Research Catalog

Title

[Jerome Robbins' Broadway. Mr. Monotony] [excerpts] [videorecording] / choreography by Jerome Robbins ; music and lyrics by Irving Berlin ; dance music arranged by Geneviève Pitot.

Publication

1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Robbins, Jerome
• Lanier, Jane
• Pérez, Luis
• Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989.

Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (32 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Rehearsals for the dance portions of a number titled "Mr. Monotony" in the musical retrospective Jerome Robbins' Broadway ; the title was given simply as "Monotony" at a tryout performance (see *MGZIA 4-6017 JRC [Jerome Robbins' Broadway]). The number was staged first for Miss Liberty (1949), then for Call me madam (1950), but cut from both musicals before they reached Broadway. It received its Broadway premiere as part of Jerome Robbins' Broadway in February 1989. The first segment of this tape shows a group of three men and two women dancing to this music; subsequent rehearsals are danced by two men and a woman, as in the completed number. The number depicts a love triangle between two men (who respectively mime playing a trombone and a clarinet) and a woman. Jerome Robbins occasionally appears on camera to work with the dancers, and his voice is heard from off-camera. A complete run-through of the trio, recorded on July 19, 1988, begins at ca. 27 min. into the tape.

Series Statement

Jerome Robbins Collection

Alternative Title

• [Jerome Robbins' Broadway. Monotony] [excerpts]
• Monotony

Genre/Form

• Musicals.
• Dance.
• Video.
• Dance rehearsals.

Note

• Time and date code on frame.
• Filmed sign on frame: "Monotony."

Event (note)

• Videotaped in studio rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, with piano accompaniment, at 890 Broadway, New York City, on March 18; May 3, 5, 6, 12, 13; June 3, 17; July 19, 1988.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-6027 JRC

OCLC

NYPY02-F220

Title

[Jerome Robbins' Broadway. Mr. Monotony] [excerpts] [videorecording] / choreography by Jerome Robbins ; music and lyrics by Irving Berlin ; dance music arranged by Geneviève Pitot.

Imprint

1988.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Jerome Robbins Collection

Event

Videotaped in studio rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, with piano accompaniment, at 890 Broadway, New York City, on March 18; May 3, 5, 6, 12, 13; June 3, 17; July 19, 1988.

Performer

Performers not identified; may include Jane Lanier and Luis Perez. Robert La Fosse, who danced the clarinettist at the Broadway premiere, does not appear in this tape.

Local Subject

Musical comedies. Jerome Robbins' Broadway.

Added Author

Robbins, Jerome, choreographer.

Lanier, Jane, dancer.

Pérez, Luis, dancer.

Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989. Composer

Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989. Lyricist

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-6027 JRC