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Title: Jerome Robbins : That Broadway Man by Conrad Christine ISBN: 1-86154-173-2 Publisher: Booth-Clibborn Editions Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A STUNNING PORTRAIT OF A GREAT ARTIST AT WORK
Comment: Jerome Robbins is brought to vivid life in this amazing and stunning pictorial biography. Using hundreds of rare, fascinating, never-before-seen photographs; Robbins' personal journals; Robbins' own words about work; combined with Conrad's insightful narrative, this book shines a light on the man behind the image and takes us inside his working process and his daily life. He was obviously a very private man who shielded his personal life, but Conrad takes us behind the austere public image. Because of her longstanding relationship with Robbins, Conrad was given access to previously unseen early childhood and early dance photographs and Robbins' own drawings and writings. Any creative person in any field will be grateful for the descriptions of his unique working methods. Conrad doesn't gloss over his disappointments or personal failures - the story behind his firing from the film of West Side Story is fascinating - but she chooses to concentrate on illuminating his artistic process and bringing the man to life, with all his quirks, his humor, his fierce dedication to work -- and the great personal sacrifices he made for that work. Don't miss out on a wonderful and original reading experience! I loved it... an absolute treasure.
Rating: 5
Summary: A TRIBUTE
Comment: What an amazing tribute this book is -- not only to the genius of one of the greatest choreographer's in the history of dance and theater, but to the process of creativity as well. In this brilliant biography of Jerome Robbins, Christine Conrad has given us a work that can speak to every artist, working in every medium, about the passion and commitment it takes to create. Robbins is so eloquently captured on these pages, both in images, and in his own words, that I came away from the book feeling as if I had known him. And, feeling nothing but admiration for his courage, and his determination to excel. He truly was THAT BROADWAY MAN. It was so refreshing to read a biography about a famous person that focused on his work, and his success, instead of just dishing the dirt. I was not particularly interested in his failures; we all have them. I was interested in how he pushed through them and kept going...to give us a body of work so entertaining, and innovative, it literally takes your breath away. The book is absolutely fascinating. Cheers to Ms. Conrad for her intimate, insightful, and intuitive presentation of this extraordinary man.
Rating: 4
Summary: INVALUABLE PHOTOGRAPHS, NOT TEXT
Comment: Sure, Jerome Robbins was one of the few genius innovators in theatre and ballet. But, perhaps, a book written by someone interested in the man's flaws as well as his accomplishments, his failures as well as his triumphs, might have been better reading. Cristine Conrad says in her author's note that she was Robbins' friend for more than 30 years. To my way of thinking, her friendship gets in the way of good reporting. I'm not necessarily looking for a hatchet job on Robbins, but a writer less interested in (what we used to call) brown-nosing, would, most likely, have written a richer book.
Why did I give it even four stars? The huge, varied collection of photographs in this book is fascinating and invaluable for anyone interested in Musical Theatre or 20th Century American Ballet.
The real, full version of Robbins' life is yet to be written/published.
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Title: Dance With Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins by Greg Lawrence ISBN: 0425183475 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Making of West Side Story by Keith Garebian ISBN: 0889626529 Publisher: Mosaic Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Broadway, the Golden Years: Jerome Robbins and the Great Choreographer Directors, 1940 to the Present by Robert Emmet Long ISBN: 0826414621 Publisher: Continuum Pub Group Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title:West Side Story (Full Screen Edition) ASIN: B0000AM6IY Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $12.26 |
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Title: Deconstructing Harold Hill by Scott Miller ISBN: 0325001669 Publisher: Heinemann Publishing Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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