"This book is a rarity--a sumptuous coffee-table book that actually has something to say. With 144 photographs and drawings and 96 color plates--including reproductions of 14 paintings by Whistler, Tissot, Sargent and others, 33 production and rehearsal photos, period works from the N.Y. Historical Society, and photos of 19th-century locations, it is as luscious as the movie it records and as much an art book as a film record." --Gannett