Manuscripts

Productions: Lazarus Laughed

Description: Includes articles and clippings; cast, costume, and dressing room lists; correspondence, including a copy and transcription of Eugene O'Neill's letter to Gilmor Brown and correspondence about the production's score, plus a photograph of the composer; programs, correspondence, and clippings concerning the 1928 and 1929 premieres. Also includes and scripts, in the form of sides for various characters and the chorus.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1928, 1929, 1969
Call number: mssPlayhouse
Creator: Pasadena Playhouse(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates,

Lazarus Laughed

Manuscripts

Contains programs, clippings, photographs, and a scrapbook, 1928-1962.

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Includes cast list; clippings; correspondence; programs; publicity materials; photographs; production notes; Gilmor Brown's report about the event to the Board of Trustees; and reviews. Also contains a hand-painted guest book and a transcription of an interview with Brown regarding the production of this play.

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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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Pictures for Advertising, undated

Manuscripts

Contains numbered thumbnail and larger line drawings, prints, and photographs of Playhouse affiliates including Gilmor Brown, Lenore Shanewise, students, and others, as well as characters and historical figures including Shakespeare. Also contains imagery including the Pasadena Community Playhouse Association logo, palm trees, and more.

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Original scores for various productions

Manuscripts

Contains scores for: Lovely Miss Linley (Lee Gilmore piano score used in 1942 production); Lazarus Laughed (Arthur Alexander original music, 1928, in five parts, some copies and some handwritten); Follies of Pasadena (original scores, blueprint copies, undated); and original music composed in 1939 and undated by Vincent Bowditch for unidentified Pasadena Playhouse productions.

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Lenore Shanewise and Fairfax Walkup

Manuscripts

Materials relating to Lenore Shanewise include awards and honors; clippings and correspondence; performance and portrait photographs; programs from various productions; eulogies for Eugenia Ong (1955) and Gilmor Brown (1960); and some material from her service as a member of the Board of Trustees, including Task Force Committee reports (circa March 1966) and Board meeting minutes (1967). Materials relating to Fairfax Walkup include personal correspondence (1951-1971); her reflections on Gilmor Brown (circa 1960); resumes; and honors and tributes.

mssPlayhouse

Productions: Lazarus Laughed

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