Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Snow, Leida
2. CBS News.
3. WINS (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)

Found in

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

Description

1. 2 streaming audio files (approximately 21 minutes) : digital, stereo.

Summary

1. Part 1. Leida Snow interviews Joseph Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and The Public Theater in New York. He talks about the success of the New York Shakespeare Festival production of the musical "A chorus line" that started as a workshop of a series of taped interviews of dancers' reminiscences, and later became the longest-running production in Broadway history up to that time.
2. Part 2 (0:00-4:12 minutes). Leida Snow reports live after gala that was held after the ceremony of the 1984 38th Annual Tony Awards, and announces some of the Tony Awards winners, such as the musical "Sunday in the park with George," "La Cage aux Folles" (Best Musical), Jeremy Irons (Best Actor) for his role of Henry ("The real thing"), and others.
3. Part 2 (4:14-11:18 minutes). The segment includes brief interview with Joseph Papp who talks about budgeting theatrical productions for educational purposes, such as bringing them to the city schoolls, and subsidizing tickets for school students for various Broadway shows. Leida Snow, interviewer.

Alternative title

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

Subject

1. Papp, Joseph > Interviews
2. Award presentations
3. Tony Awards
4. Theatrical producers and directors > United States > Interviews
5. New York (N.Y.) > Cultural policy

Genre/Form

1. Radio programs.
2. Interviews.
3. Award presentations (Radio programs)
4. Reviews.
5. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. *LTC-A 1809

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 1809.

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.

Author

1. Papp, Joseph, interviewee.

Title

1. Leida Snow interviews Joseph Papp.

Production

1. [1983, 1984].

Type of content

1. spoken word

Type of medium

1. audio
2. computer

Type of carrier

1. online resource

Performer

1. Joseph Papp, interviewee ; Leida Snow, interviewer.

Event

1. Part 1 Recorded during the rehearsal of Chorus line, and later broadcast on WINS radio station 1983 September 27
2. Part 2 Recorded after gala, after the 38th Tony Awards ceremony, for 1010 Wins All News CBS New York radio program [1984 June 3]

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 1809.

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, interviewer.
2. CBS News.
3. WINS (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
4. 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 1809