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BOX 55-109, 397, 401, 404, 411, 426, 432-433 Theatrical Production Files, 1908-1997 (bulk 1949-1990)
Stevens produced a considerable number of shows, both on- and off-Broadway. He also financially backed productions, often without attribution in the program. He was actively involved in his productions at all levels, from selecting scripts to obtaining backers to hosting opening night parties and sending gifts to his casts. This series documents Stevens's myriad productions, as well as the many works submitted to his office for consideration. Materials related to specific production companies are located under Arts Administration in the Producing Organizations subseries and within the Kennedy Center Productions, Inc. folder in the National Cultural Center - Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts sub-subseries.

Organized alphabetically as three subseries.
BOX 55-102, 397, 401, 404, 411, 426, 432-433 Production Files, 1908-1997 (bulk 1949-1990)
This subseries documents more than 400 plays and other staged events produced, backed, or supported by Roger L. Stevens as an individual or through the various entities with which he was connected, including: American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA), the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Playwrights' Theatre, Producers' Theatre, Stevens Productions, and Whitehead-Stevens. Also included here are plays produced in England and France.

Materials consist of actor and crew contracts, audition and casting materials, budgets, box office reports, clippings, correspondence, financial reports, invoices and check stubs, play company contracts, posters, programs, production stills, rehearsal schedules, reviews, scrapbooks, and scripts.

Most productions lack extensive documentation; some are only represented through a program or single production still. Well-documented productions include 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Candide, The Cocktail Hour, Conduct Unbecoming, Double Cross, Jockey Club Stakes, Jumpers, Mary, Mary, A Piece of My Heart, The Pleasure of His Company, She Loves Me, and Sheep on the Runway.

Programs and photographs are typically located in the front of a folder or the first folder where there are multiple files for a production. Programs for British and French productions of plays are included regardless of whether Stevens was involved in the production, as he often attended these performances prior to mounting his own.

Arranged alphabetically by production title.
BOX-FOLDER 55/1 Stevens Production Lists, undated
BOX-FOLDER 55/2-3 2, 1989, 1991-1993
BOX-FOLDER 55/4-8 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 1975-1976, 1992
BOX-FOLDER 55/9 to 56/4 1776, 1969-1977
BOX-FOLDER 56/5 The 1940s Radio Hour, 1979-1989
BOX-FOLDER 56/6 A la Creole, 1960
BOX-FOLDER 57/1 The Abdication, 1969-1971
BOX-FOLDER 57/2 Absurd Person Singular, 1973-1974
BOX-FOLDER 57/3 The Admirable Crichton, 1957 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 57/4 The Affair Blum, 1962-1965
BOX-FOLDER 57/5 Alfie, 1964-1965
BOX-FOLDER 57/6 All Over Town, 1974
BOX-FOLDER 57/7 Amphigorey, 1992-1994
BOX-FOLDER 57/8 Andorra, 1962-1966
Includes: Correspondence from Hugh Beaumont, Cheryl Crawford, Max Frisch, and Peter Hall
BOX-FOLDER 57/9 Angelic Avengers, 1957-1958
BOX-FOLDER 57/10-11, 426/5 Annie, 1977-1982
Includes: Framed photograph of Sandy with paw print in Box 57, Folder 11
Includes: Slides of production poster in Box 57, Folder 10 and production poster in Box 426, Folder 5
BOX-FOLDER 57/12 Annie II, 1989-1992
BOX-FOLDER 57/13 Anthony and Cleopatra, 1990-1991
BOX-FOLDER 57/14 The Apollo of Bellac, 1957
BOX-FOLDER 57/15 Arcadia, 1993
BOX-FOLDER 57/16 Arsenic and Old Lace, 1986-1988
BOX-FOLDER 57/17 The Art of Dining, 1980
BOX-FOLDER 58/1 Artist Descending a Staircase, 1989-1992
BOX-FOLDER 58/2 Assassination, 1865, 1972
BOX-FOLDER 58/3 Asylum, 1963
BOX-FOLDER 58/4 At the Grand, 1958-1959
BOX-FOLDER 58/5 Auntie Mame, 1957-1958
BOX-FOLDER 58/6 Back to Methuselah, 1958
BOX-FOLDER 58/7 The Bad Seed, 1954-1960
BOX 433 The Bad Seed - medallion, 1956 June 30
Engraved on verso: R.S. from N.K. "Bad Seed"
BOX-FOLDER 58/8 The Ballad of Baby Doe, 1957-1958
BOX-FOLDER 58/9 Ballet Ballads, 1960-1961
BOX-FOLDER 58/10 Banderol, undated
BOX-FOLDER 58/11 Bedroom Farce, 1976
BOX-FOLDER 58/12 Beekman Place, 1964-1965
Includes: Correspondence from Constance Cummings and Samuel Taylor
BOX-FOLDER 58/13 Bells are Ringing, 1956-1961
BOX-FOLDER 58/14-15 The Best Man, 1960-1961
Includes: Correspondence from Hume Cronyn; Melvyn Douglas; Randolph Hale; Mike Moroney; Adlai E. Stevenson; Franchot Tone; Lee Tracy; and Gore Vidal
BOX-FOLDER 59/1 The Best of Friends, 1988
Includes: Photograph of Blythe Danner, Raul Julia, and Roy Scheider
BOX-FOLDER 59/2 Betrayal, 1978-1980
Includes: Slides of production poster
BOX-FOLDER 59/3 Bicentennial Plays, 1974-1975
see also Royal Family ; The Scarecrow ; The Skin of Our Teeth ; Sweet Bird of Youth ; and Too Much Johnson
BOX-FOLDER 59/4 Bicycle Ride to Nevada, 1963
BOX-FOLDER 59/5 Big Love, 1988-1991
BOX-FOLDER 59/6 The Birthday Party/Mountain Language, 1988-1989
BOX-FOLDER 59/7 The Blacks, 1958, 1960
Includes: Published script with annotations by Roger L. Stevens
BOX-FOLDER 59/8 Les Blancs, 1970
BOX-FOLDER 59/9 Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole, 1960-1962
Includes: Correspondence from Howard Teichman and Stanley Young
BOX-FOLDER 59/10 A Boy Growing Up, 1957
BOX-FOLDER 59/11 Boys of Autumn, 1981
BOX-FOLDER 59/12 Broken Glass, 1994
BOX-FOLDER 59/13 Brouhaha, 1958-1960
BOX-FOLDER 59/14 Bubbling Brown Sugar, 1976-1979
BOX-FOLDER 60/1 Build With One Hand, 1956
BOX-FOLDER 60/2 Bus Stop, 1955-1961
BOX-FOLDER 60/3 The Butterfingers Angel, 1988
BOX-FOLDER 60/4 Caesar and Cleopatra, 1963-1967
BOX-FOLDER 60/5-6 Calculated Risk, 1962-1963
BOX-FOLDER 60/7 Camino Real, 1952-1957
BOX-FOLDER 60/8 to 61/2 Candide, 1956, 1971
BOX-FOLDER 61/3 Cantorial, 1982
BOX-FOLDER 61/4 Captain Brassbound's Conversion, 1951, 1971-1972
BOX-FOLDER 61/5 Carefree Heart, 1957-1958, 1963
BOX-FOLDER 61/6, 411/6, 426/5 The Caretaker, 1960-1963, 1971
Includes: Correspondence with Harold Pinter
Includes: Production still
Includes: Al Hirschfeld drawing of Donald Pleasance in Box 411, Folder 6
Includes: Slides of the production poster in Box 61, Folder 6, a posters for the 1961 French production, Le gardien, and for the United States touring production of The Caretaker in Box 426, Folder 5
BOX-FOLDER 61/7-9 Carmelina, 1979 and undated
Includes: Correspondence from Alan Jay Lerner in Box 61, Folder 6
BOX-FOLDER 61/10 Carousel, 1986
BOX-FOLDER 62/1-2 A Case of Libel, 1963-1968
Includes: Correspondence from Hugh Beaumont, Henry Denker, Van Heflin, and Sam Wanamaker in Box 62, Folder 1
Includes: Production still in Box 62, Folder 2
BOX-FOLDER 62/3 Castle in Sweden, 1960-1961
BOX-FOLDER 62/4 A Casual Miracle, undated
BOX-FOLDER 62/5-7 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1955-1958, 1974
Includes: Slides of production poster in Box 62, Folder 5
BOX-FOLDER 62/8 The Cemetery Club, 1987
BOX-FOLDER 62/9 The Chanel Story, 1959
BOX-FOLDER 62/10 Charlie and Algernon, 1980
BOX-FOLDER 62/11, 426/5 Cherie, 1965
Includes: Correspondence from Robert Lewis and Anita Loos; production stills
Includes: Production poster in Box 426, Folder 1
BOX-FOLDER 62/12 Children from Their Games, 1962-1968
Includes: Correspondence from Irwin Shaw and Sam Wanamaker
BOX-FOLDER 62/13 Children's Playhouse, 1958
BOX-FOLDER 63/1 The Chinese Prime Minister (Broadway production), 1963-1964
Includes: Correspondence from Enid Bagnold and Margaret Leighton
Includes: Daily rehearsal notes.
BOX-FOLDER 63/2 The Chinese Prime Minister (London production), 1965-1966
Includes: Correspondence from Enid Bagnold and Hugh Beaumont
BOX-FOLDER 63/3 Citizen Tom Paine, 1987
BOX-FOLDER 63/4 Claptrap, 1985-1986
BOX-FOLDER 63/5 The Classmate, 1962
BOX-FOLDER 63/6 Clearing in the Woods, 1957-1958, 1967
BOX-FOLDER 63/7 to 64/1, 426/5 The Cocktail Hour, 1988-1992
Includes: Correspondence from Richard Backus, A. R. Gurney, Margaret Hall, Gregory Peck, and Anthony Quayle in Box 63, Folder 5
Includes: Production poster in Box 426, Folder 1
BOX-FOLDER 64/2 The Cold Wind and the Warm, 1958-1959
BOX-FOLDER 64/3-5 Colette, 1970-1982
Includes: Correspondence from Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt in Box 64, Folder 3
BOX-FOLDER 64/6 Come on Strong, 1962
BOX-FOLDER 64/7 Comes the Day, 1958
BOX-FOLDER 64/10 to 68/3, 426/5 Conduct Unbecoming, 1970-1974 and undated
Includes: Correspondence from Donald Albery, Nobuko Morris, and Victor Samrock in Box 65, Folders 1-2
Includes: Set of production stills in Box 65, Folder 2 and production poster in Box 426, Folder 5
Includes: Head shots of actors and images of them in costume in Box 66, Folder 3
BOX-FOLDER 68/4 Confessions of Felix Krull, 1959
BOX-FOLDER 68/5 The Confidential Clerk, 1954 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 68/6 The Conquering Hero, 1960-1962
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