Broadway, The Golden Years. (On the Move).(Brief Article)

BROADWAY, THE GOLDEN YEARS by Robert Emmet Long, Continuum, New York. 312 pp, $35 cloth.

MUSICALS--WITH THEIR COLORFUL throngs of behind-the-scenes players and their entrenchment in the accepted Golden Age of Broadway--may be the most anecdotally rich theatrical form. In this new volume, choreographer-directors take center stage as Robert Emmet Long compiles research and personal interviews with the friends, families and colleagues of the giants of the field: Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, ...