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September 29, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler


September 29, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler



September 16, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.



September 11, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.



How is a suitable replacement chosen to take over on Broadway? What goes into an actor making a role their own in the shadow of another's highly lauded performance? What happens when someone hops on the moving train that is a multi-million dollar production and replaces a flailing actor during an out of town tryout? Filtered through the lens of 50 years of theatregoing, Ron Fassler, author of Up in the Cheap Seats: A Historical Memoir of Broadway is back with The Show Goes On: Broadway Hirings, Firings and Replacements featuring stories of absurdity, backstabbing, catastrophe, decency, endurance—and that's just A-E.



August 25, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.



August 13, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.



July 4, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.



June 29, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler



June 24, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.



June 12, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler



June 9, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.



May 16, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler



How is a suitable replacement chosen to take over on Broadway? What goes into an actor making a role their own in the shadow of another's highly lauded performance? What happens when someone hops on the moving train that is a multi-million dollar production and replaces a flailing actor during an out of town tryout? Filtered through the lens of 50 years of theatregoing, Ron Fassler, author of Up in the Cheap Seats: A Historical Memoir of Broadway is back with The Show Goes On: Broadway Hirings, Firings and Replacements featuring stories of absurdity, backstabbing, catastrophe, decency, endurance—and that's just A-E.



In this touching and often hilarious theatrical memoir, Ron Fassler tells the stories of how over a four-year span, between the ages of 12-16, he saw 200 Broadway plays and musicals for as little as $1.



May 1, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler



April 25, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler



April 22, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler



April 14, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler



April 13, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler



April 5, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
