num_pages: 352
description: The ebullient troubled life of a Broadway legend who became a heroine to a younger generationStill Here is the first full telling of Elaine Stritchs life. Rollicking but intimate it tracks one of Broadways great personalities from her upbringing in Detroit during the Great Depression to her fateful move to New York City where she studied alongside Marlon Brando Bea Arthur and Harry Belafonte. We accompany Elaine through her jagged rise to fame to Hollywood and London and across her later years when she enjoyed a stunning renaissance punctuated by a turn on the popular television show 30 Rock. We explore the influentialand often fraughtcollaborations she developed with Nol Coward Tennessee Williams and above all Stephen Sondheim as well as her courageous yet flawed attempts to control a serious drinking problem. And we see the entertainer triumphing over personal turmoil with the development of her Tony Awardwinning one-woman show Elaine Stritch at Liberty which established her as an emblem of spiky independence and Manhattan life for an entirely new generation of admirers.In Still Here Alexandra Jacobs conveys the full force of Stritchs sardonic wit and brassy charm while acknowledging her many dark complexities. Following years of meticulous research and interviews this is a portrait of a powerful vulnerable honest and humorous figure who continues to reverberate in the public consciousness.
language: English
title: Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux