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Individual Production, Project, and
Performance Files
(continued) |
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Cocoon (and Cocoon: The Return) (Verdon)
(continued) |
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Night Life, 6/85: "Back on the Screen in
This Summer's Cocoon: Gwen Verdon," by Jane Waldman (2
copies) |
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Golden Years, 11/88: "Cocoon: The
Return" |
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Premiere Program |
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The Conquering Hero (Fosse)
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BOX 43B |
Script, 1st draft |
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Marked #4, and "Robert Linden" on cover;
title: "The Hero;" these are two scripts taped together, 1st and 2nd
acts; 78 pp. each act; few annotations |
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Contracts, 1960-61 |
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Bob Fosse correspondence with MSC Artists;
Bob Fosse contract; correspondence with Producer's Theatre; agreements
re: rights to the Preston Sturges property; MBPC (minimum basic
production contract) involving authorship; 4/6/60 Fosse letter to Robert
Freyer and Lawrence Carr outlining his complaints about their
professional relationships (photocopy); miscellaneous; extensive
file |
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Fosse Notes |
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Notes on Gotcha Ballet, War Ballet and
others; sketch for narrative of ballet; script page excerpts, annotated;
handwritten choreography/music/dialogue notes by Bob Fosse - Fosse's
working notes; original folder title: "Notes and Ballet narration (some
scenes), suggestions by Gelbart for campaign." |
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Legal/Arbitration |
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Newspaper clippings on arbitration; legal
papers on R. Fosse vs Producers Theatre, Inc. 1960-61, regarding Bob
Fosse choreography; correspondence, exhibits; 8/28/61 notice of award by
American Arbitration Association; Arbitrator's award - 6 cents - on note
card, plus news clipping on award |
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Program |
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National Theatre, 11/60 |
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Fosse Notebook |
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Small (5x7) notebook containing
handwritten notes, "Hero" (and other) |
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BOX 57C |
Music |
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Music for "The Campaign" |
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The Cotton Club (Verdon)
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BOX 43B |
Premiere Program |
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Damn Yankees (Stage) (Fosse and Verdon)
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Programs |
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46th Street Theatre Playbill, 5/55, 5/56;
2 souvenir programs |
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Legal |
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Bob Fosse choreography contract, with
draft material |
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Magazine Reviews |
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Saturday Review, 5/21/55: "A Frank
Marriedwell Story," by Henry Hewes |
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Newsweek, 5/16/55: "The Bases
Loaded" |
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Time, 5/16/55: "New Musical in Manhattan"
(2 copies) |
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Theatre Arts, 11/56: "The Complete Text of
Damn Yankees" |
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Vogue, 5/15/55: "People Are Talking
About..." |
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Newspaper Clippings |
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BOX 57C |
Music |
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Music sheets for "Who's Got the Pain,"
"Brains and Talent" |
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BOX 86D |
Press, fragile |
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Fragile magazines (complete), magazine
pages, and newspaper clippings, bound to matte board, from: |
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Damn Yankees, pages from single fragile
scrapbook
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Damn Yankees, 1955: magazines; 1974:
clippings
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Damn Yankees, 1955: clippings
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Damn Yankees, 1955: clippings
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Loose |
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- Variety, 5/11/55: "Baseball B.O. Poison," page one
- Billboard, 5/14/55
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BOX 86A |
Photos, matte folder: |
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15x 19 1/2 black and white photo of Verdon
in "Whatever Lola Wants" costume (damaged) |
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BOX 93A |
Posters: |
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Framed poster, 15x23, color, original,
Verdon in baseball shirt, 46th St. Theatre |
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Framed poster, 15x23, color, original,
Verdon in "Whatever Lola Wants" costume, 46th St. Theatre |
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BOX 86A |
Miscellaneous |
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Sports Illustrated montage of magazine
photos of Verdon in baseball uniform, 16x19 |
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Damn Yankees (Film)
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BOX 43B |
Legal |
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1957 contract, Warner Bros. and Gwen
Verdon; 1958 contract, Bob Fosse and Warner Bros.; contract notes; single
letter re: use of choreography in another production |
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Newspaper Clippings |
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Ad Cuts, 2 |
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BOX 86A |
Ad Cuts, 3, single matte folder |
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Damn Yankees (1974 Revival)
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BOX 43B |
Programs |
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Arie Crown Music Theatre, Chicago, undated
and 1972, multiple copies |
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Newspaper Clippings |
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BOX 43C |
Press Reviews |
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This category includes transcripts of
radio and television coverage, as well as print reviews |
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Press, Fragile |
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Fragile clippings, bound to matte board,
from: Damn Yankees, 1974: clippings, bound
with 1955 magazines |
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Dance Me A Song (Fosse)
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BOX 43B |
Newspaper Clippings |
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Program |
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Royale Theatre Playbill,
1/1950 |
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Dancin' (Fosse)
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BOX 85F |
Handbills |
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2 handbills, 14x22, full color, Broadhurst
Theatre (1 on cardboard) |
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BOX 97D |
Posters And Ad Cuts |
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Foreign Dancin' posters: 15x22, color, Palais de Congres, Paris;
16x23, color, Theatre Mogador, Paris; 13 x 27 1/2 (not illustrated,
handbill), Teatro Comunale Bologna; 27x39, color, Teatro Petruzzelli,
1983 |
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BOX 85A |
2 sheets of ad cuts (mildewed) |
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The Danny Kaye Show (Verdon)
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[Note: Verdon appeared on 7 episodes of The
Danny Kaye Show between 1963 and 1965.] |
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BOX 43C |
Newspaper Clippings, 1965 |
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BOX 43B |
Magazine Reviews |
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Dance Magazine, 11/64: "Turn on
TV" |
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Legal |
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Notes and 1 p. correspondence on contract
draft |
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The Dinah Shore Show
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Legal |
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1959 contract, Bob Fosse choreography for
"Erbie Fitch's Twitch", from Redhead
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Endings (Fosse)
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[Note: Title of the film is referred to both
as Ending and Endings.] |
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BOX 14C - D |
Casting |
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photo/resumes |
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BOX 14C |
Casting |
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"Possible people to see in NY"
photo/resumes |
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"People seen in CA"
photo/resumes |
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"People who have been seen"
photo/resumes |
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BOX 14B |
Casting |
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Fosse audition notes, blue cover
notebook |
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Bob Fosse's notebook; has audition
schedules, notes on characters and actors; extensive |
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BOX 14C |
Casting |
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"CA" Interview schedules and
notes |
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"NY" Interview schedules and
notes |
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BOX 14B |
Fosse Notebook |
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Composition book marked "Ending;" contains
notes by Bob Fosse (handwritten) and others; plus clipping on the book
"Ending", loose news clippings on hospices; Pete Hamill and Herb Gardner
notes on Ending script; transcript of notes
for film called Dying; documentary shot
list; Stuart Ostrow notes on script; Robert Alan Aurthur's article,
"Thoughts on the Death of My Father" |
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Research |
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Magazine clippings on book "Ending" by
Hilma Wolitzer, on death, disease, dying; notes on the movie Dying; brochures on hospitals and medical
centers; medical reports on myeloma disease; questionnaires for
physicians, including that of 8/26/76 meeting with physician in E.
Hampton on dying and ethics; outline/synopsis of Ending by script reader; notes on stages of death; clippings
on cancer treatments |
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Legal, 1974-76 |
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Correspondence re: agreement with Hilda
Wolitzer; R. A. Aurthur's agreement, 10/74 and revisions (including memos
to Ostrow on this); draft and memos on Ostrow/Fosse agreement, 1975; CPA
letter to Ostrow on taxes |
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BOX 14D |
Production Schedule and budget |
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2/5/76 shooting schedule and preliminary
production budget; cover memo, Steve Kesten |
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BOX 14B |
Production Miscellany |
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Script record; photo/resumes; letters;
notes on crew applicants |
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Scripts
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[Note: Identifications such as "Director's
final draft," or "rehearsal draft," are taken directly from the scripts
themselves, as are dates. Scripts may be duplicates. The terms
"annotated," "notations," "markings" refer not only to commentary written
on the scripts, but also any cuts, revisions, dialogue changes, etc.,
that have been marked on a particular script. Initial scripts were titled
Ending; the revisions and final are
titled Endings.] |
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BOX 13D |
Screenplay, 2nd draft
revisions |
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Marked "9/4/75, 9/11/75;" 129 pp.; some
annotation, cuts, additions, etc.; Endings
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Screenplay |
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Marked "9/4/75, 9/11/75;" 129 pp.; Endings; partial script carbon, not annotated,
plus miscellaneous heavily annotated revised pages; Bob Fosse/Aurthur (?)
notes on script; letter to Ostrow and Bob Fosse from Aurthur (?), 1975,
on script; documentary shot list with revisions; Aurthur's (?) outline
and notes for meeting with Bob Fosse, 12/18/74; other noted dated 12/75;
this file contains extensive material |
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Screenplay, 2nd draft |
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Marked "94/75, 9/11/75," Endings; 136 pp.; photocopy with few markings |
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BOX 13C |
Screenplay revisions 100 pp.; extensive
revisions |
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BOX 13D |
Screenplay, 11/11/75 |
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Marked Ending;
103 pp.; few changes, several loose pages; photocopy |
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BOX 14A |
Screenplay, 12/1/75 |
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Marked #20; 105 pp.; few markings |
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Screenplay, 12/1/75 |
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Marked #6; 105 pp.; unmarked |
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Screenplay, 12/1/75 |
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Marked #2; 105 pp.; unmarked |
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Screenplay, 12/1/75, purple
cover |
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Marked #21; 105 pp.; unmarked except for Bob
Fosse notes on title page |
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Screenplay, 2nd draft, pink
folder |
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Seems to be 2 separate scripts; 1 = 132 pp.; 2
= marked "2nd draft," is only 44 pp.; few annotations on both |
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