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Additional authors

1. Shaiman, Marc
2. Wittman, Scott
3. Riedel, Michael (Theater critic)
4. Haskins, Susan
5. Walker, Adam
6. Theater Talk Productions, Inc.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (DVD) (27 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, domestic partners who collaborated on the music and lyrics of the Broadway musical Hairspray, discuss their involvement in a California political controversy concerning Proposition 8, a ballot proposal which prohibited the right of same-sex couples to marry. After the proposal passed Shaiman learned that Scott Eckern, the artistic director of Sacramento's California Musical Theater, supported the measure with a financial contribution. Because Eckern's theater recently produced Hairspray, Shaiman announced that he would no longer permit his work to be performed at the CMT, and when a number of his colleagues followed suit, Eckern resigned. Shaiman and Wittman examine various aspects of the controversy with interviewers Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.

Series statement

1. Theater talk

Subject

1. Shaiman, Marc > Interviews
2. Television
3. Shaiman, Marc > Political activity
4. Shaiman, Marc > Hairspray
5. Interviews
6. Wittman, Scott > Interviews
7. Gay men and musicals
8. Talk shows
9. Musical theater > California > Sacramento
10. Gay rights > California
11. Same-sex marriage > Law and legislation
12. Same-sex marriage > Religious aspects

Genre/Form

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

Call number

1. NCOX 2420

Note

1. Credits at end of tape.

Performer (note)

1. Interviewers: Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios at the Graduate School & University Center/CUNY, New York, N.Y., Nov. 14, 2008.

Title

1. Theater talk. Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman on California's Proposition 8 [videorecording] / [produced by] Susan Haskins, Theater Talk Productions, Inc. ; director, Adam Walker.

Imprint

1. New York, c2008.

Series

1. Theater talk

Cast

1. Interviewers: Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.

Event

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios at the Graduate School & University Center/CUNY, New York, N.Y., Nov. 14, 2008.

Local note

1. Gift of Susan Haskins.

Connect to:

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

Added author

1. Shaiman, Marc, interviewee.
2. Wittman, Scott, interviewee.
3. Riedel, Michael (Theater critic), interviewer.
4. Haskins, Susan, interviewer.
5. Haskins, Susan, producer.
6. Walker, Adam, director.
7. Theater Talk Productions, Inc.
8. Haskins, Susan, donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 2420