Theater kid : a Broadway memoir
(2025)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
NEW MEMOIR/SELLER,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
New & Popular Biography & Memoir NEW MEMOIR/SELLER,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025
©2025
EDITION
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION

viii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781668064184, 1668064189 :, 1668064189, 9781668064184
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Before he was producing the musical hits of our generation, Jeffrey was just a kid coming to terms with his adoption, trying to understand his sexuality, and determined to escape his dysfunctional household in a poor neighborhood just outside Detroit. We see him find his voice through musical theater and move to New York, where he is determined to shed his past and make a name for himself on Broadway. But moving to the big city is never easy--especially not at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis--and Jeffrey learns to survive and thrive in the colorful and cutthroat world of commercial theatre. From his early days as an office assistant, to meeting Jonathan Larson and experiencing the triumph and tragedy of Rent, to working with Lin-Manuel Miranda on In the Heights and Hamilton, Jeffrey completely pulls back the curtain on the joyous and gut-wrenching process of makingnew musicals, finding new audiences, and winning a Tony Award--all the while finding himself"--