Martin Gottfried, Author . Da Capo $30 (496p) ISBN 978-0-306-81214-9
Former New York Post
drama critic Gottfried (Sondheim) shares an illuminating and profound picture of playwright Miller. Outraged at the shameful critical disrespect heaped in recent years on the author of Death of a Salesman
and All My Sons,...
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Martin Gottfried, Author Bantam Books $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07038-5
Former Women's Wear Daily drama critic Gottfried traces the life and career of director/choreographer Fosse (1927-1987), who rose to fame with The Pajama Game , Damn Yankees , Sweet Charity and other shows and films. Fosse's life was full of...
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Martin Gottfried, Author Simon & Schuster $23.5 (352p) ISBN 978-0-671-86494-1
Brooklyn-born in 1913 as David Daniel Kaminski, this kinetic comedian with the crooked smile got his start in summer vaudeville. Beginning at age 16, he learned the hard way and learned well. He could mesmerize a nightclub audience, reduce it to...
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Martin Gottfried, Author ABRAMS $49.5 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3844-1
Every theatergoer knows of the immeasurable contribution that Steven Sondheim has made to the performing arts. The ability to unite original music, lyrics and unusual subjects give his theatrical creations intelligence and distinctiveness, whether...
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Martin Gottfried, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (327p) ISBN 978-0-684-81483-4
Actor-comedian George Burns will be 100 in January, and this touching, breezy biography is peppered with indelible glimpses of an emotionally guarded man who turned his pain into oblique, self-effacing comedy. Born Nathan Birnbaum on New York's...
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Ethan Mordden, Author, Martin Gottfried, Author ABRAMS $49.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8109-1567-1
Beginning with the 1943 premiere of Oklahoma! , the collaboration of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II--the former's music, the latter's lyrics--epitomized the Broadway musical for nearly two decades. In this handsome book, New Yorker writer...
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