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A celebration of Alan Jay Lerner

Title: A celebration of Alan Jay Lerner [videorecording] / Production organized by Bill Harbach and Stone Widney ; [video director] Jeff Hodges ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
Publication: New York, 1986.

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Videocassette 1	Moving image	Restricted use	NCOV 544 Videocassette 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Videocassette 2	Moving image	Restricted use	NCOV 544 Videocassette 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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Description

2 videocassettes (U-matic) (74 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 3/4 in.

Summary

Memorial tribute to lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner, best known for his work on such Broadway musicals as My fair lady and Camelot. Features spoken tributes, reminiscences, and songs associated with his career.

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Note

Copy of program available.
Tributes by Frederick Loewe and Robert Goulet, who could not attend the memorial, are read by Kitty Carlisle and Julie Andrews, respectively. Rex Harrison's tribute was filmed in England and shown on a video monitor at the event.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Performer (note)

Speakers: Sydney Gruson, Kitty Carlisle Hart, John Cullum, Len Cariou, Sidney Kingsley, Herman Levin, Rex Harrison (on film), Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Richard Kiley, Leonard Bernstein, Julie Andrews.
Performers: John Cullum, Meg Bussert, Martin Vidnovic, John Michael King, Gordon Ramsey, Howard Ross, Richard Kiley, Julie Andrews.
Pianist: Peter Howard.

Event (note)

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Shubert Theatre, New York, N.Y., July 10, 1986.

Call Number

NCOV 544

OCLC

667697805

Title

A celebration of Alan Jay Lerner [videorecording] / Production organized by Bill Harbach and Stone Widney ; [video director] Jeff Hodges ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.

Imprint

New York, 1986.

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Cast

Speakers: Sydney Gruson, Kitty Carlisle Hart, John Cullum, Len Cariou, Sidney Kingsley, Herman Levin, Rex Harrison (on film), Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Richard Kiley, Leonard Bernstein, Julie Andrews.

Performers: John Cullum, Meg Bussert, Martin Vidnovic, John Michael King, Gordon Ramsey, Howard Ross, Richard Kiley, Julie Andrews.

Pianist: Peter Howard.

Event

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Shubert Theatre, New York, N.Y., July 10, 1986.

Local Subject

Tributes.

Added Author

Harbach, William O, producer.

Widney, Stone, producer.

Gruson, Sydney, speaker.

Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007, speaker.

Cullum, John, 1930- speaker.

Cullum, John, 1930- performer.

Cariou, Len, speaker.

Kingsley, Sidney, 1906-1995, speaker.

Levin, Herman, 1907-1990, speaker.

Harrison, Rex, speaker.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007, speaker.

Kiley, Richard, speaker.

Kiley, Richard, performer.

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990, speaker.

Andrews, Julie, speaker.

Andrews, Julie, performer.

Bussert, Meg, performer.

Vidnovic, Martin, performer.

King, John Michael, 1926-2008, performer.

Ramsey, Gordon, performer.

Ross, Howard, performer.

Howard, Peter, 1927-2008, instrumentalist.

Hodges, Jeff, videographer.

Corwin, Betty L.

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

Research Call Number

NCOV 544

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