The Shuberts and Their Passing Shows: The Untold Tale of Ziegfeld's Rivals (Broadway Legacies)

The Shubert name has been synonymous with Broadway for almost as long as Broadway entertainment itself. In The Shuberts and Their Passing Shows: The Untold Tale of Ziegfeld's Rivals, author Jonas Westover investigates beyond the Shuberts' business empire into their early revues and the centrifugal role they played in developing American theatre as an art form.

Dr. Jonas Westover (Ph.D., City University of New York 2010) has been an active violinist and musicologist in the Twin Cities area for the pastfive years. He has written over 400 entries for the GroveDictionary of American Music, as well as many articles and reviews for various scholarly journals. He has taught violin since 1998 in bothMinneapolis and New York, and regularly performs in chamber music and in orchestras for musical theater. He has also taught in numerous New York and Minnesota colleges and universities. As a musicologist, hisinterests are musical theater, film music, and videogame music. He isalso the volunteer historian for the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, IA.