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Inside Broadway.

Title
Inside Broadway. Joseph Church [videorecording] / [produced by Susan Haskins] ; Carpe Canem Productions ; director, Stephen Ahern.
Publication
New York, c1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Church, Joseph, 1957-
  • Riedel, Michael (Theater critic)
  • Haskins, Susan
  • Ahern, Stephen
  • Carpe Canem Productions.
Description
1 videocassette (U-matic) (29 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 3/4 in.
Summary
  • Joseph Church talks with co-hosts Susan Haskins and Michael Riedel about The Who's Tommy, the Broadway show for which he is the musical director. Church, who is also a composer and a conductor, expounds on a possible impending Broadway musicians' strike, and what he sees as the importance of live music to the theatrical experience. He speaks about his collaboration with director Des Anuff on the music for The Who's Tommy, in which they sought to rework the original rock music written by Pete Townshend as a stage show. Church elaborates on the process and purpose of orchestrating a theatrical score; his studies in classical music and his interest pop and rock music; his early experience conducting live theatrical productions; and about his work as a composer whose original compositions include a musical called Canyon, a show called An evening with Joan Crawford, and an avant garde piece called Compositions.
  • Discussion is followed with an analysis by Michael Riedel of the Andrew Lloyd Webber production Sunset Boulevard, which is soon to open for a limited run in Los Angeles with Glenn Close in the leading role of Norma Desmond. The show, which has been running in London featuring Patti LuPone in the Desmond role, received unfavorable reviews. There is considerable uncertainty surrounding its impending Broadway opening, as well as rumors that Lloyd Webber is seeking to eliminate LuPone from the New York production. Riedel also speaks about the upheaval surrounding the production of The red shoes. Its director Susan Shulman has been fired. Reports are that she and composer Jule Styne did not hit it off, and that she may be replaced with Hollywood veteran Stanley Donen.
Series Statement
Theater talk
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Interviews.
  • Talk shows.
  • Television.
Note
  • Credits at end of tape.
  • This is episode #31 of Inside Broadway.
Performer (note)
  • Interviewers: Susan Haskins and Michael Riedel.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped at Vidlo Studios, New York, N.Y. on Sept. 12, 1993.
Biography (note)
  • Inside Broadway changed its name to Theater talk in 1996.
Call Number
NCOX 1066
OCLC
182585313
Title
Inside Broadway. Joseph Church [videorecording] / [produced by Susan Haskins] ; Carpe Canem Productions ; director, Stephen Ahern.
Imprint
New York, c1993.
Series
Theater talk
Performer
Interviewers: Susan Haskins and Michael Riedel.
Event
Videotaped at Vidlo Studios, New York, N.Y. on Sept. 12, 1993.
Biography
Inside Broadway changed its name to Theater talk in 1996.
Local Note
Gift of Susan Haskins.
Added Author
Church, Joseph, 1957- interviewee.
Riedel, Michael (Theater critic), interviewer.
Haskins, Susan, interviewer.
Haskins, Susan, producer.
Ahern, Stephen, director.
Carpe Canem Productions.
Haskins, Susan, donor.
Research Call Number
NCOX 1066
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