num_pages: 480
description: • Fully revised updated and expanded editionof an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award winnerthat sold more than 10,000 copies• Cultural history plus celebrity anecdotes• Up-to-the-minute look at the currentNew York cabaret sceneIntimate Nights is the definitive history of cabaret as it evolved in New York City in the years after World War II. But that doesn’t mean it's dry and academic. Good heavens, no! Settle in for racy tales of nightlife, revealed in interviews with dozens of the people who lived Bobby Short, Eartha Kitt, Mabel Mercer, Bette Midler, and many more. Author James Gavin has tracked down rare, early stories about the legends who came out of New York nightclubs—and that means Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Nichols and May, Johnny Mathis, Carol Burnett, Lenny Bruce, among others. Part cultural history, part celebrity gossip, Intimate Nights offers an intimate look at the creatures of the nightclubs.
language: English
title: Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret
titlecomplete: Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret
genres: History
ratings_count: 23
publisher: Back Stage Books