Research Catalog

Title

The exception and the rule [sound recording] : prologue; three guys journey; Bernstein / based on Bertolt Brecht's play The exception and the rule ; adapted by Leonard Bernstein (music), John Guare (libretto), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), and Jerome Robbins.

Author

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.

Publication

1986.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

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

Found In

Jerome Robbins Collection

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 6 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Alternative Title

Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Subject

• Robbins, Jerome

Note

• Two rehearsals of the opening song from The exception and the rule, performed by unidentified singers. Each rehearsal lasts ca. 3 min.
• Sound quality is good. There is a break and a very brief pause at ca. 10 sec. into the recording.
• Title from original container label.

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 Bertolt 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 4-2751 JRC

OCLC

755016176

Author

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.

Title

The exception and the rule [sound recording] : prologue; three guys journey; Bernstein / based on Bertolt Brecht's play The exception and the rule ; adapted by Leonard Bernstein (music), John Guare (libretto), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), and Jerome Robbins.

Imprint

1986.

Access

Permission required.

Original Version

Original format : 2 sound cassettes (ca. 6 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 2 channels). Originally recorded 1986.

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 Bertolt 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: *MTZTCO 3-2751 JRC

Source

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

Added Author

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Author

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 4-2751 JRC