Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Jerome Robbins. Feb. 17, 1989 [sound recording]

Author

Robbins, Jerome

Publication

1989.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Corliss, Richard.

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 30 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

[Contains extraneous noise.] Robbins discusses his upcoming Broadway retrospective, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, including the restoration and recreation of his dances, working with the cast, the training of current Broadway dancers; his appreciation for the original material in the show. Robbins discusses videotape as a means of preserving choreography; changes in the Broadway musical since the 1960s; the logistics of producing the show; the presence of ballet-trained dancers in the cast and on Broadway; more on the difficulty of reconstructing his dances, especially Sleepwalker's Ballet and the Times Square Ballet from On the town (1945); the unreliability of his memory in dance reconstruction and the loss of some of his work; the necessity of dropping some numbers from the show; his oversight of travelling versions of his shows such as Fiddler on the roof; more on the importance of videotape in preserving choreography; the reconstruction of the dances from the show A funny thing happened on the way to the forum (1962); the portrayal of his life's work in Jerome Robbins' Broadway.

Series Statement

Jerome Robbins Collection

Alternative Title

Dance Audio Archive.

Subjects

• Musical theater > Production and direction
• Robbins, Jerome > Interviews
• Musical comedies > Jerome Robbins' Broadway
• Choreography > Reconstruction
• Audiotapes > Robbins, J
• Dance > Documentation

Note

• Interview conducted on Feb 17, 1989 for Time magazine; probably for the article "Jerome Robbins' Broadway," by Richard Corliss, Mar. 6, 1989 p. 78-79+.

Access (note)

• Permission required.

Funding (note)

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

Source (note)

• WNET/13

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-3093 JRC

OCLC

NYPT03-R16

Author

Robbins, Jerome, interviewee.

Title

Interview with Jerome Robbins. Feb. 17, 1989 [sound recording]

Imprint

1989.

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

For transcript of brief excerpts see *MGZMT 3-3093 JRC. The transcipt was created by WNET/13 in connection with the documentary: Jerome Robbins: Something to dance about.

Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-3093 JRC

Title on container (handwritten): Time magazine interview.

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-3093 JRC

Preservation master: *MGZTP 10-3093 JRC

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-3093 JRC

Source

Transcript Gift; WNET/13, 2008. NN-PD

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Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Robbins, J.

Choreography -- Reconstruction.

Musical comedies. Jerome Robbins' Broadway.

Added Author

Corliss, Richard. Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-3093 JRC