Broadway Dreamer: A New York Actor’s Memoir

Have you ever dreamed of going into show business? Lynette Bennett did, and discovered joy, heartache, and danger along the way. This is the story of her struggle to break into show business during the tumultuous 1960s-lessons, auditions, and revving up her nerve to compete with hundreds of actors for each role. In time she finds success with commercials, jingles, and on the Broadway stage appearing with the new sensation-Barbra Streisand. She not only appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, she had to turn down a request for a repeat performance. She appeared in Funny Girl, Once Upon A Mattress, Anything Goes and many other shows, becoming a Broadway baby who lived her dream.

＂While Lynette Bennett’s BROADWAY DREAMER is essentially an engaging memoir of a hardworking actor, singer, and dancer steeped in the heady cauldron of 1960s and ’70s Broadway, it’s also something more than that. In addition to the numerous celebrity encounters and fascinating insights into such arcane entertainment-biz pursuits as ＂business theater＂ stage musicals, the book also has something to say - about the choices we make, the trials we face, the opportunites we miss, and the bracing power of true love, which transcends all those things.＂

- John Wooley, TWENTIETH-CENTURY HONKY-TONK