Lights on Broadway: A Treasury of Theater from A to Z

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Introduction ONE of the most exciting moments I have experienced in my career was the first time I set foot on a Broadway stage my own Broadway stage It was the Music Box Theatre on 45th Street and the company cast crew musicians creative team producers had gathered on the sidewalk to enter the building after months of rehearsals and out of town tryouts I remember walking into the cool of the theater and looking at the old brick back wall now freshly illuminated by the reflected sunlight of the street A sleeping giant stirred Suddenly a journey of many years was ending with a few short steps and there I was looking out into the house that would be my new home It was an empty space waiting to be filled There were no lights on the trusses no scenery in the wings and no players in the pit only a thousand vacant seats facing the blank stage we now stood upon Those seats would be filled in a few short weeks with eager audience members waiting to be entertained to be moved to be transported to a world that was both different and the same as their own Our job was as simple as it was complicated to breathe life into this space to animate it with our talents energies minds and hearts v