From the first run of Guys and Dolls in 1950 to the recent hit Rent , Broadway producer Stuart Ostrow takes us on a behind-the-scenes historical tour of the Broadway musical. Here is an exciting commentary on the best of the last five decades of Broadway, highlighting those shows that have shaped musical theatre. From his start as an apprentice to Frank Loesser, Ostrow’s journey to Tony Award-winning producer of 1776 , Pippin and M. Butterfly spans a pivotal era in musical theatre. His anecdotes of Lerner and Loewe, Bob Fosse, Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Jerry Block and countless others illuminate the personal, tragic, comic or merely human characters and ambition of those he met along they way. Ostrow’s perspective on Broadway is an evaluation of those tangible and intangible essentials that make a musical fly, or remain earthbound.