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Les blancs

Title: Les blancs [videorecording] / The Huntington Theatre Company, Peter Altman, producing director, Michael Maso, managing director, presents ; [written] by Lorraine Hansberry ; final text adapted by Robert Nemiroff ; directed by Harold Scott ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
Publication: Boston, Mass., c1989.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Videodiscs 1 and 2	Moving image	Restricted use	NCOV 757 Videodiscs 1 and 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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Description

2 videodiscs (DVD) (150 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Subjects

Theater > Massachusetts > Boston
Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965 > Adaptations
African American theater > Massachusetts > Boston
Race relations > Drama
Drama
Theatrical productions > Massachusetts > Boston > 1981-1990
Imperialism > Drama

Genre/Form

Drama.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Scenery designed by Karl Eigsti ; costumes designed by Marjorie Slaiman ; lighting designed by Allen Lee Hughes ; music director, Barnett Williams ; choreography by Nafisa Sharriff ; production stage manager, Maxine Krasowski Bertone ; assistant stage manager, Kelly Cantley.

Performer (note)

Barnett Williams, Evelyn Thomas, Tony Todd, Basil Wallace, Jeffrey Wright, Patricia Hodges, Lou Ferguson, Phillip Clark, Mark Hammer, Steven Major West, Barry Boys, Lilia Skala, Orisanmi Burton, Ian Ellis Johnson, Edward Jones, Nefertiti Burton, Craig Alan Edwards, Bob Knapp, Don Mays, Anthony Walker.
Musicians: Barnett Williams, Bamidele Osumarea, Pharoah Adé Bayo.

Event (note)

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at Boston University Theatre, Boston, Mass., Feb. 4, 1989.

Funding (note)

Recorded with the financial assistance of The Ford Foundation Fund for the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Biography (note)

Les blancs was one of two plays Lorraine Hansberry left uncompleted at the time of her death in 1965. Her former husband, Robert Nemiroff, finished the play from her notes, and it received its first New York production in 1970.

Call Number

NCOV 757

OCLC

244947957

Title

Les blancs [videorecording] / The Huntington Theatre Company, Peter Altman, producing director, Michael Maso, managing director, presents ; [written] by Lorraine Hansberry ; final text adapted by Robert Nemiroff ; directed by Harold Scott ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.

Imprint

Boston, Mass., c1989.

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

Scenery designed by Karl Eigsti ; costumes designed by Marjorie Slaiman ; lighting designed by Allen Lee Hughes ; music director, Barnett Williams ; choreography by Nafisa Sharriff ; production stage manager, Maxine Krasowski Bertone ; assistant stage manager, Kelly Cantley.

Cast

Barnett Williams, Evelyn Thomas, Tony Todd, Basil Wallace, Jeffrey Wright, Patricia Hodges, Lou Ferguson, Phillip Clark, Mark Hammer, Steven Major West, Barry Boys, Lilia Skala, Orisanmi Burton, Ian Ellis Johnson, Edward Jones, Nefertiti Burton, Craig Alan Edwards, Bob Knapp, Don Mays, Anthony Walker.

Musicians: Barnett Williams, Bamidele Osumarea, Pharoah Adé Bayo.

Event

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at Boston University Theatre, Boston, Mass., Feb. 4, 1989.

Funding

Recorded with the financial assistance of The Ford Foundation Fund for the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Biography

Les blancs was one of two plays Lorraine Hansberry left uncompleted at the time of her death in 1965. Her former husband, Robert Nemiroff, finished the play from her notes, and it received its first New York production in 1970.

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Added Author

Altman, Peter, producer.

Maso, Michael, producer.

Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965. Blancs.

Nemiroff, Robert, adapter.

Scott, Harold, 1935-2006, director.

Eigsti, Karl, set designer.

Slaiman, Marjorie, approximately 1925-2002, costume designer.

Hughes, Allen Lee, lighting designer.

Williams, Barnett, music director.

Williams, Barnett, actor.

Williams, Barnett, musician.

Sharriff, Nafisa, choreographer.

Bertone, Maxine Krasowski, production stage manager.

Cantley, Kelly, stage manager.

Thomas, Evelyn, actor.

Todd, Tony, 1952- actor.

Wallace, Basil, actor.

Wright, Jeffrey (Jeffrey Charles), 1965- actor.

Hodges, Patricia, actor.

Ferguson, Lou, actor.

Clark, Phillip, actor.

Hammer, Mark, 1937-2007, actor.

West, Steven Major, actor.

Boys, Barry, actor.

Skala, Lilia, actor.

Burton, Orisanmi, actor.

Johnson, Ian Ellis, actor.

Jones, Edward, actor.

Burton, Nefertiti, actor.

Edwards, Craig Alan, actor.

Knapp, Bob, actor.

Mays, Don, actor.

Walker, Anthony, actor.

Osumarea, Bamidele, musician.

Bayo, Pharoah Adé, musician.

Stucker, Richard, videographer.

Corwin, Betty L.

Huntington Theatre Company (Boston, Mass.), producer.

Ford Foundation.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

Has Supplement:

Slaiman, Marjorie, approximately 1925-2002. Costume designer

Research Call Number

NCOV 757

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