Background
Laurents, Arthur was born on July 14, 1917 in New York City. Son of Irving and Ada (Robbins) Laurents.
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Author: Arthur Laurents, Arthur Laurents, Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Keywords: brave, home Pages: 72 Published: 1998-01 Language: English ISBN-10: 0822205297 ISBN-13: 9780822205296 Binding: Paperback List Price: 8.00
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As a playwright, screenwriter, and director, Arthur Laurents has a unique place in the history of theater. In this moving, exhilarating, and provocative account, he presents readers with a front-row look at the making of two of the greatest musicals of the American stage, West Side Story and Gypsy. He writes in rich detail about his new bilingual production of West Side Story, along with his most recent production of Gypsy, how it began as an act of love, and how that love spread through the entire company and resulted in a Gypsy unlike any other. Laurents offers behind-the-scenes details about the musicals he directed, including 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 dishes on Stephen Sondheims Anyone Can Whistle, which starred Angela Lansbury and Lee Remick, marking the debut for each in musical theater. And he recounts 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.Throughout, the book is enriched by Laurentss two loveshis love for the theater and his love for his partner of fifty-two years, Tom Hatcher, who shared and inspired every aspect of his life and his work. Mainly on Directing presents am unforgettable portrait of an artist working with other artists, a unique close-up look at todays American musical theater by a man whos been at its red-hot center for more than five decades.
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Laurents, Arthur was born on July 14, 1917 in New York City. Son of Irving and Ada (Robbins) Laurents.
Bachelor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1937.
Radio script writer, 1939-1940.
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Served with Army of the United States, 1941-1945. Member Dramatists Guild Council, P.E.N., Authors League, Screenwriters Guild, Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Theatre Hall of Fame.