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My name is Dan Landon, and I was a Broadway theatre manager for 37 years. 1 worked on fifty shows. Over 9000 performances.

This is my love letter to Broadway, and all the stars and luminaries my job allowed me to meet and know...

Whoopi Goldberg. Bob Fosse. lan McKellan. Bernadette Peters.

Robert De Niro. August Wilson. Alec Baldwin. Kathleen Turner. Jessica Lange.

Maggie Smith. Judi Dench. Mikail Baryshnikov. Madeline Kahn.

Paul McCartney, Stephen Sondheim. Tom Stoppard. David Mamet.

Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Hillary Clinton.

Al Pacino. Richard Dreyfuss, Patti LuPone. Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Daniel Craig. Lin-Manuel Miranda. Denzel Washington.

In these pages you'll meet them, too, as they wait in the wings, glow in the spotlight, and take their bows.