An oral history interview with Michael Kidd / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Peggy Meyer Sherry, Los Angeles, 1991 October 1 : recording and transcript.

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An oral history interview with Michael Kidd / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Peggy Meyer Sherry, Los Angeles, 1991 October 1 : recording and transcript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122619149

Kidd focuses mainly on the musical Love life, discussing his role as choreographer, his relations with Weill, Lerner, and director Elia Kazan, and certain numbers, like the Punch and Judy divorce ballet, in some detail. He considers American musical theater and dance more generally while discussing Love life's lack of success both originally and in revival, concluding that the show was somewhat too daring for its time but has other weaknesses, mainly in the concept and the incomplete weaving together of conventional musical plot with vaudeville sequences. Also mentions Agnes DeMille, the musical Cabaret, and Lotte Lenya.

1 transcript (33 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min.) : analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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