New York: Chelsea-Candide Company, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 production of the play, noted on the title page as the "Playing Version".). "Candide" premiered at the Broadway Theatre on March 10, 1974, playing for 740 performances, closing on January 4, 1976. Annotation in holograph marker of copy number "#13" on title page and several annotations in holograph pencil throughout.....
New York: N.p., 1957. Vintage double weight photograph of Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence from the original 1957 production of the Broadway musical. Stamps crediting photographer Fred Fehl and "West Side Story" Winter Garden production on the verso. The musical opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 26, 1957 for an enormously successful run of 732 performances, closing on June.....
New York: McCann and Nugent, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 play which opened on October 20, 1977, at the Martin Beck Theatre, for a run of 925 performances, closing on January 6, 1980. Based on Bram Stoker's classic 1897 Gothic novel and written in 1924 by Irish actor and playwright Hamilton Deane, then revised by American writer John L. Balderston.....
New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library, Circa 1959. Vintage script for the 1959 musical, which debuted on October 22 at the Shubert Theatre. Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1933 play "Ah, Wilderness". A light comedy following the romantic misadventures of a family in Connecticut in the early 20th century. The musical ran for 448 performances, and was nominated for eight Tony Awards, winning.....
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Play based on the 1946 novel by Thomas Heggen, who adapted it for the stage with Joshua Logan. In turn, the basis for the Academy Award-nominated 1955 comedy, directed by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy, starring Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, and Jack Lemmon. Henry Fonda also won a Tony Award for.....
New York: Music Theatre, Inc, circa 1960. Draft script for the 1965 play. Revival run at New York City Center April 28 to May 9, 1965 for a total of 15 performances. Props and costume plot bound in. Based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon. The musical has had several.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1978. Draft script for the 1978 play, which premiered on May 1 at the Morosco Theatre in New York. With a single holograph ink annotation to the title page. Basis for the 1988 film, directed by Matt Clark. In 1968, a young expatriate writer returns to his childhood home in Dalkey after the death of his adoptive father.....
N.p. N.p., 1987. Vintage script for the 1988 play, which premiered on May 3 at the Royal Theatre and ran for 279 performances. David Mamet's incendiary take on the world of Hollywood movie-making, a black comedy that stands alongside Nathanael West's "The Day of the Locust" in the subtlety and accuracy of its indictments. Set in Los Angeles. Pink titled wrappers, with.....
N.p. N.p., 1984. Vintage US window card poster for the 1984 Broadway play, generally considered Mamet's masterpiece. The play initially premiered at London's National Theatre in 1983 before moving to the US the following year, making its Broadway debut at the John Golden Theatre, the run advertised here, where it ran for 378 performances. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and nominated.....
N.p. William Morris Agency, 1973. First Draft script from 1973, for the 1977 musical, which premiered at the Alvin Theatre on April 21, 1977 and ran for a remarkable 2,377 performances, closing on January 2, 1983, setting the record for the longest running show at the Alvin Theatre (surpassed in 1979 by "Hairspray"). William Morris Agency label affixed to bottom.....
N.p. N.p., 1975. Draft script for the 1977 play. "The Gin Game" premiered on Broadway on October 6, 1977, at the John Golden Theatre, directed by Mike Nichols. The play had a run of 517 performances, closing on December 31, 1978. Actor Hume Cronyn's copy, with his printed name and address at the bottom right corner of the title page.....
New York: Harvey Sabison, 1961. Collection of five vintage borderless photographs from the 1961 play, four by photographer Sam Siegel, and one by Michael Boys. Mimeo snipe on verso of two, "Sam Siegel" stamp on verso of four, and "Michael Boys" and "Theatre World" stamp on verso of one. "The Caretaker" opened at the Lyceum Theatre on October 4, 1961.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970. Vintage script for the 1970 musical. Copy belonging to actor Steve Elmore, who was cast in the role of Paul, with his name in holograph ink to the title page, and several holograph pencil annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are two undated white revision pages. A late-thirties New Yorker finds himself unable to hold a......
New York: David Merrick Arts Foundation, Circa 1975. Draft script for the 1975 US staging of this play, which premiered October 30, 1975 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, for a run of 156 performances, closing on March 13, 1976. Numeric annotation in holograph pencil on front wrapper, and copy No. 4 noted in holograph ink on title page. "Travesties" was first.....
New York: Stuart Company, 1966. Draft script for the 1966 Broadway musical. A series of three playlets tied together by themes, such as dissatisfaction with getting what one wants, and repeated references or design elements, such as the color brown. Each playlet based on an existing work, with the first act based on "The Diary of Adam and Eve" by.....
New York: N.p., 1961. Exact Playing Version script for the original run of the 1960 Broadway play, dated January 1961. With a photograph of the cast onstage, inscribed by four members of the cast or crew to an unknown crew member laid in. Premiered November 10, 1960 and closed March 4, 1961, with a total of 132 performances at the.....
New York: Elkins Productions International Corporation, 1969. Draft script for the 1970 musical, which premiered on October 19, 1970 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, and ran for 507 performances, closing on January 1, 1972. Copy number "38" in holograph ink on title page. Based on Frederic Morton's 1962 book "The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait," the musical tells of the rise of the.....