Book review: Star Daze: Working at the Bucks County Playhouse in the 1970s

 

Star Daze: Working at the Bucks County Playhouse in the 1970s is a series of memory sketches drawn from the experiences of a parking lot attendant and wannabe writer with famous actors and actresses at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania. 

It takes place in the wild times of the early 1970s, when love was free and anything could and did happen. 

With the star system in place at the playhouse, a succession of luminaries from Hollywood, Broadway and television trekked to New Hope to perform and fall into experiences with the bumbling wannabe writer and parking lot attendant, who bemusedly recounts these peeks behind the curtain. 

Some of the stories are humorous, some sad, and others ironic. Viewed with the eyes of an insider who should have been left on the outside, the memory sketches include encounters with such stars as John Carradine, Tony Danza, Yvonne de Carlo, Tom Poston and others. 

It's a theatrical memoir from someone on the fringes of that world who happily stumbles into his encounters with the stars and lives to tell about them many years later.

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