My name is Dan Landon, and I was a Broadway theatre manager for 37 years. 1 worked on fifty shows. Over 9000 performances.

This is my love letter to Broadway, and all the stars and luminaries my job allowed me to meet and know…

Whoopi Goldberg. Bob Fosse. lan McKellan. Bernadette Peters.

Robert De Niro. August Wilson. Alec Baldwin. Kathleen Turner. Jessica Lange.

Maggie Smith. Judi Dench. Mikail Baryshnikov. Madeline Kahn.

Paul McCartney, Stephen Sondheim. Tom Stoppard. David Mamet.

Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Hillary Clinton.

Al Pacino. Richard Dreyfuss, Patti LuPone. Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Daniel Craig. Lin-Manuel Miranda. Denzel Washington.

In these pages you’ll meet them, too, as they wait in the wings, glow in the spotlight, and take their bows.

Author Biography

DAN LANDON began his career in New York as an actor, appearing on Broadway (for one opening night) and Off-Broadway. He then turned to theatre management, first at the American Place Theatre, then for legendary producer Alex Cohen, and then for three decades with the Shuberts. Dan is also a produced playwright and published novelist. His plays have appeared Off-Broadway and regionally. He lived for many years in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife, Lyle, and their three children. After his retirement, they moved to Bradenton, Florida, where both he and Lyle are active in the theatre scene on the Gulf Coast.

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