Laurette Taylor GLASS MENAGERIE recording?- Page 2

[logan2]

Posted: 12/4/13 at 9:25am

I knew there had to be a reason destiny brought me back to Texas! I was planning a trip to Austin to visit friends in the near future anyway - but now my main goal will be to descend upon the Harry Ransom Center at UT (Hook'em Horns!). To finally hear a semblance of what has become legend is tantalizing to me. I wonder if I will be left alone long enough to make a surreptitious recording? Thank God for these newfangled phone doohikeys.

[cknick]

Posted: 2/3/14 at 4:55pm

This seems an appropriate place to pose this question, rather than starting a new thread.

With all the clips of scenes the current revival has been posting, do you think there's a chance it a video recording will be released? I would really love that, as I think would many people!!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/3/14 at 4:58pm

I asked Cherry Jones about that and was assured that it will not be filmed for any kind of a release. Sadly.

[cknick]

Posted: 2/3/14 at 5:00pm

Bummer. Will have to keep a lookout for one of those "things that must not be named."

Speaking of Cherry, does she usually answer letters? I sent her one and hope she will write back. She didn't come out the night I saw the show and I wanted to express my appreciation of her and how much the show moved me.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 2:52pm

I found the Laurette Taylor Peg o' My Heart, if anyone is interested. It's $5 with bunch of other Rudy Vallee radio shows.


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[StageStruckLad]

Posted: 2/13/14 at 4:04pm

So Logan2, did you make it to Austin to check out the Glass Menagerie recording?

[Fantod]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 9:57pm

Sorry, I just watched the Broadway Golden Age Documentary and wondered if anybody ever got ahold of this recording.

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 11:51pm

How funny that this topic comes up right now. I just got back from GLASS MENAGERIE again at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, where I had a brief discussion with the elderly woman next to me about Taylor's legendary performance.

I would absolutely love to hear her notorious take on the role. Pity it's kept under such lock and key. If I'm ever in Austin that's the first stop on my list!

[Fantod]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 2:25am

I think I might have found something.

http://www.schooltube.com/video/75d9995cfc771ecb8682/Tennessee%20Williams%20-%20Wounded%20Genius%20part%202

Right around 4:10 there is a snippet of audio from the play after talking about Laurette Taylor. Is this her voice? It is only about 15 seconds long but it is absolutely gorgeous the way the lines are read, with desperate gasps in between the lines. Argh I just listened to it like 10 times in a row and even if it isn't Laurette it's beautiful





Updated On: 11/21/14 at 02:25 AM

[Fantod]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 2:46am

Well around 5:00 she says my favorite line in the whole play in another snippet of dialogue. I don't know if it actually is Laurette, but whoever it is she is amazing in the role.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 7:52am

"How funny that this topic comes up right now. I just got back from GLASS MENAGERIE again at the Pittsburgh Public Theater..."

"Again"?!

Did Ted Pappas somehow not manage to destroy another classic?

[StageStruckLad]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 8:16am

Fantod, thanks for posting that. Even if it's not Laurette, it's wonderful to hear. And the whole documentary looks fascinating.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 10:09am

The interpretation in Fantod's clip of "Go to the moon" is very interesting. It's more subdued than I thought it would be. I'm wondering if they did a radio version of the play. The clips don't sound like they were recorded in a theater.

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 3:45pm

GLASS MENAGERIE at the PPT actually wasn't directed by Pappas.

It was the first thing I had ever seen there and it was pretty darned fantastic in my book. Lynne Winterstellar was amazing as Amanda, and the set design was lovely.

Updated On: 11/21/14 at 03:45 PM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 6:46pm

It also doesn't sound like a radio broadcast--not with such fidelity. As mentioned in the other thread, I'd place money those were just voice over actors hired for the special.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 6:47pm

Nowack, did they use Williams' original plan with all the projected images or the take that most productions use (including, much to his annoyance, the original) and drop them? I saw a very strong production last year--the first time I'd seen it done with all the projections as noted in the script and it worked much better than I expected.

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 6:51pm

I'm not familiar with the actual script, so I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

[Fantod]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 7:01pm

In the original script before the Broadway production, the idea of using projections of various images that Tom describes as he describes them was written into the script. They were not used for the original Broadway production, and I don't believe any subsequent Broadway productions, but have been used for several productions in regional theatres and are included in the trade edition of the play, though not the acting edition.

Updated On: 11/21/14 at 07:01 PM

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 7:03pm

Oh, no there was nothing like that. The lighting design was brilliantly done though.

[NoName3]

Posted: 4/5/16 at 3:22am

I found this youtube link at ATC and immediately remembered this old thread.  It appears to be the "lost" Laurette Taylor recording from Almira's original post.  I don't know how to embed it, but here is the link:

 

Laurette Taylor recites from plays including "The Glass Menagerie"

 

 

[friendofdo]

Posted: 4/6/16 at 12:31am

I'm certain that there's a video of the whole Cherry Jones GLASS MENAGERIE at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts. They usually videotape all B'way shows, unless they close almost instantaneously after opening. http://www.nypl.org/locations/lpa

[friendofdo]

Posted: 4/6/16 at 12:40am

I can't tell you how grateful I am, NoName3. Extremely kind of you and sincerely appreciated.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 4/6/16 at 1:09am

Holy. Crap. Thank you, NoName 

[Fantod]

Posted: 4/6/16 at 3:23am

Wow. Thank you so much for that.