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Theater talk.
- Title
- Theater talk. Arthur Laurents. Part one [videorecording] / Susan Haskins, executive producer ; Theater Talk Productions ; director, Adam Walker.
- Publication
- New York, c2001.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (Betacam SP) (28 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Playwright, librettist, and screenwriter Arthur Laurents speaks about his life in the theater and motion pictures with Theater talk co-hosts Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins. Laurents discusses his early career writing for radio; his work in Hollywood on such movies as The way we were, directed by Sydney Pollack; his involvement in left wing politics; his writing of the the libretto for the musical Gypsy, in which he focused his story on the mother character; and his work with choreographer Jerome Robbins -- whom he came to dislike -- on such shows as West Side story and Gypsy.
- Series Statement
- Theater talk
- Alternative Title
- Theater talk. Laurents, part one
- Subjects
- Theater > Production and direction
- Laurents, Arthur > Interviews
- Interviews
- Way we were (Motion picture)
- Dramatists > Interviews
- Television
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 > West Side story
- Talk shows
- Librettists > Interviews
- Styne, Jule, 1905-1994 > Gypsy
- Theater > New York (State) > New York
- Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
- Laurents, Arthur > Friends and associates
- Robbins, Jerome > Friends and associates
- Genre/Form
- Television.
- Talk shows.
- Interviews.
- Note
- Credits at end of videocassette.
- This is episode #813 of Theater talk.
- Part two of this program is available on NCOX 2313
- Performer (note)
- Interviewers: Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios at The Graduate School & University Center/CUNY, New York, N.Y. on Nov. 16, 2001.
- Call Number
- NCOX 2014
- OCLC
- 180922943
- Title
- Theater talk. Arthur Laurents. Part one [videorecording] / Susan Haskins, executive producer ; Theater Talk Productions ; director, Adam Walker.
- Imprint
- New York, c2001.
- Series
- Theater talk
- Performer
- Interviewers: Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.
- Event
- Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios at The Graduate School & University Center/CUNY, New York, N.Y. on Nov. 16, 2001.
- Local Note
- Gift of Susan Haskins.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Laurents, Arthur, interviewee.Riedel, Michael (Theater critic), interviewer.Haskins, Susan, interviewer.Haskins, Susan, producer.Walker, Adam, director.Theater Talk Productions, Inc.Haskins, Susan, donor.
- Research Call Number
- NCOX 2014