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Born Arthur Levine, Laurents was the son of middle-class Jewish parents, his father a lawyer and his mother a schoolteacher, who gave up her career when she married. He was born and raised in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, New York, the elder of two children, and attended Erasmus Hall High School.
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Arthur Laurents Papers, circa 1900-2011
The son of a lawyer, Laurents was born Arthur Levine in Brooklyn in 1918, and educated at Cornell University where, as a summary of his autobiography put it, he "learned to write plays, learned...
- Tom Vallance
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 ...
May 7, 2011 · I think I've read close to 50 tributes and remembrances of Arthur Laurents, who passed away Thursday at the age of 93. And just about every one of them used at least two of the words above to describe the man who left behind a legacy of truly historic proportions.
Arthur Laurents is the author of musical plays such as West Side Story, Gypsy, Anyone Can Whistle, Do I Hear A Waltz?, Hallelujah Baby! (1967 Tony Award for Best Musical) and Nick & Nora; and the screenplays The Snake Pit, Rope, Caught, Anastasia, Bonjour Tristesse, The Way We Were, and The Turning Point (Golden Globe Award, Screenwriters Guild ...
May 6, 2011 · His father, the son of Orthodox Jews, was a lawyer, and his mother, also Jewish, but raised Atheist, was, in her son's words, an energetic blonde "with very good legs."
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May 6, 2011 · Robbins, the director and choreographer of both musicals, conceived of “Gypsy” as a splashy “panorama of vaudeville and burlesque.” Mr. Laurents fought to place the figure of Rose, the stage...
