Ron Fassler's UP IN THE CHEAP SEATS Unveils Teenage Broadway Adventures

Both a poignant coming of age memoir and a compulsively readable story of Broadway itself, the new book UP IN THE CHEAP SEATS by actor/writer/director Ron Fassler is his valentine to Broadway, where he pays homage to the men and women who devote their lives to making great theatre.

Fassler's delightfully obsessive journey through Broadway - backstage and in the audience - is sheer joy, and we would love to send a copy and arrange an interview with you to share his remarkable experiences with you and your audience.

In his touching and often hilarious theatrical memoir, Ron Fassler tells the real-life stories of how he saw more than 200 Broadway plays and musicals between the ages of 12-16 for as little as $2 a ticket, self-funded by the profits from his Long Island paper route. In the days when 50 shows came to Broadway every season, Fassler sat in the last row of the balcony, then headed home to write reviews which he reveals for the first time nearly 50 years later.

Ron's eyewitness account to some of the greatest shows and stars of the 1960s and '70s (with visits backstage to many of them), is furthered by conversing over the past four years with legendary actors, writers, producers, directors, and composers who were part of this remarkable time.

Threading his own personal stories with theirs, the book features memories and insights from James Earl Jones, John Lithgow, Nathan Lane, Doris Roberts, Harold Prince, Stephen Sondheim, Bette Midler, Sheldon Harnick, Austin Pendleton, Ken Howard, Hal Linden, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander and Mike Nichols among many others.

The upcoming hardcover edition of UP IN THE CHEAP SEATS, illustrated with timeless original drawings by Jeff York, is available now for preorder from Griffith Moon Publishing. This book is a passport, and more than a memoir, a window into the personalities of the greats.