Jerome Robbins' Broadway Opening Night 1989

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/12/14 at 6:02pm

Gypsy Robe and curtain call footage. Two minutes and fifty-five seconds of wow.

http://youtu.be/Hdl1O5LPOoI

Watch through to the end and see who Jerome Robbins hugs after the curtain comes down.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 1/12/14 at 6:08pm

I thoroughly enjoyed that show the two times I saw it.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/12/14 at 6:11pm

Enjoy this too.
Debbie Gravitte 'Junk Man'

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 1/12/14 at 6:43pm

Watch through to the end and see who Jerome Robbins hugs after the curtain comes down.


***SPOLIER ALERT!***


So, Robbins hugs Baryshnikov. What's the big deal? Did I miss something all these decades? Really?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/13/14 at 7:45am

Who would you rather he had hugged?

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 1/13/14 at 8:15am

I would have expected him to randomly hug Joey McNeely, which would have provided some unmerited (and quite delicious) assumptions.

[jv92]

Posted: 1/13/14 at 6:49pm

This is a lovely clip. Thanks, Joey, for sharing. I think underneath Robbins' informing and cruelty, was a dear, if damaged heart. Maybe not. I never dealt with him and some of you did.

One day I will write a show and bring Jason Alexander back to the theater. It's been too long. I watch SEINFELD and think of how he was the linchpin of that brilliant show, and how only a good actor could pull off that part as expertly as he did, and then listen to MERRILY... and THE RINK and marvel at his fine singing voice.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 1/13/14 at 7:02pm

Despite the many stories to the contrary, I am struck with the obvious affection of the cast for Mr. Robbins in those clips. Perhaps all is forgiven on opening night! (For the record, I had a friend in that show and he adored Robbins and hadn't a bad word to say about the man.)

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/13/14 at 10:23pm

Jerry Robbins could be cruel but, in the end, he brought the best out in everyone he worked with. That's why people loved him: You knew that your own work might never be that good again. And you knew it was true of everyone else around you.

That's why people worked with him over and over again, despite his frequent cruelty.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 1/13/14 at 10:46pm

True. On the other hand, that friend of mine I mentioned to you left the business after stage managing for Robbins. He wasn't unkind to her, but she said no show was worth spending her life in that environment.

I think the tipping point for her was Robbins scheduling replacement auditions so the actor being replaced would "accidentally" run into those gunning for his job. (In fairness, it may have been a tactic and, if so, it worked: the actor kept his job.)

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/13/14 at 11:07pm

He did that regularly.

[D2]

Posted: 1/14/14 at 10:34am

Unless, of course, he fired you while you were in the hospital recovering from a torn tendon.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 1/14/14 at 10:38am

Thanks for sharing that clip PalJoey! Awesome!