Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Snow, Leida
2. British Broadcasting Corporation.

Found in

1. Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts.

Description

1. 1 streaming audio file (approximately 29 minutes) : digital, stereo.

Summary

1. Unidentified BBC radio host talks about the racism in the British and American theater, and the way of black, Indian and other minority actors and actresses to London and New York stages, such as Jamaican-born actress Yvonne Brewster, and, on the other hand, about the problems of white actors to get ethnic roles. Includes interview with Leida Snow who speaks about Jonathan Pryce, a Welsh actor and singer, who was rejected by Actors Equity in New York from the role of Eurasian Engineer in the Broadway production of the musical Miss Saigon, and had to move to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London to play it.

Alternative title

1. Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts.

Subject

1. Casting (Performing arts)
2. Radio programs
3. Interviews (Sound recordings)
4. Snow, Leida > Interviews
5. Race in the theater
6. Racism and the arts
7. Radio personalities > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Radio programs.
2. Interviews.
3. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. *LTC-A 1805

Note

1. Title provided by cataloger.
2. Streaming file transferred from original audiocassette.

Access (note)

1. Access to original item restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at the NYPL Research Libraries.

Additional formats (note)

1. Archival original: (1 audiocassette : analog, stereo) in *LTC-A 1805.

Source (note)

1. Leida Snow

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of: Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts, *L(Special) 09-02.

Title

1. Meridian: Interview with Leida Snow / Leida Snow, interviewee.

Production

1. [1990].

Type of content

1. spoken word

Type of medium

1. audio
2. computer

Type of carrier

1. online resource

Performer

1. Leida Snow, interviewee.

Event

1. Broadcast on BBC 1990

Access

1. Access to original item restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at the NYPL Research Libraries.

Additional formats

1. Archival original: (1 audiocassette : analog, stereo) in *LTC-A 1805.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of: Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts, *L(Special) 09-02.

Source

1. Gift; Leida Snow, 2009.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Snow, Leida, interviewee.
2. British Broadcasting Corporation.
3. Snow, Leida, donor.

Added title

1. Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts.

Found in:

1. Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts.

Research call number

1. *LTC-A 1805