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Oral history interview with Bob Avian
- Title
- Oral history interview with Bob Avian, 1987-06-16 [sound recording].
- Author
- Avian, Bob
- Publication
- 1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Use in library | *LDC 50252 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Turan, Kenneth.
- Description
- 1 sound cassette : analog.
- Summary
- Bob Avian talks about his background and his career as a musical theater dancer and choreographer. He shares his memories about his experience working as a co-choreographer on the musical, A chorus line, that started as a workshop and moved to Broadway by Joseph Papp in 1975. The show later became one of the longest-running productions in Broadway history. Avian also speaks about his personal and professional relationships with Michael Bennett, the production's director and choreographer, with Donna McKechnie, the actress who played the role of Cassie, and with Joseph Papp, the producer and the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival.
- Alternative Title
- Free for all: Joe Papp, the public, and the greatest story ever told.
- Joseph Papp oral history interviews.
- Subjects
- Choreographers > United States > Interviews
- Theater > Production and direction > United States > History > 20th century
- Hamlisch, Marvin > Chorus line
- Bennett, Michael, 1943-1987
- Avian, Bob > Interviews
- Oral histories
- Musical theater > United States
- Avian, Bob > Friends and associates
- Public Theater (New York, N.Y.)
- Papp, Joseph
- Interviews (Sound recordings)
- Genre/Form
- Oral histories.
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview by Kenneth Turan, originally recorded for the book "Free for all: Joe Papp, the public, and the greatest story ever told" which was published in 2009.
- A track ID has been inserted every five minutes within this interview for reference purposes.
- With (note)
- Part 2 of the interview is on CD with an Oral history interview with Max Stafford Clark.
- Part 2 of the interview is on original cassette with an Oral history interview with Max Stafford Clark (side B).
- Access (note)
- Access to original items restricted.
- Event (note)
- Recorded [in New York?], June 16, 1987; June 15, 1987 (the date on original cassette) is incorrect.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Service compact discs (2 sound discs : digital, mono. ; 4 3/4 in.) available on *LDC 50252, disc 1, tracks 1-9; and on *LDC 50252, disc 2, tracks 1-2.
- Call Number
- *LDC 50252, disc 1, tracks 1-9
- OCLC
- 795518151
- Author
- Avian, Bob, interviewee.
- Title
- Oral history interview with Bob Avian, 1987-06-16 [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 1987.
- Event
- Recorded [in New York?], June 16, 1987; June 15, 1987 (the date on original cassette) is incorrect.
- Access
- Access to original items restricted.
- Additional Formats
- Service compact discs (2 sound discs : digital, mono. ; 4 3/4 in.) available on *LDC 50252, disc 1, tracks 1-9; and on *LDC 50252, disc 2, tracks 1-2.
- With:
- Part 2 of the interview is on CD with an Oral history interview with Max Stafford Clark.Part 2 of the interview is on original cassette with an Oral history interview with Max Stafford Clark (side B).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Turan, Kenneth. InterviewerPapp, Gail Merrifield. Donor
- Added Title
- Free for all: Joe Papp, the public, and the greatest story ever told.Joseph Papp oral history interviews.
- Research Call Number
- *LDC 50252, disc 1, tracks 1-9*LDC 50252, disc 2, tracks 1-2*LTC-A 776