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The Abe Burrows songbook. Music & lyrics by Abe Burrows. Illus. by Roberta Macdonald; music arrangement by Alexander Steinert. [1st. ed.]
- Notated music
- Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1955.
- 1955
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music JNF 74-118 Offsite Honest, Abe : is there really no business like show business? / Abe Burrows. 1st ed.
- Text
- Boston : Little, Brown, c1980.
- 1980
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text MWES (Burrows, A.) 81-193 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text MWES (Burrows, A.) 81-193 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The Guys and dolls book / Frank Loesser ... [et al.] ; with National Theatre production photos by John Haynes.
- Text
- London : Methuen : In association with the National Theatre, London, [1982]
- 1982
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text JNE 85-26 Offsite Playwright lecture series [sound recording], 1951-1960.
- Audio
- 1951-1960
Can-can. Book and direction by Abe Burrows...
- Notated music
- [New York, Chappell, c1954, c1953]
- 1954-1953
Guys and dolls, based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows...
- Notated music
- London, E. H. Morris; New York, Frank Music Corp. [c1953, c1950]
- 1953-1950
Dance magazine awards, 1962 [sound recording] : Isadora Bennett, Bob Fosse, and Margot Fonteyn.
- Audio
- 1963.
- 1963
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Spoken word recording *MGZTL 4-525 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Silk stockings [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; directed by Rouben Mamoulian ; produced by Arthur Freed.
- Moving image
- Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, 1991, c1957.
- 1957
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location VHS *MGZIA 4-2834 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Crankhouse [videorecording].
- Moving image
- 1988.
- 1988
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location DVD *MGZIDVD 5-2577 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location DVD *MGZIDVD 5-2577 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Guys and dolls; a musical fable of Broadway. Based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.
- Text
- [New York, 1950]
- 1950
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Manuscript NCOF p.v. 493 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Say, darling : a comedy about a musical / by Richard Bissell, Abe Burrows and Marian Bissell ; based upon the novel by Richard Bissell.
- Text
- Boston : Little, Brown, 1959, c1958.
- 1959-1958
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text JND 95-63 Offsite Guys and dolls [sound recording] : the new Broadway cast recording / [music and lyrics by Frank Loesser].
- Audio
- New York, N.Y. : RCA Victor, p1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDC 5384 (F) Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
First impressions; a musical comedy, adapted by Abe Burrows from Helen Jerome's dramatization of Jane Austen's novel Pride and prejudice. Music and lyrics by Robert Goldman, Glenn Paxton [and] George Weiss.
- Text
- New York, S. French, 1962.
- 1962
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text *MZ-Amer. (Weiss, G. First impressions) Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The Solid gold Cadillac; screenplay by Abe Burrows.
- Text
- [Hollywood?] 1955.
- 1955
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text MFLM+ (Solid gold Cadillac) Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Cactus flower; a comedy, based on a play by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy.
- Text
- New York, D. Merrick [1965]
- 1965
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Manuscript NCOF+ (Burrows, A. Cactus flower) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
How to succeed in business without really trying; musical. Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, based on How to succeed in business without really trying, by Shepherd Mead.
- Text
- [New York, A. Meyerson, 1961?]
- 1961
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Manuscript NCOF+ (Loesser, F. How to succeed in business without really trying) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Guys and dolls; a musical fable of Broadway. Based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser; book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.
- Text
- [New York, 1950]
- 1950
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Manuscript NCOF p.v. 493 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Edgar Dannenberg correspondence, 1952-1994.
- Mixed material
- 1952-1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Archival Mix *T-Mss 2001-002 Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Say, darling : a comedy about a musical / by Richard Bissell, Abe Burrows, Marian Bissell ; based on the best-selling novel by Richard Bissell ; songs by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne ; April 10, 1958.
- Text
- 1958.
- 1958
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Manuscript NCOF+ (Styne, J. Say, darling) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The girl with the three blue eyes and other typical type songs [sound recording] / Abe Burrows.
- Audio
- New York : Decca, c1950.
- 1950-1947
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZO 91 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
How to succeed in business without really trying (Television pilot) [videorecording] / W.W.W. Productions, Ltd. [presents] ; produced and written by Abe Burrows ; based on the musical "How to succeed in business without really trying," which was based upon the novel by Shepherd Mead ; creative consultant, Marshall Brickman ; directed by Burt Brinckerhoff.
- Moving image
- New York, c1975.
- 1975
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Film, Slide, etc. NCOX 1685 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Abe Burrows collection of sound recordings [sound recording].
- Mixed material
- 1946-1972
Abe Burrows papers, 1904-1993.
- Mixed material
- 1904-1993
- 129 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Archival mix *T-Mss 2000-006 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Archival mix *T-Mss 2000-006 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Archival mix *T-Mss 2000-006 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Two on the aisle [sound recording] : a Broadway production : original cast album / [music by] Jule Styne ; [lyrics and sketches by] Betty Comden, Adolph Green.
- Audio
- New York : Decca Broadway, c2001.
- 2001-1951
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDC 32242 [CD] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDC 32242 [Notes (Synopsis)] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Three wishes for Jamie [sound recording] : original Broadway cast / [music and lyrics by Ralph Blane ; book by Charles O'Neal and Abe Burrows].
- Audio
- [Hollywood, Calif.] : Broadway Angel, p1993.
- 1993-1952
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDC 31063 [CD] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDC 31063 [Notes (Synopsis)] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
How to succeed in business without really trying! [videorecording] / Dodger Productions and Kardana Productions, Inc., The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Nederlander Organization present ; music and lyrics by Frank Loesser ; book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert ; based on the book by Shepherd Mead ; choreography by Wayne Cilento ; directed by Des McAnuff ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
- Moving image
- New York, c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location DVD NCOV 1948 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Can-can [videorecording] / [Produced by] City Center, Arlene Shuler, president & CEO, Mark Litvin, Sr. V.P. & managing director, City Center Encores!, Jack Viertel, artistic director, Rob Fisher, music director, Kathleen Marshall, director-in-residence ; music and lyrics by Cole Porter ; book by Abe Burrows ; produced for the Broadway stage by Feuer and Martin ; concert adaptation, David Lee ; directed by Lonny Price ; choreographer, Melinda Roy ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
- Moving image
- New York, c2004.
- 2004
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location VHS NCOV 2830 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location VHS NCOV 2830 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Person to person. Abe Burrows [videorecording] / Produced for CBS-TV, New York, N.Y. ; produced by John A. Aaron, Jesse Zousmer ; [directed by Franklin Schaffner]
- Moving image
- New York, 1955.
- 1955
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location VHS NCOX 1683 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
[Abe Burrows on the Admiral Broadway Revue] [videorecording] / Produced for NBC-TV, New York, N.Y. ; produced and directed by Max Liebman.
- Moving image
- New York, 1949.
- 1949
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location VHS NCOX 1684 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
[Abe Burrows television obituary] [videorecording] / Produced for NBC-TV, New York, N.Y.
- Moving image
- New York, 1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Film, Slide, etc. NCOX 1826 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
S.P.M. presents Breakfast at Tiffany's [sound recording] : [a new musical comedy based upon Truman Capote's story "Breakfast at Tiffany's" / book by Abe Burrows ; music and lyrics by Bob Merrill].
- Audio
- [S.l.] : S.P.M. Records, [1966?]
- 1966
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LRX 8229 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Guys and dolls [videorecording] / Dodger Productions, Roger Berlind, Jujamcyn Theaters/TV ASAHI, Kardana Productions, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, present ; executive producer, David Strong Warner, Inc. ; associate producers, Playhouse Square Center, David B. Brode ; based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon ; music and lyrics by Frank Loesser ; book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows ; choreographed by Christopher Chadman ; directed by Jerry Zaks ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
- Moving image
- New York, 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location DVD NCOV 1135 Videodiscs 1 and 2 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Abe Burrows sings? [sound recording] / all written by Abe Burrows.
- Audio
- [New York] : Columbia, [1950]
- 1950
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZO 3287 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Broadway, the American musical [videorecording] / a film by Michael Kantor ; a co-production of Ghost Light Films, Thirteen/WNET New York, NHK and BBC in association with Carlton International ; written by JoAnn Young, Marc Fields, Michael Kantor and Laurence Maslon ; directed by Michael Kantor.
- Moving image
- Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image NCOX 2058 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Guys and dolls: typescript, 1965.
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Manuscript RM 4321 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
How to succeed in business without really trying: typescript, 1966.
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Manuscript RM 4322 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Silk stockings: typescript, 1958.
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Manuscript RM 4343 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The cactus flower: typescript.
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Manuscript RM 4440 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Can-can: typescript.
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Manuscript RM 4648 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Guys and dolls: typescript.
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text RM 5571 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Helizapoppin!: typescript, 1976.
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text RM 8054 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
How to succeed in business without really trying [sound recording] / [book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on How to succeed in business without really trying, by Shepherd Mead ; music and lyrics by Frank Loesser].
- Audio
- [New York, N.Y.?] : RCA Victor, [1961]
- 1961
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 71772 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 71772 [Notes] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Feuer and Martin present Guys and dolls : a musical fable of Broadway / based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon ; music and lyrics by Frank Loesser ; book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows ; dances and musical numbers staged by Michael Kidd ; settings and lighting by Jo Mielziner ; costumes by Alvin Colt ; [rehearsal score prepared by Billy Kyle ; arranged by George Bassman].
- Notated music
- [New York] : [s. n.], [1951]
- 1950-1952
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music JPB 05-17 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Cactus flower : photographs [graphic].
- Still image
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Picture *T-Pho B (Cactus flower) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
How to succeed in business without really trying (premiere, cast party, and the 1962 Tony Awards) [videorecording].
- Moving image
- New York, 1961-62.
- 1961-1962
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location VHS NCOX 1825 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Spinning on air : radio broadcast, 2000-10-06 [sound recording] : Lou Carter et al.
- Audio
- Oct. 6, 2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDC 50824 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Cactus flower : a comedy in two acts / by Abe Burrows.
- Text
- New York : S. French, c1966.
- 1966
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text C-14 1347 no. 1-4 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Can-can / music and lyrics by Cole Porter ; book by Abe Burrows ; concert adaptation by David Lee, 2004.
- Mixed material
- 2004
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Manuscript NCOF+ 10-7983 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
How to succeed in business without really trying! / music and lyrics by Frank Loesser ; book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert ; based on the book by Shepherd Mead, 1996.
- Mixed material
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material NCOF+ 10-8008 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
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