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Once on this island : the original Broadway cast reunion

Title
  1. Once on this island : the original Broadway cast reunion [videorecording] / Produced by Andrew Kato and the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS team ; book and lyrics, Lynn Ahrens ; music by Stephen Flaherty ; based upon the novel My Love, My Love by Rosa Guy ; benefit staging by Gerry McIntyre ; originally directed and choreographed by Graciela Daniele ; [video director] Bradshaw Smith ; [video prod. company] Broadway Beat Productions.
Published by
  1. New York, c2002.
Format
  1. VHS

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Additional authors
  1. Kato, Andrew
  2. Flaherty, Stephen
  3. Ahrens, Lynn
  4. Guy, Rosa
  5. McIntyre, Gerry
  6. Daniele, Graciela, 1939-
  7. Marzullo, Steve
  8. Sosa, Emilio
  9. McCarthy, Ed
  10. Cassidy, Craig
  11. Starobin, Michael
  12. Weitzman, Ira
  13. Russell, Kimberly
  14. Belcon, Natalie Venetia
  15. LaChanze
  16. Cintron, Monique
  17. Dixon, Jerry
  18. Gibbs, Sheila
  19. Lewis-Evans, Kecia
  20. McClendon, Afi
  21. Nealy, Milton Craig
  22. Riley, Eric
  23. Samuel, Malika
  24. Williams, Ellis E
  25. White, Lillias
  26. Smith, Bradshaw
  27. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (Organization), producer
  28. Broadway Beat (Firm)
  29. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (Organization), donor
Description
  1. 1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. This semi-staged concert performance of Once on this island featuring most of the original Broadway cast was staged as a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Subject
  1. Guy, Rosa -- Adaptations.
  2. Race relations -- Drama.
  3. Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
  4. African American theater -- New York (State) -- New York.
  5. Musical theater -- New York (State) -- New York.
  6. Theatrical productions -- New York (State) -- New York -- 2001-2010.
Genre/Form
  1. Musicals.
Call number
  1. NCOV 2787
Language
  1. English
Note
  1. No production credits on tape. Information gathered from program.
  2. A videorecording of the original Off-Broadway production of this show, taped at Playwrights Horizons on May 13, 1990, is available on NCOV 891.
Access (note)
  1. Restricted to qualified researchers.
Credits (note)
  1. Music direction by Steve Marzullo ; costume coordinator, Emilio Sosa ; lighting designer, Ed McCarthy ; sound consultant, Craig Cassidy ; musical arrangements by Michael Starobin ; creative consultant, Ira Weitzman ; prod. stage manager, Kimberly Russell.
Performer (note)
  1. Natalie Venetia Belcon, LaChanze, Monique Cintron, Jerry Dixon, Sheila Gibbs, Kecia Lewis, Afi McClendon, Gerry McIntyre, Milton Craig Nealy, Eric Riley, Malika Samuel, Ellis E. Williams.
Event (note)
  1. Videotaped at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York, N.Y., May 12, 2002.
Biography (note)
  1. Once on this island began as an Off-Broadway production at Playwrights Horizons in 1990. The Broadway production opened at the Booth Theatre on Oct. 18, 1990 and ran until Dec. 1, 1991.
Linking entry (note)
  1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
Local note
  1. Gift of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Performer
  1. Special appearances: Lillias White, Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Graciela Daniele, Ira Weitzman.
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