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Additional authors

1. Weidman, John, 1946-
2. Chapin, Theodore S
3. Hoffman, Patrick
4. Character Generators/Video
5. Palisades Educational Foundation, Inc

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (82 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Librettist John Weidman discusses his career and his various collaborators, including composer Stephen Sondheim and producer/director Harold Prince, and his presidency of the Dramatists Guild. The discussion covers the genesis of Weidman's first show, Pacific overtures, and his later collaborations with Sondheim: Assassins, and Bounce. Also covered is Weidman's work revising the book of Cole Porter's Anything goes, his experience with Jerome Robbins' abortive "Poppa Piece," his stage adaptation of the motion picture Big, his work with Susan Stroman on the show Contact and the possibility of a film version of that show. Weidman and interviewer Ted Chapin, who is president of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, also discuss the Dramatists Guild and its work on behalf of playwrights and librettists, how the Guild differs from the other theatrical unions, how Broadway is changing and how the Guild is responding to the changes.

Subject

1. Weidman, John, 1946- > Interviews
2. Weidman, John, 1946- > Friends and associates
3. Sondheim, Stephen > Friends and associates
4. Prince, Harold, 1928-2019 > Friends and associates
5. Stroman, Susan > Friends and associates
6. Robbins, Jerome > Friends and associates
7. Sondheim, Stephen
8. Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
9. Shire, David
10. Stroman, Susan
11. Dramatists Guild
12. Librettists > United States > Interviews
13. Dramatists > Interviews
14. Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
15. Theater > Economic aspects

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOW 278

Access (note)

1. Restricted to qualified researchers.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library of the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., Aug. 5, 2004.

Funding (note)

1. Recorded with the financial assistance of The Palisades Educational Foundation, Inc.

Title

1. Interview with John Weidman [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.

Imprint

1. New York, c2004.

Access

1. Restricted to qualified researchers.

Performer

1. Interviewed by Ted Chapin.

Event

1. Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library of the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., Aug. 5, 2004.

Funding

1. Recorded with the financial assistance of The Palisades Educational Foundation, Inc.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Weidman, John, 1946- interviewee.
2. Chapin, Theodore S, interviewer.
3. Hoffman, Patrick.
4. Character Generators/Video.
5. Palisades Educational Foundation, Inc.

Research call number

1. NCOW 278