Mr. Broadway

"Mr. Broadway" was completed just one month before Gerald Schoenfeld's death in 2008 at the age of 84.  Bringing the reader backstage, the long-term chairman of the Shubert Organization shares his triumphs and failures, sings praise, and settles scores.  He recounts nightmarish tales of the Shuberts themselves - the meanness of Lee, the madness of JJ, the turmoil surrounding John's personal life, and the drunken ineptitude of Lawrence Shubert Lawrence, Jr., the man who succeeded them and nearly brought the Shubert legacy to an ignominious end.  Hardcover book, 304 p.