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Theater talk.

Title
Theater talk. Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman on California's Proposition 8 [videorecording] / [produced by] Susan Haskins, Theater Talk Productions, Inc. ; director, Adam Walker.
Publication
New York, c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Shaiman, Marc
  • Wittman, Scott
  • Riedel, Michael (Theater critic)
  • Haskins, Susan
  • Walker, Adam
  • Theater Talk Productions, Inc.
Description
1 videodisc (DVD) (27 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, domestic partners who collaborated on the music and lyrics of the Broadway musical Hairspray, discuss their involvement in a California political controversy concerning Proposition 8, a ballot proposal which prohibited the right of same-sex couples to marry. After the proposal passed Shaiman learned that Scott Eckern, the artistic director of Sacramento's California Musical Theater, supported the measure with a financial contribution. Because Eckern's theater recently produced Hairspray, Shaiman announced that he would no longer permit his work to be performed at the CMT, and when a number of his colleagues followed suit, Eckern resigned. Shaiman and Wittman examine various aspects of the controversy with interviewers Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.
Series Statement
Theater talk
Subject
  • Shaiman, Marc > Interviews
  • Shaiman, Marc > Political activity
  • Shaiman, Marc
  • Wittman, Scott > Interviews
  • Gay rights > California
  • Same-sex marriage > Law and legislation
  • Same-sex marriage > Religious aspects
  • Gay men and musicals
  • Musical theater > California > Sacramento
Genre/Form
  • Interviews.
  • Talk shows.
  • Television.
Note
  • Credits at end of tape.
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., Nov. 14, 2008.
Call Number
NCOX 2420
OCLC
317137518
Title
Theater talk. Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman on California's Proposition 8 [videorecording] / [produced by] Susan Haskins, Theater Talk Productions, Inc. ; director, Adam Walker.
Imprint
New York, c2008.
Series
Theater talk
Cast
Interviewers: Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.
Event
Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios at the Graduate School & University Center/CUNY, New York, N.Y., Nov. 14, 2008.
Local Note
Gift of Susan Haskins.
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Added Author
Shaiman, Marc, interviewee.
Wittman, Scott, 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 2420
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