{"product_id":"critics-choice-and-other-comedies-break-a-leg-cantorial-and-critics-choice-9798212642781","title":"Critic's Choice and Other Comedies: Break a Leg, Cantorial, and Critic's Choice","description":"\u003cp\u003eIra Levin--the same author who terrified us with Rosemary's Baby and The Boys from Brazil also, astonishingly, wrote laugh-out-loud comedies. Here are three of his most side-splitting offerings, the pick of the litter--the critic's choice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritic's Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis comic fable of fictional theater critic Parker Ballantine is a giddy excursion to a lost era of cocktails, tuxedos, witty quips, and urbane ripostes that \"crackle and throw out sparks\" (New York Morning Telegraph).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreak A Leg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beleaguered theater company uses its combined talents to drive out the brutish critic who's been decimating their productions. If Dangerous Liaisons mated with She Loves Me, their child would be Break A Leg--the most howlingly riotous of all Levin's creations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCantorial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA synagogue-to-condo conversion is haunted by the ghost of its former cantor, in this buoyant comedy that's part ghost story, part musical, and--as Levin put it, \"probably the warmest thing I've ever written.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10665600\"\u003eIra Levin\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blackstone Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798212642781\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-DRA\"\u003eDrama\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-DRA001000\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44287216713867,"sku":"9798212642781","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_de35c078-da16-44f3-832e-db19d5c4a5ca.jpg?v=1758819839","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/critics-choice-and-other-comedies-break-a-leg-cantorial-and-critics-choice-9798212642781","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}