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    Attack of the Theater People
    Attack of the Theater People
    Attack of the Theater People
    Audiobook9 hours

    Attack of the Theater People

    Written by Marc Acito

    Narrated by Jeff Woodman

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Best-selling author Marc Acito has been praised for novels that remind audiences "what a blast immaturity can be" (People), including How I Paid for College. In the sequel, Edward Zanni has been kicked out of drama school because he's just too "jazz hands" for Juilliard. He moves to New York City and lands a job working as a stealth guest at corporate parties. When he gets caught up in an insider trading scandal, his crew of theater friends comes to his rescue.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 26, 2008
    ISBN9781436183550
    Attack of the Theater People
    Author

    Marc Acito

    Marc Acito's comic debut novel, How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater won the Ken Kesey Award and made the American Library Association's Top Ten Teen Book List. It was also selected as an Editors' Choice by the New York Times and is translated into five languages the author does not read. The eagerly anticipated sequel, Attack of the Theater People, was called "the funniest thing I've read this year" by Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes). Marc is a regular commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. His first play, Holidazed received its world premiere at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, Oregon.

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    • 3/5
      Edward Zanni and friends are back. They're all out of high school now, all in college except for Doug, who is the lead singer in a band called "Almost Bruce" (Springsteen). After a bad audition, Edward is told he is "too jazz hands for Julliard" and his teacher recommends spending a year in the real world in order to experience life. He lands a gig as a party motivator, pretending to be a DJ on the British MTV. He is approached by good-looking Chad, who convinces Edward to find out company information and share it with him. Unaware this is illegal, Edward gets into heaps of trouble. This was a fun read, although not quite as funny as the first book "How I Paid for College". I still enjoyed it and will read the next when it comes out.
    • 5/5
      Here we rejoin Edward, who has recently been kicked out of Julliard for being "too jazz hands." Broke and miserable, he meets up with a distractingly handsome man who may or may not be into insider trading. Meanwhile, his crew of high school friends are around, having their own adventures. Add Starlight Express, a Bruce Springsteen tribute band, gala bar mitzvahs, and the Music Man as protest art. Stir in a liberal dose of the 1980s, and you have yourself one hell of a story. Good times.
    • 4/5
      I'm really thankful to all of the people who posted reviews stating that they were disappointed in this book. They allowed me to go in with slightly lowered expectations, and let me enjoy this book a bunch. I'm thankful for having a chance to spend more time with these colorful characters and frequent musical theater jokes.

      My only qualm with this book was the author's handling of AIDS. It kind of feels tacked on, like he wrote the story, someone pointed out that any story featuring a gay man set in the mid to late eighties has to mention AIDS, so he shoehorned it in. Or maybe this is more realistic, a young man trying hard to not think about the men dying around him, terrified of sexual contact with anyone but his childhood object of lust. I bounce around on this - in this moment, I'm leaning toward the "shoehorn" theory than the "realistic"
    • 3/5
      Amusing and fun follow-up to How I Paid For College. It's more convoluted and less believable than the first book, but it's cute.
    • 4/5
      I fully agree with the reviews below. This is a great sequel to Acito's How I Paid for College. The style reminds me alot of Joe Keenan's My Blue Heaven and Putting on the Ritz. If you like Acito you'll like Keenan and vice versa.I thought the ending was a little underwhelming. Everything is neatly wrapped up, of course, in the last 5 or 6 pages. Boom: all's well that ends well.
    • 4/5
      sequel to 'How I Paid for College'. Having blackmailed his father into sending him to Juilliard, Edward Zanni shortly thereafter finds himself expelled for being 'too jazz hands'. Cast adrift in New York City with nothing but a dream and a group of friends that includes aspiring actors ranging from Marxist street theatre to swing in 'Starlight Express', an exiled Iranian aristocrat, a boy who plays Bruce Springsteen in an E-Street tribute band, a cross-dressing gay Vietnamese and Natie Nudelman, Edward's neighbour from home and a budding career criminal, Edward is hard-pressed to make ends meet. He gets by by squatting in a dead guy's apartment (Natie's idea), working as a theatre usher (a job for which he qualifies because he's gay) and party motivator for Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, and, latterly, by getting mixed up in insider trading (Natie's idea again). With the FBI and two teenage stalkers on his heels, will Edward ever find his way back to Juilliard and realise his dreams? Funny, engaging, and immensely readable.