This in-depth and original study examines 100 productions and analyses why George Abbott''s name became synonymous with the ''golden age'' of Broadway. What did Abbott contribute? How did he work? How did he innovate the industry? How did he survive so long? All of these inquiries, and more, lead to the most fundamental question of all: what exactly <i>was</i> the famous ¿Abbott touch¿? For sixty years, George Abbott was a vital force in the American theatre. As an actor, playwright, director, librettist, play doctor, and producer, he laid his "touch" on approximately 100 New York productions, from <i>The Pajama Game</i> and <i>Damn Yankees</i> through to <i>Once Upon a Mattress</i> and <i>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum</i>. Spanning this incredible figure¿s work chronologically, each chapter of <i>The Abbott Touch</i> examines a period of creativity in his life, culminating in how he became the famous multi-hyphenate artist he is now celebrated as. Beginning with his e
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