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Dec 1, 2020 · Sondheim and bookwriter Arthur Laurents had already combined for two instant classics, the first with music by Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story, 1957) and the second with music by Jule Styne (Gypsy, 1959). Here, they valiantly attempted to nudge musical theater out of what we might call the Oklahoma!
May 10, 2011 · A selection of theater artists share their memories of the playwright and director Arthur Laurents, who died on Thursday.
- Jason Zinoman
Oct 20, 2021 · When Arthur Laurents was on Theater Talk back in 2009, he talked about how Stephen Sondheim doesn't appear to be as excited for revivals of West Side Story and Gypsy as he normally would be...
He directed the musical La Cage aux Folles in 1983 and received the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical . Laurents also worked as a screenwriter on Hollywood films such as Alfred Hitchcock 's thriller Rope (1948), Anastasia (1956), Bonjour Tristesse (1958) and Sydney Pollack 's romance The Way We Were (1973).
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Arthur Laurents Papers, circa 1900-2011
May 8, 2012 · The first recipient of the Laurents-Hatcher award was Jeff Talbot t, an unproduced New York City playwright. His play, The Submission, was presented by Off-Broadway's MCC Theater last fall.
May 6, 2011 · Arthur Laurents, an irascible eminence of musical theater and movies out of whose typewriter came the stage scripts for “West Side Story,” “Gypsy” and the three-hanky film romance “The...
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May 7, 2011 · Arthur Laurents, who died Thursday as an exceptionally young nonagenarian, was one musical theater writer who was impossible to overlook.
