Arthur Laurents Featured on 'Best of Theater Talk,' 7/20

By: Jul. 19, 2007
Click Here for More on STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe.




Existing user? Just click login.

Arthur Laurents, the great librettist, screenwriter and director discusses his early days as a writer, creating his masterpiece Gypsy, plus his relationship and falling-out with the show's troubled, original director, Jerome Robbins.

This episode of "The Best of Theater Talk" airs on PBS: Friday, July 20th at 12:30 AM on Thirteen and Sunday at 4 PM on WGBH(44) in Boston

Gypsy is now playing at City Center in a celebrated revival directed by Laurents, starring Patti LuPone and Boyd Gaines.

Tony Award-winner Laurents, in addition to writing the book of Gypsy (featuring lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and music by Jule Styne), penned the book of West Side Story, as well as those of Hallelujah, Baby!, Do I Hear a Waltz?, and Anyone Can Whistle (which he also directed), among others.  He also wrote the plays Invitation to a March (which he also directed), A Clearing in the Woods, The Time of the Cuckoo and Home of the Brave. Other Broadway directorial credits include La Cage aux Folles.  He also penned the screenplays of The Way We Were and The Turning Point, among others.

This episode of "Theater Talk" will be repeated on CUNY TV (channel 75): Saturday, July 28 at 8:30 PM; Sunday, July 29 at 12:30 PM; Monday, July 30 at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM and 7:30 AM.  Visit www.theatertalk.org for more information.




Videos