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Additional authors

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

Description

1. 1 videodisc (DVD) (29 min.) : sd., col. SP; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Best known for the pioneering feminist musical I'm getting my act together and taking it on the road (1978), composer/lyricist/performer team Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer speak with Newsday critic Linda Winer. They discuss meeting as undergraduates at DePauw University where they wrote their first musical; the development of their first professional shows in New York such as Now is the time for all good men and The last sweet days of Isaac, which addressed themes of war and pacifism; and their short-lived Broadway show Shelter, which depicted a man's media and technology induced self-delusionment. Ford and Cryer expound on the writing of their show I'm getting my act together, which they initially performed as a cabaret act. The show, which concerns a woman's journey to self realization against her boyfriend's wishes, garnered strong reactions from audiences. It was subsequently produced by Joseph Papp at his Public Theater, and went on to tour, becoming extremely popular with audiences. Ford and Cryer also discuss their new Off-Broadway show Anne of Green Gables, and their writing of the American Girl revue. The musical, based on the series of books by Pleasant Rowland about the life of a ten-year-old girl in various periods of American history, is currently playing at American Girl theaters in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Series statement

1. Women in theatre

Alternative title

1. Dialogues with notable women in American theatre

Subject

1. Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
2. Ford, Nancy > I'm getting my act together and taking it on the road
3. Theater > Production and direction
4. Women composers > Interviews
5. Composers > Interviews
6. Cryer, Gretchen > Interviews
7. Ford, Nancy > American Girl revue
8. Lyricists > Interviews
9. Theater > New York (State) > New York
10. Interviews
11. Talk shows
12. Television
13. Women in the theater
14. Ford, Nancy > Interviews
15. Actresses > Interviews
16. Women lyricists > Interviews

Genre/Form

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

Call number

1. NCOX 2284

Note

1. Credits at end of videodisc.
2. Program is also available at www.cuny.tv.
3. On container: Season 5, episode 8.
4. "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. in Nov. 2006. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, May 18, 2007.

Title

1. Women in theatre. Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford [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, c2007.

Series

1. Women in theatre

Performer

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. in Nov. 2006. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, May 18, 2007.

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

Research call number

1. NCOX 2284