Title

Interview with Linda Lavin [videorecording] / [Presented by] The League of Professional Theatre Women ; [video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.

Publication

New York, c2011.

Items in the Library & Offsite

Details

Additional Authors

• Character Generators/Video.
• Corwin, Betty L,
• Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946-
• Hoffman, Patrick.
• Lavin, Linda, 1937-
• League of Professional Theatre Women.
• New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
• Riedel, Michael (Theater critic),

Description

1 videodisc (DVD) (67 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Subjects

• Theater > New York (State) > New York
• Interviews
• Alice (Television program)
• Strouse, Charles > It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman
• Actresses > Interviews
• Acting > Study and teaching
• Styne, Jule, 1905-1994 > Gypsy
• Lavin, Linda, 1937- > Interviews
• Prince, Harold, 1928-2019 > Friends and associates
• Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
• Television broadcasting > United States
• Lavin, Linda, 1937- > Friends and associates
• Cassidy, Jack, 1927-1976 > Friends and associates

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Note

• Copy of program available.
• This video is available to be viewed online in the NYPL's Digital Collections database.

Access (note)

• Restricted to qualified researchers.

Performer (note)

• Opening remarks: Jacqueline Z. Davis and Betty L. Corwin.
• Interviewed by Michael Riedel.

Event (note)

• Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., May 9, 2011.

Call Number

NCOW 352

OCLC

746929979

Title

Interview with Linda Lavin [videorecording] / [Presented by] The League of Professional Theatre Women ; [video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.

Imprint

New York, c2011.

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Cast

Opening remarks: Jacqueline Z. Davis and Betty L. Corwin.

Interviewed by Michael Riedel.

Event

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., May 9, 2011.

Summary

Linda Lavin discusses her career as a performer on stage and television with columnist Michael Riedel. She discusses her early theatrical influences as the daughter of a professional singer, noting that her mother's singing career was hindered by attitudes towards working women during the Depression. Lavin describes her formative years performing in summer stock, her experiences in several Broadway shows including It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman, and the 1989 revival of Gypsy, her television work in the situation comedy Alice, and her impressions of colleagues such as Harold Prince, Jack Cassidy, and others. She also talks about her work as an acting teacher.

Added Author

Lavin, Linda, 1937- interviewee.

Riedel, Michael (Theater critic), interviewer.

Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946- speaker.

Corwin, Betty L, speaker.

Hoffman, Patrick.

League of Professional Theatre Women.

Character Generators/Video.

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

Research Call Number

NCOW 352