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Description

1 bound volume of programs : illustrations, some in color; 24 cm

Donor/Sponsor

In honor of George Freedley

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Genre/Form

Note

Programs (1939 - 1962) for Skylark by Samson Raphaelson documenting amateur and regional productions in the United States. Of note are pre-Broadway try-outs for the original production starring Gertrude Lawrence, including at the Cape Playhouse (Dennis, Ma.) produced by Richard Aldrich; Haila Stoddard in Romney Brent's production at the Bucks County Playhouse (New Hope Pa.); the novelist Jacqueline Susann in a small role in her early acting career at the Bucks County Playhouse (New Hope, Pa.); Geraldine Page in Bella Itkin's production at the New Lake Zurich Playhouse (Ill.); Barnard Hughes in a production at the Tenthouse Theatre in the Round (Highland Park, Ill.).
Item 3, a program for the Anthony Wayne Theatre (Wayne, Pa.), contains an unauthenticated autographed by the actress and monologist, Helen Howe.
Compiled and bound by The New York Public Library.

Call Number

MWEZ+ n.c. 19848

OCLC

990806885

Title

Skylark programs, 1939-1962.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

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Added Author

Raphaelson, Samson, 1896-1983.

Lawrence, Gertrude, actor.

Aldrich, Richard Stoddard, 1902-1986, producer.

Stoddard, Haila, actor.

Brent, Romney, 1902-1976, director.

Susann, Jacqueline, actor.

Page, Geraldine, actor.

Itkin, Bella, director, teacher.

Hughes, Barnard, 1915-2006, actor.

Howe, Helen, 1905-1975, actor, autographer.

Research Call Number

MWEZ+ n.c. 19848