As a playwright screenwriter and director Arthur Laurents has a unique place in the history of theater. In this moving exhilarating and provocative account he presents readers with a front-row look at the making of two of the greatest musicals of the American stage �West Side Story� and �Gypsy�. He writes in rich detail about his new bilingual production of �West Side Story� along with his most recent production of �Gypsy� how it began as an act of love and how that love spread through the entire ...
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As a playwright screenwriter and director Arthur Laurents has a unique place in the history of theater. In this moving exhilarating and provocative account he presents readers with a front-row look at the making of two of the greatest musicals of the American stage �West Side Story� and �Gypsy�. He writes in rich detail about his new bilingual production of �West Side Story� along with his most recent production of �Gypsy� how it began as an act of love and how that love spread through the entire company and resulted in a �Gypsy� unlike any other.�Laurents offers behind-the-scenes details about the musicals he directed including �I Can Get It for You Wholesale� its producer David Merrick (the Abominable Showman ) and its (very young) stars Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould. He dishes on Stephen Sondheim's �Anyone Can Whistle� which starred Angela Lansbury and Lee Remick marking the debut for each in musical theater. And he recounts the challenges and surprises that came with the making of �La Cage aux Folles� the first big Broadway musical that was gay and glad to be.�Throughout the book is enriched by Laurents's two loves � his love for the theater and his love for his partner of fifty-two years Tom Hatcher who shared and inspired every aspect of his life and his work. �Mainly on Directing� presents an unforgettable portrait of an artist working with other artists a unique close-up look at today's American musical theater by a man who's been at its red-hot center for more than five decades.
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