{"product_id":"9781682451915","title":"Facing the Music","description":"Author: Loud, David\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781682451915\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Regan Arts.\u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 288\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 9 inches x 6 inches x 1.2 inches\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cb\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\n     — David Hyde Pierce, actor, \u003ci\u003eFrasier, Spamalot, Curtains\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cb\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\n -- Lynn Ahrens, lyricist, \u003ci\u003eRagtime, Once on This Island, Anastasia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cb\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\n -- John Kander, composer, \u003ci\u003eCabaret, Chicago, New York, New York \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Unforgettably 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\n \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42548055146654,"sku":"HPC-9781682451915","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/products\/9781682451915.jpg?v=1681654189","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781682451915","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}