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... a wide ranging and provocative study... whatever your taste in musicals, you will be stimulated by what he has to say. - London Daily Telegraph, March 4, 2000 A columnist and critic offers an irreverent history of the Broadway musical, a diverse and lively art form that, judging from the flood of revivals these days, may be in its death throes. Last year in the Book Review, Robert Gottlieb called this an 'eccentric, funny, shrewd, and somewhat dismaying book.'. - New York Times Book Review, May 21, 2000 A witty, anecdote-stuffed history of the past seventy years in musicals. - The New Yorker Steyn deserves a standing ovation. . . . His prose is as sharp as his stiletto. - Washington Post Wise but wicked in his analysis . . . Steyn leaves no turn unstoned. . . . At last, a book of theater criticism with real teeth; it may rankle, but it never bores. - OUT

"...""a wide ranging and provocative study... whatever your taste in musicals, you will be stimulated by what he has to say.""-""London Daily Telegraph, March 4, 2000 ""A columnist and critic offers an irreverent history of the Broadway musical, a diverse and lively art form that, judging from the flood of revivals these days, may be in its death throes. Last year in the Book Review, Robert Gottlieb called this an 'eccentric, funny, shrewd, and somewhat dismaying book.'.""-""New York Times Book Review, May 21, 2000 ""A witty, anecdote-stuffed history of the past seventy years in musicals.""-""The New Yorker ""Steyn deserves a standing ovation. . . . His prose is as sharp as his stiletto.""-""Washington Post ""Wise but wicked in his analysis . . . Steyn leaves no turn unstoned. . . . At last, a book of theater criticism with real teeth; it may rankle, but it never bores.""-""OUT"

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