Arthur Laurents (1917–2011)

Auteur van Romeo and Juliet: West Side Story

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Arthur Laurents (1917-2011), a playwright, screenwriter, and director, wrote two of Broadway's landmark shows, Gypsy and West Side Story, and created one of Hollywood's most well-known romances, The Way We Were. He is the author of Original Story By, his first autobiography. David Saint (New toon meer Brunswick, NJ) and Laurents worked together on eleven plays and musicals, including the hit Broadway revival and national tour of West Side Story and seven world premieres by Laurents at George Street Playhouse. Now in his fifteenth season as the artistic director of the George Street Playhouse, Saint has directed thirty-nine mainstage productions and is the recipient of the Alan Schneider Award, Helen Hayes Award, Los Angeles Drama Critics Award, and several Drama-Logue Awards. toon minder

Bevat de namen: Arthur Laurens, LAURENTS ARTHUR, Arthur Laurents (book); Leonard Bernstein (music);

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Romeo and Juliet: West Side Story (1965) 673 exemplaren

West Side story : a novelization (1960) 511 exemplaren

The Way We Were [1973 film] (1973) — Screenwriter — 131 exemplaren

Original Story By: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood (2000) 125 exemplaren

Gypsy: a musical (1960) 100 exemplaren

West Side Story [libretto] (1957) — Auteur — 91 exemplaren

The Way We Were (1972) 64 exemplaren

West Side Story: Original 1957 Broadway Cast Recording (1984) — Librettist — 60 exemplaren

Anastasia [1956 film] (1956) — Screenwriter — 52 exemplaren

Gypsy [1993 TV movie] (1993) — Screenwriter — 51 exemplaren

Mainly on Directing: Gypsy, West Side Story, and Other Musicals (Borzoi Books) (2009) 49 exemplaren

West Side Story (Vocal Score) [bladmuziek] (1959) — Librettist — 44 exemplaren

Leonard Bernstein Conducts West Side Story [1985 Studio Recording] (1985) — Librettist — 43 exemplaren

The Turning Point (1977) 38 exemplaren

A Clearing in the Woods (1957) 32 exemplaren

The Time of the Cuckoo (1952) 31 exemplaren

Anyone Can Whistle: A Musical Fable (Libretto) (1976) 29 exemplaren

Bonjour Tristesse [1958 film] (1958) — Screenwriter — 22 exemplaren

Anyone Can Whistle (Vocal Score) (1965) 21 exemplaren

Home of the Brave (1945) 19 exemplaren

Caught [1949 film] (1948) — Screenwriter — 19 exemplaren

Invitation to a March (1961) 18 exemplaren

Anyone Can Whistle: Original 1964 Broadway Cast Recording (1990) — Librettist — 16 exemplaren

Gypsy: Original 1959 Broadway Cast Recording (1990) — Librettist — 16 exemplaren

The Turning Point [1977 film] (1977) — Screenwriter — 14 exemplaren

The Rest of the Story: A Life Completed (2012) 13 exemplaren

Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents (2004) 12 exemplaren

Do I Hear A Waltz?: Original 1965 Broadway Cast Recording (1965) — Librettist — 4 exemplaren

The Bird Cage: Play in Two Acts (1950) 3 exemplaren

West Side Story: A Musical (1958) 2 exemplaren

The Enclave (1974) 2 exemplaren

West Side Story: National Symphony Orchestra / Leicester Haymarket Theatre Cast [audio recording] — Book — 2 exemplaren

West Side Story (Playbill) (1958) 2 exemplaren

Ethel Merman in Gypsy, a Musical Fable. 2 exemplaren

West Side Soty - A musical (based on a conception of Jerome Robbins) 1 exemplaar

GYPSY 1 exemplaar

Rare Arthur Laurents / HOME OF THE BRAVE Signed 1st Edition 1946 [Hardcover] Laurents, Arthur 1 exemplaar

Romeo and Juliet & West Side Story 1 exemplaar

West Side Story, Lyric Opera of Chicago 1 exemplaar

Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are (2010) 1 exemplaar

The radical mystique: A play in two acts (1996) 1 exemplaar

"The Enclave" (Theatre Rhinoceros - San Francisco - 1982) Poster 1 exemplaar

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The Celluloid Closet [1995 film] (1995) — Self — 89 exemplaren

Ten Great Musicals of the American Theatre (1973) — Medewerker — 82 exemplaren

Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre: Second Series (1947) — Medewerker — 82 exemplaren

Gypsy [1962 film] (1962) — Librettist — 61 exemplaren

Monologues Women: 50 Speeches from the Contemporary Theatre (v. 1) (1976) — Medewerker — 30 exemplaren

Do I Hear a Waltz? (Vocal Selections) (1966) 3 exemplaren

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Officiële naam: Laurents, Arthur
Geboortedatum: 1917-07-14
Overlijdensdatum: 2011-05-05
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Woonplaatsen: New York, New York, USA
Opleiding: Cornell University
Beroepen: playwright
screenwriter
director
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1946)

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West Side Story (Vocal Score) door Leonard Bernstein

The score of the groundbreaking and genre defining musical.

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Mainly on Directing: Gypsy, West Side Story, and… door Arthur Laurents

This was an interesting book. I would recommend it to anyone interested in musical theatre.

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