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In 2007, Arthur Laurents stated, " I've come up with a way of doing Side Story that will make it absolutely contemporary without changing a word or a note.
Laurents and musical
Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
The show was first announced in The New York Times on October 5, 1961: " For the winter of 1962, Laurents is nurturing another musical project, The Natives Are Restless.
West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and conception and choreography by Jerome Robbins.
In 1949, Jerome Robbins approached Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents about collaborating on a contemporary musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
Eager to write his first musical, Laurents immediately agreed.
He arrived in Hollywood to choreograph the dance sequences for The King and I, and he and Laurents began developing the musical while working on their respective projects, keeping in touch with Bernstein, who had returned to New York.
When the producer of The Painted Veil replaced Gardner with Eleanor Parker and asked Laurents to revise his script with her in mind, he backed out of the film, freeing him to devote all his time to the stage musical.
Another song, " Kid Stuff ", was added and quickly removed during the Washington, D. C. tryout when Laurents convinced the others it was helping tip the balance of the show into typical musical comedy.
* Stage ( Musical ): In 1991, a Broadway musical, Nick & Nora with a book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr., and music by Charles Strouse was based on the characters.
Remick appeared in the 1964 Broadway musical Anyone Can Whistle, written by Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, which ran for only a week.
Gypsy's memoir, titled Gypsy, was published in 1957 and was taken as inspirational material for the Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents Broadway musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable.
Laurents had already known Streisand for some time, having cast her in his 1963 Broadway musical I Can Get it For You Wholesale.
The following year, Stark asked Laurents if he was interested in adapting the original film for a stage musical starring Kathie Lee Gifford.
is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Richard Rodgers, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
Laurents originally conceived the production as a small chamber musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, and Mary Martin in the lead role of spinster Leona Samish.
Laurents further claims that when he explained his concept to Fierstein and Herman, he inspired the direction they took in writing the musical.
Fierstein, Herman and Laurents met daily in Herman's Manhattan townhouse to work on the musical.
Laurents and theatre
They described the project as " lyric theatre ", and Laurents wrote a first draft he called East Side Story.
Laurents and 1957
* West Side Story ( 1957 ) ( music by Leonard Bernstein ; book by Arthur Laurents ; directed by Jerome Robbins )
Robbins was involved with Bells Are Ringing, then Bernstein with Candide, and in January 1957 A Clearing in the Woods, Laurents ' latest play, opened and quickly closed.
Laurents and made
The director demanded the role of Hubbell be made equal to that of Katie, and throughout filming, for unexplained reasons, he kept Laurents away from Redford.
Laurents felt the changes made it better but never as good as it could have been.
A decade after the film was released, Redford, having made peace with Laurents, contacted him to discuss the possibility of collaborating on a new project, and eventually the two settled on a sequel to The Way We Were.
The story was adapted from a play by Arthur Laurents, originally about anti-Semitism in the army, but revised and made into a film about the persecution of a black soldier.
He enthusiastically contacted Laurents and the two discussed changes that could be made to improve the show.
Laurents and next
It failed at the box office, as did his next project, Roseanna McCoy, during which he and Laurents parted ways.
Laurents and for
" This behavior is considered unusual for Laurents, which runs contrary to his current reputation.
Laurents had wanted Barbra Streisand for the role of Fay, but she turned it down to star in Funny Girl.
Sondheim did not care for Laurents ' opinion.
Laurents was soon hired to write the screenplay for a remake of the 1934 Greta Garbo film The Painted Veil for Ava Gardner.
In New York, Laurents went to the opening night party for a new play by Ugo Betti, and there he met Sondheim, who had heard that East Side Story, now retitled West Side Story, was back on track.
Laurents ultimately invented what sounded like real street talk but actually was not: " cut the frabba-jabba ", for example.
With the help of Oscar Hammerstein, Laurents convinced Bernstein and Sondheim to move " One Hand, One Heart ", which he considered too pristine for the balcony scene, to the scene set in the bridal shop, and as a result " Tonight " was written to replace it.
Originally, when considering the cast, Laurents wanted James Dean for the lead role of Tony, but the actor had died before hearing of it.
Arthur Laurents had written The Time of the Cuckoo specifically for Shirley Booth, who starred in the 1952 Broadway production and won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for her performance.
It later was reported she was negotiating with Daniel Mann instead, and Laurents would be adapting his play for the screen.
Bosley Crowther of the New York Times observed, " In adapting for the screen Arthur Laurents ' stage play The Time of the Cuckoo, Mr. Lean and H. E. Bates discarded most of the individual shadings and psychological subtleties of that romance.
In 1937, while an undergraduate at Cornell, Arthur Laurents was introduced to political activism in a student who became the model for Katie Morosky, a member of the Young Communist League and an outspoken opponent of Francisco Franco and his effort to take control of Spain via the Spanish Civil War.
Because of his own background, Laurents felt it was important for his heroine to be Jewish and share his outrage at injustice.
Laurents wrote a lengthy treatment for Ray Stark, who read it on a transcontinental flight and called the screenwriter the moment he arrived in Los Angeles to greenlight the project.
Stark was less enthused, but agreed because Pollack assured him he could deliver Robert Redford for the role of Hubbell, which Laurents had written with Ryan O ' Neal in mind.
Other locations included the village of Ballston Spa in upstate New York, Central Park, the beach in Malibu, and Union Station in Los Angeles, the latter for a scene Laurents felt was absurd and fought to have deleted, without success.
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