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Additional authors

1. Plaskin, Glenn.

Description

1. 1 sound disc (ca. 48 min.) ; digital; 4 3/4in.

Summary

1. [Begins abruptly.] Jerome Robbins discusses his upcoming retrospective, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, including his reasons for doing the show, the initial research, the restoration and recreation of his dances, the transitions from one dance number to the next and the rehearsals. Robbins discusses casting and costuming; working in ballet compared with Broadway; his perfectionism in his work with performers; the nature of dance and theater and its relationship to life, art and literature; his purpose for doing the show and its effect on the audience; his absence from Broadway for the previous two decades; the cast for Jerome Robbins' Broadway; his expectations from a performer in relation to the material being performed; his feelings about his life, work and age [ends abruptly].

Series statement

1. Jerome Robbins Collection

Alternative title

1. Dance Audio Archive.

Subject

1. Musical comedies > Jerome Robbins' Broadway
2. Audiotapes > Robbins, J
3. Robbins, Jerome > Interviews
4. Musical theater > Production and direction

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-3096 JRC

Note

1. Interview conducted by Daily news reporter Glenn Plaskin on Jan. 18, 1989.

Access (note)

1. Permission required.

Funding (note)

1. Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Source (note)

1. WNET/13

Author

1. Robbins, Jerome, interviewee.

Title

1. Interview with Jerome Robbins. Jan. 18, 1989 [sound recording]

Imprint

1. 1989.

Series

1. Jerome Robbins Collection

Access

1. Permission required.

Funding

1. Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Local note

1. For transcript of a brief excerpt see *MGZMT 3-3096 JRC. The transcript was created by WNET/13 in connection with the documentary Jerome Robbins: Something to dance about.
2. Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-3096 JRC
3. Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-3096 JRC
4. Preservation master: *MGZTP 10-3096 JRC
5. Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-3096 JRC

Source

1. Transcript Gift; WNET/13, 2008. NN-PD

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Special Collections (Dance Division) material

Local subject

1. Audiotapes -- Robbins, J.
2. Musical comedies. Jerome Robbins' Broadway.

Added author

1. Plaskin, Glenn. Interviewer

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-3096 JRC