In a A Buck or a Pound she looks at how over the years Broadway has married creativity with enviable business acumen to become a mainstay of the American tourist industry.
She follows the money-makers, from Ziegfeld and his Follies to the dominant years of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Broadway re-established itself as the "Street of Dreams" through the hugely successful Lloyd Webber/Cameron Mackintosh "takeover" of the 80s and 90s and into the "jukebox musical" era of the noughties and to the present.
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