Theatre Press Releases Laurents died early in 2011, but not before writing The Rest of the Story (Applause Books, September 2012, $24.99), in which he reveals all that happened in his life since Original Story By. The Rest of the Story is filled with the wisdom Laurents gained in growing older and a new perspective brought on by his experience of deep person loss, including the death of his longtime companion, Tom Hatcher.
Laurents’s style remains engrossing and brutally honest, his voice still highly intelligent, loving, generous, and gracious. He remained committed to his artistic vision to the very end, as captured in the epilogue, which he completed only days before his death. The book ends with a loving and insightful coda by Laurents’s good friend and editor of this book, award-winning director David Saint.
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Arthur Laurents was a playwright, screenwriter, and director who wrote two of Braodway’s landmark shows, Gypsy and West Side Story, and created one of Hollywood’s most well known romances, The Way We Were. His first autobiography, Original Story By, was published in 2001. Laurents died in 2011 at age 93.
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216pages 6” x 9” Illustrated throughout
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, an imprint of Hal Leonard
