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Interview with Baayork Lee
- Title
- Interview with Baayork Lee [sound recording].
- Author
- Lee, Baayork
- Publication
- 2003.
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Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | cassette 3 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-2384 cassette 3 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | cassette 2 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-2384 cassette 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | cassette 1 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-2384 cassette 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZMT 3-2384 transcript | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Gennaro, Liza.
- Description
- 3 sound cassettes (ca. 195 min.) +
- Summary
- Cassette 1, 06/13/03 (ca. 90 min.). Baayork Lee discusses her family background; her first performing experiences and developing a serious interest in dance; studying at the School of American Ballet; her admiration for Maria Tallchief; attending the New York City High School of Performing Arts [now the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and the Arts]; her desire to become a ballerina; her experience as a child performing in the musical comedy The King and I and then Flower Drum Song; more on her experience at the New York City High School of Performing Arts; her friendship with Carol Haney; her first experience working on opera; the development of her career; her experience in the show, Mister President; working with Donald McKayle on Golden Boy; the limited opportunities for Asian performers on Broadway; working with Michael Bennett; his skill and versatility; becoming a dance captain in the musical comedy Promises, promises; working on the film, Jesus Christ, superstar; her first experience choreographing when doctoring the show Seesaw with Michael Bennett and others.
- Cassette 2, 06/23/03 (ca. 90 min.). Lee continues her discussion of working on the show Seesaw; defining the roles of those who work with the choreographer; the development of A chorus line; the unusual audition process; Lee's transition from her ballet training toward work on the Broadway stage; more on the personal and difficult aspects of the development of A chorus line; the relationship of her role in that show to her real life; the broader social and cultural influences of her role in that show; more on the creative process and development of the show; her role as assistant choreographer, dance captain, and re-stager of A chorus line; the impact of A chorus line on subsequent musical theater productions as well as on the performers who were in it; her career after A chorus line; choreographing for opera; her working process.
- Cassette 3, 06/23/03 (ca. 15 min.). Lee speaks further about some of the topics regarding her childhood performing and training; changes in the field since she performed, particularly the current lack of mentoring and sense of community.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subjects
- Fiorella H. La Guardia High School of Music and the Arts (New York, N.Y.)
- School of American Ballet
- Race awareness
- Musical comedies > Promises, promises
- Asian Americans > Ethnic identity
- Bennett, Michael, 1943-1987
- Race discrimination
- Musical comedies > Mister President
- Lee, Baayork
- Musical comedies > The King and I
- Audiotapes > Baayork, L
- Racism and the arts
- Musical comedies > Flower drum song
- Musical comedies > A chorus line
- Note
- Interviews with Baayork Lee conducted by Liza Gennaro at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on June 13 and 23, 2003.
- For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2384.
- Access (note)
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-2384
- OCLC
- NYPY04-R74
- Author
- Lee, Baayork, interviewee.
- Title
- Interview with Baayork Lee [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 2003.
- Restricted Access
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Musical comedies. Mister President.Musical comedies. The King and I.Musical comedies. A chorus line.Musical comedies. Flower drum song.Musical comedies. Promises, promises.Audiotapes -- Baayork, L.
- Added Author
- Gennaro, Liza. Interviewer
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-2384 sound cassettes*MGZMT 3-2384 transcript