From the Back of the House

<p>My name is Dan Landon and I was a Broadway theatre manager for 37 years. 1 worked on fifty shows. Over 9000 performances.</p><p><br></p><p>This is my love letter to Broadway and all the stars and luminaries my job allowed me to meet and know...</p><p><br></p><p>Whoopi Goldberg. Bob Fosse. lan McKellan. Bernadette Peters.</p><p>Robert De Niro. August Wilson. Alec Baldwin. Kathleen Turner. Jessica Lange.</p><p>Maggie Smith. Judi Dench. Mikail Baryshnikov. Madeline Kahn.</p><p>Paul McCartney Stephen Sondheim. Tom Stoppard. David Mamet.</p><p>Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Hillary Clinton.</p><p>Al Pacino. Richard Dreyfuss Patti LuPone. Philip Seymour Hoffman.</p><p>Daniel Craig. Lin-Manuel Miranda. Denzel Washington.</p><p><br></p><p>In these pages you'll meet them too as they wait in the wings glow in the spotlight and take their bows.</p>