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Laurents felt that the building tension needed to be alleviated in order to increase the impact of the play's tragic outcome, so comic relief in the form of Officer Krupke was added to the second act.
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Bernstein suggested they rework East Side Story and set it in Los Angeles, but Laurents felt he was more familiar with Puerto Ricans and Harlem than he was with Mexican Americans and Olvera Street.
Because of his own background, Laurents felt it was important for his heroine to be Jewish and share his outrage at injustice.
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.
Both stars appeared to be playing themselves more often than their characters, and Streisand often used a grand accent that Laurents felt hurt her performance.
Laurents felt the changes made it better but never as good as it could have been.
Dexter insisted on giving the lead role of Leona to Elizabeth Allen, who Laurents felt could manage the acting and singing but had a cold personality too contrary to that of the character.
Laurents rued the casting-he felt Allen was too young and colorless and Franchi couldn't act-and ignored all the ongoing problems in favor of making his dream a reality, but most of all he regretted the break in his friendship with Sondheim after the show.
Laurents and be
Laurents asked Sondheim if he would be interested in tackling the task.
It later was reported she was negotiating with Daniel Mann instead, and Laurents would be adapting his play for the screen.
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.
What was intended to be the final draft of the screenplay was written by Laurents and Pollack at Stark's condominium in Sun Valley, Idaho, and Laurents, dismayed to discover very little of his work remained when it was completed, left the project.
He enthusiastically contacted Laurents and the two discussed changes that could be made to improve the show.
The two characters and their former professor, played by Jimmy Stewart, were supposed to be homosexual, and Granger and Dall discussed the subtext of their scenes, but because The Hays Office was keeping close tabs on the project, the final script was so discreet that Laurents remained uncertain of whether Stewart ever realized that his own character was gay.
Laurents and play's
In his autobiography, the play's author Arthur Laurents states, " It came down to between Suzanne Pleshette and Sandra Church.
Laurents and so
Laurents was asked to return and did so only after demanding and receiving an exorbitant amount of money.
Finally, just before opening night, Laurents directed him always to look into Hearn's eyes, whenever the two men were on stage, so the audience would sense the depth of the couple's feelings for each other.
Laurents and form
Bernstein wanted to present the material in operatic form, but Robbins and Laurents resisted the suggestion.
Laurents and was
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.
A meager description was furnished by Mr. Laurents, who refused to elaborate.
In 1955, theatrical producer Martin Gabel was working on a stage adaptation of the James M. Cain novel Serenade, about an opera singer who comes to the realization he is homosexual, and he invited Laurents to write the book.
Laurents, however, was committed to Gabel, who introduced him to the young composer / lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
Laurents liked the lyrics but was not impressed with the music.
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.
Meanwhile, Laurents had written a new draft of the book changing the characters ' backgrounds: Anton, once an Irish American, was now of Polish and Irish descent, and the formerly Jewish Maria had become a Puerto Rican.
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.
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.
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.
The film was adapted by Millen Brand, Arthur Laurents ( uncredited ) and Frank Partos from the novel by Mary Jane Ward.
1876 The first rice mill was built by Gustave Laurents and D. Derouen.
* 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.
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 ' screenplay allegedly was unsatisfactory, and newly hired director David Lean tried to improve it with associate producer Norman Spencer and writers Donald Ogden Stewart and S. N.
The movie was adapted by Guy Bolton and Arthur Laurents from the play by Bolton and Marcelle Maurette.
Laurents and added
For that production, the dropped song " Everybody Loves Leona " was restored, lyrics were altered or added, and Laurents " revamped quite a bit of the book.
Laurents and act
All they had was the Herman song " I Am What I Am ," and Laurents immediately envisioned it as an emotional outburst sung at the close of the first act.
Laurents and .
Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
In a letter to Bloomgarden from Laurents, he wrote, " I beg you not to mention the money problems or any difficulties to Steve anymore.
" This behavior is considered unusual for Laurents, which runs contrary to his current reputation.
Sondheim discovered that Laurents hated doing backers ' auditions and he took over that responsibility, playing and singing more than 30.
Eager to work with both Laurents and Sondheim, Angela Lansbury accepted the lead role as Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper, despite her strong misgivings about the script and her ability to handle the score.
Laurents had wanted Barbra Streisand for the role of Fay, but she turned it down to star in Funny Girl.
Laurents, ignoring criticism about the show's message being trite and its absurdist style difficult to comprehend, poured his energies into restaging rather than dealing with the crux of the problem.
Howard Taubman in his New York Times review wrote that Laurents ' " book lacks the fantasy that would make the idea work, and his staging has not improved matters.
Sondheim worked closely with book writer Arthur Laurents to create the show.
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.
They described the project as " lyric theatre ", and Laurents wrote a first draft he called East Side Story.
Laurents accepted and suggested Bernstein and Robbins join the creative team.
Sondheim did not care for Laurents ' opinion.
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