Rounding out the ensemble are Sachin Bhatt ( Bombay Dreams), Terron Brooks ("The Temptations," The Lion King), Jay Donnell ("Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean"), Charissa Hogeland, Teya Patt ("Weeds") and Yuka Takara ( A Chorus Line, Rent, Flower Drum Song). ![]() The cast includes Gleason ( The Phantom of the Opera) as Sam, West ( A Christmas Story) as Jonah, Schwartz ( Wicked, Gypsy) as Annie, Sabrina Sloan ("American Idol," Catch Me if You Can) as Becky, Todd Buonopane ("30 Rock," Happy Days) as Rob, Cynthia Ferrer ("General Hospital," "Georgia Rule") as Eleanor, Katharine Leonard ( Hairspray) as Victoria, Robert Mammana ( Les Misérables, "Dexter") as Walter, Adam Silver ("Californication," "The Runaways") as Greg, Lowe Taylor ( The Marvelous Wondrettes) as Suzy and Carter Thomas ( Mary Poppins national tour) as Jonah alternate. ![]() Neither Greg nor I knew the answer.Sheldon Epps ( Baby It's You!, Play On! and Blues in the Night), artistic director of Pasadena Playhouse, directs the production, which continues through June 23. The romantic musical based on the hit film will officially open June 2. She began considering the hybrid possibility for herself, but questioned whether a Booktrope title could actually get out there, not just vanish into oblivion like other friends' self-published books - without a machine behind them - had done. Billie was in a state of frustration, unable to get any traction with New York agents or publishers with her first novel, H ow To Un-Marry A Millionaire, and could see Greg moving slowly but steadily towards a dignified and painless publication of Casanova - a book she had believed in for as long as I had. ![]() The result was the bestselling Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn (now in its 24th printing with Simon and Schuster, translated into 14 languages) which kick-started my career as a novelist. It was, in fact, Billie who had nagged me incessantly 20 years before to stop chewing her ear off about Tudor England and write a goddamn book. Meanwhile, Billie - documentary filmmaker and my longtime comedy screenwriting partner - was watching the adventures of our mutual friend, Greg, with the greatest interest. If you were lucky enough to get a deal, in-house money that had once been spent on advertising, marketing and promotion had dried up, and publishers expected authors to pick up the slack with their own Facebook, Twitter and personal blog campaigns.spending their own money to boot! The old Hollywood adage, "You're only as good as your last movie" took hold in New York, and now writers were only as good as their last book's "sales track." Independent bookstores were closing right and left, and if all that wasn't bad enough, one of America's two major bookstore chains - Borders - went out of business. Even once-robust genres (like historical fiction) were dying on the vine. There were bloodbaths at the major houses, with lists slashed by a third, and respected editors being fired, others leaving the business altogether. Successful mid-list, and even bestselling authors, were being dropped willy-nilly by their publishers and fired by their agents. ![]() The "Grand Battle of the eBooks" was underway, and was the dominant force in the sometimes dicey self-publishing arena. Corporate mergers decimated the field of choices for submission.
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