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Gerald Schoenfeld: a celebration of a life

Title: Gerald Schoenfeld: a celebration of a life [videorecording] / Produced by Bill Haber, Peter Entin, The Shubert Organization ; directed by Dan Foster ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
Publication: New York, c2009.

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1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Memorial tribute to Gerald Schoenfeld (1924-2008), longtime chairman of the Shubert Organization, and producer of many Broadway shows. Features spoken tributes, reminiscences, and songs from shows which with Schoenfeld was associated.

Subjects

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Performer (note)

Host: Hugh Jackman.
Speakers: Hugh Jackman, Michael Bloomberg, Whoopi Goldberg, Jean Doumanian, Bill Haber, Robert Fox, Tim Rice, Björn Ulvaeus, Oskar Eustis, Richard Griffiths, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, James Lapine, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Marvin Hamlisch, Priscilla Lopez, Angela Lansbury.
Performers: Melissa Errico, Brian D'Arcy James, Claudia Shear, Stew, Heidi Rodewald, Donna Murphy, Betty Buckley, Marvin Hamlisch, Priscilla Lopez, Hugh Jackman.
Pianists: Todd Ellison, Matthew Henning, Nick Archer, Kenny Werner, Patrick Vaccariello.
Archival footage: Gerald Schoenfeld.

Event (note)

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Majestic Theatre, New York, N.Y., Feb. 9, 2009.

Funding (note)

Recorded with the financial assistance of The Shubert Organization.

Biography (note)

From the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s, Gerald Schoenfeld and Bernard B. Jacobs were co-chief executive officers of the Shubert Organization. After Jacobs' death in 1996 Schoenfeld was chairman and chief executive officer.

Contents

Songs performed (show / performer): Somebody (Amour) / Melissa Errico -- Anthem (Chess) / Brian D'Arcy James -- Dirty blonde (Dirty blonde) / Claudia Shear -- Keys (Passing strange) / Stew and Heidi Rodewald -- I wish I could forget you (Passion) / Donna Murphy -- Memory (Cats) / Betty Buckley -- What I did for love (A chorus line) / Priscilla Lopez -- Once before I go (The boy from Oz) / Hugh Jackman.

Call Number

NCOV 3501

OCLC

637131657

Title

Gerald Schoenfeld: a celebration of a life [videorecording] / Produced by Bill Haber, Peter Entin, The Shubert Organization ; directed by Dan Foster ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.

Imprint

New York, c2009.

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Cast

Host: Hugh Jackman.

Speakers: Hugh Jackman, Michael Bloomberg, Whoopi Goldberg, Jean Doumanian, Bill Haber, Robert Fox, Tim Rice, Björn Ulvaeus, Oskar Eustis, Richard Griffiths, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, James Lapine, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Marvin Hamlisch, Priscilla Lopez, Angela Lansbury.

Performers: Melissa Errico, Brian D'Arcy James, Claudia Shear, Stew, Heidi Rodewald, Donna Murphy, Betty Buckley, Marvin Hamlisch, Priscilla Lopez, Hugh Jackman.

Pianists: Todd Ellison, Matthew Henning, Nick Archer, Kenny Werner, Patrick Vaccariello.

Archival footage: Gerald Schoenfeld.

Event

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Majestic Theatre, New York, N.Y., Feb. 9, 2009.

Funding

Recorded with the financial assistance of The Shubert Organization.

Biography

From the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s, Gerald Schoenfeld and Bernard B. Jacobs were co-chief executive officers of the Shubert Organization. After Jacobs' death in 1996 Schoenfeld was chairman and chief executive officer.

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Local Subject

Tributes.

Added Author

Jackman, Hugh, host.

Jackman, Hugh, speaker.

Jackman, Hugh, performer.

Bloomberg, Michael, speaker.

Goldberg, Whoopi, 1955- speaker.

Doumanian, Jean, speaker.

Haber, Bill, speaker.

Fox, Robert, 1952- speaker.

Rice, Tim, 1944- speaker.

Ulvaeus, Björn, speaker.

Eustis, Oskar, 1958- speaker.

Griffiths, Richard, 1947-2013, speaker.

Mirren, Helen, speaker.

Irons, Jeremy, 1948- speaker.

Lapine, James, speaker.

Lloyd Webber, Andrew, 1948- speaker.

Hamlisch, Marvin, speaker.

Hamlisch, Marvin, performer.

Lopez, Priscilla, 1948- speaker.

Lopez, Priscilla, 1948- performer.

Lansbury, Angela, 1925-2022, speaker.

Errico, Melissa, performer.

James, Brian D'Arcy, performer.

Shear, Claudia, performer.

Stew 1961- performer.

Rodewald, Heidi, performer.

Murphy, Donna, performer.

Buckley, Betty, performer.

Ellison, Todd, instrumentalist.

Henning, Matthew, instrumentalist.

Archer, Nicholas, instrumentalist.

Werner, Kenny, instrumentalist.

Vaccariello, Patrick, instrumentalist.

Schoenfeld, Gerald, 1924-2008.

Stucker, Richard, videographer.

Hoffman, Patrick.

Shubert Organization.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

Research Call Number

NCOV 3501

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