{"product_id":"book-d4d4","title":"Jerome Robbins, by Himself","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe titanic choreographer, creator of memorable ballets, master of Broadway musicals, legendary show doctor and director, now revealed in his own words-the closest we will get to a memoir\/autobiography-from his voluminous letters, journals, notes, diaries, never before published. Edited, and with commentary by Amanda Vaill, author of Robbins's biography, \u003ci\u003eSomewhere, \u003c\/i\u003e2006 (\"I can't imagine a better book about Robbins ever being written\"-Terry Teachout, chief drama critic, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was famous for reinventing the Broadway musical, creating a vernacular American ballet, pushing the art form to new boundaries where it had never gone before, integrating dance seamlessly with character, story and music, and as Associate Artistic Director, Ballet Master, and Co-Artistic Director, with George Balanchine, shaping the New York City Ballet with daring and brio for more than five decades through his often startling choreography in ballet's classical idiom. He was known as the king of Broadway, the most sought-after director-choreographer and show doctor who gave shape to \u003ci\u003eOn the Town\u003c\/i\u003e (1944), \u003ci\u003eCall Me Madam \u003c\/i\u003e(1950), \u003ci\u003eThe King and I \u003c\/i\u003e(1951), \u003ci\u003eWonderful Town \u003c\/i\u003e(1953), \u003ci\u003ePeter Pan \u003c\/i\u003e(1954), \u003ci\u003eThe Pajama Game\u003c\/i\u003e (1954), \u003ci\u003eSilk Stockings \u003c\/i\u003e(1955), \u003ci\u003eWest Side Story \u003c\/i\u003e(1957), \u003ci\u003eGypsy \u003c\/i\u003e(1959), \u003ci\u003eA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum\u003c\/i\u003e (1962), \u003ci\u003eFunny Girl \u003c\/i\u003e(1964), \u003ci\u003eFiddler on the Roof \u003c\/i\u003e(1964), and many other classic musicals, winning four Tony Awards, two Oscars, and an Emmy. He shocked and betrayed those he loved and worked with by naming names to the House Un-American Activities Committee. (\"I betrayed my manhood, my Jewishness, my parents, my sister,\" he wrote in a diary. \"I can't undo it.\") \u003cbr\u003e    Now, Amanda Vaill, Jerome Robbins biographer and authority, drawing on the vast and closely held Robbins archives, has put together a selection of his writings, giving us a sense of his extraordinary range as a thinker and artist, as well as a surprising and revealing glimpse into the mind and heart of this towering cultural giant. \u003cbr\u003e    Interspersed throughout, his correspondence with George Balanchine, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Robert Graves, Lincoln Kirstein, Arthur Laurents, Tanaquil Le Clercq (the fourth of Balanchine's four wives, with whom Robbins was also in love), Laurence Olivier, Stephen Sondheim, et al.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49328273195312,"sku":"BDd4d4","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/d4d4-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776323083","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-d4d4","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}