MasterCard Presents: Broadway Beat's Priceless Moments #13 Arthur Laurents

One of the theater's most respected librettists is Arthur Laurents. He helped create two of the theater's greatest musicals West Side Story and Gypsy. He is about to return to Broadway directing Gypsy with Patti LuPone and next season will direct the Broadway revival of West Side Story. Here he talks about one of the finest Mama Rose's the legendary Angela Lansbury, who he directed in the 1974 revival.

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