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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
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 6, 2011 · Arthur Laurents might have secured his place in the musical-theater pantheon with just three words: “Sing out, Louise!”
This year marks the 55th anniversary of Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’ Anyone Can Whistle, which premiered on Broadway April 4, 1964.
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.
