| re: I think there is some chance that Variety was wrong | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:54 pm EST 11/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: I think there is some chance that Variety was wrong - BroadwayTonyJ 08:24 pm EST 11/20/22 | |
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| First, let me say that nothing I wrote was intended as criticism of Steven Suskin. I will say, however, that theatre books, even some of the best, tend to have errors. Mr. Suskin was probably working with a deadline. Unless someone does not have a contract with a publisher (or unless the author has unusual pull), there is a point at which even the most meticulous historians writing books simply have to say, "I have no more time. If there are any errors, then there are errors." If you look at the bottom of page 23 to the top of page 24 in More Opening Nights on Broadway, you will see that he acknowledges that there is a limit to the financial information he can find: "Where exact figures have been impossible to find or verify, we offer well-educated guesses." That is the best you can do sometimes. And just before that in parentheses: "Showmen have a tendency to exaggerate, expecially when not under oath." I take this as acknowledgment that there may be — even perhaps likely are — some inaccuracies. |
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