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The MacNeil/Lehrer newshour.
- Title
- The MacNeil/Lehrer newshour. Profile of Joseph Papp (rough cut) [videorecording] / a production of WNET/WETA and MacNeil/Lehrer Gannett Productions ; [produced by Peter Rosen Productions]
- Publication
- New York, c1985.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 videocassette (U-matic) (15 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Rough cut of profile of theatrical producer Joseph Papp. Includes interviews with theater executive Bernard Jacobs, actors Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, playwright Larrry Kramer, Public Theater resident director Wilford Leach, and Gail Merrifield, head of play development at the Public Theater. Papp discusses his childhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; his views on the musical A chorus line; and developing an audience for the theater among New York City's schoolchildren. Narrative discussion includes Papp's creation of the Public Theater in 1967; Papp's role in launching the careers of many well-known actors and playwrights; his decision to produce The normal heart, a controversial play about the AIDS health crisis; his unsuccessful fight to save two Broadway theaters from destruction; and Papp as a theatrical showman. Includes depiction of a meeting with Gail Merrifield Papp; Papp leading Passover seder with his family; rehearsals of The normal heart; Papp rehearsing a song he plans to sing at a benefit performance.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival.
- Series Statement
- Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival Moving Image Collection
- Alternative Title
- Joe Papp, 5/12/85, rough cut, 16:00
- Subjects
- Theatrical producers and directors
- Papp, Joseph > Interviews
- Papp, Joseph > Religion
- Papp, Joseph > Political and social views
- Interviews
- Theater > New York (State) > New York
- Hamlisch, Marvin > Chorus line
- Television
- Kramer, Larry > Normal heart
- Theater and society
- Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
- Papp, Joseph > Friends and associates
- New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater
- Genre/Form
- Television.
- Interviews.
- Note
- This video separated from the New York Shakespeare Festival collection, *T-Mss 1993-028.
- For completed program, see NCOX 5028.
- Includes black spaces intended for station breaks.
- Event (note)
- Completed program broadcast WNET-TV on June 13, 1985 at 7:00 p.m.
- Call Number
- NCOX 5155
- OCLC
- NYPG06-F298
- Title
- The MacNeil/Lehrer newshour. Profile of Joseph Papp (rough cut) [videorecording] / a production of WNET/WETA and MacNeil/Lehrer Gannett Productions ; [produced by Peter Rosen Productions]
- Imprint
- New York, c1985.
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States.
- Series
- Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival Moving Image Collection
- Performer
- Correspondent: June Massell.
- Event
- Completed program broadcast WNET-TV on June 13, 1985 at 7:00 p.m.
- Added Author
- Massell, June, interviewer.Massell, June, reporter.Papp, Joseph, interviewee.Jacobs, Bernard B., 1916-1996, interviewee.Tandy, Jessica, interviewee.Cronyn, Hume, interviewee.Kramer, Larry, interviewee.Leach, Wilford, 1929-1988, interviewee.Papp, Gail Merrifield, interviewee.Peter Rosen Productions, producer.WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.) producer.
- Research Call Number
- NCOX 5155