Ethan Mordden's WHEN BROADWAY WENT TO HOLLYWOOD to Hit the Shelves Next Month

The celebrated Ethan Mordden is back with a new musical theatre title: WHEN BROADWAY WENT TO HOLLYWOOD, out from Oxford University Press on December 1.

This exciting new release has already been highly praised by Library Journal and Kirkus Review, and the 92nd Street Y has invited Ethan to discuss it on January 23rd.

In the late 1920s, many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way were enticed westward by Hollywood studios' promises of national exposure and top dollar success. But what happened when writers native to the business of Broadway ran into the very different business of Hollywood?

In WHEN BROADWAY WENT TO HOLLYWOOD, Ethan Mordden charts the volatile and galvanizing influence of Broadway on Hollywood (and vice versa) throughout the twentieth century. Along the way, he takes readers behind the scenes of the great Hollywood musicals you've seen and loved as well as some of the outrageous flops you probably haven't.