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Projects, 1979-1995 (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 8/6 Lyric sheets, scripts
Typescript
Includes lyric sheet for "Valentine's day"
One big happy family [cabaret], 1985
“A controversial socio-political cabaret” performed at Adelphi University and Panache nightclub; book and lyrics by Michael John Lindsay, music by JL
BOX-FOLDER 8/7 Lyric sheets, sketches
Typescript
Annotations
Titles include: One big happy family; A message from Jim & Tammy; Proper brutality; K hell; An old joke; He touched me; George Schultz rap; A word about fads; I’m stupid; Christian soldier of fortune; Homosexual rag; Vigilante; Middle class blues; But what about the children; Ethiopian humor; And the candle burns; Union carbide/Good job Bonzo; Finale (revised)
BOX-FOLDER 8/7 Music manuscripts
Titles include: And the candle burns; One big happy family; I’m stupid; Finale
BOX-FOLDER 8/8 Miscellaneous items found with One big happy family
Holograph manuscript; [36] p.
Includes writings about life goals and ambitions, 1983-1984
BOX-FOLDER 8/8 "When I grow up (E.R.A.)" piano score
Holograph manuscript; 7 p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/9 Collected lyrics, lyric sketches
Approximately [53] p.
Includes songs from: 1984; The American scream; Herstory; El libro de buen amor; The steak tartare caper
Polar express [unproduced musical], undated
Musical by JL, based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg
BOX-FOLDER 9/1 Lyric sheets, synopsis, notes; [34] p.
Ponce de Leon is alive and well and living just south of Winter Park [unproduced musical], 1991
Musical by Edward Arnoff; JL was potential collaborator
BOX-FOLDER 9/2 Script, Act I
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 9/3 Script; 1991 Sept. 11
Typescript; 100 p.
Presidential politics [unproduced musical revue], 1989
see also National lampoon
Alternate titles: National lampoon’s tricentennial revue; National lampoon’s American tricentennial; 2076; The future of presidential politics
BOX-FOLDER 9/4 Lyric sheets
Typescript
Titles include: Likability/La di da; Do unto them; The vision thing
Prostate of the union [musical revue], 1987
Subtitle: The evils of Ronald Reagan's America
Performed at Adelphi University; book and lyrics by Michael Lindsay and JL, music by JL
BOX-FOLDER 9/5 Lyric sheets, sketches, notes
BOX-FOLDER 9/6 "Valentine's day" lyric notes, sketches
Holograph manuscript; [8] p.
Laid in: drawing of staging design
Red dot bop [corporate video], 1991
Music by JL
BOX-FOLDER 9/7 Chord chart, lyric sheets, notes
Holograph manuscript
Remember then...A night at the Brooklyn Fox [cabaret], 1979
Performed at Adelphi University; JL was music director
BOX-FOLDER 9/8 Music manuscripts, lyric sheets, notes, fliers
RENT, [musical, 1989-1996 ]
Original concept and additional lyrics by Billy Aronson; book, music and lyrics by JL
BOX-FOLDER 10/1 Script
Typescript; 11 p.
Annotations
BOX-FOLDER 10/2 Notes
Holograph manuscript; [1] p.
Titled: Who are Rodolpho and Mimi today?
BOX-FOLDER 10/3 Script, 1989 Sept. 22
Typescript; 42 p.
Annotations
BOX-FOLDER 10/4 Scripts, 1990
2 typescripts
Annotations
BOX-FOLDER 10/4 Script/lyrics, 1990
Typescript; 6 p.
Incomplete
BOX-FOLDER 10/5 Script, 1990
Typescript; [40] p.
BOX-FOLDER 10/6 Excerpt narration, script
Typescript; 8, 89 p.
Annotations
Laid in: program for staged New York Theatre Workshop, 1993 June 17
BOX-FOLDER 10/7 Scripts, 1992
2 typescripts; 71 p. each
Annotations
BOX-FOLDER 10/8 Script, Act I; 1992
Typescript; 58 p.
BOX-FOLDER 11/1-4 Lyric sheets, script pages, sketches, notes
Box 11/1 includes note on use of Musetta’s aria; notes on the characters and relationships between Mark and Roger with comparison to Pygmalion
Box 11/4 includes list of words related to cats; draft letter to Sondheim
BOX-FOLDER 11/5 Scripts, Act I, 1992
2 typescripts; 58, 61 p.
BOX-FOLDER 11/6 Choral book, 1993
Typescript
Annotations
BOX-FOLDER 11/7-12/3 Lyric sheets, script pages, sketches, notes
Box 12/1 includes lyric sketches for "Seasons of love," including mathematical calculations on p. [27]
Box 12/2 includes writings titled “Why do they live this way?” and “What they want”
BOX-FOLDER 12/4-13/1 Scripts; 1992-1993
4 typescripts
BOX-FOLDER 13/2 Lead sheets, programs, miscellany
Includes program from staged reading at New York Theatre Workshop, 1993 June 17
BOX-FOLDER 13/3 Script
Typescript; 78 p.
BOX-FOLDER 13/4 Script, miscellany
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 13/5-8 Miscellany; 1993-1994
Box 13/5 includes 19 photographs presumably used as models for the look and feel of the show
Box 13/6 includes list of the themes in the show; note titled “love + fire = disease = art = life”; reactions to Zeferrelli’s Boheme; a breakdown of “beats” in Puccini’s La boheme; research on drug usage; character biographies; chart titled “musical chairs (beds)"
Box 13/8 includes detailed notes on what RENT is about, explaining the symbolism used in some of the lyrics
BOX-FOLDER 13/9 Script pages, lyric sketches, notes
[89] leaves
BOX-FOLDER 14/1 Script, 1994 July
Typescript; 99 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/2 Script, 1994 Sept. 1
Typescript; 88 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/3 Script, 1994 Oct. 25
Typescript; 118 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/4 Lyric sketches, dialogue pages, notes
[145] leaves
Includes research on AIDS
BOX-FOLDER 14/5 Script
Typescript; 97 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/6 Mock-ups of promotional cards for New York Theater Workshop studio production; 1994 Oct. 29-Nov. 6
BOX-FOLDER 14/7 Miscellany
Includes character biographies; "audience response card" with comments apparently by Sondheim; letter from JL to Sondheim; definition of "rent"
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Program/flyer for New York Theatre Workshop, 1994 Oct.
2 versions
BOX-FOLDER 15/1 Script, 1994 Sept. 1
Typescript; 96 p.
BOX-FOLDER 15/2 Miscellany
BOX-FOLDER 15/3-4 Script pages, lyric sketches
[210] leaves
BOX-FOLDER 15/5 Script, 1995 Sept. 12
Typescript; 129 p.
BOX-FOLDER 15/6 Script pages, lyric sketches; 1995 Sept.-Oct.
BOX-FOLDER 15/7 Scripts, Act I
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