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The Rodgers & Hart story : thou swell, thou witty

Title: The Rodgers & Hart story : thou swell, thou witty [videorecording] / A production of Thirteen/WNET and BBC TV ; produced and directed by David Thompson ; songs in performance produced and directed by David Horn ; staged and choreographed by John Carrafa.
Publication: New York, c1998.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (56 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

The professional partnership of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart is examined through a combination of archival footage, interviews with colleagues and family members, and performances of several of their best-known songs in sequences staged for this program. The emphasis is on their work for the Broadway stage, but their contribution to Hollywood films is also examined.

Series Statement

Great performances

Uniform Title

Great performances (WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.))

Alternative Title

Thou swell, thou witty

Subjects

Genre/Form

Documentaries and factual works.
Television.
Interviews.

Note

Credits at end of tape.
Performers (archival footage): Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Jessie Matthews, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Al Jolson, Jimmy Durante, George Balanchine, the Nicholas Brothers, Mitzi Green, Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, and Vivienne Segal.

Access (note)

Patrons can access the Dance Division's streaming video online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Credits (note)

Scenic designer, Michael Anania ; costume designer, Martin Pakledinaz ; lighting designer, Alan Adelman ; audio, Daryl Bornstein ; editors, Gary Bradley and Eric Singer ; cameras, Miguel Armstrong, Manny Gutierrez, John Kosmaczewski, and Alain Onesto ; stage manager, Mark McKenna.

Performer (note)

Narrator: Jonathan Pryce.
Interviews: Mary Rodgers, Frederick Nolan, Jeffrey Lunden, Dorothy Hart, Eddie Albert, Hugh Martin, Eddie Bracken, Larry Adler, June Havoc, and Betsy Blair.
Interview (archival footage): Richard Rodgers.
Performers: Rebecca Luker, Stanley Wayne Mathis, Brian D'Arcy James, Susan Egan, Christine Ebersole, Mary Cleere Haran, Debbie Shapiro Gravitte, Ron Raines, and Jane Krakowski.
Musicians: The Coffee Club Orchestra, conducted by Rob Fisher.

Event (note)

Originally broadcast on WNET-TV, Channel 13, New York, N.Y., Jan. 6, 1999.

Source (note)

Popular Balanchine Foundation (Dance Div. copy).

Call Number

NCOX 1552

OCLC

NYPG02-F127

Title

The Rodgers & Hart story : thou swell, thou witty [videorecording] / A production of Thirteen/WNET and BBC TV ; produced and directed by David Thompson ; songs in performance produced and directed by David Horn ; staged and choreographed by John Carrafa.

Imprint

New York, c1998.

Series

Great performances

Restricted Access

Patrons can access the Dance Division's streaming video online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Credits

Scenic designer, Michael Anania ; costume designer, Martin Pakledinaz ; lighting designer, Alan Adelman ; audio, Daryl Bornstein ; editors, Gary Bradley and Eric Singer ; cameras, Miguel Armstrong, Manny Gutierrez, John Kosmaczewski, and Alain Onesto ; stage manager, Mark McKenna.

Performer

Narrator: Jonathan Pryce.

Interviews: Mary Rodgers, Frederick Nolan, Jeffrey Lunden, Dorothy Hart, Eddie Albert, Hugh Martin, Eddie Bracken, Larry Adler, June Havoc, and Betsy Blair.

Interview (archival footage): Richard Rodgers.

Performers: Rebecca Luker, Stanley Wayne Mathis, Brian D'Arcy James, Susan Egan, Christine Ebersole, Mary Cleere Haran, Debbie Shapiro Gravitte, Ron Raines, and Jane Krakowski.

Musicians: The Coffee Club Orchestra, conducted by Rob Fisher.

Event

Originally broadcast on WNET-TV, Channel 13, New York, N.Y., Jan. 6, 1999.

Source

Gift; Popular Balanchine Foundation (Dance Div. copy). NN-PD

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Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979.

Hart, Lorenz, 1895-1943.

Thompson, David, producer.

Thompson, David, director.

Horn, David (Producer)

Horn, David (Producer), director.

Carrafa, John, choreographer.

Fisher, Rob, 1952- conductor.

Anania, Michael, set designer.

Pakledinaz, Martin, costume designer.

Adelman, Alan, lighting designer.

Bornstein, Daryl, audio.

Bradley, Gary, editor of moving image work.

Singer, Eric, editor of moving image work.

Armstrong, Miguel, camera.

Gutierrez, Manny, camera.

Kosmaczewski, John, director of photography.

Onesto, Alain, camera.

McKenna, Mark, stage manager.

Pryce, Jonathan, narrator.

Luker, Rebecca, performer.

Mathis, Stanley Wayne, performer.

James, Brian D'Arcy, performer.

Egan, Susan, 1970- performer.

Ebersole, Christine, performer.

Haran, Mary Cleere, performer.

Gravitte, Debbie Shapiro, performer.

Raines, Ron, performer.

Krakowski, Jane, performer.

Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979, interviewee.

Rodgers, Mary, 1931-2014, interviewee.

Nolan, Frederick W., 1931-2022, interviewee.

Lunden, Jeffrey, interviewee.

Hart, Dorothy, interviewee.

Albert, Eddie, interviewee.

Martin, Hugh, 1914-2011, interviewee.

Bracken, Eddie, 1915-2002, interviewee.

Adler, Larry, interviewee.

Havoc, June, interviewee.

Blair, Betsy, 1923-2009, interviewee.

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.

British Broadcasting Corporation, producer.

Coffee Club Orchestra.

Added Title

Great performances (WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.))

Research Call Number

NCOX 1552

*MGZIDVD 5-7323

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