Arthur Laurents play THE ENCLAVE inspired COMPANY — Page 2

When he dies, the lights on Broadway will not be dimmed and people will dance on his grave.

No need to worry about that. Arthur Laurents is eternal. He has been here long before man & will be long after we're gone.

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i am the one, Arthur would have saved the unicorns

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I don't know why anyone is surprised. After reading "Mainly On Directing", it's quite clear that he considers himself to be God's gift to the theater world.

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That was one of the proposed titles the publisher rejected.

Some of the others inclided

Mainly on Correcting
Mainly on Rejecting
Mainly on Erecting
Mainly on Erections
Mainly on My Erections
Mainly on My, Arthur Laurents', Massive Erection That is So Impressive and Wonderful and Bigger Than Sam Mendes'

They say that when he bathes (which is, of course, in the blood of virgins), he doesn't get bloody, the blood gets Arthur Laurentsed.

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Yeah.... The "later" AL is scarier than the "late" Al will be. But, isn't it truly classically Broadway wannabe bitchy to forget that he did write "Gypsy" and "West Side Story" and "Home of the Brave" and "Time of the Cuckoo".... ANY and ALL of which have better scripts than the crap that all the youngun's of today keep discussing as if "Wicked" and "Legally Blonde" and "Rent" and.... take your pick... are actually going to LAST. Let's be clear. The ability of a future generation to find its own quality is by how graciously it can understand they had no present without the past. Yes, Laurents is an old egomaniac. And takes credit for things he shouldn't. But at least he HAS a past full of quality. And his egocrapical self will be gone while his work will be around, living longer than pretty much anything Broadway's OWN egocrapical self has created in the last...oooh... 15 years? Just a thought.

Oh, stop it! Laurents WAS one of those collaborators. He did write the books of two of the greatest works in American theater. And if that's all he did, that's still major. And who's to say that those works might not have been lesser achievements without his contributions?

I'm not defending him as human being (who could/would want to?). But to nullify his actual accomplishments seems silly to me.

And reading that interview, it's a huge leap to say that he's claiming that his play inspired Company. It seems like it's his detractors projecting.

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Sorry, folks, it looks to me more like he's pointing out a similarity between THE ENCLAVE and COMPANY, (and pointing out the gay factor in ENCLAVE that folks have tried to shoe-horn into COMPANY) rather than claiming any kind of credit for inspiring COMPANY.

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Nevertheless, he is The Undead. Here is he, drinking the blood of Angela Lansbury.

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BAHAHA

The part about Matt Cavanaugh is very icky. Laurents takes full credit for Matt having some kind of breakthrough acting wise.
Boy, I sure didn't see anything like that.
He is giving one of the dullest performances I have ever seen on Broadway.

And I agree that the interveiwer is playing right into his hands.

Looks like he is trying to suck Angela's brain out of her head. poor dear.