William Goldman looked at Brigitte Bardot’s bottom and saw the future: of movies, and theatre. Goldman’s 1969 book The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway is a classic account of a Broadway season. Goldman, a screenwriter, playwright and novelist, saw the plays and musicals—the good and the awful—swam through the red and black ink of profits and losses, and interviewed directors, actors, critics and audiences. In that single season, extraordinary by our standards, were new works by Williams, Pinter, Miller and Albee and a range of plays and musicals which included Hair, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg,…