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1 day ago · Following the Ravinia Festival production of Gypsy, LuPone and author Arthur Laurents mended a decade-long rift, and she was cast in the City Center Encores! Summer Stars production of the show. Laurents directed LuPone in Gypsy for a 22-performance run (July 9, 2007 – July 29, 2007) at City Center. [48]
2 days ago · He saw a familiar face, Arthur Laurents, who had seen one of the auditions of Saturday Night, and they began talking. Laurents told him he was working on a musical version of Romeo and Juliet with Leonard Bernstein, but they needed a lyricist; Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who
2 days ago · 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 neighborhood.
May 26, 2024 · Arthur Laurents Home of the Brave (New York: Random House, 1946) Arthur Laurent’s first play, Home of the Brave ,* is the story of a young soldier, Peter Coen, part of an engineering division of the US Army during World War II in the South Pacific.
May 21, 2024 · Jule Stein, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents Summer Stars Encores! Directed by Arthur Laurents Music Director, Patrick Vaccariello City Center, New York, NY July 2007: Gypsy Jule Stein, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents St. James Theatre Directed by Arthur Laurents Music Director, Patrick Vaccariello Opening Night: March 27, 2008
5 days ago · He has even produced plays for the establishment with Brandi. For her performance as Mama Rose in Jeff’s production of Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents’ ‘Gypsy,’ Brandi received a Montie Award nomination. The husband and wife are settled in Navasota, Texas.
May 29, 2024 · Featuring a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Gypsy is loosely based on the life of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee and tracks her relationship with her overbearing stage mother. The musical debuted on Broadway in 1959 with Ethel Merman starring as Rose.
