Robbins, Jerome Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins.(Brief article)(Book review)

From: Biography | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Robbins, Jerome Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins. Amanda Vaill. New York: Broadway Books, 2006. 675 pp. $40.00.

"Vaill has done a heroic amount of research, and every bit of it shows. She is more the Broadway Baby than Jowitt, even if she sometimes seems to defer to experts like Ethan Mordden, the Broadway historian. But her pages pop with pithy backstage gossip and should appeal to Broadway Baby readers, ...

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