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Interview with John Raitt
- Title
- Interview with John Raitt [videorecording] / [Video director] Niels Melo ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
- Publication
- Pacific Palisades, Calif., c2000.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 3/4 in. (U-matic)
- Summary
- Performer John Raitt discusses his career in musical theater with author Nicholas Van Hoogstraten, emphasizing his work with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II in the original Broadway production of Carousel, and with George Abbott in the original Broadway production of The pajama game. Mr. Raitt also discusses his experiences in the national touring company of Oklahoma!, in various summer stock roles, in the live television broadcast of Annie get your gun (1957) opposite Mary Martin, and in A joyful noise, the short-lived "rock musical" of 1966 which represented the first choreographic work of Michael Bennett.
- Subjects
- Abbott, George, 1887-1995 > Friends and associates
- Adler, Richard, 1921-2012 > Pajama game
- Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979 > Oklahoma!
- Interviews
- Brand, Oscar > A joyful noise
- Bennett, Michael, 1943-1987 > Friends and associates
- Raitt, John, 1917-2005 > Interviews
- Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979 > Carousel
- Actors > Interviews
- Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960 > Friends and associates
- Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewed by Nicholas Van Hoogstraten.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at John Raitt's home in Pacific Palisades, Ca., March 2, 2000.
- Funding (note)
- Recorded with the financial assistance of Actors Equity Foundation.
- Call Number
- NCOW 86
- OCLC
- NYPG00-F378
- Title
- Interview with John Raitt [videorecording] / [Video director] Niels Melo ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
- Imprint
- Pacific Palisades, Calif., c2000.
- Performer
- Interviewed by Nicholas Van Hoogstraten.
- Event
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at John Raitt's home in Pacific Palisades, Ca., March 2, 2000.
- Funding
- Recorded with the financial assistance of Actors Equity Foundation.
- Added Author
- Raitt, John, 1917-2005, interviewee.Van Hoogstraten, Nicholas, 1956- interviewer.Melo, Niels, videographer.Corwin, Betty L.Actors Equity Foundation.New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
- Research Call Number
- NCOW 86