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Additional authors

1. Stroman, Susan
2. Winer, Linda
3. Robins, Isobel
4. Slaughter, Harriet
5. Mayleas, Ruth
6. Corwin, Betty L
7. Isaacson, Robert
8. Malone, Audra D
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.
11. City University of New York.
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (29 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Susan Stroman discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Stroman relates that she knew as a child that she wanted to be a choreographer. Since then, she has become a Broadway pioneer as a woman director/choreographer of major hit shows, such as Contact (1999) and The producers (2001), for which, combined, she earned three of her five Tony Awards. Stroman speaks about the creation of Contact, which contains virtually no words, and which some in the theater community initially found difficult to categorize; her choreography of the George Gershwin musical Crazy for you, which made her work more widely known; her marriage to director Mike Ockrent, who died of leukemia in 1999; her exposure to show tunes by her piano-playing salesman father; her passion for music, and early experiences with dance and choreography; coming to New York City as a dancer intent on choreographing; her admiration for the choreography of Jerome Robbins; meeting and working with Mel Brooks; how she views her role as a director/choreographer; choreographing dance concerts versus musical shows; and why she thinks women haven't previously been allowed "control" of Broadway productions.

Series statement

1. Women in theatre

Alternative title

1. Dialogues with notable women in American theatre

Subject

1. Choreographers > Interviews
2. Interviews
3. Stroman, Susan > Interviews
4. Women theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
5. Theater > Production and direction
6. Stroman, Susan > Contact
7. Television
8. Women choreographers > Interviews
9. Talk shows
10. Women in the theater
11. Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
12. Theater > New York (State) > New York
13. Musical theater > New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

1. Television.
2. Talk shows.
3. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOX 2045

Note

1. Credits at end of tape.
2. Program is also available at www.cuny.tv.
3. "Discussion program spotlighting prominent women from the theatre, including performers, playwrights, producers and designers."

Performer (note)

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Dec. 15, 2003. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, June 4, 2004.

Title

1. Women in theatre. Susan Stroman [videorecording] / produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women, Isobel Robins, Harriet Slaughter, co-presidents ; Ruth Mayleas, executive producer ; Betty L. Corwin, director of special projects, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ; Bob Isaacson, executive in charge of production ; Audra D. Malone, director ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.

Imprint

1. New York : CUNY-TV, c2004.

Series

1. Women in theatre

Performer

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Dec. 15, 2003. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, June 4, 2004.

Local note

1. Gift of The League of Professional Theatre Women and CUNY-TV.

Connect to:

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

Added author

1. Stroman, Susan, interviewee.
2. Winer, Linda, interviewer.
3. Robins, Isobel, producer.
4. Slaughter, Harriet, producer.
5. Mayleas, Ruth, producer.
6. Corwin, Betty L, producer.
7. Isaacson, Robert, producer.
8. Malone, Audra D, director.
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.
11. City University of New York.
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 2045