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Animal crackers

Title: Animal crackers [videorecording] / [produced by] Arena Stage ; music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby ; additional music by Eric Stern ; book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind ; directed by Douglas C. Wager ; choreographed by Baayork Lee ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
Publication: Washington, D.C., 1982.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Videodiscs 1 and 2	Moving image	Restricted use	NCOV 210 Videodiscs 1 and 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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Description

2 videodiscs (DVD) (147 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Musicals.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Musical direction and vocal arrangements by Robert Fisher ; orchestrations and dance arrangements by Russell Warner ; setting by Zack Brown ; lighting by William Mintzer ; costumes by Marjorie Slaiman ; prod. stage mgr., Suzanne Fry.

Performer (note)

Richard Bauer, Carol Swarbrick, Castulo Guerra, Karen Jablons, Christina Moore, Eric Weitz, Sam Freed, Daniel Benzali, Kevin Donovan, David Toney, Jacqueline M. Bouchard, Tracy Flint, Katherine Leask, Teresa Payne, Stephen Mellor, J. Fred Shiffman, Donald Corren, Charles Janasz, Deborah Jean Templin, Mollie Smith, John Caleb, David Chernault, Mark Frawley, Suzanne Ishee, Bobby Longbottom, Mark Monroe, Alison Morgan, Maureen Ribble, Cynthia Thole, Tanis Roach, Michael Watson.

Event (note)

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at Arena Stage, Washington, D.C., July 25, 1982.

Funding (note)

Recorded with financial assistance from Arena Stage and the Washington Drama Society, Inc.

Biography (note)

Animal crackers, originally written for The Marx Brothers, opened at the 44th Street Theatre, New York, N.Y., on Oct. 23, 1928. The film version was released by Paramount Pictures in 1930.

Call Number

NCOV 210

OCLC

NYPG99-F117

Title

Animal crackers [videorecording] / [produced by] Arena Stage ; music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby ; additional music by Eric Stern ; book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind ; directed by Douglas C. Wager ; choreographed by Baayork Lee ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.

Imprint

Washington, D.C., 1982.

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

Musical direction and vocal arrangements by Robert Fisher ; orchestrations and dance arrangements by Russell Warner ; setting by Zack Brown ; lighting by William Mintzer ; costumes by Marjorie Slaiman ; prod. stage mgr., Suzanne Fry.

Cast

Richard Bauer, Carol Swarbrick, Castulo Guerra, Karen Jablons, Christina Moore, Eric Weitz, Sam Freed, Daniel Benzali, Kevin Donovan, David Toney, Jacqueline M. Bouchard, Tracy Flint, Katherine Leask, Teresa Payne, Stephen Mellor, J. Fred Shiffman, Donald Corren, Charles Janasz, Deborah Jean Templin, Mollie Smith, John Caleb, David Chernault, Mark Frawley, Suzanne Ishee, Bobby Longbottom, Mark Monroe, Alison Morgan, Maureen Ribble, Cynthia Thole, Tanis Roach, Michael Watson.

Event

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at Arena Stage, Washington, D.C., July 25, 1982.

Funding

Recorded with financial assistance from Arena Stage and the Washington Drama Society, Inc.

Biography

Animal crackers, originally written for The Marx Brothers, opened at the 44th Street Theatre, New York, N.Y., on Oct. 23, 1928. The film version was released by Paramount Pictures in 1930.

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Added Author

Kaufman, George S. (George Simon), 1889-1961, librettist.

Ryskind, Morrie, 1895-1985, librettist.

Kalmar, Bert, 1884-1947, lyricist.

Ruby, Harry. Animal crackers.

Stern, Eric, composer.

Fisher, Rob, 1952- arranger of music.

Fisher, Rob, 1952- conductor.

Warner, Russell, arranger of music.

Wager, Douglas C., director.

Lee, Baayork, choreographer.

Brown, Zack, set designer.

Mintzer, William, lighting designer.

Slaiman, Marjorie, approximately 1925-2002, costume designer.

Fry, Suzanne, production stage manager.

Bauer, Richard, 1939- performer.

Swarbrick, Carol, performer.

Guerra, Castulo, performer.

Jablons, Karen, performer.

Moore, Christina, performer.

Weitz, Eric, performer.

Freed, Sam, performer.

Benzali, Daniel, performer.

Donovan, Kevin, performer.

Toney, David Emerson, performer.

Bouchard, Jacqueline M., performer.

Flint, Tracy, performer.

Leask, Katherine, performer.

Payne, Teresa, performer.

Mellor, Stephen, performer.

Shiffman, J. Fred, performer.

Corren, Donald, performer.

Janasz, Charles, performer.

Templin, Deborah Jean, performer.

Smith, Mollie, performer.

Caleb, John, performer.

Chernault, David, performer.

Frawley, Mark, 1959- performer.

Ishee, Suzanne, performer.

Longbottom, Robert, performer.

Monroe, Mark, performer.

Morgan, Alison, performer.

Ribble, Maureen, performer.

Thole, Cynthia, performer.

Watson, Michael, performer.

Roach, Tanis, performer.

Corwin, Betty L.

Stucker, Richard, videographer.

Arena Stage (Organization : Washington, D.C.), producer.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

Washington Drama Society.

Research Call Number

NCOV 210

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