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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!
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).
May 10, 2011 · A selection of theater artists share their memories of the playwright and director Arthur Laurents, who died on Thursday.
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May 6, 2011 · Arthur Laurents might have secured his place in the musical-theater pantheon with just three words: “Sing out, Louise!”
May 7, 2011 · Arthur Laurents, who died Thursday as an exceptionally young nonagenarian, was one musical theater writer who was impossible to overlook.
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.
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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...
