Hello, Gower! It skimps on the backstage dish, but a new Champion biography polishes the luster of a Broadway showman.(Before the Parade Passes By: Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical)(Book review)

American Theatre, February, 2006 by Kissel, Howard

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> BEFORE THE PARADE PASSES BY: GOWER CHAMPION AND THE GLORIOUS AMERICAN MUSICAL [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By John Anthony Gilvey, St. Martin's Press, New York. 384 pp, $29.95 cloth. In recent years there has been a belated appreciation by the general public of the golden years of the musical theatre, first in the concert versions of classic musicals that arc now regular events in both New York and Los Angeles, second in what has come to be called "The Great American Songbook," that treasure chest of standard songs to which the musical theatre made an ...

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Hello, Gower! It skimps on the backstage dish, but a new Champion biography polishes the luster of a Broadway showman.(Before the Parade Passes By: Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical)(Book review)

American Theatre, February, 2006 by Kissel, Howard

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