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Additional authors

1. Tesori, Jeanine
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. Composer Jeanine Tesori speaks with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Tesori, who has served also as a conductor, arranger, and musician, discusses her writing of the Off-Broadway musical Violet, which she created alone in a 19th century lighthouse; her writing of the incidental music for the 1998 Broadway production of Shakespeare's Twelfth night, directed by Nicholas Hytner; her early interest in pop music and education in music at Columbia University; her work on the Broadway musical Thoroughly modern Millie, for which she composed eleven new songs; and her compositon of the music for the Broadway musical Caroline, or change, on which she collaborated with Tony Kushner. Tesori speaks also about conducting the musical The secret garden, and the importance for girls in having female mentors in music.

Series statement

1. Women in theatre

Alternative title

1. Dialogues with notable women in American theatre

Subject

1. Theater > Production and direction
2. Women composers > Interviews
3. Tesori, Jeanine > Caroline, or change
4. Tesori, Jeanine > Interviews
5. Composers > Interviews
6. Women in the theater
7. Talk shows
8. Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
9. Interviews
10. Television
11. Tesori, Jeanine > Violet
12. Tesori, Jeanine > Thoroughly modern Millie
13. Theater > New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

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

Call number

1. NCOX 2325

Note

1. Credits at end of videodisc.
2. Program also available at www.cuny.tv
3. On container: Season 3, episode 10.
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. on Dec. 17, 2004. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, Nov. 11, 2005.

Title

1. Women in theatre. Jeanine Tesori [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, c2005.

Series

1. Women in theatre

Performer

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Dec. 17, 2004. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, Nov. 11, 2005.

Local note

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

Connect to:

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

Added author

1. Tesori, Jeanine, 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 2325