Recording Broadway

"e;Grammy Award-winning producer Shepard throws open the door to the recording booth in his exuberant and fine-grained debut memoir.... Broadway aficionados will find plenty to enjoy."e; - Publishers WeeklyRECORDING BROADWAY: A LIFE IN CAST ALBUMS of the making of fifty-plus years' worth of show albums, featuring up-close-and-personal stories of his work with pretty much everyone who was anyone on Broadway, including Julie Andrews, Leonard Bernstein ("e;truly awesome but very complicated"e;), Sheldon Harnick ("e;as warm and decent as he was talented"e;), Barbara Cook ("e;one of my favorites"e;), Placido Domingo, Gregory Hines, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Danny Kaye, Angela Lansbury ("e;so gifted and so easy to be with and to work with"e;), Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim ("e;a genius, and very easily bruised"e;), Barbra Streisand ("e;as professional at 24 as any veteran I've ever worked with"e;), Andrew Lloyd Webber, and many more.Alongside this unforgettable saga is the tale of Shepard's childhood as a small-in-stature piano prodigy from East Orange, New Jersey, and his emergence into the world as a recording producer of, first, classical music and then Broadway cast recordings. Told with verve in Shepard's inimitable voice- a striking combination of Broadway glitz and classical-music elegance-his journey makes for a uniquely compelling story, whether or not you're among the millions of musical lovers around the world for whom his recordings are a vital link to Broadway at its best.