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[Interview with Joel Grey : raw footage]
- Title
- [Interview with Joel Grey : raw footage] [2003-09-12] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor]
- Publication
- New York, 2003.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS) (22 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. Stage and screen actor Joel Grey discusses joining the cast of the original Broadway musical Wicked, after its tryout in San Francisco. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and book by Winnie Holzman, Wicked is loosely based on Gregory Maguire's best selling novel Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West. The show opened at the George Gershwin Theatre on Oct. 30, 2003, then settled in for a long run. Grey speaks about his experience joining a show after it has already been set, and his concerns in accepting the part; his role as the Wizard of Oz; his concerns, as the show is about to open, in getting his scenes staged, and his upcoming rehearsals; and whether his role will fulfill the audience's expectations of him as a musical theater performer. Grey speaks about his desire to fulfill his role; his favorite moment in the show, which occurs in his scene in Act II with the witch Elphaba; the large scale of Wicked, and its high level of spectacle, which he has not encountered on any show he has done previously; the show's faithfulness to the idiosyncratic material on which it is based; the significance to him of the show's upcoming opening and its critical response; how he decides to accept a job on Broadway; the differences between performing in England, where a leading actor can perform regularly on the stage, and in New York, where it is difficult to work consistently; how Broadway has changed since he began performing; and the qualities of Wicked he admires.
- Alternative Title
- Broadway, the American musical
- Joel Grey
- Subjects
- Musical theater > Production and direction
- Schwartz, Stephen > Wicked
- Grey, Joel, 1932- > Interviews
- Musicals
- Unedited footage
- Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
- Maguire, Gregory > Wicked
- Actors > Interviews
- Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
- Theater > New York (State) > New York
- Documentaries and factual works
- Genre/Form
- Documentaries and factual works.
- Musicals.
- Unedited footage.
- Note
- The first interview conducted with Joel Grey for this documentary is available on NCOX 2139.
- 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.
- Audio and video are slightly out of sync.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Joel Grey.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in New York, N.Y. on Sept. 12, 2003.
- 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 2172
- OCLC
- 154208593
- Title
- [Interview with Joel Grey : raw footage] [2003-09-12] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor]
- Imprint
- New York, 2003.
- Performer
- Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Joel Grey.
- Event
- Videotaped in New York, N.Y. on Sept. 12, 2003.
- 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.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Grey, Joel, 1932- interviewee.Kantor, Michael, 1961- interviewer.Kantor, Michael, 1961- director.Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.Thirteen/WNET, donor.
- Research Call Number
- NCOX 2172