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Not Since Carrie

Name: Not Since Carrie
ISBN: 9780312082734

Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops

Ken Mandelbaum

St. Martin's Press · Print & ebook · August 15, 1992

Reading lane: Theater History & Criticism

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At a Glance

Why This Clicks

Broadway’s Near Misses

A witty, readable tour through four decades of musical failures and the reasons behind them.

Come here for

Nearly 200 Broadway musicals, surveyed from 1950 to 1990
The curious case of a notorious musical flop

Expect

Theater history with an eye for what went wrong
A lively look at failure, not just opening-night triumphs

Book Details

Authors: Ken Mandelbaum
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: August 15, 1992
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Theater History & Criticism · Theater Production & Direction
Reading lane: Theater History & Criticism

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Dance History
Theater History & Criticism
Broadway & Musical Revue

About This Book

Not Since Carrie is Ken Mandelbaum's brilliant survey of Broadway's biggest flops. This highly readable and entertaining book highlights almost 200 musicals created between 1950 and 1990, framed around the notorious musical adaptation of Carrie , and examines the reasons for their failure. "Essential and hilarious," raves The New Yorker , and The New York Times calls the book "A must-read."