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Theater talk.
- Title
- Theater talk. Arthur Laurents. Part two [videorecording] / Susan Haskins, executive producer ; Theater Talk Productions ; director, Adam Walker.
- Publication
- New York, c2001.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (Betacam SP) (28 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Playwright, librettist and screenwriter Arthur Laurents speaks about his life in the theater with Theater talk hosts Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins. Laurents discusses his decision to work with choreographer Jerome Robbins, whom he admired artistically but disliked personally, on the musical Gypsy; his friendliness toward the show's mercurial producer David Merrick; his involvement, as director, with the show La cage aux folles, and his work with Harvey Fierstein who wrote the book; his self-acceptance as a gay man; his work with Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim on the musical Do I hear a waltz?; his belief in giving his colleagues his honest opinion about their work; his unsuccessful musical Nick & Nora, which he felt was treated unsympathetically by the press; the presence of shows on Broadway which are "not good"; and his desire to concentrate on writing plays rather than musicals.
- Series Statement
- Theater talk
- Alternative Title
- Theater talk. Laurents part two
- Subjects
- Theater > New York (State) > New York
- Interviews
- Television
- Librettists > Interviews
- Styne, Jule, 1905-1994 > Gypsy
- Robbins, Jerome > Friends and associates
- Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
- Theater > Production and direction
- Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979 > Do I hear a waltz?
- Talk shows
- Herman, Jerry, 1931-2019 > Cage aux folles
- Laurents, Arthur > Interviews
- Dramatists > Interviews
- Laurents, Arthur > Friends and associates
- Merrick, David, 1911-2000 > Friends and associates
- Genre/Form
- Television.
- Talk shows.
- Interviews.
- Note
- Credits at end of videocassette.
- This is episode #814 of Theater talk.
- Part one of this program is available on NCOX 2014.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewers: Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios at The Graduate School & University Center/CUNY, New York, N.Y. on Nov. 16, 2001.
- Call Number
- NCOX 2313
- OCLC
- 180933207
- Title
- Theater talk. Arthur Laurents. Part two [videorecording] / Susan Haskins, executive producer ; Theater Talk Productions ; director, Adam Walker.
- Imprint
- New York, c2001.
- Series
- Theater talk
- Performer
- Interviewers: Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.
- Event
- Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios at The Graduate School & University Center/CUNY, New York, N.Y. on Nov. 16, 2001.
- Local Note
- Gift of Susan Haskins.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Laurents, Arthur, interviewee.Riedel, Michael (Theater critic), interviewer.Haskins, Susan, interviewer.Haskins, Susan, producer.Walker, Adam, director.Theater Talk Productions, Inc.Haskins, Susan, donor.
- Research Call Number
- NCOX 2313