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All the world's a stage.

Title
All the world's a stage. Razzmatazz and realism / by Ronald Harwood ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Video ; Richard Cawston, executive producer ; Henry Hastings, producer ; Keith Cheetham, director.
Publication
U.K. : BBC-TV, c1983.

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Additional Authors
  • Merman, Ethel
  • Sondheim, Stephen
  • Rodgers, Dorothy, 1909-1992
  • Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986
  • Wallach, Eli, 1915-2014
  • De Mille, Agnes
  • Robbins, Jerome
  • Papp, Joseph
  • Harwood, Ronald, 1934-2020.
  • Cawston, Richard
  • Hastings, Henry
  • Cheetham, Keith
  • British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, production company.
Description
1 videodisc (DVD) (59 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Episode on the American musical, originally broadcast as part of a BBC-TV series on the theater. Topics include the origins of the American musical in various indigeneous performing arts forms; its landmark productions and its main artistic proponents; its specific qualities; and its current state. Includes interview excerpts with musical theater artists Ethel Merman, Stephen Sondheim, Mrs. Dorothy Rodgers, Alan Jay Lerner, Eli Wallach, Agnes De Mille, Jerome Robbins and, at 37 and 48 min., theatrical producer Joseph Papp. Includes archival and contemporary performance footage, including rehearsal segments from the New York Shakespeare Festival production A chorus line.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival.
Series Statement
Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival Moving Image Collection
Uniform Title
All the world's a stage (Television program)
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Interviews.
  • Television.
Note
  • This video separated from the New York Shakespeare Festival collection, *T-Mss 1993-028.
  • Also cataloged in NCOX 5326.
Event (note)
  • Filmed in New York, N.Y. and Seattle, Wash. ca. 1983. First broadcast BBC-TV, United Kingdom, 1984. Exact air date is unknown.
Call Number
NCOX 5187
OCLC
NYPG05-F11575
Title
All the world's a stage. Razzmatazz and realism / by Ronald Harwood ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Video ; Richard Cawston, executive producer ; Henry Hastings, producer ; Keith Cheetham, director.
Imprint
U.K. : BBC-TV, c1983.
Country of Producing Entity
U.K.
Series
Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival Moving Image Collection
Event
Filmed in New York, N.Y. and Seattle, Wash. ca. 1983. First broadcast BBC-TV, United Kingdom, 1984. Exact air date is unknown.
Added Author
Merman, Ethel, interviewee.
Sondheim, Stephen, interviewee.
Rodgers, Dorothy, 1909-1992, interviewee.
Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986, interviewee.
Wallach, Eli, 1915-2014, interviewee.
De Mille, Agnes, interviewee.
Robbins, Jerome, interviewee.
Papp, Joseph, interviewee.
Harwood, Ronald, 1934-2020.
Cawston, Richard, producer.
Hastings, Henry, producer.
Cheetham, Keith, director.
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, production company.
Added Title
All the world's a stage (Television program)
Research Call Number
NCOX 5187
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