Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

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Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/8/09 at 7:02pm

Or so she claims...

Q: What?s the first play you did with a gay element?

A: The Enclave. It was about a group of friends, grouped around the central character, who?s a closet gay. Put music to it and what have you got? Company. Of course he?s not gay in Company...[Laurents smiles).

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#2

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/8/09 at 7:04pm

lol.

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#3

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/8/09 at 7:09pm

I think he's doing it on purpose now to be funny. I really do.

#4

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/8/09 at 7:10pm

That wacky Arthur!

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re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/8/09 at 7:11pm

We need to compile some sort of complete list of everything Arthur is "responsible" for.

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Posted: 8/8/09 at 7:13pm

Everything from Annie to Zanna Don't!

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#7

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/8/09 at 7:18pm

Things Arthur is responsible for

1) The extinction of dinosaurs.

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re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/8/09 at 7:52pm

I'm pretty sure Arthur Laurents invented the word "theatre."

No, really. Before that, everyone would say, "we're going to sit collectively in the dark with a group of people and watch some other people wearing costumes talk at us for a while."

Arthur said, "Wait ... I think we can pare that explanation down and just call it 'theatre.'"

True story.

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re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/8/09 at 7:58pm

I heard a rumor that Shakespeare didn't write his own plays.

It was actually Arthur Laurents.

#10

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/8/09 at 8:04pm

Now is the winter of HIS discontent!

To paraphrase Billy,err... Miss L.

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#11

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/8/09 at 8:36pm

Has he cured cancer yet??

#12

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/8/09 at 9:06pm

I just found out that the man who built an arc to save the world's animals in pairs wasn't Noah at all!

It was Arthur.

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#13

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/8/09 at 11:10pm

What shows do he NOT think he's inspired ?

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re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/8/09 at 11:48pm

He's bat sh*t crazy. COMPANY opened in 1970, THE ENCLAVE in 1973.

#15

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/8/09 at 11:52pm

He never actually says that he inspired Company, just that his play had a similar structure. If anything, since it's in the context of talking about gay rights and depictions, he's implying that Bobby should be or is gay, which is a whole different debate.

I don't think Arthur Laurents is quite as crazy as everyone on this board says he is. I'm sure much of his image is based in truth, but I think a lot gets wildly exaggerated online.

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#16

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/9/09 at 12:10am

"I don't think Arthur Laurents is quite as crazy as everyone on this board says he is. I'm sure much of his image is based in truth, but I think a lot gets wildly exaggerated online."

Yes, but who's doing the exaggerrating?

Arthur can take as well as he can give as I'm sure many can attest.

He wrote 2 of the greatest musicals of all time, along with the respective collaborators. His claims of influence on other shows, from COMPANY to WICKED, is speculative and entertaining. Exaggeration is exaggeration.

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#17

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/9/09 at 12:12am

Well if ENCLAVE was written after COMPANY or whatever then how can he argue anything about their similarities. Because then wouldn't he be the one inspired by COMPANY...?

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re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/9/09 at 12:44am

He's delusional.

#19

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/9/09 at 12:56am

Yet he still won't own up to Nick and Nora which he actually was responsible for!

#20

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/9/09 at 10:17am

Watch his half hour interview on Theatre Talk. The ego on this man is insane. He is bitchy, and snipey, and so full of himself.

And his revivals of his owns works aren't very good either, just saying.

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Posted: 8/9/09 at 11:17am

Just because The Enclave opened after Company, that does not mean it was not conceived earlier.

Not saying that I believe it inspired Company. Just clarifying facts.

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#22

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/9/09 at 11:39am

I think he's doing it on purpose now to be funny. I really do.

No, actually. He's been doing this--and much, much worse--all his life.

He has to take credit for other people's successes because he knows in the empty chamber where other people have hearts that his own successes are lesser compared to those of his contemporaries.

And to be fair, The Enclave was produced in 1973 but he had been writing it for several years after Stonewall. No one would produce it until he directed it himself off-Broadway--and besides, The Boys in the Band did it better anyway.

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#23

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/9/09 at 12:00pm

I just re-read that interview. Is it as creepy to people who don't know him as it is to me?

Remember that when Mary Rodgers was asked to comment in Jesse Green's New York Magazine article, she answered, "Ask me when he's dead."

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#24

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/9/09 at 2:52pm

Yes, it is creepy. It is no surprise how he puts down his co-collaborators on West Side Story and Gypsy. Wasn't he in the room when those shows were written? When he dies, his plays will be forgotten. He will be forever linked to West Side Story and Gypsy. When he dies, the lights on Broadway will not be dimmed and people will dance on his grave.

#25

re: Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY

Posted: 8/9/09 at 4:28pm

"the lights on Broadway will not be dimmed"

I'd be VERY surprised if they weren't.