Manuscripts

Plays L-R

Description: Works include: Powers, Tom, Ladybug, Ladybug (undated); Kennedy, Belle Cumming, Lovely Miss Linley (master and production scripts; music and scenes; correspondence; production plots; clippings; program; and ephemera, 1942); Grant, James Shaw, The Magic Rowan (script, sound cues, property plots, and program, 1947); Rose, Billy, The Night They Made a Bum out of Helen Hayes (television script?, circa 1950); MacKaye, Percy, Odin against Christus (1948); Walkup, Fairfax, Orbit in Light (circa 1966-1969); Haney, Edith S, Pasadena Panorama (undated); and Kennedy, Belle Cumming, Rosemary – That's for Remembrance ([1957]).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1687-2013.
Call number: mssPlayhouse
Creator: Pasadena Playhouse(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates,

Plays T-W

Manuscripts

Works include: Kennedy, Belle Cumming, To Where You Are (scripts and correspondence, 1970, 1982); Aiken, George, Uncle Tom's Cabin (dramatization, circa 1933?); Field, Edward Salisbury, Wedding Bells (script and production materials, 1948); and Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights (circa 1935).

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Plays A-H

Manuscripts

Works include: Saroyan, William, Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning (circa 1941); Aeschylus, The Agamemnon (undated); Morelli, Richard, Aladdin (circa 1955?); Bachman, Robert, And So They Perish (script, clippings, and correspondence, 1935, 1939, 1991); Crothers, Rachel, As Husbands Go (script, property plot, and cast list, circa 1931, 1950); Hellman, Lillian, The Children's Hour (production script, cast list, property and costume plots, and sound cues, 1963); Brown, Gilmor, A Christmas Carol (arrangement, undated); MacKaye, Percy, Hamlet Tetralogy (scenes, cast lists, promotional material, 1946-1948); Alden, A. W., The House in the Wood (notebook and portions of director's copy of script, circa 1935); Middleton, George, The House of a Thousand Candles (circa 1935).

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Costume lists, property and lighting plots, other

Manuscripts

Contains costume and property lists and lighting plots, circa 1930-1950, some originally from a folder labeled, "Junior Dramatics, technician's copy"; instructions and samples for stage managers; preliminary production coordinating sheets for plays performed circa 1949-1952; cast lists; and a stage manager's report for Mister Angel, 1952. Also includes stage settings, lighting plots, and more for various plays; materials chiefly from the Pasadena Department of Recreation.

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Plays by Euripedes and Ibsen

Manuscripts

Scripts include sides and a hardcover notebook with pasted-in, annotated portions of a printed script for Medea (Euripedes), 1857, undated; and a hardcover typescript of a script for Brand (Henrik Ibsen, revised translation by Gottfried Hult), undated.

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Plays S-T

Manuscripts

Works include: James, Helen, Shiny Legs (1961); Flavin, Martin, Shucks (script and correspondence, 1949, 1966); Snow White (various scripts, 1954, undated); Brown, Gilmor, A Soul for Mary Jane (typescript, stage sketch, and memo from Pasadena Drama Guild, 1935); Riley, Alice C. D., A Stare Shone and Little New Moon (Samuel French script, inscribed to Gilmor Brown, 1929, undated); Deval, Jacques, Tovaritch (1937); Milne, A. A., The Truth About Blayds (acting edition, Samuel French, 1923); and Hecht, Ben, and MacArthur, Charles, Twentieth Century (after 1932).

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Topics A-M

Manuscripts

Materials include sample blank contracts and a brochure regarding Actor's Equity (1939); articles and studies about education, including a conference program for the Educational TV Programs Institute (1952); pamphlets regarding fundraising strategies (circa 1925-1969); brochures, fliers, and ephemera regarding membership drives (circa 1919-1975); and programs and fliers for membership meetings, 1921-1936 and undated.

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