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Description

1. 2 lnear feet (4 boxes).

Summary

1. Original costume designs by John Boyt and a few pages of notes for three Broadway productions: 12 designs for J. M. Synge's The playboy of the western world (1946) with Burgess Meredith; 36 designs for William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1947) with Katharine Cornell and Charlton Heston; and 37 designs for The lovers by Leslie Stevens (1956) with Morris Carnovsky and Joanne Woodward.

Subject

1. Boyt, John
2. Synge, J. M (John Millington), 1871-1909 > Playboy of the western world
3. Costume design > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
4. Costume design drawings
5. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Antony and Cleopatra
6. Stevens, Leslie, 1924-1998 > Lovers

Genre/Form

1. Costume design drawings.

Call number

1. *T-Vim 2010-024

Note

1. A number of the designs for The lovers are cockling due to plastic overlays fastened with adhesive on the versos.

Indexes/finding aids (note)

1. Folder list available on Internet.

Author

1. Boyt, John. Costume designer

Title

1. John Boyt costume designs, 1946-1956.

Biography

1. Designer, producer and writer, John Boyt (1921-1983) was born in Newark, New Jersey. From the 1940s to the early 1980s, Boyt designed costumes, sets, and occasionally lighting, for theater, dance, opera, television, and film. His credits include Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional theater productions, as well as New York City Ballet and New York City Opera.

Location of other archival materials

1. Related materials may be found in the Dodger / Eaves-Brooks Costume Plots, ca. 1947-1965, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Indexes

1. Folder list available on Internet.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre Division Special Collections material
2. Finding aid

Research call number

1. *T-Vim 2010-024