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Interview with Jerome Robbins.

Title
Interview with Jerome Robbins. Jan. 18, 1989 [sound recording]
Author
Robbins, Jerome
Publication
1989.

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AudioPermit needed *MGZMT 3-3096 JRCPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance
AudioPermit needed *MGZTL 4-3096 JRCPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
Plaskin, Glenn.
Description
1 sound disc (ca. 48 min.) ; digital; 4 3/4in.
Summary
[Begins abruptly.] Jerome Robbins discusses his upcoming retrospective, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, including his reasons for doing the show, the initial research, the restoration and recreation of his dances, the transitions from one dance number to the next and the rehearsals. Robbins discusses casting and costuming; working in ballet compared with Broadway; his perfectionism in his work with performers; the nature of dance and theater and its relationship to life, art and literature; his purpose for doing the show and its effect on the audience; his absence from Broadway for the previous two decades; the cast for Jerome Robbins' Broadway; his expectations from a performer in relation to the material being performed; his feelings about his life, work and age [ends abruptly].
Series Statement
Jerome Robbins Collection
Alternative Title
Dance Audio Archive.
Subjects
Note
  • Interview conducted by Daily news reporter Glenn Plaskin on Jan. 18, 1989.
Access (note)
  • Permission required.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Source (note)
  • WNET/13
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-3096 JRC
OCLC
NYPT03-R11
Author
Robbins, Jerome, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Jerome Robbins. Jan. 18, 1989 [sound recording]
Imprint
1989.
Series
Jerome Robbins Collection
Access
Permission required.
Funding
Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Local Note
For transcript of a brief excerpt see *MGZMT 3-3096 JRC. The transcript was created by WNET/13 in connection with the documentary Jerome Robbins: Something to dance about.
Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-3096 JRC
Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-3096 JRC
Preservation master: *MGZTP 10-3096 JRC
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-3096 JRC
Source
Transcript Gift; WNET/13, 2008. NN-PD
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Local Subject
Audiotapes -- Robbins, J.
Musical comedies. Jerome Robbins' Broadway.
Added Author
Plaskin, Glenn. Interviewer
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-3096 JRC
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