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Mr. Rickey calls a meeting

Title: Mr. Rickey calls a meeting [videorecording] / George Street Playhouse, Gregory S. Hurst, producing artistic director, Wendy Liscow, associate artistic director, Diane Claussen, managing director, by arrangement with Mitchell Maxwell, Hugh Hayes and Pines/Goldberg presents ; [written] by Ed Schmidt ; directed by Sheldon Epps.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J., 1994.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (94 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

Play based on a possibly apocryphal meeting in 1947 between Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, and three prominent African Americans from the worlds of entertainment and sports: Paul Robeson, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Joe Louis. Rickey supposedly called the men together to discuss his choice of Jackie Robinson to integrate major league baseball, but whether the meeting actually occurred is not known.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the George Street Playhouse.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Drama.

Note

Production team credited on tape; actors not identified.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Set design by Marjorie Bradley Kellogg ; costume design by Toni Leslie James ; lighting design by David F. Segal ; sound design by Jeff Willens ; stage manager, Thomas L. Clewell.

Performer (note)

Tom Brennan (as Branch Rickey), Sterling Macer, Jr. (as Jackie Robinson), Isiah Whitlock (as Joe Louis), Willie C. Carpenter (as Paul Robeson), Allie Woods, Jr. (as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson), and Ray Ford.

Event (note)

Videotaped at the George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Dec. 1994.

Call Number

NCOV 1882

OCLC

NYPG04-F718

Title

Mr. Rickey calls a meeting [videorecording] / George Street Playhouse, Gregory S. Hurst, producing artistic director, Wendy Liscow, associate artistic director, Diane Claussen, managing director, by arrangement with Mitchell Maxwell, Hugh Hayes and Pines/Goldberg presents ; [written] by Ed Schmidt ; directed by Sheldon Epps.

Imprint

New Brunswick, N.J., 1994.

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

Set design by Marjorie Bradley Kellogg ; costume design by Toni Leslie James ; lighting design by David F. Segal ; sound design by Jeff Willens ; stage manager, Thomas L. Clewell.

Cast

Tom Brennan (as Branch Rickey), Sterling Macer, Jr. (as Jackie Robinson), Isiah Whitlock (as Joe Louis), Willie C. Carpenter (as Paul Robeson), Allie Woods, Jr. (as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson), and Ray Ford.

Event

Videotaped at the George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Dec. 1994.

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Added Author

Hurst, Gregory S, producer.

Liscow, Wendy, producer.

Claussen, Diane, producer.

Maxwell, Mitchell, producer.

Hayes, Hugh, producer.

Pines, Andrea, producer.

Goldberg, Mark, producer.

Schmidt, Ed. Mr. Rickey calls a meeting.

Epps, Sheldon, director.

Kellogg, M. Bradley, set designer.

James, Toni Leslie, costume designer.

Segal, David F, lighting designer.

Willens, Jeffrey H. (Jeffrey Howard), sound designer.

Clewell, Thomas L., stage manager.

Ford, Raymond, actor.

Brennan, Tom, 1926- actor.

Macer, Sterling, actor.

Whitlock, Isiah, Jr., actor.

Carpenter, Willie C, actor.

Woods, Allie, Jr, actor.

George Street Playhouse (New Brunswick, N.J.), producer.

Pines/Goldberg, producer.

Research Call Number

NCOV 1882

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