I interview theater journalist Eddie Shapiro about his new book, “Here’s to the Ladies: Conversations with More of the Great Women of Musical Theater.” In the book, a follow-up to his work, “Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater,” he sits down for intimate, career-encompassing conversations with yet more of Broadway’s most prolific and fascinating leading women.
They include such luminaries as Barbara Cook, Kelli O’Hara, Heather Headley, Faith Prince, Stephanie J. Block, and Tonya Pinkins. This episode will be available on Friday, but you can check out the show page now for more background information.
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
Here’s to the Ladies: Conversations with More of the Great Women of Musical Theater
A fascinating look at the careers of some of Broadway’s greatest female performers in their own words
In Here’s to the Ladies, the follow-up to Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater, theatre journalist Eddie Shapiro sits down for intimate, career-encompassing conversations with yet more of Broadway’s most prolific and fascinating leading women.
Full of detailed stories and reflections, his conversations with such luminaries as Barbara Cook, Kelli O’Hara, Heather Headley, Faith Prince, Stephanie J. Block, Tonya Pinkins, and a host of others dig deep into each actor’s career -together, these chapters tell the story of what it means to be a leading lady on Broadway over the past fifty years.
Alan Cumming described Nothing Like a Dame as “an encyclopedia of modern musical theatre via a series of tender meetings between a diehard fan and his idols. Because of Eddie Shapiro’s utter guilelessness, these women open up and reveal more than they ever have before, and we get to be the third guest at each encounter.” This new volume brings more fly-on-the-wall opportunities for fans to savour, students to study, and even the unindoctrinated to understand the life of the performing artist. [amazon.com]
Here’s to the Ladies: Conversations with More of the Great Women of Musical Theater
A Wonderful Guy: Conversations with the Great Men of Musical Theater
Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater
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