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Mainly on Directing: Gypsy, West Side - Hardcover, by Laurents Arthur - Good b
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A book that has been read, but is in good condition. Minimal damage to the book cover eg. scuff marks, but no holes or tears. If this is a hard cover, the dust jacket may be missing. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. No highlighting of text, no writing in the margins, and no missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780307270887
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307270882
ISBN-13
9780307270887
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71144683
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mainly on Directing : Gypsy, West Side Story, and Other Musicals
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Printed Music / Musicals, Film & TV, Theater / Direction & Production
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Music, Performing Arts
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-055541
Reviews
". . . required reading for anyone who is passionate about musical theater. . . a sublimely dishy portrait of Broadway's golden age and beyond, ranging from legends such as Ethel Merman, Jerome Robbins and Stephen Sondheim to Laurents' late partner, Tom Hatcher, whose influence on his work is movingly detailed." - USA Today "Laurents has created an indispensable account of his hard-won success. . . valuable as much for the advice it gives to future directors as for the passion with which it argues for the redemption of musical theater as a serious art form." - The Buffalo News ". . . a book that, in its frankness and warmth, is both a professional manual and a moving elegy." - The New York Times Book Review From the Hardcover edition., ". . . required reading for anyone who is passionate about musical theater. . . a sublimely dishy portrait of Broadway's golden age and beyond, ranging from legends such as Ethel Merman, Jerome Robbins and Stephen Sondheim to Laurents' late partner, Tom Hatcher, whose influence on his work is movingly detailed." -USA Today "Laurents has created an indispensable account of his hard-won success. . . valuable as much for the advice it gives to future directors as for the passion with which it argues for the redemption of musical theater as a serious art form." -The Buffalo News ". . . a book that, in its frankness and warmth, is both a professional manual and a moving elegy." -TheNew York Times Book Review
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
792.602/33092
Synopsis
From Arthur Laurents, playwright, screenwriter, director a mesmerizing book about theater, the art, the artist, the insider, the outsider and the making of two of the greatest musicals of the American stage, West Side Story and Gypsy . It is a book profoundly enriched by the author s two loves, love for the theater and love for his partner of fifty-two years, Tom Hatcher, who shared and inspired every aspect of his life and his work. Laurents writes about the musicals he directed, I Can Get It for You Wholesale , its producer David Merrick (the Abominable Showman ), and its (very young) stars Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould . . . He writes about Stephen Sondheim s Anyone Can Whistle , which starred Angela Lansbury and Lee Remick, marking the debut for each in musical theater. He summons up the challenges and surprises that came with the making of La Cage aux Folles , the first big Broadway musical that was gay and glad to be. He writes in rich detail about his most recent production of Gypsy, how it began as an act of love, a love that spread through the entire company and resulted in a Gypsy unlike any other. And about his new bilingual production of West Side Story . And he talks, as well, about the works of other directors Fiddler on the Roof; Kiss Me, Kate ; Spring Awakening ; Street Scene ; The Phantom of the Opera ; LoveMusik ; Sweeney Todd. Moving, exhilarating, provocative a portrait of an artist working with other artists; a unique close-up look at today s American musical theater by a man who s been at its red-hot center for more than five decades.", From Arthur Laurents, playwright, screenwriter, director-a mesmerizing book about theater, the art, the artist, the insider, the outsider-and the making of two of the greatest musicals of the American stage, West Side Story and Gypsy . It is a book profoundly enriched by the author's two loves, love for the theater and love for his partner of fifty-two years, Tom Hatcher, who shared and inspired every aspect of his life and his work. Laurents writes about the musicals he directed, I Can Get It for You Wholesale , its producer David Merrick (the "Abominable Showman"), and its (very young) stars Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould . . . He writes about Stephen Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle , which starred Angela Lansbury and Lee Remick, marking the debut for each in musical theater. He summons up the challenges and surprises that came with the making of La Cage aux Folles , the first big Broadway musical that was gay and glad to be. He writes in rich detail about his most recent production of Gypsy, how it began as an act of love, a love that spread through the entire company and resulted in a Gypsy unlike any other. And about his new bilingual production of West Side Story . And he talks, as well, about the works of other directors- Fiddler on the Roof; Kiss Me, Kate ; Spring Awakening ; Street Scene ; The Phantom of the Opera ; LoveMusik ; Sweeney Todd. Moving, exhilarating, provocative-a portrait of an artist working with other artists; a unique close-up look at today's American musical theater by a man who's been at its red-hot center for more than five decades.
LC Classification Number
ML1711.5.L38 2009
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