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columnist Frank Rich, who
served as the paper's drama
critic from 1980 to 1993,
has played a markedly influential role
when it comes to Broadway theater.
He will talk about his life in the the-
ater, and his latest book, Ghost Light:
A Memoir (Random House; $24.95;
$13.95 paperback), at this year's Book
Fair. Detroit Free Press theater critic
Martin Kohn will lead a Nov. 13 dis-
cussion and question-and-answer ses-
sion with Rich.
In Ghost Light (the term refers to the
light left burning at center stage after
the audience, actors and musicians
have gone home), Rich shares intimate
details of his family life and tells how

his passion for the theater emerged.
It was those enchanting 1950s and
'60s musicals like South Pacific and
Gypsy that got Rich, the product of a
broken home, through the tough times.
Growing up in a Jewish household
in Washington, D.C., as the family
moved from one neighborhood to
another, Rich developed terrible
insomnia and lived in fear of being
beaten by his "abusivestepfather.
"My book is a story of a young kid
who found a way to triumph over his
troubles," says Rich. "The theater gave
me the will and imaginative boost to
navigate through what was, in many
ways, a dark childhood."
The first shows he saw were Pajama
Game and Damn Yankees, and from the
time the curtain rose to the time it went
down, Rich was mesmerized. He became
obsessed with seeing musicals.

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"Before taking on the project,
Lawrence Bush did some writing sam-
ples and sent them to my sister and
me, and we just loved what he did."

