The Understudy Reviewed Again!

Ellen Tovatt Leary’s THE UNDERSTUDY has received another glowing review. This time from book reviewer David Myers at The Algemeiner. The review entitled “Two New Books Examine the Heyday of the Broadway Theater” begins reviewing THE UNDERSTUDY with this:

“On page four, I knew I would be entertained — and it did not disappoint.”

David Myers ends his review with this:

“The Understudy is an engaging, fun, and enjoyable book — especially for those of us afflicted with the disease of the theater.”

Ellen Tovatt Leary’s THE UNDERSTUDY has a good beginning and ending and a great story in between that keeps you reading. Several readers have reported staying up late, unable to put the book down.

Ellen Tovatt Leary spent twenty years acting on the professional stage. She performed in theaters from the Ahmanson in Los Angeles to the State Theatre in Lincoln Center, including four Broadway theaters (the Barrymore, the Lyceum, the Helen Hayes, and the Palace), and many Off-Broadway and regional theaters. She worked with Hal Prince, Maureen Stapleton and James Hammerstein among others. She graduated from Antioch College and was a Fulbright scholar at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.