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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Draft script of playwright Christopher Bond’s 1973 retelling of the Victorian tale of Sweeney Todd, which would form the basis of Stephen Sondheim’s popular musical half a decade later, after Sondheim saw the play at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London in 1973. The first retelling of Sweeney Todd in which Todd is given 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...
New York: Jerry Adler Productions, Circa 1962. Draft script for the 1962 Broadway premiere. Copy belonging to actor Bruno Gerussi, who played the part of Young Actor/Ishmael in the play, with his name in holograph ink on the title page and with his holograph annotations throughout. Moby Dick—Rehearsed is set at a mid-19th century American repertory theater where a......
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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”...
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 & 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...
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...
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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...
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 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...
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. Vintage script for the 1956 Broadway musical play, including a 3-page "prop inventory" bound in at the rear. A showcase for the talents of Sammy Davis Jr., "Mr. Wonderful" opened at the Broadway Theatre on March 22, 1956, and had a successful run of 383 performances before closing on February 23, 1957. Based on a story...
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., 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...
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: 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...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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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...
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....
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: 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 annotations, 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...
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: 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....
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. 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.....
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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...
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: 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...
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., 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...
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...
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...
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...
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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: The Theatre Guild, 1943. Draft script for the original run of the 1943 Broadway musical. Copy belonging to member of the dancing ensemble Patrick Meaney, with his name and address in holograph ink on the front wrapper, and holograph annotations throughout. Also included are two sets of musical notation, for Violin C and 3rd Trumpet respectively, each with...
New York: Emanuel Azenberg, 1984. Third Draft script for the 1985 play. First performed at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, from December 8, 1984 to February 2, 1985, and then at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, from February 6 through March 9, 1985. Debuted on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre on March 28, 1985, closing n June...
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...
New York: Producers Theatre, circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 Broadway revival. With annotations 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...
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)...
N.p. N.p., Circa late 1950s. Ribbon copy typed manuscript for an unproduced play, with essays on the history of the project, the production, casting, and set/costume design written by June Shannon, a drama student at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. With extensive holograph annotations in ink and pencil on virtually every page, and 15 hand painted watercolor sketches of set.....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 annotations throughout. Possibly used in production, but not a vintage item, useful for content information only. Totheroh's play opened in.....
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.....
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., 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...
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 "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.....
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...
N.p. N.p., 1965. Draft script for the 1965 Broadway premiere of the 1961 play. Included are five pages of notes regarding lighting, dated June 1965. Based on 1952 book "The Devils of Loudun" by Aldous Huxley, a fictionalized account of real life events surrounding accusations of mass hysteria and heretical religious beliefs that took place in Loudon, France in the...
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...
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...
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 City: Plymouth Theatre, 1954. Draft script for the 1954 play. With holograph annotations throughout. The two-act play first opened on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on January 20, 1954 and ran for a total of 415 performances, closing January 22, 1955. Based on Wouk's 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Caine Mutiny". A courtroom drama recounting second-in-command Steve Maryk's...
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...