In his previous book, Razzle Dazzle, Michael Riedel chronicled Broadway history from the 1960s through the ’90s, mainly through the lens of the Shubert Organization and the two men who took control of it in order to save the company and their industry as a whole, Gerald Schoenfeld and Bernard Jacobs. Financially, Broadway was in a good place at the end of the book, buoyed by the British mega-musicals, like Cats, Les Misérables, and The Phantom of the Opera. There were problems visible on the horizon, however, especially […]