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[Interview with Onna White : raw footage]

Title
[Interview with Onna White : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor]
Publication
New York, 2002.

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Additional Authors
  • White, Onna
  • Kantor, Michael, 1961-
  • Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
  • Thirteen/WNET, donor.
Description
1 videocassette (VHS) (20 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
Summary
Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. Dancer and choreographer for film and stage Onna White discusses the American musical. Topics include her choreography for the show The music man, including the numbers Seventy-six trombones and Marian the librarian, in which she worked with Robert Preston; listening and responding to a score to create her choreography; her dancing in Guys and dolls for choreographer Michael Kidd, who insisted she wear high heels for one number; her auditioning of dancers, and the impact of having had ballet training on a dancer's adaptability to Broadway material; composer Meredith Willson's response to her idea for the library number; working with Morton Da Costa, who directed both the stage and film version of The music man; Kidd's influence and talent as a choreographer, and his mentorship; working with performer Merv Griffin in the Broadway show Finian's rainbow, and with Dick Van Dyke, whom she choreographed in the film version of Bye, bye Birdie; the skill, training and attitude of Broadway dancers; the importance of the score to the choreographer; asking Angela Lansbury to turn her back to the audience for an intro to a number in Mame; her childhood in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia and early career as a dancer and then principal with the San Francisco Ballet; being called in to work on the choreography for the musical 1776, and how her early studies in American history contributed to her success.
Alternative Title
  • Broadway, the American musical
  • Broadway: the American musical
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Documentaries and factual works.
  • Musicals.
  • Unedited footage.
Note
  • This interview is one of a group of interviews with 90 individuals used in making the documentary Broadway, the American musical. The completed production is available on NCOX 2058.
  • Credits for completed production from pbs.org: A film by Michael Kantor ; produced by Jeff Dupre, Michael Kantor and Sally Rosenthal ; written by Marc Fields, Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon, and JoAnne Young ; directed by Michael Kantor.
  • Time code on frame.
  • Contains various takes, at occasional brief intervals, audio continues without sound.
Performer (note)
  • Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Onna White.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped at Onna White's residence in New York, N.Y. on August 15, 2002.
Biography (note)
  • Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.
Call Number
NCOX 2134
OCLC
124041014
Title
[Interview with Onna White : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor]
Imprint
New York, 2002.
Performer
Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Onna White.
Event
Videotaped at Onna White's residence in New York, N.Y. on August 15, 2002.
Biography
Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.
Local Note
Gift of Broadway Film Project, Inc. and Thirteen/WNET, 2005.
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Added Author
White, Onna, interviewee.
Kantor, Michael, 1961- interviewer.
Kantor, Michael, 1961- director.
Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
Thirteen/WNET, donor.
Research Call Number
NCOX 2134
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