Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Jerome Robbins. Dec. 10, 1988 [sound recording]

Author

Robbins, Jerome

Publication

1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

Muse, Vance, 1949-

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 34 min.) : digital; 4 3/4in.

Summary

[Contains extraneous noise.] Robbins discusses his upcoming retrospective, Jerome Robbins Broadway, including the restoration and recreation of his dances; applying his earlier work to a new cast; the training of current Broadway performers; his admiration of the cast and his appreciation of the original material; more on reconstructing his dances; videotape as a means of preserving dance and the current problems in its use; changes in the Broadway musical since the 1960s; the logistics of producing the show; the presence of ballet-trained dancers in the cast; more on the difficulty of reconstructing his dances, especially Sleepwalker's ballet and the Times Square ballet; the unreliability of his memory in dance reconstruction and the loss of some of his work; dropping numbers from the show; his oversight of travelling versions of his shows such as Fiddler on the roof (1964); the importance of videotape in preserving choreography; reconstruction of the dances from A funny thing happen on the way to the forum (1962); the contemporary quality of the show and its portrayal of his life's work.

Donor/Sponsor

Oral History Archive.

Series Statement

Jerome Robbins Collection

Subject

• Robbins, Jerome > Interviews
• Dance > Documentation
• Dance notation
• Musical theater > Production and direction

Note

• Interview conducted on Dec. 10, 1988 by Vance Muse for his article, "Dance man," Life, spring 1989, p. 122+.
• Handwritten on container: 12/10/88 JR interview for Life magazine w/ Vance Muse.

Access (note)

• Permission required.

Funding (note)

• Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-3089 JRC

OCLC

NYPT03-R9

Author

Robbins, Jerome, interviewee.

Title

Interview with Jerome Robbins. Dec. 10, 1988 [sound recording]

Imprint

1988.

Series

Jerome Robbins Collection

Access

Permission required.

Funding

Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Local Note

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-3089 JRC

Preservation master: *MGZTP 10-3089 JRC

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-3089 JRC

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Robbins, J.

Choreography -- Reconstruction.

Musical comedies. Jerome Robbins' Broadway.

Added Author

Muse, Vance, 1949- Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-3089 JRC