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[Interview with Tim Rice : raw footage]
- Title
- [Interview with Tim Rice : raw footage] [videorecording] / [documentary directed by Michael Kantor ; interview directed by Jeff Dupre]
- Publication
- New York, 2003.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS) (23 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. Musical theater lyricist and author Tim Rice discusses his involvement in the Broadway musical Beauty and the beast. Rice wrote lyrics for the 1994 theatrical production, which was based on the Disney Company animated film featuring an original score by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman. Rice discusses his collaboration with Elton John on Disney's next Broadway production, the 1997 show The lion king; meeting director Julie Taymor; and the show's opening number Circle of life, for which he wrote the lyrics. Rice speaks about the successful careers of producer Cameron Mackintosh and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lloyd Webber's first show, Jesus Christ superstar, a minor Broadway hit which began as a record album; Lloyd Webber's shows Evita, whose score Rice believes is "brilliant," and his Phantom of the opera, which is his most popular; more about Jesus Christ superstar, and how he and Lloyd Webber produced the LP version; the presence of rock & roll music in the theater; his views on Lloyd Webber's musical Cats; the notion of Lloyd Webber's shows as "sheer spectacle"; whether the musical can be considered an "American" art form; his favorite lyricists Alan Jay Lerner, Cole Porter, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon; creative talent, not corporations, as the source of great musical theater; the difficulty of predicting the source of the next successful musical.
- Alternative Title
- Broadway, the American musical
- Broadway: the American musical : Tim Rice interview
- Subject
- 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.
- Interview begins ca. 1 min. into tape.
- Credits (note)
- Cameraman: Terry Hopkins.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewer: Jeff Dupre. Interviewee: Tim Rice.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in England on Sept. 24, 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 2175
- OCLC
- 155278549
- Title
- [Interview with Tim Rice : raw footage] [videorecording] / [documentary directed by Michael Kantor ; interview directed by Jeff Dupre]
- Imprint
- New York, 2003.
- Credits
- Cameraman: Terry Hopkins.
- Performer
- Interviewer: Jeff Dupre. Interviewee: Tim Rice.
- Event
- Videotaped in England on Sept. 24, 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
- Rice, Tim, 1944- interviewee.Dupre, Jeff, interviewer.Kantor, Michael, 1961- director.Hopkins, Terry, cameraman.Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.Thirteen/WNET, donor.
- Research Call Number
- NCOX 2175