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Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins: The Life of Jerome Robbins
 
 
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Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins: The Life of Jerome Robbins [Kindle Edition]

Greg Lawrence (Author)
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"If [he] hadn't been the way he was no one would have the careers they had." - Chita Rivera "Comprehensive and lively." - Publishers Weekly

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His legendary shows included Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, West Side Story, Gypsy, and Funny Girl. His celebrity colleagues included Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Stephen Sondheim, Natalie Wood, Ethel Merman, and Montgomery Clift. His private demons included sexual and religious conflicts, scandalous betrayals during the McCarthy hearings, and an insane drive for perfection that bordered on the sadistic.

Based on hundreds of interviews with his closest friends and enemies, this groundbreaking biography of "nightmare genius" (Tony Walton) Jerome Robbins, provides the first complete portrait of the man and the artist. It's a harrowing, heartbreaking, and candid look at life backstage.

"Comprehensive and lively." (Publishers Weekly)

"Contains plenty of dish." (The Wall Street Journal)
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 1280 KB
  • Print Length: 660 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0425183475
  • Publisher: Berkley (7 May 2001)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B000OCXGI2
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #349,161 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A real page-turner! 8 Jun 2001
By Adrienne Fischier - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Jerome Robbins was an extremely complex and difficult man -- and a genius. His choreography was more highly rated than Balanchine's in France, for instance. In this very well written book the reader is able to go inside the worlds of ballet and musical theater through endless but never boring details. "West Side Story" is Robbins's most famous work; he won two Oscars for the movie, but had been fired from the production! Marvelous insights into the personalities and talents of a generation of theatrical wizards in New York, particularly in the '50s. You don't have to be a ballet fan to enjoy this book.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Thorough, gossipy, undefinitive -- maybe unnecessary 28 Sep 2001
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Despite, or because of, its inclusion of hundreds of interviews, much of Greg Lawrence's biography amounts to uncorroborated hearsay. Given the backbiting and jealous atmosphere of the theatre world, a more rigorous biographer would have carefully weighed and vetted the reliability of the sources. Lawrence apparently was not given access to Robbins' own papers and therefore the man himself is decidedly absent from these pages, as has been pointed out by reviews in The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and elsewehere. It's gossipy and full of facts and opinions, but curiously empty.

Another customer reviewer here compares Lawrence's book with Christine Conrad's compendium of photographs and Robbins quotes (Jerome Robbins,That Broadway Man, That Ballet Man), to Lawrence's benefit. Seems to me you get a stronger sense of Robbins the man AND the artist from Conrad's book, even though it doesn't pretend to be a biography.

I've read that two other full-scale biographies are in the works whose authors have been allowed to see Robbins's archives; hopefully they will provide a deeper and more balanced view of the man. If anyone still cares.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Highly recommended 13 Aug 2001
By Michael Gordon - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
This book is an extraordinary oral history covering more than fifty years of American cultural history, with Jerome Robbins at center stage. A vivid portrait of the artist is created by the voices of family, friends, and colleagues. Both loved and hated, Robbins emerges in these pages as an ingenious, tormented bundle of contradictions -- a classic Jekyl-Hyde bipolar personality. Dance With Demons is packed with marvelous anecdotes about all of Robbins' Broadway shows and ballets, as well as the "demons" of his life off-stage (his conflicts over his bisexuality and Jewish heritage, etc). A must-read for anyone interested in theater and dance.

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