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Summary: The Best Book on Theatre I've Ever Read
Review: Moving, funny, inspirational. It is also the most informative book of theatre and what it takes to make it in theatre that I have ever read. It remarkably takes you not only into the creative mind and one man's passion for success. More importantly it takes you through the entire process of how luck and planning took him to a very specific goal. I can't recommend it enough for anybody who has ever dreamed of anything and wondered hot to achieve it. Should be required reading for everybody.
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Summary: A Few Heavenly Hours
Review: The best Non Fiction I've ever read. For creative people it is an amusing,informative insight into the creative collaborative process. For anyone else it is just a great read.
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Summary: One of the best theatre books I've read
Review: This book is amazing. In my opinion. Well, and in the opinions of other people I know - it was recommended to me by about six people before I bought it. And Hart writes with such an endearing and touching style - the book was a fast read and I was able to really picture everything he was writing about. It's also eminintly quotable - I'm especially fond of the passage where Hart describes a particular actor as having a "style which would be appropriate to give as a gift to a couple on their wooden wedding anniverary." I'm looking forward to reading Stephen Bach's "Dazzler" to learn more about Hart.
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Summary: Throughly delightful.Funny, beautifully written, interesting
Review: This is a too-short book covering the begining of Moss Hart's life and career and of his long lasting collaboration with the genius of George Kaufman. It involves you in the writing and producing of his first play, and in all the quirks and charms of his friends and family.
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Summary: THE BEST
Review: Whenever I teach a class for actors, I recommend Moss Hart's autobiography, ACT ONE. It is simply the finest book I know about the theatre and what it was like to work on Broadway in the 1920's thru the 1950's. It was a true tragedy that Hart died so young, robbing not only his family of husband and father, but the world of a great playwright and director and chronicler of his times.This is a funny, perceptive, first-hand account of life in the fast lane of one of the best playwrights Broadway has ever produced. An obsessive worker (it was the stress of his constant work that ultimately killed him), a perfectionist, a brilliant upstart, Hart teamed with George S. Kaufman to write some of the best and funniest plays of the first half of the 20th century...and even today. Is there really a better play about a family coping through love during the Depression than "You Can't Take It With You?" (That was a rhetorical question). And as Nathan Lane proved only two years ago, "The Man Who Came To Dinner" is very much worth reviving in a first class production even if you have already seen it in your local community or dinner theatre. The autobiography doesn't so much end as it stops and it is obvious that Hart meant to write a second and, perhaps, a third volume that would include his other writing partners, his Hollywood career, his directing, etc. Steven Bach has written a biography of Hart's entire life called DAZZLER, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MOSS HART that is a fine companion to Hart's own, unbeatable ACT ONE. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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