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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.
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Arthur Laurents Papers, circa 1900-2011
Dec 1, 2020 · Anyone Can Whistle: New (Old) Complete Recording of Iconoclastic Sondheim Masterwork. By Steven Suskin. The ill-fated early musical by Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents is extravagantly celebrated, with Julia McKenzie and Maria Friedman in the spotlight. Stephen Sondheim at Abbey Road Studios, 1997.
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," the show tells a story of an economically depressed town whose corrupt mayor decides to create a fake miracle in order to attract tourists. The phony miracle ...
Dec 4, 2020 · Listen to Anyone Can Whistle (First Complete Recording) [with Arthur Laurents] by Stephen Sondheim, Maria Friedman, Julia McKenzie & John Barrowman on Apple Music. 2020. 38 Songs. Duration: 1 hour, 49 minutes.
Mar 22, 2021 · The book and direction were by Arthur Laurents, who'd earlier collaborated as librettist on two shows for which Sondheim contributed lyrics, West Side Story and Gypsy. Everything seemed...
- Bob Mondello
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 neighborhood.
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May 8, 2011 · News Desk. Postscript: Arthur Laurents. By Hendrik Hertzberg. May 8, 2011. Of the four geniuses who created “West Side Story”—the other three being Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, and...