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Lingua: Inglese
Editore: The Playbill Corporation, New York 1954
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- Prima edizione
Da: Turtle Creek Books and Sheet Music, Mississauga, ON, CanadaTurtle Creek Books and Sheet Music
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EUR 8,87
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Soft cover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original olaybill, profusely illustrated. In wonderful condition - appears almost new! cCover illustrstion by Peter Arno. The playbill for The Pajama Game at the St. James Theatre is a document of one of the most significant debut productions in the history of the American…musical. The show opened at the St. James Theatre — located at 246 West 44th Street and owned by the Shubert Organization — on May 13, 1954, following tryouts in New Haven and Boston. The production was produced by Frederick Brisson, Robert E. Griffith, and Harold Prince, the last of whom was making his Broadway producing debut. The book was written by George Abbott and Richard Bissell, adapted from Bissell's 1953 novel Seven and a Half Cents. Music and lyrics were by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, also making their Broadway debut. The show was directed by George Abbott and Jerome Robbins, with choreography by Bob Fosse — likewise his choreographic debut on Broadway. Scenic and costume design were by Lemuel Ayers, with musical direction by Hal Hastings and orchestrations by Don Walker. The principal cast featured John Raitt as Sid Sorokin, Janis Paige as Babe Williams, Eddie Foy Jr. as Hines, and Carol Haney in a featured role that became one of the great scene-stealing performances of the decade. It was during Haney's absence due to illness that her understudy, Shirley MacLaine, was spotted by a film producer and launched into her screen career — a piece of Broadway legend that the production generated almost as an aside. The plot centres on a labour dispute at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory in Iowa, where the workers are pressing for a seven-and-a-half-cent pay rise. The romantic complications between Sid Sorokin, the new factory superintendent, and Babe Williams, leader of the union grievance committee, provide the show's emotional spine, while Fosse's choreography — already bearing the angular, rhythmically precise quality that would define his later career — provided numbers including Steam Heat and Hernando's Hideaway that stopped the show nightly. The production ran for 1,063 performances, closing November 24, 1956, and won the Tony Award for Best Musical at the Eighth Annual Tony Awards in 1954. Arno, Peter (illustratore).
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Playbill Inc, New York 1984
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Da: Turtle Creek Books and Sheet Music, Mississauga, ON, CanadaTurtle Creek Books and Sheet Music
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EUR 8,87
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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. A clean bright copy. Staples are "pulling" a little otherwise in quite good condition.
Editore: Playbill Incorporated 1995
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Da: The Oregon Room - Well described books!, Phoenix, OR, U.S.A.The Oregon Room - Well described books!
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. VG++, SEPTEMBER 1995, No. 9, Volume 95, same cover as shown by amazon, clean & square, no markings, small blemish on rear cover- otherwise Like New.
Editore: Playbill 1995
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Da: Burnt Biscuit Books, NEWNAN, GA, U.S.A.Burnt Biscuit Books
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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Good.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Playbill Inc, New York 1956
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Da: Turtle Creek Books and Sheet Music, Mississauga, ON, CanadaTurtle Creek Books and Sheet Music
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EUR 13,43
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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. In very nice shape with almost no edgewear. The playbill for Tamburlaine the Great at the Winter Garden Theatre documents one of the more unusual productions in mid-century Broadway history — a serious attempt to bring the full scope of Elizabethan epic drama to a commercial New York stage, und…er conditions that were ultimately less favourable than the ambition deserved. The production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 19, 1956. The Winter Garden is located at 1634 Broadway between 50th and 51st Streets in midtown Manhattan. The production was presented by The Producers Theatre in association with the Stratford Festival of Canada, and was directed and adapted by Tyrone Guthrie, with Donald Wolfit credited as co-adaptor. Scenic and costume design were by Leslie Hurry, lighting by Paul Morrison, and incidental music by John Gardner. The production was intentionally designed as a limited engagement of twelve weeks. Instead it ran for less than three weeks, closing February 4, 1956, with only twenty total performances. Anthony Quayle received a Tony nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play, but did not win. Among the cast members was a young William Shatner, appearing on Broadway for the very first time, less than four years out of college. Guthrie had previously directed Shatner in productions at Stratford, Ontario, including Oedipus Rex and The Taming of the Shrew. Douglas Rain, later famous as the voice of HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey, also appeared in the production. The play itself was written by Christopher Marlowe around 1587 and proved both enormously popular on the Elizabethan London stage and deeply influential on subsequent dramatists, with many scholars believing it was among the first London plays the young Shakespeare encountered. The two-part drama traces the rise of a Scythian shepherd of remorseless will and military genius who conquers half the known world, defeating kings and emperors and dragging subjugated rulers in his wake — a vision of power as both magnificent and monstrous that was genuinely radical in its moment and has lost none of its unsettling force.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: The Playbill Corporation, New York 1955
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- Prima edizione
Da: Turtle Creek Books and Sheet Music, Mississauga, ON, CanadaTurtle Creek Books and Sheet Music
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Usato - Molto buono
EUR 13,43
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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original olaybill, profusely illustrated. One crease at bottom front cover right corner, all else fine. This is a playbill rather than a book, so the description follows a format appropriate to that object. The playbill for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Morosco Theatre is… a primary document of one of the landmark events in twentieth-century American theatre. The original Broadway production opened at the Morosco Theatre on March 24, 1955. The Morosco was located at 217 West 45th Street in New York and was owned by the Shubert Organization. The production was produced by The Playwrights' Company, whose membership included Maxwell Anderson, Robert Anderson, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sherwood, and Roger L. Stevens. The play was directed by Elia Kazan, and the cast featured Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie, Ben Gazzara as Brick, Burl Ives as Big Daddy, Mildred Dunnock as Big Mama, Pat Hingle as Gooper, and Madeleine Sherwood as Mae. Scenic and lighting design were by Jo Mielziner, with costume design by Lucinda Ballard. The production ran for 694 performances, closing on November 17, 1956, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It received four Tony Award nominations, including nominations for Bel Geddes and director Kazan, though it lost the Tony for Best Play to The Diary of Anne Frank. The play itself is set on a single sweltering evening at the Pollitt plantation in the Mississippi Delta. Big Daddy, the richest cotton planter in the region, is celebrating his sixty-fifth birthday while concealing a terminal cancer diagnosis from his family. His favoured son Brick, a former football hero, has retreated into alcoholism; his wife Maggie — Maggie the Cat, whose restless discomfort gives the play its title — is fighting for her marriage, her position, and her future against a family in which greed, self-deception, and suppressed sexuality are slowly burning through the surface of Southern gentility. Williams described the play as his personal favourite among his own works, and it is widely regarded as his most formally accomplished. Playbills from the original 1955 run exist in two principal versions — the April 1955 issue and the February 1956 issue — and are sought by collectors of theatre ephemera and Williams material. They represent a production that has since been revived five times on Broadway alone, most recently in 2013, making it one of the most enduringly performed plays in the American repertoire.
