Broadway Nation
Podcast: Theater Of Bette Midler With Kevin Winkler
By David Armstrong
May 27, 2024
This week, I am excited to welcome author Kevin Winkler back to Broadway Nation to discuss his new book, On Bette Midler: An Opinionated Guide.
This engaging book critically analyzes every aspect of Bette Midler’s career on stage, recordings, film, and television. Still, in this conversation, we focus primarily on her work as a theater artist. Midler’s long career has been bookended by her appearances in two classic Broadway musicals, Fiddler On The Roof and Hello, Dolly! In between, she invented her distinctive brand of musical theater—“musicals of her own devising,” as Kevin calls them.
For more than twenty years, Kevin Winkler was a curator, archivist, and administrator at the New York Public Library, and before that, he was a professional dancer. His previous books include the award-winning Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical in 2018 and Everything is Choreography: The Musical Theatre of Tommy Tune. Kevin and I discussed that terrific book on several episodes of Broadway Nation at the beginning of 2022.
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