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Title

[Interview with Cy Feuer : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor] ; Ghost Light Films.

Publication

New York, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Feuer, Cy
• Kantor, Michael, 1961-
• Squires, Buddy
• Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
• Thirteen/WNET, donor.

Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (64 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. Producer, director, composer and musician Cy Feuer discusses the creation of the musical Guys and dolls, starting with its origins in the work of Damon Runyon, teaming up with producer Ernest H. Martin, working with composer Frank Loesser, and librettist Abe Burrows' transformation of Runyon's writing for the show. Other topics of discussion include his favorite Broadway shows; Ethel Merman's singing voice; the song Adelaide's lament introduced by Vivian Blaine, his favorite from Guys and dolls; theatrical producer George Abbott; director George S. Kaufman's input during the inception of Guys and dolls; composer Cole Porter, including his working habits and his riding accident; Michael Kidd's choreography in the musical Subways are for sleeping, featuring dancer Michael Bennett; the work of choreographer Bob Fosse; dancer Gwen Verdon; the origins of the musical theater and its current state; his encounters with choreographer George Balanchine on the musical Where's Charley?; the casting of B. S. Pulley in the role of Big Julie in Guys and dolls; his opinion of the significance of the musical comedy; the future of Broadway; opening nights on Broadway during the 1950s.

Alternative Title

• Broadway, the American musical
• Broadway: The American musical : Cy Feuer

Subjects

• Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
• Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
• Theater > New York (State) > New York
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Composers
• Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
• Loesser, Frank, 1910-1969 > Guys and dolls Adelaide's lament
• Musical theater > Production and direction
• Musicals
• Documentaries and factual works
• Loesser, Frank, 1910-1969 > Guys and dolls
• Unedited footage
• Feuer, Cy > Interviews

Genre/Form

• Documentaries and factual works.
• Musicals.
• Unedited footage.

Note

• This interview is one of a group of interviews with 90 individuals used in making the documentary Broadway, the American musical. The completed production is available on NCOX 2058.
• Credits for completed production from pbs.org: A film by Michael Kantor ; produced by Jeff Dupre, Michael Kantor and Sally Rosenthal ; written by Marc Fields, Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon, and JoAnne Young ; directed by Michael Kantor.
• Time code on frame.
• Contains various takes; at occasional, brief intervals the audio continues without image.

Credits (note)

• Cameraman: Buddy Squires.

Performer (note)

• Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Cy Feuer.

Event (note)

• Videotaped in New York, N.Y. on February 23, 1999.

Biography (note)

• Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.

Call Number

NCOX 2111

OCLC

122942132

Title

[Interview with Cy Feuer : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor] ; Ghost Light Films.

Imprint

New York, 1999.

Credits

Cameraman: Buddy Squires.

Performer

Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Cy Feuer.

Event

Videotaped in New York, N.Y. on February 23, 1999.

Biography

Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.

Local Note

Gift of Broadway Film Project, Inc. and Thirteen/WNET, 2005.

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Added Author

Feuer, Cy, interviewee.

Kantor, Michael, 1961- interviewer.

Kantor, Michael, 1961- director.

Squires, Buddy, cameraman.

Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.

Thirteen/WNET, donor.

Research Call Number

NCOX 2111