Never mind the happy showbiz stories from a sore winner
In Never Mind the Happy, musical dynamo Marc Shaiman looks back on five decades of Broadway triumphs, Hollywood hijinks, and unforgettable collaborations. Along the way, he charts the personal highs and heartbreaks that have shaped him -- spending his teenage years in community theater, starting a d...
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2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- 1. Winding Brook Way
- 2. The Sound of Music
- 3. Manifesting Midler
- 4. God save the city
- 5. It takes an East Village
- 6. A fur chubby and a miniskirt
- 7. Saturday Night Live
- 8. Suddenly, nothing is the same
- 9. Barbra is upset
- 10. Skylark
- 11. Legends!
- 12. Peaple come and go so quickly here!
- 13. Beaches
- 14. When Billy met Marc
- 15. Talent is talent (says Rob Reiner)
- 16. What comes first?
- 17. My Scott Rudin era
- 18. "One for My Baby"
- 19. Sleepless with Nora
- 20. I'm the schmuck
- 21. South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut
- 22. The view from the nosebleeds
- 23. I killed Stephen Sondheim
- 24. Hairspray: Good Morning, Baltimore
- 25. Hairspray: You Can't Stop the Beat
- 26. Fame dropping
- 27. Look what he made
- 28. Martin Short: Fame becomes him
- 29. The second time around
- 30. Catch Me If You Can
- 31. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- 32. Smash
- 33. Mary Poppins Returns
- 34. Some Like It Hot
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Lyric permissions
- Photo permissions.
