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... (read more)
![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... (read more)
![The Scenario [Le scenario] (Original script for the 1975 play). Jean Anouilh, Lucienne Hill, playwright.](/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... (read more)
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... (read more)
N.p. N.p., circa 1940s. Draft script for an unproduced play, circa 1940s, with numerous substantive holograph ink and pencil notations, additions and alterations to dialogue throughout. Dudley Barker worked as a reporter and editor in London and served in the Royal Air Force during WWII, he went on to write detective and spy novels under the pen names Lionel Black..... (read more)
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... (read more)
New York: ANTA Playhouse, 1961. Draft script for the 1961 Broadway play, "A Man for All Seasons." William Redfield's copy, though not noted as such on the script. The play premiered at the Globe Theatre in London in 1960, then made its Broadway debut at the ANTA Playhouse on Nov 22, 1961, running for a total of 637 performances. The... (read more)
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 notations 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... (read more)
![R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots [Kolektivní drama o vstupní komedii a trech dejstvích] (Original script for the 1954 production of the 1920 play). Karel Capek, playwright.](/pictures/thumb/143642.jpg?v=1524590062)
Prague: Ceskoslevenske Divadelni a Literarni Jednatelstvi, 1954. Vintage 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”... (read more)
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... (read more)
New York: Fred Coe & Arthur Cantor, Circa 1961. Draft script for the 1961 play. Brief notations 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... (read more)
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... (read more)
![Play It By Ear [Fish and the Foxes] (Original script for an unproduced play). Kerry Lee Crabbe, playwright.](/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... (read more)
New York: Martin Poll Productions, circa 1990. Draft script for an unproduced play. The final play written by Arnaud d'Usseau, left unproduced after his death in February 1990. It deals with an American novelist living in Rome. d'Usseau was known for "Tomorrow the World," a 1943 play about a German boy adopted by an American couple who try to overcome... (read more)
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... (read more)
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick Productions, 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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1941. Original play script for the premiere production of Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic and Old Lace" in 1941, copy belonging to the show's producers (and erstwhile playwrights) Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, with their property stamp at the bottom right corner of the front wrapper. Housed n a custom clamshell box. Clearly a working copy, with numerous substantitve corrections... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
New York: Broadhurst Theatre, circa 1966. Early Draft script for the 1967 play. Debuted on April 10, 1967 and closed April 26, 1967 for a run of 16 previews and 7 performances. An early work by Jules Feiffer, who would go on to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, author of children's books, and cultural historian. An especially dark comedy about... (read more)
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. Photographically reproduced... (read more)
New York: Hotel Astor, circa 1920s. Handwritten Final Draft manuscript for the 1920s "Back Porch" vaudeville skit, seen here under the early working titles "Sleeping Porch" and "Porch Scene." Executed in holograph ink by W.C. Fields on Hotel Astor letterhead stationery. Also included is a typescript draft of the same work, with a few substantive edits in holograph pencil by..... (read more)
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... (read more)
London: N.p., Circa 1953. Original typescript draft for the 1954 play. With brief holograph notations 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... (read more)
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... (read more)
New York: The Playwright's Company, 1954. Draft script for the 1954 play. "Ondine" debuted at the 46th Street Theatre on Broadway on February 8, 1954 and closed on July 3, running for a total of 157 performances. Adapted from the 1938 play by Jean Giraudoux, which in turn was based on the 1811 novella "Undine" by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque... (read more)
![The Selling of a Musical '74 [Many Happy Returns] (Original script for an unproduced play). music playwright, lyrics, Ray Golden, Jack Marlowe, Hal Kanter, playwright, novel.](/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... (read more)
New York: Viking Press, 1972. First Edition. Published simultaneously in hardcover. SIGNED by Gordon and Kanin on the title page. Very Good plus in photo illustrated wrappers. Light rubbing at the extremities, light spine creasing, a faint smudge at the page fore-edges, and a tiny bruise at one corner of the rear wrapper. Basis for the 1949 MGM film starring... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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.... (read more)
New York: Richard C. Higgins and The Rembrandt Players, 1973. Draft script of a play from the editor and publisher of Something Else Press. Described by the Fluxus writer as "a lickety split mystery," "Death and the Nickel Cigar"is a philosophical, Dada-esque/Theatre of the Absurd-inspired production, but otherwise remains a rather elusive work in the Higgins oeuvre. "Dick Higgins: A...... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1970. Draft script for the 1970 play. Copy belonging to unknown cast member, with notations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. An Off-Broadway production that dealt with the true-life marriage of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. Though from the Midwest, the two of them and their child moved to Baltimore in 1932 when he... (read more)
New York: Music Theatre, Inc, 1959. Draft script for the 1960 musical. With holograph notations in pencil on the top right corners throughout. A story about two neighboring fathers who stage a feud hoping to trick their children into falling in love. Loosely based on the 1894 play "Les Romanesques" by Edmond Rostand. Jones' first adaptation of Rostand's play was... (read more)
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.... (read more)
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... (read more)
New York: George/Granat, 1965. Draft script for the 1965 play. Laid in is a note about props and time, written in holograph ink and pencil. With holograph pencil notations, additions and changes throughout concerning a character's actions. A Jewish man who made munitions in World War II in Germany finally meets his two children, one who was brought up by... (read more)
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... (read more)
New York: Booth Theater, circa 1936. Draft script for the 1936 play. Debuted at the Booth Theatre in New York City on December 14, 1936, and closing on December 3, 1938, for a total of 838 performances (including moves to the Imperial Theatre and the Ambassador Theatre). With rubber stamp belonging to producer Sam Harris to the front wrapper. A.... (read more)
New York: Cort Theatre, 1963. First Draft script for the 1963 Broadway play. Based on the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey. First produced at the Cort Theater, opening on November 12, 1963 and closing on January 25, 1964, for a total of 82 performances, starring Kirk Douglas and Gene Wilder. Revived twice, first Off-Broadway in 1971, starring Danny Devito, then... (read more)
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..... (read more)
![Love is a Four Letter Word: Two Plays on a Single Theme [Dead Letters / The Campers] (Original script for the 1971 play). Howard Koch.](/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 notations regarding dialogue and action throughout. In a preliminary note, Koch describes "Dead Letters" and "The Campers" as "two plays, each approximately an..... (read more)
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... (read more)
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 notations in holograph pencil and ink at his inclusions. Hamilton's... (read more)
New York: Saint Subber / Belasco Theatre, 1967. Draft script for the 1967 play, which made its debut at the Belasco Theater on September 25th 1967, running for only eight shows over five days. A rare dramatic outing by the author of "Rosemary's Baby" (1967) and "The Stepford Wives" (1972) both adapted into iconic films. James Tennyson (Keir Dullea) returns... (read more)
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 notations throughout in holograph ink. Lindstrom's play has been... (read more)
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 notations 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... (read more)
New York: Theatre 28 Company, 1971. Rehearsal Draft script for the short-lived play, MacLeish's last work. Based on Stephen Vincent Benet's short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster." Though originally intended to feature Dylan's songs exclusively for the soundtrack (some of his classics from the 1960s, and four songs that had appeared on the 1970 album "New Morning"), Dylan and... (read more)
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... (read more)
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..... (read more)
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... (read more)
New York: Emanuel Azenberg, 1984. First Draft script for the 1984 play. Copy belonging to an unknown member of the crew, with tabbed leaves indicating scene locations (“Barracks,” “”Mess Hall,” “Latrine,” etc.), and a few holograph notations throughout, mostly in regard to actors’ entrances or exits. First performed at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, from December 8, 1984 to..... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1980. Draft script for the 1980 play. First produced in its entirety at the Playwrights' Theatre of Louisiana in Lafayette, LA March 1980. Later generation photocopy, not vintage, for reading or research purposes only. Four scenes of American love, as the name suggests, two having to deal with an affair that ended awhile ago in the past and... (read more)
![A Party [Party] (Draft script of the play, relating to an unproduced film). Ivor Novello, screenwriter.](/pictures/thumb/129367.jpg?v=1458683388)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage Draft script for an unproduced film called, "Party," written by Ivor Novello, produced for circulation at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for purposes of script development, 1932. In MGM production wrappers. Included with the script is a nine-page synopsis, dated June 20, 1932, and rubber-stamped FILE COPY. The script is also rubber-stamped FILE COPY. Novello developed the... (read more)
N.p. N.p., circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Written circa 1950s, this copy issued as a later reproduction in the 1970s. Not vintage, for reading or research purposes only. Translated from the French. A stone age tribe whose culture values men above women conducts the yearly ritual of having young girls run to the hills and the men..... (read more)
New York: Leah Salisbury Inc., 1958. Draft script for the 1958-1959 play. Actor Dana Andrews' working copy, from his estate. With a letter of provenance from Andrews' daughter, Katharine Smith. Notations throughout in holograph pencil. Laid in are three leaves of script changes, carbon typescript, with notations in holograph pencil. Gibson's play debuted on Broadway in January 1958 and ran... (read more)
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... (read more)
![Use Your Imagination [Out of this World] (Original script for the 1973 play). Cole Porter, George Oppenheimer, lyrics music, book.](/pictures/thumb/142586.jpg?v=1523397380)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1985. Revised Draft script for the 1985 play. Copy belonging to Peter Mark Richman, who played the character of Lewis in this production, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper and notations throughout in holograph ink. The story of a screenwriter living in Los Angeles who can not seem to finish any screenplays, and thus... (read more)
New York: Producers Theatre, circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 Broadway revival. With notations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. An idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, serves as a Major in the Salvation Army, bringing aid to the destitute and poor. Her estranged father reappears in her life, causing complications when he wants to make donations to her cause... (read more)
New York: Clifford Hayman, Circa 1965. Draft script for the 1959 British play. Copy belonging to Dana Andrews, from Clifford Hayman, the producer for the play in London, with a mimeograph letter signed by Hayman, dated August 25, 1965, suggesting Andrews' production company bring the play to the US for American audiences, and that Andrews have the lead role. Accompanying... (read more)
New York: Chelsea Theater Center, 1974. Original script for the 1974 play. Based on the 1962 short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, and adapted by him and playwright Leah Napolin for the stage, the play premiered October 25, 1975 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre and ran for a total of 223 performances. Tovah Feldshuh was nominated for a Tony for... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1982. Draft script for an unproduced play. A play about an author attempting to write a story starring Jack the Ripper. Curt Siodmak is best known for writing the "The Wolf Man" (1941), "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), "Donovan's Brain" (1953), and many other science fiction and horror classics. His work consistently revealed an imagination that combined... (read more)
New York: The Barber Company / Barr/Woodward Productions, Circa 1980-1982. Draft script for the 1979 Broadway musical. Copy belonging to actor James Edward Justiss, with his name in holograph ink on the title page, detailed holograph notations throughout, mostly with regard to blocking, and with a photo of Justiss laid in. Justiss was a member of the chorus during the... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1984. Draft script for the 1984 stage musical. Copy belonging to an unknown cast member, who played Smollett, with his lines noted in holograph pencil. A musical based on the 1883 adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. One of the most frequently dramatized novels about pirates and piracy, "Treasure Island" gave birth to much of the lore of... (read more)
New York: Emanuel Azenberg, 1984. Draft script for the first Broadway production of play in 1984, originally performed at the Strand Theatre, London, in 1982. The play opened on Broadway January 5, 1984, and closed May 12, 1985, after a total of 566 performances, winning Tony Awards for Best Play, director Mike Nichols, and cast members Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons... (read more)
New York: Arthur Cantor, 1979. Revised Draft script for the 1979 play, dated 2/28/79, the day it opened on Broadway. It ran for 126 performances, closed on June 16, 1979, and actress Frances Sternhagen was nominated for a Tony Award. Thompson also wrote the screenplay for the subsequent Oscar-winning Mark Rydell film (1981), starring Jane Fonda and her father, Henry... (read more)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1972. Photocopied Draft script of Dan Totheroh's play, "Rough an' Ready: A Mountain Play of the Day's of '49," here as "Rough an' Ready." An owner name in holograph ink on the first page, however illegible. Photocopied notations throughout. Possibly used in production, but not a vintage item, useful for content information only. Totheroh's play opened in..... (read more)
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced play. Captain Farragut Cash is the owner of a multimillion dollar tugship line until his death, upon which, his will states his younger son will inherit control of the company if he graduates from the Merchant Marine Academy. However, Junior's illicit marriage and subsequent birth of his child will cast him out of..... (read more)
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... (read more)
New York: N.p., 1967. Draft script for an unproduced play. Although not indicated on the script, copy belonging to actor Van Heflin, who was presumably considering a role in the play. From the estate of the actor. A comedy about a con man who founds a fictional, absurdist island-based country. Orange titled wrappers with credit for playwright Wallach. Title page... (read more)
New York: New Directions Books, 1950. First Edition of Tennessee William's 1950 play, profusely annotated for a 1959 West End production. Copy belonging to actor-director-producer Sam Wanamaker, with his holograph notations throughout. Red boards, worn overall, with Wanamaker's name inscribed in holograph black ink to the front board. Includes a loose sheet with the actors' addresses laid in. Wanamaker had... (read more)
N.p. Self published, 1986. Draft script for the an unproduced three-act play called "Impressionnistes: La BOHEME," written by Dennis Whelan. Accompanying the script is a photocopied set of sheets detailing possible songs for inclusion in the play, and an article on Jo Mielziner's stage production of "Caravaggio." The play features Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat..... (read more)
N.p. Self published, 1986. Draft script for the an unproduced three-act play called "Purr Poor Richard," or "Franklin in France," with both titles on the title page, written by Dennis Whelan. The play opens with the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and follows Benjamin Franklin to France to negotiate a peace treat with the Crown. Notable characters include Major... (read more)
Brooklyn, NY: Self published, 1978. Draft script for an unproduced three-act play called "The Council in Hell," written by Pearl Wiesen, adapted from Books I and II of John Milton's epic poem, "Paradise Lost." Brief notations throughout in holograph ink. Red wrappers, with title and address labels on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated 1978, with a credit for... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1980. First Draft script for the 1981 play. A revision and expansion of Williams' unproduced 1941 short play, "The Parade," about a young playwright's unrequited love for another man. The play opened Off-Broadway on August 24, 1981 at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre. Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers, with credits for playwright Tennessee Williams. Title page present, dated... (read more)
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... (read more)
New York City: Plymouth Theatre, 1954. Draft script for the 1954 play. With holograph notations throughout. The two-act play first opened on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on January 20th 1954 and ran for a total of 415 performances closing January 22nd, 1955. Based on Wouk's 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel titled "The Caine Mutiny". A courtroom drama recounting second-in-command Steve... (read more)
New York: Goldmine Productions, 1983. Draft script for the 1985 off-Broadway play. Laid in is a typed letter from Darlene Kaplan, Goldmine's casting director, addressed to Walter Kohner in Los Angeles, suggesting Vincent Price peruse the script and possibly star in the play. Kaplan has signed the letter, and the letter is dated twice: December 19, 1983, and Dec. 27... (read more)