Theater Kid is a newly published theatre memoir and
Jeffery Seller is the almost perfect person to write this show business miracle
story. He was adopted, ping ponged between a hard-working mother and a mentally
unstable philandering father, and was gay. Although his early sexual awakenings
were unrecognized, salvation came in the form of a love for the theatre and a
literal worship of musicals. This culminated in a deep desire to make
theatre happen.
He goes to New York after graduating from the University of
Michigan and gets a job in a booking agency. From there, he learns show business from the bottom up, finds boyfriends in spite of the scourge of AIDS, and
ultimately captures the golden ring by producing Rent. That opens the
floodgates of success and he follows up with Tony Awards for Hamilton, In
the Heights, and Avenue Q.
Yes, all this, can be in your future too, but little time is
spent on reminding the myriads of wannabees that Broadway Roulette, like all
gambling operations, produces far more losers than winners.
4 out of five
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