Skylark programs
- Title
- Skylark programs, 1939-1962.
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Status | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
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Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call numberMWEZ+ n.c. 19848 | Item locationOffsite |
Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- 1 bound volume of programs : illustrations, some in color; 24 cm
- Donor/Sponsor
- In honor of George Freedley
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autographs.
- Theater programs.
- Playbills.
- Call number
- MWEZ+ n.c. 19848
- 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.
- Title
- Skylark programs, 1939-1962.
- Type of content
- text
- still image
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Connect to:
- 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