Backstage Book Club: Edition #3 – “Up In The Cheap Seats”

Up In The Cheap Seats, Ron Fassler’s 2017 memoir, explores the idiosyncratic history he experienced, and the larger than life figures who influenced him from the stage. Featuring nearly 100 interviews with theatrical luminaries such as Stephen Sondheim, James Earl Jones, and Bette Midler, it is a window into the sunset years of Broadway’s first Golden Age, and a marvelous read, fit for any long term theatre aficionado or young theatre fan.