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Creating Ragtime

Title: Creating Ragtime [videorecording] / Produced by Sandy Pearl ; written and directed by Colin Smith ; executive producer, Jac Venza ; a co-production of Livent Inc. and Thirteen/WNET.
Publication: New York, c1997.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (54 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

Documentary on the creation of the Broadway stage musical Ragtime, based on the novel by E. L. Doctorow, which premiered at the new Ford Center for the Performing Arts in 1998. Includes excerpts from interviews with members of the show's creative team, along with rehearsal and performance footage. The program also covers the design and construction of the theater itself, built in space formerly occupied by the Lyric and Apollo theaters, and which incorporated some architectural elements salvaged from those buildings. The project is discussed by several of the architects and designers involved.

Series Statement

Great performances

Uniform Title

Great performances (WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.))

Subjects

Genre/Form

Television.
Documentaries and factual works.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Performer (note)

Host: Whoopi Goldberg.
Interviews: E. L. Doctorow, Garth Drabinsky, Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, Frank Galati, Quincy Jones, Graciela Daniele, Richard Blinder, Peter Kofman, Roger Morgan, Jeffrey Greene.
Performers include Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Marin Mazzie, Peter Friedman, and Lynnette Perry.

Event (note)

Videotaped in New York, N.Y., 1997. Originally broadcast on WNET-TV, New York, N.Y., Jan. 21, 1998.

Call Number

NCOX 1429

OCLC

814313086

Title

Creating Ragtime [videorecording] / Produced by Sandy Pearl ; written and directed by Colin Smith ; executive producer, Jac Venza ; a co-production of Livent Inc. and Thirteen/WNET.

Imprint

New York, c1997.

Series

Great performances

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Cast

Host: Whoopi Goldberg.

Interviews: E. L. Doctorow, Garth Drabinsky, Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, Frank Galati, Quincy Jones, Graciela Daniele, Richard Blinder, Peter Kofman, Roger Morgan, Jeffrey Greene.

Performers include Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Marin Mazzie, Peter Friedman, and Lynnette Perry.

Event

Videotaped in New York, N.Y., 1997. Originally broadcast on WNET-TV, New York, N.Y., Jan. 21, 1998.

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Added Author

Pearl, Sandy, producer.

Venza, Jac, producer.

Smith, Colin, director.

Goldberg, Whoopi, 1955- host.

Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015, interviewee.

Drabinsky, Garth, 1949- interviewee.

McNally, Terrence, interviewee.

Flaherty, Stephen, interviewee.

Ahrens, Lynn, interviewee.

Galati, Frank, interviewee.

Jones, Quincy, 1933- interviewee.

Daniele, Graciela, 1939- interviewee.

Binder, Richard, interviewee.

Kofman, Peter, interviewee.

Morgan, Roger, 1938- interviewee.

Greene, Jeffrey, interviewee.

Mitchell, Brian Stokes, performer.

McDonald, Audra, performer.

Mazzie, Marin, performer.

Friedman, Peter, 1949- performer.

Perry, Lynnette, performer.

LIVENT (U.S.) Inc, producer.

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.

Added Title

Great performances (WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.))

Research Call Number

NCOX 1429

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