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Name: Dance with Demons

Author: Greg Lawrence
Year: 2001
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ISBNs:
9780425183472
0425183475

His legendary shows included "Fiddler on the Roof," "The King and I," "West Side Story," "Gypsy," and "Funny Girl," His celebrity colleagues included Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Stephen Sondheim, Natalie Wood, Ethel Merman, and Montgomery Clift. His private demons included sexual and religious conflicts, scandalous betrayals during the McCarthy hearings, and an insane drive for perfection that bordered on the sadistic.
Based on hundreds of interviews with his closest friends and enemies, this groundbreaking biography of "nightmare genius" (Tony Walton) Jerome Robbins, provides the first complete portrait of the man and the artist. It's a harrowing, heartbreaking, and candid look at life backstage.
"Comprehensive and lively." ("Publishers Weekly")
"Contains plenty of dish." ("The Wall Street Journal")