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A Memoir Of Broadway And Hollywood
Applause Books
April 2001
On Sale: April 1, 2001
448 pages
ISBN: 1557834679
EAN: 9781557834676
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Here is the original story of a true original, the
celebrated and internationally renowned director, playwright
and screenwriter Arthur Laurents, whose creative genius
continues to energize American stage and screen today. Say
his name, and images of West Side Story, Gypsy, Anastasia,
The Turning Point, and The Way We Were appear. LaurentsÕ
highly praised memoir is a dazzling portrait of his life -
as he recounts the great moments, the trials and the joys of
his incredible career. He takes us into his world, peopled
with the creative artists, directors, actors and
personalities who came of age in the theatre and in
Hollywood after WWII. Later, back in New York, he writes
about jump-starting Barbra StreisandÕs career by casting her
in I Can Get It for You Wholesale. He writes about the
creation of Gypsy with Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim. And
he writes about coming together in a complex, fraught
collaboration with his three old pals, Jerome Robbins,
Leonard Bernstein and Sondheim for West Side Story.
Throughout, Laurents is funny, fierce, and frank - a life
recounted as richly as it was lived. "This is a historic
work. A ÕmustÕ for show biz mavens." - LIZ SMITH, Newsday &
Syndicated
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