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Gerald Nachman


Born
January 13, 1938

Genre
Nonfiction


Gerald Weil Nachman is a San Francisco journalist and author.

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Average rating: 3.73 · 363 ratings · 67 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors
Seriously Funny: The Rebel ...
3.68 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions
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Raised on Radio
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions
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Showstoppers!: The Surprisi...
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Right Here on Our Stage Ton...
3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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Playing house
2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions
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The Fragile Bachelor
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Out on a Whim: Some Very Cl...
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Jack Benny
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I'd Like Two Tickets To Yes...
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“Nothing fails like success.”
― Gerald Nachman
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“When I talked with Patti LuPone at a San Francisco coffeehouse, she said "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" wasn't a showstopper originally. The role had a big impact on her stage persona. She says playgoers didn't make a distinction between Perón and LuPone (whose names even sound similar.),”
― Gerald Nachman, Showstoppers!: The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs
tags: broadway, evita, showstoppers
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“The idea for the musical album began when Rice heard a radio play about Eva Perón in 1973. He tried the idea out on Lloyd Webber. Evita's appeal- a puta with a heart of steel was undeniable "A glamorous sexy super-bitch who swayed the fortunes of an entire nation", To quote Webber's biographer Gerald McKnight. Evita was a sexier, needier Margaret Thatcher. At the time there was a miner's strike in England that paralyzed the country, and Lloyd Webber said, "Things were getting pretty ugly and we found a kind of parallel in the story of Evon Perón... a cautionary tale of how a liberal democracy is a fragile flower that can be overturned by an extremist.”
― Gerald Nachman, Showstoppers!: The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs
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