Broadway souvenir theatre programs collection

Access and use

Location of collection:
George Mason University
2400 Fenwick Library
Special Collections Research Center
Fenwick Library MS2FL
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Mieko Palazzo
Phone: (703) 993-2220
Fax: (703) 993-2669
Restrictions:

There are no access restrictions.

Terms of access:

The copyright and related rights status of this collection have not been evaluated (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)

Preferred citation:

Broadway souvenir theatre programs collection, C0182, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University.

Summary

Extent:
2.75 Linear Feet 6 boxes
Creator:
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
Abstract:
This collection contains theatre souvenir programs from Broadway productions between the years 1942 and 1997. The programs include descriptions of the production, along with information on the respective creators, performers, directors, choreographers, and producers. It contains many programs from original Broadway show runs, and features many famous actors, singers, and dancers who performed in Broadway shows.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Broadway souvenir theatre programs collection, C0182, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains theatre souvenir programs from Broadway productions between the years 1942 and 1997. The programs include descriptions of the production, along with information on the respective creators, performers, directors, choreographers, and producers. Instead of the traditional free playbill which is handed out upon entrance of the theatre, souvenir programs tend to be purchased at show concession stands, and are of higher quality, have color photography, and are intended to last as a souvenir of the theatrical experience. This collection contains many programs from original Broadway show runs, revivals, and features many famous actors, singers, and dancers who performed in Broadway shows. It also contains a few film souvenir programs.

Starring Sydney Poitier.

Starring Liza Minnelli and Barry Nelson.

Starring June Havoc.

Starring Viveca Lindfors and Eugenie Leontovich.

Starring Andrea McArdle and Reid Shelton.

Starring Ethel Merman; News Article from May 19, 1966, referencing twenty years of Merman as Annie Oakley.

Starring Lauren Bacall; Includes Program

Composed by Andrew Lloyd Weber.

Starring Rosalind Russell.

Starring Nancy Dussault; Includes 2 newspaper articles.

Starring Jim Dale and Glenn Close.

Starring Susan Egan and Terrence Mann.

Starring Judy Holliday.

Starring Ruth Brown, Linda Hopkins, and Carrie Smith

Starring Celeste Holm.

Starring Jean Bayless and John Hewer.

Starring Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller.

Starring Kim Stanley.

Starring Shirley Booth and Wilbur Evans.

Starring Chita Rivera and Dick Van Dyke.

Includes special record of excerpts from the Columbia Original Cast Album

Starring Barry Sullivan, John Hodiak, and Lloyd Nolan.

Starring Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson, and Fred MacMurray; Motion Picture

Starring Ethel Merman.

Starring Robert Goulet.

Starring Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, and Robert Goulet.

Lilo

Starring Jim Dale, Andrea Martin, Harolyn Blackwell, and Jason Danieley.

Starring Anna Maria Alberghetti.

Composed by Rodgers and Hammerstein; Starring Fisher Stevens and Shirley Verrett.

Composed by Andrew Lloyd Weber.

Starring Chris Brown and Kay Gayner; Not Original Cast

Starring James Naughton and Gregg Edelman.

Starring Katharine Hepburn.

Starring Harry Groener and Jodi Benson.

Starring Bill Van Dijk.

Starring Gwen Verdon.

Starring Bebe Neuwirth and Victor Garber.

Starring Gail Benedict.

Starring Andy Griffith and Dolores Gray.

Includes Newspaper Article from April 2, 1961

Starring Joseph Schildkraut and Susan Strasberg.

Starring Phil Silvers.

Starring Frank Langella.

Starring Laurence Olivier.

Starring Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, and Bob Gunton.

Starring Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak.

25th Anniversary Production; Starring Chaim Topol.

Starring Tom Bosley; Includes Newspaper Article on Tom Bosley

Composed by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Starring Nathan Lane.

The Story of Judy Garland.

Repeat copy from previous folder; Includes Newspaper Article

Starring Joel Grey.

Written and composed by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.

Written and composed by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.

Starring Vivian Blaine.

Starring Ethel Merman.

Starring Alec McCowen.

Includes a number of newspaper articles about the production

Starring Ethel Merman and Fernando Lamas.

Starring Ethel Merman and David Wayne.

Starring Shelley Winters and Ben Gazzara.

Starring Freddie Trenkler and Carol Lynne.

Starring Ethel Merman.

Starring Carol Channing.

Starring Pearl Bailey; Includes newspaper articles about the production

Starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston; Includes newspaper article about the production

Starring Elizabeth Seal and Keith Michell.

Starring Jack Lemmon.

Starring Lena Horne and Ricardo Montalban.

Starring Christopher Plummer, Basil Rathbone, and James Daly.

Composed by Andrew Lloyd Weber; Starring Michael Damian.

Composed by Andrew Lloyd Weber; Starring Donny Osmond.

Composed by Rodgers and Hammerstein; Starring Lou Diamond Phillips.

Starring Gertrude Lawrence; Composed by Rodger and Hammerstein; Includes newspaper article.

Starring Rex Harrison, Claudette Colbert, and George Rose.

Starring Alfred Drake.

Starring Alfred Drake and Patricia Morison.

Starring Chita Rivera, Brent Carver, and Anthony Crivello.

Starring Julie Harris and Boris Karloff.

Starring James Coco, Rita Moreno, Marcia Rodd, and Doris Roberts.

Starring Nathan Lane.

Starring Edith Adams, Peter Palmer, Howard St. John, Stubby Kaye, and Charlotte Rae.

Starring Irene Worth, Mercedes Ruehl, and Kevin Spacey.

Starring Angela Lansbury.

Starring Raul Julia, Sheena Easton, and Tony Martinez.

Starring Brooks Atkinson, David Atkinson, and Wilbur Evans.

Composed by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Starring Charles Boyer and Claudette Colbert.

Starring James Brennan, Judy Blazer, Jay Garner; Includes Program

Starring Ethel Waters and Julie Harris.

Written by William Shakespeare; Starring Alex Jennings and Lindsay Duncan.

Starring Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, and Torin Thatcher.

Starring Jonathan Pryce, Lea Salonga, and Willy Falk.

Starring Ingrid Berman, Arthur Hill, and Colleen Dewhurst.

Starring Robert Weede.

Starring Robert Preston.

Starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.

Starring Richard Chamberlain.

Starring Gwen Verdon and Thelma Ritter; Includes Program

Starring Gwen Verdon and Thelma Ritter.

Composed by Rodgers and Hammerstein; Starring Gordon MacRae, Shirly Jones, Gloria Grahame, and Rod Steiger.

Composed by Rodgers and Hammerstein; Starring Laurence Guittard, Mary Wickes, and Christine Andreas.

Starring Betty Garde, Harry Stockwell, and Celeste Holm.

Starring Bruce Yarnell, Lee Beery, April Shawhan, Spiro Malas, and Margaret Hamilton.

Starring Ron Moody; Film version

Written by Adolph Green; Starring Cris Alexander, Adolph Green, and John Battles.

Starring Imogene Coca, John Cullum, and Judy Kaye; Winner of 5 Tony Awards in 1978

Starring Lillias White (Appears on flyer but not in playbill)

Starring James Barton and Olga San Juan.

Starring John Raitt, Janis Paige, and Eddie Foy, Jr.

Starring Vivienne Segal and Harold Lang.

Starring Jean Arthur, Boris Karloff, and Marcia Henderson.

Pantages Theatre Toronto; Starring Colm Wilkinson, Rebecca Caine, and Byron Nease.

Starring Helen Traubel, William Johnson, and Judy Tyler; Composed by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Starring Richard Derr and Barbara Cook.

Starring Maureen Stapleton and Don Porter.

Starring Jerry Orbach, Jill O'Hara, and Edward Winter.

Starring Gwen Verdon and Richard Kiley.

Starring David Wayne, Vivian Blaine, and Johnny Desmond.

Starring Christopher Young, James Parker; Film version

Starring Tom Ewell and Vanessa Brown.

Starring John McMartin, Elaine Stritch, Rebecca Luker, Mark Jacoby, and Lonette McKee.

Starring Hildegarde Neff and Don Ameche.

Starring DeLee Lively, Michael Park, and Ken Ard.

Starring Irra Petina, Lawrence Brooks, and Helena Bliss.

Starring Mary Martin.

Starring Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza.

Starring Florence Henderson and Giorgio Tozzi.

Book

Starring Scott Wise, Ben Wright, and Jackie Angelescu.

Starring Betty Buckley, Alan Campbell, Alice Ripley, and George Hearn; Composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Starring Glenn Close, Alan Campbell, Alice Ripley, and George Hearn; Composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Starring Elaine Page, Alan Campbell, Alice Ripley, and George Hearn; Composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Starring Ralph Bellamy, Mary Fickett, and Henry Jones.

Starring Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou, and Cris Groenendaal.

Starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, and Sydney Blackmer.

Starring Jackie Gleason, Walter Pidgeon, and Eileen Herlie.

Starring David Wayne, John Forsythe, and Mariko Niki.

Starring Maurice Evans and Ron Husmann.

Starring Eartha Kitt, Melba Moore, and Gilbert Price.

Starring Phil Silvers and Audrey Meadows.

Starring Jason Robards Jr., Maureen Stapleton, Irene Worth, and Anne Revere.

Starring Roscoe Lee Browne, Cynthia Martells, and Larry Fishburne; Includes Program

Starring Tammy Grimes and Harve Presnell.

Starring Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts, and Michael Nouri.

Starring Thomas Hasson, George Marcy, and Pat Birch.

Starring Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert, Chita Rivera; Composed by Stephen Sondheim; Choreographed by Jerome Robbins.

Starring Ray Bolger.

Starring Lucille Ball and Keith Andes.

Starring Keith Carradine, Dee Hoty, Dick Latessa, and Cady Huffman.

Written by Moss Hart.

starring Sheila Bond, Jack Cassidy, Patricia Marand, and Sidney Armus.

Starring Rosalind Russell.

Starring France Nuyen, William Shatner, and Ron Randell.

Starring William Daniels, Paul Hecht, Clifford David, and Roy Poole.

Starring Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart, George Grizzard, Joe Silver, and Melinda Dillon.

Biographical / historical:

The Theater District of New York City, known as Broadway after the main thoroughfare where over forty theatres make their home, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. First known as the Great White Way due to its dazzling use of lights on marquees, Broadway is synonymous with the best live theatre has to offer. The Golden Age of Broadway occurred between 1943 and 1959, when the theatre-scene exploded with the advent of a new form of musical, popularized by the legendary duo Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III in "Oklahoma!" What followed were some of the most popular, successful, and enduring musicals in American history. In addition to Rodgers and Hammerstein, composers and lyricists like Leonard Bernstein, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Stephen Sondheim, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter found great success during these years with a variety of shows and collaboration with one another. Though new plays and musicals continued to churn out during the 1960s and 1970s, Broadway suffered a creative and financial slump during this time, only to be revitalized in the mid to late 1980s by the likes of Andrew Lloyd Webber, producer Cameron Mackintosh, and Stephen Sondheim.

Acquisition information:
The donor is unknown.
Processing information:

Processed by Special Collections Research Center staff. EAD markup completed by Tom Duncan in 2010. Finding aid updated by Amanda Menjivar in April 2020.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged alphabetically by production title.

Physical location:
R43, C5, S1 - S7
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard