ny decided to crash the theatre, firmly confident they're destined to be well-known Broadway stars or playwrights. One in one thousand seems to be Noel Coward. This ebook is ready lifestyles one of the different 999. by means of one among them."
during this tongue-in-cheek autobiography, Helene Hanff, writer of "84, Charing pass Road" describes her lifestyles as an unsuccessful Broadway playwright through the '30s and '40s, and as a winning tv author through the '50s. (Hanff wrote for the superior early television indicates, together with "Playhouse 90" and "Hallmark corridor of Fame.") Her witty prose inspires the period whilst Broadway used to be the unchallenged cynosure of yank theater, and hundreds of thousands of adolescents got here to manhattan each year, hoping to get their titanic break.
in a single of the main attention-grabbing chapters, Hanff follows the growth of "Oklahoma!" in the course of its discouraging out-of-town tryouts below the identify "Away We Go." (After seeing a preview in Boston, an agent of Walter Winchell's anticipated the express might flop in an notorious telegram, "No Legs No Jokes No Chance.")
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