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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

London: N.p., circa 1951. Vintage 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: 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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., 1939. Vintage script for the 1939 play with the name of actress May Hallatt in holograph ink on front wrapper. Carbon typescript on onionskin with blind stamp for "Mrs. Marshall's Typewriting Office" on title page. Holograph annotations in pencil throughout. We could not verify May Hallatt's involvement in the 1939 stage production of "Great Expectations," although it seems.....

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.....

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: 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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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......

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.....

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.....

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.....

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., 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: 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. 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., Unknown. Vintage 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: 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 annotations in holograph pencil. Gibson's play debuted on Broadway in January 1958 and ran.....

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.....

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 annotations throughout in holograph ink. The story of a screenwriter living in Los Angeles who can not seem to finish any screenplays, and thus.....

N.p. N.p., 1977. Draft script for the Off-Broadway premiere production of the acclaimed 1978 Sam Shepard play. Later generation copy (consistent with late 1970s-era Xerox duplication), likely made during production, with photocopied annotations in at least two different hands throughout (neither is Shepard's, thus presumably made by actors), as well as a substantial amount of dialogue crossed through (also photocopy).....

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.....

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.....

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: 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 annotations 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.....

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.....

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 annotations throughout in holograph ink. Red wrappers, with title and address labels on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated 1978, with a credit for.....

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.....