{"product_id":"facing-the-music-a-broadway-memoir-9781682452134","title":"Facing the Music: a Broadway Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eMusical Director and arranger David Loud, a legendary Broadway talent, recounts his wildly entertaining and deeply poignant trek through the wilderness of his childhood and the edge-of-your-seat drama of a career on, in, under, and around Broadway for decades. He reveals his struggle against the ravages of Parkinson's and triumphs repeatedly. This memoir is also a remarkable love letter to music. Loud is the 'Ted Lasso' of the theater business, ever the optimist. An inspiration to all! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'Music has consequences, ' a wise teacher once told a young David Loud; so does a story well-told and a life fully-lived. I lost count of how many times I laughed, cried, and laugh-cried reading this wonderful, wry, intimate, and inspiring book. David wields a pen like he wields a baton, with perfect timing, exquisite phrasing, and enormous heart.\"\u003cbr\u003e- David Hyde Pierce, actor, Frasier, Spamalot, Curtains \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Beautifully written, filled with vivid details, braided with love and loss and wit and the perspective of someone with an utterly unique story to tell.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Lynn Ahrens, lyricist, Ragtime, Once on This Island, Anastasia \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Luminous and surprising, an extremely honest memoir of a life lived in the world of Broadway musicals, by one of the theatre's most gifted conductors. I can't think of another book quite like it.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- John Kander, composer, Cabaret, Chicago, New York, New York  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnforgettably entertaining and emotionally revealing, Loud is pitch-perfect as he describes his path to the podium, from a stage-struck kid growing up at a school devoted to organic farming and mountain climbing, to the searing formative challenges he faces during adolescence, to the remarkable behind-the-scenes stories of his Broadway trials and triumphs. Skilled at masking his fears, Loud achieves his dream until one fateful opening night, when in the midst of a merry, dressing room celebration, he can no longer deny reality and must suddenly, truly, face the music.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Regan Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50727198195986,"sku":"9781682452134","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ddabc792-595d-4b52-bd1e-c7bd9bd00b62.jpg?v=1734895819","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/facing-the-music-a-broadway-memoir-9781682452134","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}