Gregory Mosher
In May of 1988, Peter Van Zandt moderated a talk with director and Lincoln Center Theatre artistic director Gregory Mosher, just weeks after the opening of the Broadway production of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow. In a conversation that focuses on Mosher’s longstanding relationship with Mamet, and Mosher’s leadership of Lincoln Center Theater since 1985, topics include Mosher and Mamet’s first meeting in Chicago in 1974; the ambiguity of Speed-the-Plow; Mamet’s preference for working with the same company of actors and Mosher’s desire to open up the casting to a broader range of actors, including the casting of stage neophyte Madonna in her Broadway debut; the issues involved in releasing an actor; why Mosher loves producing perhaps more than directing; how the then-new Lincoln Center membership model compares with the classic theatrical subscription model; whether he believes Lincoln Center Theater should have a resident acting company, as it did when the Vivian Beaumont opened in the 1960s; the process of moving Sarafina!; and what he had learned from his new partner at LCT, Bernard Gersten.
Originally recorded on – May 25, 1988.
Running time – 1:27:21.
For more information, to listen online, or to download the episode go to SDCF Masters of the Stage’s Gregory Mosher program page.
You can also download directly the Gregory Mosher program (mp3).
Posted on Friday, January 22nd, 2010 at 11:49 am
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