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Interview with John Weidman
- Title
- Interview with John Weidman [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
- Publication
- New York, c2004.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | VHS | Restricted use | NCOW 278 | Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS) (82 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Librettist John Weidman discusses his career and his various collaborators, including composer Stephen Sondheim and producer/director Harold Prince, and his presidency of the Dramatists Guild. The discussion covers the genesis of Weidman's first show, Pacific overtures, and his later collaborations with Sondheim: Assassins, and Bounce. Also covered is Weidman's work revising the book of Cole Porter's Anything goes, his experience with Jerome Robbins' abortive "Poppa Piece," his stage adaptation of the motion picture Big, his work with Susan Stroman on the show Contact and the possibility of a film version of that show. Weidman and interviewer Ted Chapin, who is president of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, also discuss the Dramatists Guild and its work on behalf of playwrights and librettists, how the Guild differs from the other theatrical unions, how Broadway is changing and how the Guild is responding to the changes.
- Subjects
- Stroman, Susan > Contact
- Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
- Stroman, Susan > Friends and associates
- Theater > Economic aspects
- Prince, Harold, 1928-2019 > Friends and associates
- Shire, David > Big
- Sondheim, Stephen > Bounce
- Weidman, John, 1946- > Interviews
- Robbins, Jerome > Friends and associates
- Weidman, John, 1946- > Friends and associates
- Sondheim, Stephen > Friends and associates
- Dramatists Guild
- Dramatists > Interviews
- Porter, Cole, 1891-1964 > Anything goes
- Sondheim, Stephen > Assassins
- Librettists > United States > Interviews
- Interviews
- Sondheim, Stephen > Pacific overtures
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Access (note)
- Restricted to qualified researchers.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library of the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., Aug. 5, 2004.
- Funding (note)
- Recorded with the financial assistance of The Palisades Educational Foundation, Inc.
- Call Number
- NCOW 278
- OCLC
- NYPG05-F10069
- Title
- Interview with John Weidman [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
- Imprint
- New York, c2004.
- Access
- Restricted to qualified researchers.
- Performer
- Interviewed by Ted Chapin.
- Event
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library of the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., Aug. 5, 2004.
- Funding
- Recorded with the financial assistance of The Palisades Educational Foundation, Inc.
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- Added Author
- Weidman, John, 1946- interviewee.Chapin, Theodore S, interviewer.Hoffman, Patrick.Character Generators/Video.Palisades Educational Foundation, Inc.
- Research Call Number
- NCOW 278