Research Catalog
Alyce Webb papers
- Title
- Alyce Webb papers, 1940-1996 (bulk 1960-1986).
- Author
- Webb, Alyce Elizabeth, 1930-2000.
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Details
- Description
- 1.2 linear feet (3 archival boxes)
- Summary
- The Alyce Webb Papers document Webb's career in theatre, film, and television. The bulk of the collection consists of playbills and play scripts for productions in which Webb performed or for which she was the stage manager ("The Royal Mass of Mogho," "A Christmas Carol," and some productions of "Kiss Me Kate" and "Porgy and Bess"). There is also a folder of musical scores from some of these productions. The Personal Materials folder records Webb's scholastic achievements and goals as well as her community service. The Professional Materials folder contains copies of her resume, and contracts. In the Tributes and Obituaries folder are tributes to Martin Luther King, Jr., Eubie Blake, Cab Calloway, W.C. Handy, and Ella Fitzgerald among others.
- Subjects
- Black author
- Programs
- Scripts
- Playbills
- African American theater
- Women singers > United States
- African American women on television
- African American motion picture actors and actresses
- African Americans in the performing arts
- African American women entertainers
- African American singers
- Webb, Alyce Elizabeth, 1930-2000
- Genre/Form
- Playbills.
- Scripts.
- Programs.
- Note
- Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
- Books and magazines transferred to General Research and Reference Division.
- Source (note)
- Asta Hairston
- Biography (note)
- African-American singer and actress Alyce Webb performed in several Broadway, Off-Broadway and dinner theatre productions, including "Finian's Rainbow" (1962) and "Lost in the Stars" (1972). Webb also made recurring guest appearances on television's "All My Children" and appeared in films such as "Cotton Comes to Harlem" (1970), "Claudine" (1974, Identity Crisis (1989) and "Boomerang" (1992).
- In 1966 Webb toured South America with the U.S. State Department-sponsored Music Theater, USA and received rave reviews. Her other international experience included appearances with the New Zealand Opera Company in New Zealand and Australia, tours with Alvin Ailey and the Robert Shaw Chorale in Asia, as well as tours in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East with "Jazz Train" and "Free and Easy." Webb died on December 12, 2000.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 694
- OCLC
- 318218558
- 318218558
- Author
- Webb, Alyce Elizabeth, 1930-2000.
- Title
- Alyce Webb papers, 1940-1996 (bulk 1960-1986).
- Biography
- African-American singer and actress Alyce Webb performed in several Broadway, Off-Broadway and dinner theatre productions, including "Finian's Rainbow" (1962) and "Lost in the Stars" (1972). Webb also made recurring guest appearances on television's "All My Children" and appeared in films such as "Cotton Comes to Harlem" (1970), "Claudine" (1974, Identity Crisis (1989) and "Boomerang" (1992).In 1966 Webb toured South America with the U.S. State Department-sponsored Music Theater, USA and received rave reviews. Her other international experience included appearances with the New Zealand Opera Company in New Zealand and Australia, tours with Alvin Ailey and the Robert Shaw Chorale in Asia, as well as tours in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East with "Jazz Train" and "Free and Easy." Webb died on December 12, 2000.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 694