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Patricia Zipprodt papers and designs

Title: Patricia Zipprodt papers and designs, 1925-1999.
Author: Zipprodt, Patricia, 1925-1999
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Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 126	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 126	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 125	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 125	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 124	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 124	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 123	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 123	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 122	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 122	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 121	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 121	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 120	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 120	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 119	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 119	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 118	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 118	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 117	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 117	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 116	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 116	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 115	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 115	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 114	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 114	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 113	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 113	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 112	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 112	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 111	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 111	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 110	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 110	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 109	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 109	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 108	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 108	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 107	Archival Mix	Supervised use	*T-Vim 1999-001 Box 107	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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85 linear ft. (126 boxes)

Summary

The Patricia Zipprodt papers and designs include many original designs and sketches, as well as costume bibles, costume research, photographs, and production materials.

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Genre/Form

Appointment books.
Clippings.
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Costume design drawings.
Invoices.
Lecture notes.
Programs.
Photographs.
Scripts.
Renderings.

Note

Offsite materials must be requested in advance.

Source (note)

Estate of Patricia Zipprodt

Biography (note)

Tony Award winning costume designer, Patricia Zipprodt, is best remembered for the designs she created for several Broadway productions over the course of her long and prolific career, including Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Zorba, Chicago, and Sweet Charity.

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Call Number

*T-Vim 1999-001

OCLC

NYPT05-A4

Author

Zipprodt, Patricia, 1925-1999.

Title

Patricia Zipprodt papers and designs, 1925-1999.

Biography

Tony Award winning costume designer, Patricia Zipprodt, is best remembered for the designs she created for several Broadway productions over the course of her long and prolific career, including Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Zorba, Chicago, and Sweet Charity. She was born on February 24, 1925 and raised in Evanston, Illinois. Zipprodt studied sociology at Wellesley College and moved to New York City. Attending a performance of George Balanchine's La Valse, Zipprodt was inspired by the costume designs of Barbara Karinska and decided to pursue a career in design. She attended the New York Fashion Institute of Technology (1951-1953), which was followed by an internship with Charles James. Both experiences contributed to Zipprodt's talents as a cutter, draper and sewer. Zipprodt began her professional career as an assistant to Irene Sharaff, and in 1957, she completed her first solo Broadway show, The Potting Shed. She first worked with the director and producer, Harold Prince, on The Matchmaker in 1962, and together they created some of the most memorable shows of the 1960s: Fiddler on the Roof (1964), Zorba (1968), and Cabaret (1966). Prince also put Zipprodt in contact with Broadway and ballet choreographer, Jerome Robbins, another one of her longtime collaborators.

Zipprodt's own working method was marked by a thorough attention to detail and usually involved extensive research. In addition to her work on Broadway productions, Zipprodt also created designs for numerous ballet, opera, and film productions. She developed her own fabric-painting technique, perhaps best exemplified by her work on Antony Tudor's ballet, The Leaves Are Fading (1975). Zipprodt taught as an adjunct professor at Brandeis University from 1985-1992 and also lectured or gave master classes at many other universities. In 1981, The Village Voice named her one of New York City's 10 best-dressed women. Zipprodt was a 1992 inductee into the Theater Hall of Fame, and, in 1997, she received the Theatre Development Fund's Irene Sharaff Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 1993, Zipprodt was married for the first time, to Robert O'Brien, a man whose proposal she had refused some 43 years earlier. For the next several years, Zipprodt would split her time between New York City and O'Brien's Virginia home until her death in July 1999.

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Costume designers.

Added Author

Prince, Harold, 1928-2019.

Robbins, Jerome.

Research Call Number

*T-Vim 1999-001

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