{"product_id":"9781974533329","title":"Why I Did It!: It's In the Book","description":"An inside look at live theater ---\u003cbr\u003efrom community to professional ---\u003cbr\u003efrom the Kenley Players to Pittsburgh\u003cbr\u003eCivic Light Opera ---\u003cbr\u003efrom Pittsburgh to Youngstown and beyond.....\u003cbr\u003eWith over 100 photographs in the book, the reader takes a journey through a lifetime of theater stories and experiences. From Ballantyne's meager beginnings in Pittsburgh with his first theater experience in Junior High School up to the present with the production of powerful hard hitting shows based on historical events.\u003cbr\u003eThe book is entertaining and lighthearted but also provides those in the business as well as those just starting out, an educational outlook on what to do and what not to do to be successful in the theater world.\u003cbr\u003eTheater is filled with stories. Everyone in the business has them and the ones in \"Why I Did It!\" provide the backbone for a book filled with fascinating times spent entertaining audiences across the country from small intimate stages to palatial palaces in major cities.\u003cbr\u003eThe reader will meet major celebrities as well as unknowns and discover what makes them, as well as theater, tick. Magic happens every night the curtain goes up on a stage production. The agony and the ecstasy of that magic is vividly described in \"Why I Did It!\"","brand":"CreateSpace Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063604429040,"sku":"9781974533329","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781974533329_p0.jpg?v=1763670090","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781974533329","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}