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Arthur Laurents (July 14, 1917 – May 5, 2011) was an American playwright, theatre director, film producer and screenwriter. With a career spanning seven decades he received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards , a Drama Desk Award , and nominations for two Academy Awards , two BAFTA Awards , and a Golden Globe Award .
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- Arthur Laurents Papers, circa 1900-2011
Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Described as "a satire on conformity and the insanity of the so-called sane," [1] the show tells a story of an economically depressed town whose corrupt mayor decides to create a fake miracle in order to attract tourists.
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Jun 14, 2024 · From BroadwayWorld's Archive: One of the theater's most respected librettist's is Arthur Laurents. He helped create two of the theater's greatest musicals We...
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LGBT History Month Icon Arthur Laurents was a Tony Award-winning playwright, director and screenwriter. He wrote the scripts for "West Side Story," "Gypsy" a...
West Side Story. West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents . Inspired by William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar ...
Jul 18, 2015 · The late writer and director Arthur Laurents returned to Theater Talk to discuss directing the 2009 Bilingual Broadway revival of the 1957 musical classic, West Side Story, for which he wrote...
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Mar 23, 2009 · I spoke with West Side Story's director, theater legend Arthur Laurents. He's 91 ... and will probably live another 50 years.
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