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[Interviews with Harold Prince, Tina Howe, and Gerald Schoenfeld]
- Title
- [Interviews with Harold Prince, Tina Howe, and Gerald Schoenfeld] [videorecording] / City University Television, The Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts (CASTA) [presents]
- Publication
- New York, 1989.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS) (112 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Four separate interviews: two with Harold Prince (ca. 57 min.), one each with Tina Howe and Gerald Schoenfeld (ca. 28 min. each)
- Harold Prince (first segment) discusses his progression from producer to director of musical theater, his long collaboration with Stephen Sondheim, and how he works with designers, particularly his relationship with Boris Aronson.
- Harold Prince (second segment) talks about first working with George Abbott and their long relationship, and his career as a producer.
- Tina Howe talks about why she chooses unusual settings for her plays, how she came to write Painting churches, how she writes her plays, and why she wrote Road to Zanzibar [later renamed Approaching Zanzibar]
- Gerald Schoenfeld discusses the planned changes to New York City's 42nd Street theater district, the Shubert Organization Archives, the organization's shift to producing entity as well as theater owner, how they select plays to produce, and why theater is so expensive.
- Series Statement
- CUNY Spotlight
- Subjects
- Howe, Tina > Interviews
- Dramatists > Interviews
- Sondheim, Stephen > Friends and associates
- Aronson, Boris, 1900-1980 > Friends and associates
- Prince, Harold, 1928-2019 > Interviews
- Shubert Organization
- Schoenfeld, Gerald, 1924-2008 > Interviews
- Howe, Tina > Approaching Zanzibar
- Howe, Tina > Painting churches
- Abbott, George, 1887-1995 > Friends and associates
- Theater > Economic aspects > New York (State) > New York
- Women dramatists > Interviews
- Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
- Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Note
- Part of the series, CUNY Spotlight, broadcast on CUNY-TV, sponsored by the City University of New York.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewed by Edwin Wilson.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by the cable station, CUNY-TV, New York, N.Y., 1989.
- Call Number
- NCOW 89
- OCLC
- NYPG98-F339
- Title
- [Interviews with Harold Prince, Tina Howe, and Gerald Schoenfeld] [videorecording] / City University Television, The Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts (CASTA) [presents]
- Imprint
- New York, 1989.
- Series
- CUNY Spotlight
- Performer
- Interviewed by Edwin Wilson.
- Event
- Videotaped by the cable station, CUNY-TV, New York, N.Y., 1989.
- Added Author
- Prince, Harold, 1928-2019, interviewee.Howe, Tina, interviewee.Schoenfeld, Gerald, 1924-2008, interviewee.Wilson, Edwin, 1927- interviewer.City University of New York.
- Research Call Number
- NCOW 89