Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops

Ken Mandelbaum
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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."
Genres: TheatreNonfictionHistoryMusicMusicalsCollectionsHumorReferencePlays
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