N.p. N.P., 1950. Draft script for the 1950 play. An English language adaptation by Christopher Fry of Jean Anouih's 1947 play "Invitation to the Castle." A story about two twins, a cold, manipulative playboy named Hugo and his sensitive brother Frederic. Frederic is in love with Diana, the daughter of a self-made millionaire, but Diana desires Hugo rather than Frederic.....
![La Sauvage [Restless Heart] (Original script for the 1938 play). Jean Anouilh](/pictures/thumb/137449.jpg?v=1492979630)
Paris: Editions Georges Marton, circa 1938. Original carbon typescript for the 1938 play in agency wrappers. The play debuted at the Theatre des Mathurins in Paris on January 11, 1938 and ran for 100 performances. First published in the collection "Pieces noires" (Calmann-Levy, 1942) and published in English as "Restless Heart" (Methuen, 1957). Beige agency wrappers, 108 leaves, with last.....
![The Scenario [Le scenario] (Original script for the 1975 play). Jean Anouilh, Lucienne Hill,...](/pictures/thumb/137519.jpg?v=1492979659)
London: Triumph Theatre, 1976. English language script for the 1976 French play "Le scenario" by Jean Anouilh, translated by writer and actress Lucienne Hill, who was responsible for translating many of his works for the London stage. File copy, with a "please return label" for the International Copyright Agency in London on the title page. Brown wrappers with title window.....
New York: N.p., Circa 1957-1959. Draft script for the 1959 play. Copy belonging to producer Stanley Chase, with his name and address to a sticker on the title page. The script contains the printed lyrics for every musical number, with dialogue and stage direction interspersed. Arlen's original 1946 musical, "St. Louis Woman," with lyrics by Johnny Mercer, was based on.....
![Madhouse [There Was a Little Girl] (Original screenplay for the 1981 play). Arthur Marx, playwright](/pictures/thumb/147491.jpg?v=1594178771)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play "There Was a Little Girl," here under both that title and the working title "Madhouse." With a holograph pencil notation of copy No. 18 on the title page. Laid in with the script is a four page copied budget proposal. Nothing is known about whether the play was produced, but it.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1975. Draft script for the 1975 US production of the 1973 play. The final play in "The Norman Conquests" trilogy, preceded by "Table Manners" and "Living Together," a series of comic melodramas set in different parts of the same countryside house. The play made its US debut at the Morosco Theatre on December 7, and was first staged.....
![New Portuguese Letters [Parto] (Original script for the 1974 play). Maria Isabel Barreno, Gilda...](/pictures/thumb/147506.jpg?v=1588403897)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1974. Draft script for the 1974 play, here under its working title, "Parto." With a few holograph ink annotations throughout, mostly by proofreading. Text in English. Based on the groundbreaking Portuguese feminist work, a compilation of letters, poems, puzzles, and excerpts written by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa in 1972. The.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for the 1973 production of Philip Barry's 1928 play. With a few substantive holograph ink emendations throughout. The play opened on December 26, 1973 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York. The story of a Wall Street corporate lawyer who, while on vacation at Lake Placid, falls in love with the snobby eldest daughter.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1958. Draft script for a play based on the classic 1957 film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Actress Mary Henry's copy, profusely annotated throughout. Ms. Henry played one of three "phantoms" in the play, who do not speak but who are generally present. Nothing is known about the production of this play, the playwright, or the actors involved.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1946. Draft script for the 1946 musical, for the character of Tommy, with the character name on lower right and "5." on upper right, presumably Tommy being the fifth character in the play. A very unusual script in terms of size, style, and purpose, made custom for the part and the lines of a single character, and.....
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: Philip Rose, 1975. Draft script for the 1977 play, which premiered at the Longacre Theatre on January 4, 1977 and played for 70 performances, closing on March 5, 1977, with annotations on two pages in holograph pencil and marker highlighting dialogue. Professional race car driver Bobby Horvath returns to his hometown after eight years away and reminisces on his.....
N.p. N.p., 1975. Draft script for the 1975 play, which premiered on April 20 at the Theatre de Lys in New York. A southern melodrama focusing on the toxic relationship between a former heavyweight boxing champion and a young teacher. Set in rural Georgia. Blue titled wrappers with credits for playwright Larry Ketron. Title page present, dated 1975, with credits for playwright Larry.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Draft script of playwright Christopher Bond’s 1973 take on the Victorian tale of Sweeney Todd. Steven Sondheim saw the performance at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London the same year, and wrote his own musical stage version, a wildly successful hit that came 5 years later. Bond was the first to give Sweeney Todd.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced play. A musical dramatization of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lyricist John Briley was best known for the 1982 musical "Gandhi," for which Briley won an Academy Award. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks".....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1972. Draft script for the 1972 play, which premiered at the Arena Stage in Washington DC. With copy No. 23 notated in holograph pencil on the title page. Basis for the 1982 television movie directed by Rudi Goldman, about the serpentine network of misdeeds performed by US government officials. Set in Washington, DC. Maroon titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers.....
N.p. N.p., 1971. Draft script for the 1971 play, which premiered Off-Broadway at the New Lafayette Theatre in Harlem. An affluent black couple entertain a varied group of friends at their Los Angeles home over the course of a three-day holiday bacchanal. The fourth play in prolific playwright Ed Bullins' Twentieth Century Cycle, a series of twenty plays focusing on a......
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953. Draft script for the 1953 Broadway stage musical. Working copy of an unknown cast member, with his profuse holograph pencil annotations throughout. "Can-Can" was one of the most successful musicals of the early 1950s. It ran at New York's Shubert Theatre, opening on May 7, 1953 and closing on June 25, 1955, for a total.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1940s. Draft English language script of Camus' 1944 play. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin, circa 1940s, largely faithful to the 1947 Stuart Gilbert English translation, "Caligula and Cross Purpose," but with modifications made apparently for a smaller production. The adaptation includes the removal of incidental characters (patricians, knights, poets, guards, and servants), with their dialogue frequently merged.....
![R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots [Kolektivní drama o vstupní komedii a trech dejstvích]...](/pictures/thumb/143642.jpg?v=1524590062)
Prague: Ceskoslevenske Divadelni a Literarni Jednatelstvi, 1954. Draft script for a 1954 production of the play originally written in 1920 by Karel Capek, produced in Prague. Rubber stamped production No. 5460 on the front wrapper. Issued by the Czechoslovak Theater and the original Prague literary agency for Capek’s groundbreaking sci-fi play, the first fictional work to introduce the word “robot”.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for the 1982 play, which premiered Off-Broadway at the Harold Clurman Theatre in New York. The former members of a clubhouse gang from the Bronx are summoned back after 25 years apart, in search of clarity at the hands of their former gang leader, the eponymous Meegan. They begin to realize, however, that their.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970. Draft script for an unproduced play. With a single holograph ink annotation to the title page. A rock musical comedy about a young dislikable man's move to New York City, where he manages to lose 48 jobs and 26 roommates—until he meets the groovy urbanite Elvira. Set in New York. Green titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present.....
New York: Arthur Cantor and E.E. Fogelson, 1963. Draft script for the 1964 Broadway play. INSCRIBED by Chayefsky to the play's producer, Kip Cohen on the title page in the year prior to the play's debut: "Nov 9/63 / To Kip Cohen / Without whom there would be no 'Passion of' / Paddy." "The Passion of Josef D." opened at.....
New York: Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor, Circa 1961. Draft script for the 1961 play. Brief annotations in holograph pencil and ink on the title page. Chayefsky's play previewed on Broadway on November 8, 1961, opened the following day, an for over 200 performances, and closed on June 2, 1962. He was nominated for a Tony Award, as were producers.....
![Intimate Relations [Les Parents Terribles] (Original script for the 1951 play). Jean Cocteau,...](/pictures/thumb/147312.jpg?v=1582930974)
London: N.p., circa 1951. Draft script for the 1951 London English production of Jean Cocteau's 1938 play "Les Parents Terribles," translated by Charles Frank, under the title "Intimate Relations." Carbon typescript on onionskin. "Dr. Jan Van Loewen International Copyright Agency" label affixed to front wrapper and on title page over previous copyright of Jean Cocteau & Charles Frank. One annotation.....
New York: Lyceum Theatre, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 Broadway play. The play ran at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City from December 29, 1977 until June 4, 1978, for a total of 180 performances. A man who works in the financial sector of New York meets a cancer-stricken Armenian in a rooftop garden of a hospital. The.....
New York: Wroderick Productions, 1973. Draft script for a 1973 Roderick Cook adaptation of the 1929 Noel Coward musical, likely written after Cook's 1972 musical review of Coward's work, entitled "Oh, Coward!" A three act operetta in which a wealthy young woman elopes with her music teacher. Coward's original script was basis for the 1933 film directed by Herbert Wilcox.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1974. Draft script for the 1974 production of two 1966 plays. With a handwritten label to the front wrapper noting the production title "Coward in Two Keys," written in holograph ink on a piece of masking tape that has been placed over the original title, "A Song at Twilight." Laid in with the script are five photographs.....
![Play It By Ear [Fish and the Foxes] (Original script for an unproduced play). Kerry Lee Crabbe,...](/pictures/thumb/130501.jpg?v=1434404445)
London: Jimmy Wax, circa 1975. Draft British script for an unproduced play. New title label, "Play It By Ear," pasted over the old one, "Fish and the Foxes." The Internet Archive (archive.org) indicates a copyright filed the play under the title, "Fish and the Foxes" on February 22, 1975. Presumably this is a later draft from the same year, and.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1977. Draft script for the 1977 play, which premiered March 2,1977, at the Little Theatre, for only 6 performances, closing on March 6, 1977. Copy belonging to director and producer Charles Grodin, whose name, address, and phone number are printed on the bottom of the title page. A comedy about a man who comes home to find his.....
New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library, 1964. Draft script for the 1964 revival of the 1935 opera, which debuted on May 6th, 1964 at the City Center of Music and Drama in New York City, and ran for a limited engagement of 31 performances. "Porgy and Bess" is based on DuBose Heyward’s 1925 novel "Porgy," and its subsequent 1927 play adaptation.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, circa 1945. Selznick studio printing of Clemence Dane's modern stage adaptation of Friedrich [Frederick] Schiller's 1801 play, "Mary Stuart." Issued internally by the studio for consideration as a film adaptation, though ultimately unproduced. Gray titled wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 0103, with credits for Schiller and Dane. Title page present with credits for Schiller and Dane.....
New York: Clifford Hayman, 1966. Draft script for an unproduced play. Laid in is an ALS to actor Peter Lawford (here associated with Chrislaw Productions), from producer Hayman, in which Hayman requests Lawford consider funding the project for both a play and a film. A philandering husband is found out by his wife, who has an affair in order to.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 Broadway musical, which opened at the Broadway Theatre on March 22, 1956, and ran for 383 performances before closing on February 23, 1957. With a three page “prop inventory” bound in at the rear. Based on a story by Will Glickman and Joseph Stein about an entertainer, and his struggles in.....
London: Wolf Mankowitz Presentations, 1960. Draft script for the 1960 play. The second play by Ms. Delaney, an Irish playwright, the followup to her best known work, "A Taste of Honey" (1958). "The Lion in Love" portrays an impoverished Irish family—similar to the one in the first play—whose income derives solely from peddling trinkets. Delaney was first inspired to write.....
New York: Roger L. Stevens / Joel Schenker, 1963. Two draft revisions of the script for the 1963 play. Based on the 1961 memoir, "My Life in Court," by Louis Nizer. Copies belonging to actor Van Heflin, with his noted throughout. Van Heflin played the lead character in the play, lawyer Robert Sloane. Nominated for a Tony Award. The play.....
N.p. N.p., 1968. Draft script for the 1971 production at the Theatre by the Sea in Wakefield, Rhode Island, as stated in the copied annotations on title page and verified by the University of Rhode Island Library Special Collections and Archives. Copied annotations regarding staging directions on nearly every page. Laid in is a memo on "Black Girl" letterhead with.....
N.p. N.p., 1939. Draft script for the 1939 play. Carbon typescript on onionskin. With the name of actress May Hallatt in holograph ink on front wrapper, and holograph annotations in pencil throughout. We could not verify her involvement in the 1939 production, although it seems reasonable to infer from this script that the prolific stage and screen actress indeed had.....
N.p., 1959. Draft script for the 1959 play. First presented at the Martinique Theatre, New York City, on October 28, 1959 running for 256 performances. Based on Dos Passos' U.S.A. trilogy of novels written between 1930 and 1937, turned dramatic revue by Paul Shyre and John Dos Passos. Shyre's adaptation consists of three actors and three actresses portraying a total.....
Cambridge MA: American Repertory Theater, 1991. Revised draft script for the 1991 play. INSCRIBED by playwright Larry Gelbart: "4-30-91 / Tom - As promised - changes will be made as rehearsals and previews dictate but, basically, this is it — best, Larry Gelbart." Debuted at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 24, 1991. A dark satire influenced by.....
New York: The Lambs, 1946. Draft script for an unproduced 1946 play. A Parisian scientist working on a serum to revive the dead finds out that his wife has been having an affair with a colleague who was recently accused of murdering a patient. The doctor gets his revenge by reviving the guillotine'd head of his rival and revealing it.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced play. A two act drama set in ancient Rome featuring Herod the Great, a Greek chamberlain named Philaeas, and Lentius the nephew of the powerful Augustus and Salome. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for playwright Amand Fey. 135 leaves, with last page of text numbered 133. Xerographically reproduced.....
New York: Richard Fields/Peter Flood, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 play, which premiered on February 6, 1973, with a short run of 31 performances, closing on March 3, 1973. Minor annotations in holograph pencil on a few pages in second act of script, with two pages showing extensive annotations which have been partially erased but are mostly still plainly.....
1980. Draft script for the 1980 stage version of "Harold and Maude," adapted by Colin Higgins from his 1971 novel and screenplay. Actress Ruth Ford's copy, effusively inscribed to her on the title page by Higgins, actress Janet Gaynor (who played Maude, 23 years after her last film appearance), Keith McDermott (who played Harold), and director Robert Lewis. The film.....
N.p. N.p., 1973. First Draft script for the 1975 musical, which premiered on June 3 at the 46th Street Theatre in New York. Noted as copy No. 76 on the title page holograph ink the title page. Though it initially drew criticism from New York audiences in 1975 for its Brechtian style and cynical, subversive take on the nature of American.....
New York: Lansbury-Duncan Productions, 1971. Draft script for 1972 play which premiered on April 5, 1972 at the Lyceum Theatre, for a short run of five performances, closing on April 8, 1972. Copy No. "22" noted in holograph marker on title page. Set in the late Sixteenth century, a touring company of Elizabethan players perform a bawdy, burlesque version of "Elizabeth.....
London: N.p., Circa 1953. Original typescript draft for the 1954 play. With brief holograph annotations throughout, mostly by a proofreader. Laid in note addressed to Alec Clunes, manager of the Arts Theatre in London, submitting script for review. First performed at the Aldwych Theatre in London May 1954, and then again in the US at the ANTA Playhouse in New.....
New York: Chelsea Theater Center, Circa 1971. Draft script for the US premiere of Jean Genet's 1961 play, which opened on November 30, 1971 and ran through December 25, 1971 at the Chelsea Theatre Center in Brooklyn, NY. Genet began writing the play, about life in a poor village in French controlled Algeria, in 1955, and a version was published.....
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.....
![The Selling of a Musical '74 [Many Happy Returns] (Original script for an unproduced play). music...](/pictures/thumb/129252.jpg?v=1515181432)
N.p. N.p., 1974. First Draft script for ah unproduced play. A whimsical play within a play about the hardships of finding monetary backing and the windfalls of governmental control. A tax error grants a theatre producer and unsuccessful Broadway promoter $687,700 instead of the $68.77 he is actually due. Satire ensues. Ray Golden was a lyricist and composer who primarily.....
Hollywood: Lionheart Productions, 1982. First Draft script for an unproduced play called "Doesn't Everyone?" by Stuart Forman Fleming, based on an original play by Norman Spencer Graham. Fleming's film credits include "Werewolves on Wheels" (1971), "Funny Lady" (1975), "A Star Is Born" (1976), and "Breathless" (1983), while Graham's include "Once Upon a Scoundrel" (1974). Set in a mountain lodge, this.....
New York: Jack Lawrence Theatre, 1981. Revised Draft script for the 1984 play. First performed at the Greenwich Theatre in London, and then again in the US at the Jack Lawrence Theater in New York City, debuting on March 30, 1984 and closed on May 6 1984, for a total of 15 previews and 29 performances. The first of many.....
Calabasas Park, CA: Self published, 1982. Draft script for an unproduced stage play called, "The Call," written by Bill Hare, about a German general plotting against Adolf Hitler at the Battle of Stalingrad. Printed blue titled wrappers, with swastika symbol and title on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated 11/30/82, with a credit for playwright Hare. 102 leaves, with.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1972. Draft script for the 1972 play, which premiered on April 17 at the McAlpin Rooftop Theatre in New York. A stubborn young woman is sent to live at her aunt's hotel in Cape Cod after her father discovers she is pregnant out of wedlock, leading to deeper and deeper animosities between the two women. Set in Cape.....
New York: New York Shakespeare Festival, 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play. Based on actual events, a boy in the American Southwest has a magnetic personality, and the mindset of a psychopath. He lures two young girls to him and murders them both. William Hauptmann is best known for the musical "Big River" and is the winner of a......
![Picnic [Summer Brave] (Original script for the 1975 play). William Inge, Michael Montel, Nan...](/pictures/thumb/147558.jpg?v=1587010099)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1975. Draft script for the 1975 play, which premiered on October 26 at the ANTA Playhouse. With a single holograph ink annotation to the title page. Playwright William Inge's rewrite of his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1953 play "Picnic," about an attractive young drifter whose arrival into a small town inadvertently causes upheaval among its residents. Although "Summer Brave" was.....
N.p. N.p., 1965. Draft for the 1965 play by the noted Canadian playwright. The play made its debut at the Royal Poiciana Playhouse in Miami, FL, in 1965. Set in Boston, a comedy about psychoanalysts and their patients discussing, sex, love, and relationships. Black untitled wrappers with title label showing a credit. for Patricia Jourdry [Joudry]. Title page present, with a......
New York: International Plays, 1964. Draft script for an unproduced play. A marriage psychoanalyst and confirmed bachelor suddenly marries a parapsychological expert and yogi, and various high jinx ensue. Set in a large American city. Pale blue titled wrappers, with credits for screenwriter Joudry. Title page present, dated Sept. 8, 1964, noted as copy No. 18, with credits for screenwriter.....
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 1970s. Draft script for the 1975 play, which premiered on April 7 at the John Golden Theatre. Copy No. 67 notated in holograph ink on the title page. After coming home to find a muscular Italian burglar in the process of robbing his apartment, a depressed young actor ties the burglar to his kitchen sink and attempts.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for the 1975 play, which premiered on April 7 at the John Golden Theatre in New York. Laid in with the script are several handwritten pages regarding promotional materials for the play. Also became the basis for the 2002 film directed by and starring Steve Guttenberg. After coming home to find a muscular Italian burglar.....
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced play. Joseph, son of the biblical Jacob, is sold into slavery when he brothers begin to feel jealous that their father loves him more than all of them. He is brought to Egypt where he serves the Pharoah and a judge's wife lusts for him. He rises to a position of great esteem.....
![Love is a Four Letter Word: Two Plays on a Single Theme [Dead Letters / The Campers] (Original...](/pictures/thumb/141753.jpg?v=1494453558)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1971. Original script for two plays by Academy Award winning screenwriter Howard Koch. Copy belonging to an unknown actor who played the character of Norm in "Dead Letters," with his lines highlighted and holograph annotations regarding dialogue and action throughout. In a preliminary note, Koch describes "Dead Letters" and "The Campers" as "two plays, each approximately an.....
New York: N.p., 1952. Draft script for the 1952 play production. Copy belonging to actor Van Heflin, who starred in the Broadway production. Set in the ward of a mental hospital, the play follows one of its patients, a theatrical director driven to attempted suicide by his domineering wife, Anne. Outwardly, Anne is sweet and caring, but beneath her docile.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 play, which was staged as a preview several times in New York in the early 1970s and eventually made its debut in the UK in 1972, with Ellen Burstyn directing. A raunchy comedy centering the exploits of the eponymous Bunny, a mid-thirties bon vivant and good-time girl. Playwright Norman Krasna was well.....
New York: NR Productions, 1969. Draft script for the 1972 play, which opened on March 26, 1972 at the Martinique Theater. Not listed in the Internet Broadway Database. Parishioners at St. Thomas's on-the-Green Episcopal Church in the cozy Connecticut town of Westwood suddenly erupt in a rash of glossolalia - speaking in tongues. Set in Westwood, Connecticut. Orange Studio Duplicating Service titled.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1978. Draft script for the 1978 play, which opened Off-Broadway at the Alley Theatre in Houston. With a few small holograph ink and pencil annotations to the title page. A concentration camp survivor living in New York lures a man she suspects to be a former Nazi to her house, where she drugs him and attempts to exact.....
Florida: Three Arts Productions, 1956. Draft script for an unproduced play called "Rope," adapted for stage by Walter Lawrence from Arthur Laurents' screenplay for the 1948 film, which in turn was based on the 1929 play by Patrick Hamilton. Copy belonging to an uncredited cast member who played Phillip, with annotations in holograph pencil and ink at his inclusions. Hamilton's.....
N.p. N.p., 1974. Draft script for an unproduced play. Noted in the script as being based on an unpublished novel, likely an expansion of Sylvester Leaks' short story "Trouble, Blues, and Trouble," which was included in Langston Hughes' landmark 1967 anthology "The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers." Leaks was a writer, theatre producer, and community activist, who served as.....
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., Circa 1951. Vintage script for the 1951 musical play. Copy belonging to cast member Steve Elmore, who was an uncredited understudy or replacement in the role of Sandy, with his name and character's name in holograph ink and pencil to the title page, and several substantive holograph pencil annotations throughout. Basis for the 1969 film, made 18 years later.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced play. With a single holograph annotation (the letter "B") in green pencil to the title page. In the vein of "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice" (1969), two middle-aged couples navigate the changing social and sexual norms of the 1970s. Set in Chappaqua, New York. Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers, with.....
![Ett Spel om en Wag som till Himla bar [Ein Speil vom Weg der zum Himmel fuhrt] (Original script...](/pictures/thumb/137856.jpg?v=1575694821)
Germany: Folmer-Hansens Teaterforlag, Circa 1940s. Carbon typescript Draft script for the 1941 Swedish play, "Ett Spel om en Wag som till Himla bar," by Rune Lindstrom. German translation, circa 1940s. The play would be the basis for Alf Sjoberg's 1942 Swedish film, "Himlaspelet," or the English title, "The Heavenly Play." Brief annotations throughout in holograph ink. Lindstrom's play has been.....
N.p. N.p., 1962. Draft script for the 1962 play. This copy belonged to the actor who portrayed Peter in the production, with his annotations in holograph pencil and blue ink throughout. Adapted from Mackie's book, this mystery became a play in 1962. It was later adapted into a 1974 French television film entitled "Meurte a credit" Set in Gloucestershire, England.....
New York: Theatre 28 Company, 1970. Draft script (noted as "Rehearsal Draft") for the short-lived play, the last work by MacLeish. The play only saw four performances at the St. James Theatre, from May 6, 1971 through May 8, 1971. Two annotations in holograph marker and pencil on title page, one being copy number "#30," and one annotation in holograph.....
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.....
New York: Rosenstone / Wender Agency, 1992. Revised Draft script for the 1992 play. Brief notation in holograph pencil on the title page, noting a date of 6/12/92. The final page of text notes this draft was revised on May 24, 1992. Mamet's play premiered in May 1992 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, starring William H. Macy and Rebecca Pidgeon. Loosely based.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1969. Draft script for an unproduced play. Copy No. 9 noted in holograph ink on the title page. Based on screenwriter Abby Mann's original screenplay for Stanley Kramer's 1961 film "Judgment at Nuremberg," about an American court trial of four war criminal Nazis. Set in occupied Germany. Teal titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present, with credits for playwright.....
Houston: Major Studio Productions, 1973. Draft script of an unproduced play, with an annotation that reads "Hot Line to Heaven" along with an address and telephone number written in holograph ink on title page. With a Nahas-Braken Corporation business card stapled to title page. Clyde Benson and Sophie Bertolucci are two retirees in the 70s who counsel Sophie's visiting son-in-law when.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1967. Vintage script for the 1967 one-act play, which debuted off-Broadway at the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut on July 16. A middle-aged divorcee who has accidentally been called to service by the draft butts heads with the no-nonsense career officer. One of prolific, acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally's earliest productions, and the one that brought him.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1975. Draft script for the 1975 musical play, which premiered at the Winter Garden Theatre on March 19, 1975. The origins of jazz told through the ersatz romance of a would-be trumpeter and a young black brothel worker. Set in New Orleans and Chicago. Black titled wrappers. Title page present, with book credits for Buster Davis and Paul Carter.....
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced play. No relation to the Ben Bova science fiction novel of the same name. A tragedy that takes place in a dump, where the residents are workers, digging up turn-of-the-century artifacts housed in now-buried ships on a landfill belonging to a foul, conniving woman. A fugitive murderer is discovered on their property and.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1974. Draft script for the 1974 play which premiered at the Booth Theatre on May 5, 1974 for 177 performances, closing on October 5, 1974. Annotations in holograph pencil on title page, and on cast page for "Ravenswood," the first of the two one act plays in "Bad Habits," listing names adjacent to the characters. Two one act.....
![When You Comin [Comin'] Back, Red Ryder? (Original script for the 1973 play). Mark Medoff,...](/pictures/thumb/147495.jpg?v=1588403893)
N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play, which debuted at the Circle Repertory Company in New York on November 4. Basis for the 1979 film directed by Milton Katselas. A small town's slow way of life is disrupted by the arrival of a unstable, drug-trafficking Vietnam veteran whose car has broken down en route to Mexico. Set in.....
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 an unproduced musical. With holograph ink and pencil annotations to the title page and cast leaf noting the names of prospective actors for each role, including Diana Ross and Jack Gilford. Loosely based on the ninth century Japanese folk tale "Taketori Monogatari" ("the tale of the bamboo cutter"), the story of a baby found inside.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall," based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964, at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, ran for 208 performances, and closed on May 29, 1965. A television movie of the play was released.....
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Draft script for a circa 1950s translation of the 1912 play by Ferenc Molnar. Laid in with the script is a ten page typed summary of the play on onionskin stock, with English translation credited to Melville Baker. Text in English. Basis for the 1917 Hungarian film "The Wolf." An insecure, jealous man cannot overcome his anxieties.....
New York: Picket Productions, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 play which premiered at the Bjijou Theater in New York. Not listed in the Internet Broadway Database, but an early performance was reviewed by Clive Barnes for the New York Times on March 27, 1973. Playwright N. Richard Nash is best known for "The Rainmaker" (1954), adapted to the screen by.....
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.....
Beverly Hills, CA: William Morris Agency, 1983. Agency script for the 1982 play. William Morris Agency script dated 1983, likely used to shop for a film adaptation, and likely the script that ultimately resulted in the television film adaptation released by Aaron Spelling Productions in 1986, directed by Broadway director Tom Moore, starring Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft. Jessie Cates.....
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New York: Richard Fields, Circa 1968. Draft script for the musical which premiered in 1968 by the Lincoln Center Workshop at the Forum Theatre. Numeric holograph annotation in holograph pencil on verso of last leaf. One of two musical plays written by actor Austin Pendleton. "Booth is Back in Town!" was first performed, with music by Jim Massengale, by the Yale.....
New York: The Billy Rose Theatre, 1971. Original script for the 1971 play by Harold Pinter, for its Broadway premiere at the Billy Rose Theatre in New York. The play ran from November 16, 1971 to February 26, 1972 for 120 performances. "Old Times" made its debut in London at the Royal Shakespeare company earlier in 1971, and both the.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1985. Draft script for the 1984 play, which premiered at The Pit on May 28th, performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. With a small holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper, and a single copied annotation to page 2.II.14A. Loosely based on the life of playwright Stephen Poliakoff's grandfather in post-revolutionary Russia, who harbored a dream of becoming.....
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N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play. Based on the 1950 Broadway play "Out of this World" by Cole Porter, Dwight Taylor, Reginald Lawrence. George Oppenheimer, NY columnist, playwright and screenwriter, streamlined his interpretation for a tasteful revamp to fit a smaller stage. The musical opened Off-Broadway at the Equity Library Theatre in March 1973. Writer Howard Thompson.....
New York: Alexander Cohen, 1963. Draft script for the 1963 play. Notations throughout in holograph pencil and ink, pertaining to scenes involving characters named Sven and Gregor. With two pages laid in, one a telegraph from France to Dr. F.J. Belinfante at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, the other is a list of typed film titles. First performed in London.....
New York: Hesseltine-Bookman-Seff, 1966. Archive including a Draft script and a Master Copy script for the 1966 play by Herman Raucher. Undated script has 2 small clippings taken from the title page, top right, which likely had the copy number written in and a 1 1/2 x .75" clipping taken from the lower right, which likely held the revision date.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1975. Draft script for the 1976 play, which premiered at the Ambassador Theatre in New York on January 8. With a single holograph pencil annotation (phone number for a cast or crew member) on the title page. A group of black inmates try to survive amidst dehumanizing treatment and discrimination by their captors and other inmates at a......
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced play by noted playwright Howard Richardson. Notated as copy No. 15 and with the name of Seymour Kravitz, both in holograph ink on the title page. Seymour "Sy" Kravitz worked in theatre briefly in New York during the 1960s before becoming a producer and assignment editor at NBC. A fast-paced mystery involving two.....
N.p. N.p., 1971. Draft script for an unproduced musical. With a single copied annotation to page 1-P-1. The mishaps and adventures of a teenage runaway who leaves his relatively peaceful home in Massachusetts to join the wacky, drug-fueled world of 1970s New York. Set in Massachusetts and New York. Navy titled wrappers. Title page present, dated January 1971, with credits for playwright Kingsley.....