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SeanD2 said: "MasterThespian 2 said: "Agree. He only wants to break it down and sell it for parts…just like he’s doing to the country. He’s never attended a cultural event in his life. He’s strictly MMA and pro wrestling. He’s as tacky and uncultured as a person can be—perfect for America in 2025."

I hate Trump as much as anybody, but the assertion that "he's never attended a cultural event in his life"

TOFT has a DVD transfer of home movie footage, filmed in 16mm, silent but in color, of the 1944 Broadway musical Follow the Girls. The filmmaker, who sat in an orchestra seat, was named Oscar Horovitz. As I recall, the producers permitted him to do this with the understanding the resulting footage would be for his private use only. The footage runs about 25 minutes, and captures various dances and musical numbers throughout the show. In later years, someone dubbed songs from the

Mellony said: "Curious when the practice of taking b-roll footage of Broadway shows started or became commonplace. Like, what is the oldest b-roll in the TOFT collection?"

I don't know for certain when the practice of creating B-roll footage began, but I would guess it was in the 1970s, when producers started airing TV commercials for their shows. TOFT holds a TV commercial for the original production of A Little Night Music, first broadcast in 1974, but there is

kdogg36 said: "I've often wondered about something related to this: what do productions do with unused b-roll and other footage? I realize this likely can't be released while copyrights are in play, but I'd hope it would be available to students and scholars in the (distant) future. Does anyone know if this material is generally preserved after a production closes, or is it usually just lost to time?"

B-rolls are often donated to the Theatre on Film a

In 1987, I saw a play by John Pielmeier called Sleight of Hand, about a depressive loser who is an aspiring magician. The playwright was hot at the time because he'd written Agnes of God, which ran for over a year, but this play was the pits. We considered leaving at intermission, but hoped Act Two might be better. It was worse. Really inept, like a sloppy rehearsal.

One of the friends with me knew the lead actor, Harry Groener. We went backstage afterwards, and h

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "As implied here and based on conversations with those who work on the Lincoln Center campus:

I gather there's a great deal of tiptoeing between Lincoln Center the landlord and its constituent organizations, as well as a general public misunderstanding of how each individual nonprofit operates as part of the larger Lincoln Center campus. (Don't ever let Andre B hear you say "Lincoln Center's production of Camelot"

BETTY22 said: "Do producers cover costs or Lincoln Center?"

Producers occasionally pay for tapings, but most often they don't.

To follow up on what I said earlier about the archive's name: TOFT is part of the New York Public Library system. Technically, our library is called The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. But that's a mouthful, so those of us who work there usually call it the LPA, or the Performing Arts Library. We are locate

I work at the Performing Arts Library, with the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT). It’s not correct to say the archive “passes” on jukebox musicals, or any other kind of stage show. All sorts of shows are considered for archival tapings (musicals, dramas, avant-garde pieces, puppet shows, etc.) However, as others have suggested, other factors are involved in what does and does not get recorded. First, there are specific criteria: if a stage work was created by a notabl

dramamama611 said: ""An Off-Broadway production has the best odds of being filmed, however, as they're not beholden to the Broadway unions, so unlike most shows I'd say that this has a statistically likelier probability of actually being filmed for posterity."
 
My understanding: Equity is not a "Broadway" union, but a professional stage union. Those actors are all Equity, so there are still ties even if the Shed isnt an Equity hous

Ensemble1686998462 said: "It really sucks they didn't do a proshot. Not only because of Lea's out of this world Fanny, but also because of the fantastic performances from Ramin, Tovah and Jared. It's amazing how it all came together to perfection after the horrible misfire at the beginning and this cast should be preserved."

The show was taped on Aug. 25, a few days before Lea went out sick, for the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT). So this product