WARHOLCAPOTE, Rob Roth
WARHOLCAPOTE, Rob Roth
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WARHOLCAPOTE
A Non-Fiction Invention

Author: Rob Roth

Narrator: Dan Butler, Stephen Spinella, Dennis Boutsikaris, Rob Roth

Unabridged: 3 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

An enthralling play based on lost tapes between two cultural giants and friends—Andy Warhol and Truman Capote—read by the stars of the acclaimed original stage production, Stephen Spinella and Dan Butler.

In 1978 Andy Warhol and Truman Capote decided to write a Broadway play. Andy suggested that he record their private conversations over the period of a few months, and that these tapes would be the source material for the play. The tapes were then filed away and forgotten. Their play was never completed.

Now, award-winning director Rob Roth brings their vision to life after a years-long search to unearth the eighty hours of tapes between two of the most daring artists of postwar America. WARHOLCAPOTE, based on words actually spoken by the two men, is set in the ’70s and ’80s, toward the end of their close connection and not too long before their untimely deaths. Their special, complex friendship is captured by Roth with bracing intimacy as they discuss life, love, and art and everything in between. Every word in the play comes directly from these two 20th century geniuses. The structure of the conversations springs from Roth’s imagination.

The audiobook edition of WARHOLCAPOTE reunites the cast of the play’s 2017 world premiere stage production, featuring Stephen Spinella as Andy Warhol and Dan Butler as Truman Capote.

About Rob Roth

Rob Roth was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Director for his Broadway debut, Beauty and the Beast, which became one of the top ten longest-running musicals in Broadway history. The show has been seen by over 40 million people all over the world, winning the Olivier Award for Best Musical in London. Rob went on to direct the world premiere of Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida, collaborating with Sir Elton John and Sir Tim Rice. Rob directed the Broadway musical Lestat, based on the Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles with a score by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. Rob frequently directs rock concerts, collaborating with legendary artists including KISS, Alice Cooper, Dresden Dolls, Cyndi Lauper, and guitar legend Steve Miller. Rob is an avid collector of rock and roll graphics, and his collection is showcased in the coffee table book The Art of Classic Rock. Rob and his husband Patrick live in New York City with their labrador retriever Tag. 

About Dennis Boutsikaris

Dennis Boutsikaris won an OBIE Award for his performance in Sight Unseen and played Mozart in Amadeus on Broadway. Among his films are *batteries not included, The Dream Team, and Boys On the Side. His many television credits include And Then There Was One, Chasing the Dragon, and 100 Center Street.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Doug

4.5, rounded down. My sincere thanks to Netgalley, Simon & Schuster, and the author for the ARC in exchange for this honest review. As someone semi-obsessed with Warhol (and to a much lesser extent, Capote), and someone who reads over 100 plays each year, this would seem tailor-made for me. And to a......more

Goodreads review by Audrey

A marvelous composition. This play is a great portrait of two 20th Century geniuses in their own right. I don't claim to know a whole lot about either Andy Warhol or Truman Capote, but I was unaware that the two were friends. It was interesting reading snippets of real-life conversations the two had......more

Goodreads review by Laurie

Warholcapote: A Non-Fiction Invention contains the play, written by Rob Roth but envisioned by Andy Warhol and Truman Capote more than 30 years earlier. Warhol and Capote decide to write a Broadway play based on tape recordings of their private conversations. Warhol tapes their conversations over t......more

Very interesting concept of taking these tapes and turning them into a "play." I think it worked okay. The second part of the book is just extra conversations without any real context. I found this interesting, I am a big Warhol fan and I had no idea that he and Capote were friends. Capote was a gre......more


Quotes

"Stephen Spinella and Dan Butler reprise their 2017 Broadway roles as Andy Warhol and Truman Capote in this funny, touching, and deceptively straightforward dialogue between the famous pair. It is based solely on their private conversations recorded on 59 audio cassettes in the late 1970s to early ‘80s. With a preface read by art critic Blake Gopnik and the fascinating history of the project filled in by author/editor Rob Roth, the two cultural icons gossip about life, love, celebrities, and family. With the stellar performances of Spinella and Butler, backed by Dennis Boutsikaris reading stage directions, we hear an intimate, endearing portrait of two of the most public, most outwardly gay, most outrageous artists of twentieth-century America chatting like the best of friends."