More Laughter In The Wings - Paperback

by Arnold N. Breman (Author)

After more than fifty years in the performing arts field, after directing four American performing arts centers in New York and Florida, serving as Executive Director of the Joffrey Ballet and teaching Arts Administration at Columbia College Chicago, impresario Arnold N. Breman has experienced it all. In his second book, MORE LAUGHTER IN THE WINGS, he has selected fifty more stories from his vast treasure chest of theatrical memories. He recounts additional experiences with some of the most beloved performers of the twentieth century including: Duke Ellington, Virgil Fox, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, The Joffrey Ballet, Dick Gregory, William "Count" Basie, Buddy Rich, Dionne Warwick, Dizzy Gillespie, The Monkees, Jean Pierre Rampal, Willie Nelson, Smokey Robinson, Miles Davis, Rudolph Nureyev, Debbie Reynolds, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Gordon MacRae, Arthur Fiedler, Pilobolus, Leonard Nimoy, Eddie Fisher, Smokin Joe Fraiser, Harry James, Jose Greco, Chet Atkins, Hal Holbrook, Gladys Knight, The Everly Brothers, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Gregory Hines, Colleen Dewhurst, Harry Belafonte, Roy Clark, Minnie Pearl, Peter Allen, Tammy Grimes, The Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, and many others. He continues to tell stories of crowd pleasers who left audiences dazzled and managers frantic, told with wit and candor of a presenter who continued to laugh all the way through it.

Author Biography

Impresario, author, arts administrator and professor, Arnold N. Breman presented more than 2000 artists and attractions in the performing arts as Executive and Artistic Director of: The Samuel L. Clemens Performing Arts Center in Elmira, New York; Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida; The Raymond F. Kavis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida; and The Joffrey Ballet Company in Chicago, Illinois. Breman served as President of the International Society of the Performing Arts in 1992 and a Professor in the Arts, Entertainment & Media Management Department at Columbia College Chicago. He serves on the board of directors of the South Carolina Philharmonic, The Opera-Tunity Foundation For The Arts. He and his wife Linda, a Needlepoint Artist and Lace Maker, reside in Columbia, South Carolina. They have two grown sons who were smart enough not to go into the entertainment business.