• May : 22 : 2013 - The New York Broadway theater district stretches from West 40th Street to West 54th Street, between 6th Avenue and 9th Avenue.
  • May : 16 : 2013 - The only play to win Best Revival Tony in 3 different productions is Death of a Salesman: ’84, ’99, & ’12, also winning Best Play in ’49.
  • Sep : 12 : 2012 - Standby actors are not always required to be in the show when they aren’t performing their standby track
  • Sep : 9 : 2012 - To be considered Off-Broadway a theatre must hold anywhere from 101-499 seats
  • Sep : 6 : 2012 - Stephen Sondheim was one of the first composers to use the reading and workshopping process for his shows

STAGED Book Giveaway!

by BwaySpotted

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Surprise! We’re giving away a copy of Staged the sequel to Showbiz which we read last summer during the Broadway book club. Ruby Preston was kind enough to give us THREE copies for you guys. Why? Becaaaause, we’ve decided to have a surprise spring break edition of the Broadway book club! Yaaay! I hope you all are as excited as I am.

Staged Cover

 

We’ll be doing the book club after the winners get their copies, so if you don’t win one of the three copies we’re giving away, click the link above and grab your own and start reading!

How can you win?

Simple!

1. If you read Showbiz (Ruby Preston’s first book in the series) tell us what you’re most excited to find out about in Staged by commenting below. (Be sure to include your twitter handle if you have one)

2. If Showbiz and Staged were being made into a stage production or a movie, who do you think would play Scarlett and why? Tell us in a comment, or in a tweet using this format (you can use any form in a comment, this is for tweets):

I think ______ should play Scarlett in the show or movie, because __________. @broadwayspotted

3. Introduce a friend to the #BwayBookClub by tweeting about our Spring break edition!

Categories: Contest, Features

9 Responses so far.

  1. Sarah Packard says:

    Sadly I haven’t read Showbiz yet (the library doesn’t carry it yet, boo, and I’m kinda poor) :( , but I’m dying to read both it and Staged!! Both look totally up my theatre-lovin’ alley.

    Twitter: @ladystardust25

    • BwaySpotted says:

      Maybe we can talk Ruby into adding a give away of Showbiz to this? But I think there is a very reasonably priced e-book, too!

  2. PTBartman says:

    I haven’t read Showbizt, eithing (just went to the top of the list) but one thing I ‘d love to find out is why there aren’t more novels that take place on broadway, it’s such a fascinating part of the city with it’s own unique culture.

  3. Cher says:

    Anne Hathaway because she’s fabulous!

  4. Dava says:

    Finished SHOW BIZ at 3am this morning. Couldn’t put it down. With STAGED, I want to know if/how Scarlet & Reilly get back together. And I’d like to have a deeper look into the producer world now that Scarlett is hiring and firing.
    ~ @DavaRenee :)

  5. Meghan McFarland says:

    I’m excited for Staged to see if Swan Song makes it to Broadway and to see if Scarlet and Reilly get back together. :)

    (twitter is @megaraamx)

  6. Nat says:

    Want to know how the relationships turn out & how they influence the show… (and I also agree that it’s amazing there aren’t more novels set on Broadway!)

  7. kathygu says:

    Loved Showbiz last summer even though I couldn’t read it on the bookclub time table…can’t wait to get into this book to see the progession of the show and characters :) I think that Katherine McPhee could play Scarlet because she could play a character that changes into a woman who fights for what she believes in :) @KathyGuide

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