LEADER 03073nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910779420603321 005 20230803020332.0 010 $a1-299-39483-3 010 $a0-8093-3141-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000001017566 035 $a(EBL)1354560 035 $a(OCoLC)835981087 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000863691 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11429725 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000863691 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10830963 035 $a(PQKB)10716524 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1354560 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23582 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1354560 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10678799 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL470733 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001017566 100 $a20120921d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRichard Barr$b[electronic resource] $ethe playwright's producer /$fDavid A. Crespy ; with a foreword by Edward Albee 210 $aCarbondale $cSouthern Illinois University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 225 1 $aTheater in the Americas 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8093-3140-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: "you have to hock your house: the story of a producer" -- Privilege with a price: Washington, Princeton, and early theatre efforts -- Playing with martians: stage and screen with Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre -- A theatrical warrior: Lieutenant Richard Barr -- Learning the director's craft: stock, Broadway, and City Center -- Broadway beginnings: Ethyl Waters, Ruth Draper, and theatrical collage -- The zoo story: discovering Edward Albee -- Producers at work: on Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off Broadway -- Experimenting with Edward Malcolm to all over -- Hocking the house: Seascape to Sweeney Todd -- Brightening Broadway's lights: Barr's legacy to the American theatre -- Afterword / Edward Albee. 330 $a In Richard Barr: The Playwright's Producer, author David A. Crespy investigates the career of one of the theatre's most vivid luminaries, from his work on the film and radio productions of Orson Welles to his triumphant-and final-production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Explored in detail along the way are the producer's relationship with playwright Edward Albee, whose major plays such as A Zoo Story and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Barr was the first to produce, and his innovative productions of controversial works by playwrights like Samuel Becket 410 0$aTheater in the Americas. 606 $aTheatrical producers and directors$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aTheatrical producers and directors 676 $a792.02/32092 676 $aB 700 $aCrespy$b David Allison$01578695 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779420603321 996 $aRichard Barr$93858291 997 $aUNINA