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Additional authors

1. Swados, Elizabeth
2. Winer, Linda
3. Robins, Isobel
4. Slaughter, Harriet
5. Mayleas, Ruth
6. Corwin, Betty L
7. Isaacson, Robert
8. Malone, Audra D
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer
11. City University of New York
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor

Description

1. 1 videodisc (DVD) (29 min.) : sd., col. SP; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. The multi-faceted author, director, composer Elizabeth Swados, discusses her vision of the theater with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Swados speaks about her efforts to teach drama teachers to create original shows with their students; her sometimes rocky journey as a non-mainstream woman composer; the joy she experiences creating, her love of what she does and her admiration for the people with whom she works, qualties she believes have brought her success as a composer; and her belief that it is possible to steadily create meaningful musical theater without trying to make a fortune. Swados speaks about the creation of her musical Runaways, which addressed the potential of adolescents and how they have been underestimated. The show was produced by Joseph Papp and premiered at his Public Theater in 1977, then moved to Broadway in 1978. It is still performed all over the country. Swados expounds on her upbringing in a middle class Jewish family in Buffalo, where since childhood she desired to be creative and make things with others, her longstanding interest in various musical cultures which influences her own music, and the relevance of "ritual" in her work.

Series statement

1. Women in theatre

Alternative title

1. Dialogues with notable women in American theatre

Subject

1. Theater > Production and direction
2. Swados, Elizabeth > Runaways
3. Women composers > Interviews
4. Swados, Elizabeth > Interviews
5. Theater > New York (State) > New York
6. Talk shows
7. Women in the theater
8. Interviews
9. Television
10. Composers > Interviews
11. Musical theater > New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

1. Television.
2. Talk shows.
3. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOX 2286

Note

1. Credits at end of videodisc.
2. Program is also available at www.cuny.tv.
3. On container: Season 5, episode 9.
4. "Discussion program spotlighting prominent women from the theatre, including performers, playwrights, producers and designers."

Performer (note)

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. in Dec. 2006. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, June 1, 2007.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Title

1. Women in theatre. Elizabeth Swados [videorecording] / produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women, Isobel Robins, Harriet Slaughter, co-presidents ; Ruth Mayleas, executive producer ; Betty L. Corwin, director of special projects, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ; Bob Isaacson, executive in charge of production ; Audra D. Malone, director ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.

Imprint

1. New York : CUNY-TV, c2007.

Series

1. Women in theatre

Performer

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. in Dec. 2006. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, June 1, 2007.

Local note

1. Gift of The League of Professional Theatre Women and CUNY-TV.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Swados, Elizabeth, interviewee.
2. Winer, Linda, interviewer.
3. Robins, Isobel, producer.
4. Slaughter, Harriet, producer.
5. Mayleas, Ruth, producer.
6. Corwin, Betty L, producer.
7. Isaacson, Robert, producer.
8. Malone, Audra D, director.
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.
11. City University of New York.
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 2286