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Topic: RSS FeedA Tyrant and His Whipping Boys.(Dance With Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins, Jerome Robbins: That Broadway Man/That Ballet Man)(Review)
American Theatre, October, 2001 by Wood, Mark Dundas
Jerome Robbins's career meshed genius with bad behavior DANCE WITH DEMONS: THE LIFE OF JEROME ROBBINS by Greg Lawrence, Putnam, New York. 622 pages, $32.95 cloth. JEROME ROBBINS: THAT BROADWAY MAN/THAT BALLET MAN by Christine Conrad, Booth-Clibborn, London. 304 pages, $49.95 cloth.
"PEOPLE LIKED TO DISLIKE JERRY TO varying degrees. But when you're dealing with genius you have to be prepared to turn your collar around." Those words are actor George Irving's, but the sentiment is echoed throughout Greg Lawrence's hefty new biography of Jerome Robbins. Over and over, we hear variations on the refrain: The choreographer/director may have been a cruel son of a corset-make; but the horrors he inflicted on his collaborators were bearable, simply...
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