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Arthur Laurents B ARTHUR LAURENTS b. July 14, 1917 d. May 5, 2011 PLAYWRIGHT/DIRECTOR “Entertainment is dessert. It needs to be balanced by the main course: theater of substance.” Arthur Laurents was a Tony Award-winning playwright, director and screenwriter. He In 1984, he won a wrote the scripts for “West Side Story,” “Gypsy” and “La Cage Aux Folles.” Tony for Best Direction Born Arthur Levine, Laurents grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Because of anti-Semitism, of a Musical for he changed his last name to the less Jewish-sounding Laurents. “La Cage Aux Folles.” After graduating from Cornell University, Laurents took a class in radio writing and produced “Now Playing Tomorrow,” a comedic fantasy broadcast on CBS Radio. He was drafted into the Army in World War II, but never saw combat. He wrote training films and dramatized radio shows for the Armed Forces. Laurents started his Broadway career with “Home of the Brave” (1945), which was adapted into a film. He moved to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. He adapted the play “Rope’s End” into a movie, but his Hollywood career was cut short when he was blacklisted for Communist sympathies. Subsequently, he returned to New York City and resumed writing for theater and film. Laurents wrote 12 plays and musicals, including “The Bird Cage” (1950), “The Time of the Cuckoo” (1952) and “A Clearing in the Woods” (1957). He wrote screenplays for “Anastasia” (1956), “The Way We Were” (1973) and “The Turning Point” (1977). He shared Tony nominations for Best Musical for “West Side Story” and “Gypsy.” In 1968, the Tony for Best Musical went to “Hallelujah, Baby!,” for which Laurents wrote the script. In 1984, he won a Tony for Best Direction of a Musical for “La Cage Aux Folles.” In 2010, his autobiography, “Original Story By Arthur Laurents: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood,” was published. Laurents was in a relationship with actor Tom Hatcher for 52 years. In 2010, the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award was established. It annually awards a $150,000 enabling grant to an unproduced play of social relevance. www.lgbtHistoryMonth.com Copyright © 2012 – A Project of Equality Forum © ASSOCIATED PRESS © ASSOCIATED.
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