Research Catalog

Title

The exception and the rule [sound recording] : read-through with music. Act I / based on Bertolt Brecht's The exception and the rule ; adapted by Leonard Bernstein (music), John Guare (libretto), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), and Jerome Robbins.

Author

Guare, John.

Publication

1968.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.
• Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.
• Sondheim, Stephen.
• Estate of Jerome Robbins. dnr
• Oral history archive.

Found In

Jerome Robbins Collection

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 89 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Alternative Title

Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Subjects

• Audiotapes > Bernstein, L
• Audiotapes > Robbins, J
• Robbins, Jerome

Note

• Discs 1 and 2 (disc 1, ca. 60 min.; disc 2, ca. 29 min.) A read-through of Act I of The exception and the rule (also known as A pray by Blecht). Various unidentified actors read the script, including stage directions, and sing the songs. Leonard Bernstein plays his score on piano. Jerome Robbins reads some portions of the script. There is some commentary from Bernstein at the beginning of the recording on the degree of completion of the score, and in the final 7 min. Bernstein plays additional music written for interludes and scenes in Act II.

Access (note)

• Permission required.

Funding (note)

• Preservation was funded by the Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Source (note)

• Estate of Jerome Robbins

Biography (note)

• In 1968, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and John Guare collaborated on a production of Brecht's play Exception and the rule, to be called A pray by Blecht. The adaptation, which was to star Zero Mostel and be produced by Stuart Ostrow, was to be presented as a play within a play set in a television studio, and to deal with issues of black and white race relations. The show was scheduled for the Broadhurst Theater in Feb. 1969 but never opened. It was restaged in a workshop in 1987, retitled Race to Urga. Additional materials relating to these productions can be found in the Jerome Robbins Papers at the New York Public Library.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of: Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2737 JRC

OCLC

754849933

Author

Guare, John.

Title

The exception and the rule [sound recording] : read-through with music. Act I / based on Bertolt Brecht's The exception and the rule ; adapted by Leonard Bernstein (music), John Guare (libretto), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), and Jerome Robbins.

Imprint

1968.

Access

Permission required.

Original Version

Original format : 1 sound reel (ca. 89 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; halftrack; 2 channels). Originally recorded 1968.

Funding

Preservation was funded by the Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Biography

In 1968, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and John Guare collaborated on a production of Brecht's play Exception and the rule, to be called A pray by Blecht. The adaptation, which was to star Zero Mostel and be produced by Stuart Ostrow, was to be presented as a play within a play set in a television studio, and to deal with issues of black and white race relations. The show was scheduled for the Broadhurst Theater in Feb. 1969 but never opened. It was restaged in a workshop in 1987, retitled Race to Urga. Additional materials relating to these productions can be found in the Jerome Robbins Papers at the New York Public Library.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Local Note

Archive original: *MGZTO 7-2737 JRC

Source

Gift; Estate of Jerome Robbins, 1999. NN-PD

Added Author

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Author

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. Composer

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. Instrumentalist

Sondheim, Stephen. Lyricist

Estate of Jerome Robbins. Donor

Oral history archive.

Added Title

Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Found In:

Jerome Robbins Collection

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2737 JRC