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Ken Bloom's SHOW AND TELL Book of Broadway Anecdotes Out This October

By: Sep. 22, 2016
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Ken Bloom's hilarious and touching book of Broadway anecdotes, SHOW AND TELL, will be released on October 3 by Oxford University Press.

Did you know that Frank Sinatra was nearly considered for the original production of Fiddler on the Roof? Or that Lin-Manuel Miranda called out an audience member on Twitter for texting during a performance of Hamilton? In SHOW AND TELL, Broadway aficionado-in-chief Ken Bloom takes readers on a spirited spin through some of the most intriguing factoids in show business, offering up an unconventional history of the theatre in all its idiosyncratic glory.

Ken Bloom is the author of Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time and Broadway: An Encyclopedia. He has directed and produced shows at Town Hall, the Brooklyn Academy Of Music, and other venues. Bloom is the founder of the website InsideSongs.com.

SHOW AND TELL: The New Book of Broadway Anecdotes by Ken Bloom will be published, in paperback, by Oxford University Press on October 3, 2016. 352 pages | $19.95 | ISBN: 9780190221010.





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