{"product_id":"facing-the-music-david-loud-9781682452134","title":"Facing the Music: a Broadway Memoir","description":"\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\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- David Hyde Pierce, actor, Frasier, Spamalot, Curtains \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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-- Lynn Ahrens, lyricist, Ragtime, Once on This Island, Anastasia \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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-- John Kander, composer, Cabaret, Chicago, New York, New York  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnforgettably 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Loud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1682452131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682452134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Regan Arts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d","brand":"David Loud","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44122188251391,"sku":"9781682452134","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a2bf4b72-78fb-4c10-b39c-90f3fc4e64a4.jpg?v=1687423685","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/facing-the-music-david-loud-9781682452134","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}