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The Show Won't Go On
- Narrator
- Michael Butler Murray
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 3 September 2019
- Run Time
- 8 hours 17 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Jeff Abraham, Burt Kearns
- Narrator
- Michael Butler Murray
- Duration
- 8 hours 17 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 September 2019
- ISBN
- 9781684573684
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- Biography: general, Theatre studies, History of Performing Arts, Television, Society and culture: general, Popular culture, Biography: arts and entertainment, Performing arts, Sociology: death and dying
Synopsis
There has never been a show business book quite like The Show Won't Go On, the first comprehensive study of a bizarre phenomenon: performers who died onstage. From the comedy magician who dropped dead on live television to the amateur thespian who expired during a play called The Art of Murder, the book is a celebration of lives both famous and obscure, as well as a dramatic and accurate recounting of events leading to the moments they died "doing what they loved." The Show Won't Go On covers almost every genre of entertainment, and is full of unearthed anecdotes, exclusive interviews, colorful characters, and ironic twists.
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