More Praise for Slow Train Coming
The book every theater lover has been hoping for. Todd details with humor and heartache the one time the show could not go on. A delectable book.”
—Mary-Louise Parker
“Todd Almond might just be the biggest star you haven’t met yet. A multi-hyphenate, he sings like an angel, composes like a whiz, and now he’s written a beautifully human book that captures a historic moment in the theater. Almond describes from the inside what it was like to be expelled from Broadway during a year of pandemic suspended animation, and takes us into the transcendent nature of performance before and after the shutdown. Theater lovers will inhale this book and recognize themselves in it. Give this book as a gift to yourself, or to your Bob-Dylan-loving best friend. "
—Sarah Ruhl
I love this book. With the multiple perspectives of an oral history, and the unguarded self-examination of a very personal diary, Todd Almond has written a compassionate and original monograph on a distinctly original musical/theatrical creation—meticulously detailing the trajectory of its surprising, often tortuous evolution to its ultimate achievement.”
—Kevin Kline