Good Morning, Olive: Haunted Theatres of Broadway and Beyond

by Robert Viagas

Overview

GOOD MORNING, OLIVE: HAUNTED THEATRES OF BOADWAY AND BEYOND

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493064540
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Robert Viagas, editor-in-chief of Encore Monthly (Encoremonthly.com), the national theatre magazine, is an author, journalist, lecturer, podcaster, and professor with more than thirty-five years' experience, much of it working on Broadway with Playbill Inc., the iconic theatre program company. Founding editor of Playbill.com, Viagas created the Playbill Broadway Yearbook series. Among his nineteen books on the performing arts: On the Line: The Creation of A Chorus Line and The Amazing Story of The Fantasticks. Viagas served on the nominating committee for Broadway's Tony Awards. He has told his theatre ghost stories at libraries, universities, and on SiriusXM radio.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 The New Amsterdam Theatre 1

2 The Palace Theatre 29

3 The Belasco Theatre 41

4 The Al Hirschfeld Theatre and the St. James Theatre 51

5 Other Broadway Ghosts 61

6 Celebrity Ghost Stories 85

7 Off-Broadway Ghosts 95

8 Haunted U.S. Theatres of the East 103

9 Haunted U.S. Theatres of the West 143

10 The Ghosts of London's Theatres 161

11 Other International Ghosts 175

12 Ghosts of the Past 189

13 Literary Ghost Stories 203

Citations by Chapter 229

Bibliography 241

Index 247

Editorial Reviews

NetGalley Review: 4 stars

Last updated 03 Jul 2022

"Robert Viagas, who has been around theatres most of his adult life, knows and loves the lore of Haunted Broadway (and beyond) and it shows in this wonderful book filled with lore, first hand accounts, and the histories that "created" these hauntings. The truly sad, the really creepy, and the mildly amusing. Read this and you will never walk into a theatre without looking for where they store "Ghost Light" ever again"—James O'Connell, Brown University Bookstore

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