A look into the archives of Little Shop through its years of Playbills, casting choices, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:05AMA look into the archives of Little Shop through its years of Playbills, casting choices, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AMThe New York Public Library offers a never-before-soon look at the inner workings of the Tony- and Emmy-winning designer’s step-by-step process.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AMYou have until March 31, 2020, to see the rest of the wild display of sets, costumes, annotated scripts, and not-to-be-believed correspondences from Prince’s body of Broadway work.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMScript pages, set photos, and more New York Public Library records from previous stagings of the Greek myth.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AMProduction notes, lighting plots, and design inspiration for Bob Fosse and Stephen Schwartz’s Pippin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMLooking through the archives of the New York Pulic Library for the Performing Arts, the current production was not the first attempt to adapt the 1933 film.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMA history of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! through the New York Public Library archives.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMFrom George Furth's work session notes to Jason Alexander’s score, look at these rare documents from the famed Sondheim-Furth musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMBe More Chill’s famous Halloween scene isn’t the first time a major production used a night of disguise to push the story.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMFrom the play Bernhardt/Hamlet to the upcoming film Playing to the Gods, Sarah Bernhardt is all the rage again.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMTitle bar from Olive Wong's Original Draft for the Costume Guide Download: Costume Design Research Guide by Aileen Abercrombie Anyone who has ever had the good fortune to visit the Libra…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:19AMThis is one of a series of blog posts related to the NYPL Public Domain Release: discover the collections and find inspiration for using them in your own research, teaching, and creative pr…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:55AMA guest post by Kate Edney. Page from the original souvenir program of Golden Dawn Golden Dawn (1927) is one of those musicals that has been almost completely erased from histories of …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:16PMImage from published sheet music of Little Nemo. Image ID: g99c836_001 A guest post By Brian D. Valencia In one of two overblown patriotic spectacles, the Act 2 finale of Little Nemo in S…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:21AMAfter the wildly successful 2013 edition of Across A Crowded Room, we are about to launch a second edition that is more exciting than ever before. If you are a musical theater... ...com…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:26PMRichard Rodgers, Nicol Williamson, Penny Fuller, and Sheldon Harnick work on Rex A guest post by Sherman Yellen. After “The Rothschilds” I left the theater and worked as a screenwrite…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:10PMHal Linden and Leila Martin in a scene from The Rothschilds, Classmark *T-PHO B A guest post by Sherman Yellen, bookwriter of The Rothschilds. It was sometime in the early 1960s that produ…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:21PMFriedman-Abeles Photograph Collection: Image Id: 424286 / Classmark: *T-VIM 1992-013] A guest post by Philip Lambert, author of To Broadway! To Life! The Musical Theater of Bock and Harn…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:28AMA few months ago, I posted three demo recordings of Fiorello! from the Jerry Bock recordings in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound. This month, in honor of Fiddler&…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:07AMIn the following blog post, Columbia University's Alisa Solomon examines three typescripts of Fiddler on the Roof that can be studied at the Library for the Per…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:00PMMost of the articles memorializing director and actor Richard Attenborough cite his role as the nearly-mad scientist, Dr. John Hammond, in the film version of Jurassic Park or his directoral…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:32PMWhile reading about riots in my hometown last night, I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a headline announcing the shocking death of Robin Williams. I really can add very little to the…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:46AMIn the week following the announcement of the TONY awards, the winner for best musical, Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, enjoyed its best week ever, bringing in more than $100,000…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:47PMOriginal Cast of Fiorello! / Photo by Joseph AbelesWhen Jerry Bock died in 2010, his papers (drafts, correspondence, business records, etc.) came to the library as he had planned. A year or…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:13AMOriginal Cast of Fiorello! / Photo by Joseph AbelesWhen Jerry Bock died in 2010, his papers (drafts, correspondence, business records, etc.) came to the library as he had planned. A year or…
SOURCE: nypl.org at 11:13AMI am very pleased to announce the first release of Libretto, a prototype open source, e-book reader for reading musicals on Android devices!Like so many fans of musical theater, I spent many…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:55PMA guest post by Ben West of UnsungMusicalsCo. November 1945. The New York Post calls it "a long-awaited musical comedy hit;" Universal purchases the film rights for more than $100,…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:24AMI’m very excited to announce that, one enchanted evening (6:00-8:30 on October 5th to be precise), we will host the first Across A Crowded Room meet-up at the Library for the Performin…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:32AMA guest post by Ben West of UnsungMusicalsCo. Between March 1946 and December 1948, six highly successful musical revues opened on Broadway, playing a combined total of 2,653 performances an…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:54AMA guest post by Ben West of UnsungMusicalsCo. When I was approached about recording Barefoot Boy With Cheek, I jumped at the opportunity. Based on the best-selling novel by Tony Award nomine…
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