Amy Osatinski Audiobooks

Disney Theatrical Productions: how the biggest Broadway musicals really get made

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.2/5 average

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Who is Amy Osatinski?

Amy Osatinski approaches the theatre the way a good historian approaches anything, which is to say from the wings. Her subject is not the applause but the machinery behind it: how a stage musical is financed, staffed, rehearsed, toured and eventually turned into an institution.

That is a rarer specialism than it sounds. Most writing about musicals is either criticism or nostalgia, and she instead documents production practice, treating a producing house as an organisation worth studying in its own right. The writing is scholarly in its rigour and unfussy in its delivery, which makes it unusually approachable for a book that began life on an academic list.

Amy Osatinski in audiobooks

Disney Theatrical Productions carries her name on our shelves, narrated by Laurel Lefkow across a little over five hours. Lefkow handles the structural material clearly and gives the case studies enough lift to stop the whole thing landing as a report.

It suits anyone who works in or around the theatre, and equally anyone who has come out of a big show wondering how on earth it was assembled. Ratings so far are modest in number but positive. Have a browse through the audiobooks below.