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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Author’s Note

Dedication

Prologue

Photo: “You’re just like me,” she would say.

Chapter 1

Photo: My first leading role …

Chapter 2

Photo: Me … in the high school production of
Good News

Chapter 3

Photo: I didn’t want the audience to think I got the job …

Chapter 4

Photo: My first 8 x 10 glossy …

Chapter 5

Photo: “… a pint-sized newcomer named Joel Grey.”

Chapter 6

Photo:
The woman is a beauty,
I thought.

Chapter 7

Photo: “… our little girl—Jennifer—was in my arms.”

Chapter 8

Photo: “There’s a part I think you’ll be just swell for.”

Chapter 9

Photo: This is what I had dreamt about …

Chapter 10

Photo: So I accepted the role of George M. Cohan …

Chapter 11

Photo: Don’t let anybody tell you …

Chapter 12

Photo: “This time will be different,” Liza said …

Chapter 13

Photo: “These are not invisible men.”

Chapter 14

Photo:… I realized that passion of any kind is gold.

Chapter 15

Photo: That is the power of a great work of theater …

Coda

Photo insert

Acknowledgments

Credits

About the Author

Copyright

 

MASTER OF CEREMONIES.
Copyright © 2016 by Joel Grey. All rights reserved. For information, address Flatiron Books, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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The Library of Congress cataloging-in-publication data is available upon request.

ISBN 978-1-250-05723-5 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-250-05724-2 (e-book)

e-ISBN 9781250057242

Cover design by Karen Horton

Cover photograph by Friedman-Abeles © The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

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First Edition: February 2016

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