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Book News Jonathan Groff Narrates Audiobook of Ted Chapin's Everything Was Possible

Listen to an excerpt from the 2003 tome that charts the creation of the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman-Harold Prince musical Follies.

Chad Meyer

Spring Awakening Tony nominee Jonathan Groff, who will join Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez in the upcoming Off-Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Role Along, has narrated a new audiobook of Ted Chapin's 2003 tome Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies.

Chapin, who would later serve a lengthy stint as the president of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, was a gopher when Follies—from composer-lyricist Sondheim, director Harold Prince, choreographer Michael Bennett, and librettist James Goldman—played a Boston tryout and then opened at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre in 1971.

Chapin kept a diary of the experience for college credit, and three decades later he drew on that experience for Everything Was Possible, which features a foreword by former New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich.

Listen to Groff read an excerpt from the book below:

The new audiobook is available from Recorded Books. Click here for more information.

 
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