Title: Diary of a mad playwright /
Authors: Kirkwood, James, 1924-1989.
Publisher: Dutton,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Kirkwood, James, Diaries.; Kirkwood, James,; Dramatists, American Diaries.
Contents: Preproduction. What to do with the baby? ; Mike Nichols ; Elvis Presley rears his head ; The Presley/Legends! game ; Middle mess ; Chasing Peter Pan ; Meeting Peter Pan ; The summer of my discontent ; Closing in on Mary ; Well, we did ; Hello, Dolly! ; Hurdles ; One tiny little hiccup ; Other problems, etc ; How Carol Channing became Carol Channing ; Casting ; Countdown -- Act I. Legends!/N.Y. to L.A. ; Off and running ; Off and stumbling ; Life upstages art ; Mary Christmas ; The final push ; Dallas, here we come ; The dread Turk arrives ; Curtain up -- Act II. Opening night ; Post-opening oddities ; More oddities ; Preopening bumps, thumps, and grinds in L.A. ; The Los Angeles open ; Los Angeles opening fallout ; Work, fear, and loathing in New York ; Work, fear and loathing in L.A. ; Getting out of L.A. the hard way ; Approaching the Frisco quake ; San Francisco ; Muddles and middles ; A miracle in Phoenix ; The week that was -- Act III. Back in the red again ; It happened in Boston ; Tomorrow came ; Fallout ; Final mistake ; Careful...! ; Ping-pong ; The Palm Beach story -- Epilogue.