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[Interview with William Goldman : raw footage]

Title: [Interview with William Goldman : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor]
Publication: New York, 1999.

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1 videocassette (VHS) (23 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. Novelist, playwright, screenwriter William Goldman, author of the book The season: a candid look at Broadway, talks about the theater. Topics of discussion include being deeply affected, along with the rest of the audience, by a scene from a production of Porgy and Bess he saw as a child in Chicago; the changing concept of a "hit" on Broadway, and falling asleep at a production of Cats in London; musicals as an "American" art form; Broadway songs as popular hits; what he views as the current period of "low talent" in the arts; the economics of producing shows on Broadway during the 1950s compared with the present trend of large-scale productions with long runs, which require large sums of money to produce; the "myth" of Broadway as a place that brings back memories of favorite music and performers like Fred Astaire; the financial risk of producing a show on Broadway; the difficulty of producing a musical on Broadway, and young composers' limited opportunities for success; the importance of incorporating the work of younger artists, like that of tap dancer Savion Glover, into the mix on Broadway; his most thrilling theatergoing moments seeing productions of West side story and Gypsy.

Alternative Title

Broadway, the American musical
Broadway: the American musical : William Goldman interview

Subjects

Genre/Form

Documentaries and factual works.
Musicals.
Unedited footage.

Note

This interview is one of a group of interviews with 90 individuals used in making the documentary Broadway, the American musical. The completed production is available on NCOX 2058.
Credits for completed production from pbs.org: A film by Michael Kantor ; produced by Jeff Dupre, Michael Kantor and Sally Rosenthal ; written by Marc Fields, Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon, and JoAnne Young ; directed by Michael Kantor.
Time code on frame.
Contains various takes, at occasional brief intervals, audio continues without sound.

Credits (note)

Cameraman: Buddy Squires.

Performer (note)

Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: William Goldman.

Event (note)

Videotaped in New York, N.Y. on April 23, 1999.

Biography (note)

Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.

Call Number

NCOX 2120

OCLC

123086051

Title

[Interview with William Goldman : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor]

Imprint

New York, 1999.

Credits

Cameraman: Buddy Squires.

Performer

Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: William Goldman.

Event

Videotaped in New York, N.Y. on April 23, 1999.

Biography

Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.

Local Note

Gift of Broadway Film Project, Inc. and Thirteen/WNET, 2005.

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Added Author

Goldman, William, 1931-2018, interviewee.

Kantor, Michael, 1961- interviewer.

Kantor, Michael, 1961- director.

Squires, Buddy, cameraman.

Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.

Thirteen/WNET, donor.

Research Call Number

NCOX 2120

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