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Winning the Tony Award for Best Musical
- After writing scripts for radio shows after college and then training films for the U.S. Army during World War II, Laurents turned to writing for Broadway, producing a body of work that includes West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959), and Hallelujah, Baby! (1967), winning the Tony Award for Best Musical for the latter.
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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).
Jun 7, 2024 · Arthur Laurents has won several awards, including the Founders Award for Excellence in Directing at the Drama League Awards, Best Direction of a Musical at the Tony Awards for "La...
In 1959 Gypsy had amazingly failed to win one Tony Award, but Hallelujah, Baby, a turgid musical with a mediocre score by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, won Laurents a Tony,...
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Jun 6, 2019 · The classic Leonard Bernstein musical, with a book by Arthur Laurents and lyrics by a young Stephen Sondheim, lost out at the 12th Tony Awards — to Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man.”
May 5, 2011 · As a stage director he won a Tony Award® for the original Broadway production of La Cage aux Folles (1983) and enjoyed enormous success with revivals of Gypsy (1974 – a Drama Desk Award –, 1989, 2008) and West Side Story (2009).
May 6, 2011 · The show ran for four years, won Mr. Laurents his second Tony, and won a Tony Award for Best Musical. But his directing career came to a virtual halt in 1991 when he staged the monumental...
May 6, 2011 · While the scores for both “West Side Story” (by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim) and “Gypsy” (by Jule Styne and Mr. Sondheim) are among the most highly prized in the canon, and the ...
