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Sold on eBay Jul 14, 2022
Kelli O'Hara, Ken Watanabe + Cast Signed KING & I Opening Night Playbill
The Bridges of Madison County, South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza), Ken Watanabe (. The Playbill does have flaws that I have tried to highlight in detail images. The King & Ithrilled audiences and won 5 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical.
Sold on eBay January 28th, 2025
Playbills (Broadway and Off Broadway)
I have Playbills from hundreds of Broadway and Off Broadway shows from the past 25 years moslty. They’re almost all in excellent condition. The listed price is for each individual Playbill (see list below). Please specify which Playbill you want. Or we can come to an agreement for reduced per-item pricing if you’d like to purchase multiple ones. Some of the more popular ones may have higher special pricing. I’ll mail them the least expensive way to keep your costs low or if you’re in NYC, I can arrange pickup or to meet you somewhere. Obviously, if you buy multiple Playbills, I bundle them together to keep shipping costs at a minimum. Not looking to make money on shipping so happy to refund you any overage in what you pay for shipping with what I actually end up paying for shipping (postage and packaging). If you have any questions, please contact me!PLAYBILLS and Off Broadway PLAYBILLS:& Juliet1984The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee33 on Shook UpAmerican in America Osage CountyAvenue and the Behanding in SpokaneBengal Tiger at the Baghdad ZooBig FishBilly ElliotBlithe SpiritBloody Bloody Andrew JacksonBoeing BoeingBrian Stokes Mitchell Love/LifeThe Bridges of Madison County Brighton Beach MemoirsBring It OnBullets Over BroadwayCatch Me If You CanA Chorus ParkCome From Away Company (2020)Company (2006)The CottageThe Country GirlCult of at SeaThe Dancer’s Life Dear Evan Rotten ScoundrelsDisaster Don’t Dress for DinnerDriving Miss DaisyDrowsy ChaperoneEnd of the RainbowEquus EvitaExit the KingThe Farnsworth on the RoofFinding Gentleman’s Guide to Love and MurderThe Glass Menagerie (2014)God of Great Comet of 1912Guys & DollsGypsy (Patti on a and the Angry InchHello, DollyHighThe HomecomingThe House of Blue LeavesHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Ratcliffe)If ThenThe Importance of Being Only A PlayJersey BoysJesus Christ AkimboKinky BootsThe King & IKing Charles IIILa BetrLa Cage Aux Folles (Hodge)Leap of FaithLend Me A TenorA Life in the TheatreThe Light in the PiazzaLion KingThe Little Dog LaughedA Little Night MusicLittle Shop of Letters Mamma MiaManilow on BroadwayMary GirlsMemphis The Miracle WorkerA Moon for the RougeMovin’ OutMrs Warren’s ProfessionThe Mystery of Edwin DroodThe NapNext FallNext to NormalThe Normal Odd CoupleOh, MaryOn the TownOnceOnce On This and the of the of Penzanxe (City Center)The Play That Goes WrongPresent Queen of the DesertThe ProducersRadio City Christmas Speaking RentRock of AgesRockySchool of RockThe Scottsboro BoysShatner’s ActSix Degrees of RottenSondheim on SondheimSouth PacificSpeed the PlowSpider-man: Turn Off the DarkSpring AwakeningSpring Awakening (Deaf West)Sunday in the Park With George Sunset Boulevard (Close)Sunset Boulevard Superior DonutsSwan Lake (City Center)Sweet Championship SeasonTime Stands StillTootsieThe Boys (Met Opera)The and Sonia and Masha and SpikeVenus in FurA View from the Bridge (Van Hove)The VisitWaiting for Godot (Nathan Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Letts)The Wedding SingerWest Side Story (Jeremy Xanadu Young FrankensteinOFF BROADWAY PLAYBILLS:All in the TimingAltar Boyz Angels in America Around the World in 80 DaysThe Bald Soprano & The LessonBig BillBloody Bloody Andrew JacksonBob & Carol & Ted & Alice The Break of of a Mormon BoyCookin’The Cripple of InishmaanCurvy WidowDie Mommie DieDisaster DisenchantedThe Divine Dead: The MusicalFatal Attraction: A Greek Broadway: Special Victims UnitThe Love You, You’re Perfect, Now ChangeThe KidLittle Miss SunshineLittle Shop of HorrorsLives of the SaintsLucky GuyThe Merchant of Venice (Abraham)A Midsummer Night’s DreamMurder for TwoThe Musical of Musicals: The MusicalThe Mystery of Irma VepNaked Boys SingingThe Normal HeartOld HatsPuppet Titus AndronicusRated P for School for LiesScotland, PAToxic Tribute ArtistThe Woodsman
Sold on eBay October 19th, 2023
Michael Urie, Beau Bridges, Nick Jonas HOW TO SUCCEED Cast Signed Playbill
eBay Michael Urie, Beau Bridges, Nick Jonas HOW TO SUCCEED Cast Signed Playbill Click images to enlarge Description From the 2011 Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying comes this wonderful cast signed Playbill. This Playbill has been autographed by over 20 members of the Broadway cast including Nick Jonas Beau Bridges Michael Urie Rob Bartlett Tammy Blanchard (signature is slightly smudged) The Playbill photographed is the Playbill up for auction so please feel free to use the full size images to check signature placement & condition, and for additional signature identification. The Playbill does have flaws that I have tried to highlight in detail images. PLEASE CHECK FULL SIZE IMAGES BEFORE BIDDING. Thank you & happy bidding! Payment PayPal only. Shipping Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all windowcards will be shipped flat. Combined shipping offered for multiple items won during a 7 day period. If you are bidding on additional items please message us so we can arrange delayed payment & combined shipping. Domestic shipping via UPS or USPS Priority (for PO Box addresses). All international shipping via USPS Priority International. International Buyers Please Note: Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding or buying. Note: It's illegal to falsify customs declarations or mark an item as a "gift" in order to avoid customs fees. Due to the limited (or even one of a kind) nature of our items, we only ship using methods that include tracking information. Terms of Sale Although Broadway Cares has endeavored to catalog and describe all items as accurately as possible, all items are sold "As Is." About Us Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources, and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has raised more than $285 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the major supporter of the social service programs at The Actors Fund, including the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative and the Samuel J. Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts. Broadway Cares also awards annual grants to more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations in all 50 states, providing lifesaving medication, healthy meals, counseling and emergency assistance. Contact Us BC/EFA's office hours are Monday through Thursday 10 AM to 6 PM EST and Friday 10 AM to 3 PM EST. All eBay.com auction related inquiries that are received while our office is closed will be handled the next business day. Images sell!Get Supersized Images & Free Image HostingCreate your brand with Auctiva sCustomizable Templates Attention Sellers - Get TemplatesImage Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva.com. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter
Sold on eBay October 17th, 2024
Arthur Laurents "HEARTSONG" Lloyd Bridges / Shirley Booth 1947 FLOP Playbill
This is a rare February 27th, 1947 "Playgoer" playbill from the three-night, out-of-town tryout and WORLD PREMIERE engagement of the obscure ARTHUR LAURENTS play "HEARTSONG" at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. (The production opened February 27th, 1947 at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven and closed March 29th, 1947 at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, cancelling the scheduled Broadway opening.) ..... "HEARTSONG" would have been Arthur Laurents' second Broadway play, had it arrived in New York. From the beginning the production had problems, including the original leading lady, NANCY COLEMAN, quitting after only three days of rehearsal, the original leading man being replaced and then his replacement, LLOYD BRIDGES quitting, the original director being fired, and the script receiving extensive rewrites. When the show finally opened in Philadelphia, it was a flop and would intentionally be left out of all of Arthur Laurents' future bios. Laurents' future career did not suffer however, as he went on to write the libretto for such hit shows as Gypsy and West Side Story ..... The play starred LLOYD BRIDGES (replaced in Philadelphia by BARRY NELSON), KAY STEWART (replaced in Philadelphia by PHYLLIS THAXTER), SHIRLEY BOOTH, JAY FASSETT and SUSAN DOUGLAS ..... CREDITS: Book by ARTHUR LAURENTS ("West Side Story", "The Time of the Cuckoo", "Gypsy", "Anyone Can Whistle", "Do I Hear a Waltz?", "Nick & Nora"); Sets designed by STEWART CHANEY; Directed by PHYLLIS LOUGHTON (replaced in Philadelphia by MELCHOR G. FERRER); Produced by IRENE M. SELZNICK ..... DETAILS: The 36 page playbill measures 6 1/8" X 9 1/4" inches and includes full production credits, cast list, synopsis of scenes, bios of each of the actors and wonderful vintage advertising, but no cast photos ..... CONDITION: With the exception of a vertical fold and light edge wear, this playbill is in excellent condition and will make a wonderful addition to the collection of any theatre aficionado or historian. This item will be carefully packaged in a protective, carded sleeve and backed by stiff cardboard.
Sold on eBay July 17th, 2023
Jason Robert Brown "PARADE" Bertie Carvel ("Matilda") Donmar 2007 London Program
This is a beautiful programme (playbill) from the Original West End production of the ALFRED UHRY and JASON ROBERT BROWN musical "PARADE" at the Donmar Warehouse in London. (The Original Broadway production opened December 17th, 1998 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City and ran for 85 performances. The London production opened September 14th, 2007 and ran for a limited engagement of ten weeks.) ..... The musical dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank, who was accused and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen year-old employee, Mary Phagan. The trial, sensationalized by the media, aroused some antisemitic tensions in Atlanta, Georgia. When Frank's death sentence was commuted to life in prison by the departing Governor of Georgia, John M. Slaton due to his detailed review of over 10,000 pages of testimony and possible problems with the trial, Leo Frank was transferred to a prison in Milledgeville, Georgia, where a lynching party seized and kidnapped him. Frank was taken to Phagan's hometown of Marietta, Georgia, where he was hanged from an oak tree ..... The musical starred BERTIE CARVEL (in his musical theatre debut) as "Leo Frank" and LARA PULVER as "Lucille Frank" and featured HELEN ANKER, MARK BONMAR, NORMAN BOWMAN, SHAUN ESCOFFERY, JOANNA KIRKLAND, GARY MILNER, STEVEN PAGE, MALINDA PARRIS, STUART MATTHEW PRICE, ZOE RAINEY, CELIA MEI RUBIN, STEPHEN WEBB and JAYNE WISENER ..... CREDITS: Book by ALFRED UHRY; Music and Lyrics by JASON ROBERT BROWN ("Parade", "Songs for a New World", "The Last 5 Years", "Urban Cowboy", "13", "Honeymoon in Vegas", "The Bridges of Madison County"); Co-Conceived by HAROLD PRINCE; Sets and Costumes designed by CHRISTOPHER ORAM; Directed and Choreographed by ROB ASHFORD; Produced by the DONMAR WAREHOUSE ..... DETAILS: The 40 page program measures 5 1/2" X 11 3/4" inches and includes full production credits, cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers, historical text, individual photos and bios of each of the actors, bios of each member of the creative team and two pages of rehearsal photos ..... CONDITION: With the exception of small pinch marks along the seam, this program is in excellent condition and will make a wonderful addition to the collection of any musical theatre aficionado or historian. This item will be carefully packaged in a protective, carded sleeve and backed by stiff cardboard.
Sold on eBay April 9th, 2025
Lot of over 175 Playbills (or selection thereof - make an offer for some)
This is a lot of over 175 different playbills (with duplicates over 200) ranging from 1987 to 2024 ......All are complete (some with flaws: a bent cover, a couple we got caught in the rain, a little bit of writing on them or some with staple holes from the tickets) ..... but otherwise in pristine shape The list is below .....The ones with asterisks are not official Playbills - but what they used in those productions (similar)A couple have autographs - one of the Blue Man Group's even has a blue lipstick kiss on itShuffle Along has the faux original play programIf interested in a selection of these, make an offer listing which ones/how many and we can most likely work something out1987: Big River, Starlight Express1989: Cats1990: Phantom of the Opera1992: Blue Man Group Tubes1993: Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera1995: Blue Man Group Tubes, Show Boat, Tommy1996: Defending the Caveman, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum1997: Beauty & the Beast, Bring in da Noise, Chicago, The King & I1999: Cabaret*, Over the River & Through the Woods, Ragtime*2000: Aida, Jitney, Kiss Me Kate, Saturday Night Fever, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Tallulah Hallelujah, The Wild Party2001: Blast, A Class Act, Contact, Dallas Symphony Orchestra @ Carnegie Hall*, The Dinner Party, 45 Seconds from Broadway, 42nd Street*, The Full Monty, Hedda Gabler, The Music Man, Rent, The Phantom of the Opera, The Producers, A Thousand Clowns2002: Aida, Dance of the Vampires, Flower Drum Song, Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Graduate, I'm Not Rappaport, The Lion King, Mamma Mia, Oklahoma, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Urinetown2003: Arlo Guthrie @ Carnegie Hall, Golda's Balcony, La Boheme (Met Opera), Little Shop of Horrors, Mamma Mia, Man of La Mancha, Movin' Out, Nobody Don't Like Yogi, Say Goodnight Gracie, Wicked2004: Avenue Q, Bklyn the Musical, The Boy from Oz, Dracula, Elton John @ Radio City Music Hall*, Fiddler on the Roof, From Door to Door, The Immigrant, Josh Groban @ Radio City Music Hall*, Modern Orthodox, Sleeping Beauty (NYC Ballet)2005: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Madama Butterfly (NYC Opera), The Odd Couple, On Golden Pond, 700 Sundays, Spamalot, Sweet Charity2006: The History Boys, Jay Johnson: The Two & Only, Jersey Boys, Jewtopia, Tarzan, The Three Penny Opera, The Wedding Singer2007: Curtains, Cyrano de Bergerac, Gazillion Bubble Show, The Pirate Queen, Rent2008: Gypsy, The Lion King, South Pacific, A Tale of Two Cities, Young Frankenstein2009: Billy Elliot, Blue Man Group, Finian's Rainbow, Hair, Irena's Vow, Romeo & Juliet (NYC Ballet), West Side Story2010: The Addams Family, Promises Promises2011: Arlo Guthrie (Carnegie Hall), Cactus Flower, Cinderella (American Ballet Theatre), War Horse, The Whipping Man, Wonderland2012: Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger (Carnegie Hall), The Book of Mormon, Peter & the Star Catcher, The Phantom of the Opera, Wicked2013: Ann, Kinky Boots, Matilda, Moses in Egypt (NYC Opera), Pippin, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, The Trip to Bountiful, Vanya & Sonia & Marsha & Spike2014: The Bridges of Madison County, Handle with Care, If/Then, Once, Rocky, Wicked, Wiesenthal2015: Allegiance, The Audience, The Elephant Man, Honeymoon in Vegas, It Shoulda Been You, It's Only a Play, On the Town, The Phantom of the Opera, Rockette's NY Spring Spectacular*2016: An American in Paris, Beautiful, A Bronx Tale, Cagney, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Fiddler on the Roof, The Great Comet of 1812, Kinky Boots, On Your Feet, Ruthless, Shuffle Along, Something Rotten2017: Anastasia, The Band's Visit, Hamilton, Hello Dolly, The Play that Goes Wrong, The Red Shoes(NYC Center), School of Rock, This One's for the Girls, War Paint2018: Come From Away, My Fair Lady, Frozen, Gloria A Life, Hamilton, King Kong, Rocktopia, SpongeBob Square Pants, Waitress2019: Dear Evan Hansen, Fall for Dance (NYC Center), Fiddler on the Roof (Yiddish)*, Kiss Me Kate, Rock of Ages, Wicked2022: A Beautiful Noise, Dear Evan Hansen, Funny Girl, Moulin Rouge2023: Aladdin, Camelot, Harmony, Leopoldstadt, Parade, The Play that Goes Wrong, Rock & Roll Man2024: Kimberly Akimbo, The Notebook, The Outsiders, Prayer for the French Republic, Suffs, Water for Elephants, A Wonderful World
Sold on eBay Aug 04, 2022
Signed BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY Bâ??way Playbill - Kelli Oâ??Hara, Steven Pasquale
Signed BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY Bâ??way Playbill - Kelli Oâ??Hara, Steven Pasquale.
Sold on eBay February 4th, 2025
Helen Hayes "COQUETTE" George Abbott / Una Merkle 1929 San Francisco Program
This is a rare June 3rd, 1929 program (playbill) with two original ticket stubs from the Post-Broadway engagement of the GEORGE ABBOTT and ANN PRESTON BRIDGES play "COQUETTE" at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, California. (The production opened November 8th, 1927 at Maxine Elliott's Theatre in New York City and ran for 366 performances before going on the road.) ..... The play starred HELEN HAYES and featured ANDREW LAWLOR, Jr., CHARLES WALDRON, G. ALBERT SMITH, UNA MERKEL, FREDERICK BURTON, ABBIE MITCHELL, BRYANT SELLS, GAYLORD PENDLETON, CARMEN MILLER and FRANK CLAYTON ..... CREDITS: Book by GEORGE ABBOTT and ANN PRESTON BRIDGES; Sets and Costumes designed by RAYMOND SOVEY; Directed by GEORGE ABBOTT; Produced by JED HARRIS ..... DETAILS: The 36 page program measures 5 3/4" X 8 3/4" inches and includes full production credits, cast list, synopsis of scenes and wonderful vintage advertising, but no cast photos or bios. Includes two ticket stubs from the June 17th, 1929 evening performance ..... CONDITION: With the exception of light edge wear, this program is in excellent condition and will make a wonderful addition to the collection of any theatre aficionado or historian. This item will be carefully packaged in a protective, carded sleeve and backed by stiff cardboard.
Sold on eBay Apr 26, 2021
56 Theater Broadway Playbills Lot
School of Rock. - 1776 (NY City Center Encores! - Songs for a New World (NY City Center Encores! - tick, tick.BOOM! (NY City Center revival). - The Wrong Man. - It's Only A Play. - The Bridges of Madison County. ).
Sold on eBay Mar 01, 2021
Michael Urie, Beau Bridges, Nick Jonas HOW TO SUCCEED Cast Signed Playbill
Les Misérables, Camp Rock, Beauty & the Beast ),Beau Bridges (. We appreciate your understanding as we do our best to help keep everyone safe & healthy.
Sold on eBay April 22nd, 2025
Playbills (Broadway and Off Broadway)
I have Playbills from hundreds of Broadway and Off Broadway shows from the past 25 years moslty. They're almost all in excellent condition. The listed price is for each individual Playbill (see list below). Please specify which Playbill you want. Or we can come to an agreement for reduced per-item pricing if you'd like to purchase multiple ones. Some of the more popular ones may have higher special pricing. I'll mail them the least expensive way to keep your costs low (usually USPS Media mail) or if you're in NYC, I can arrange pickup or to meet you somewhere. If you have any questions, please contact me!Broadway Playbills& Juliet1984The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee33 VariationsAccent on YouthAladdinAllegianceAll Shook UpAmerican IdiotAnastasiaAngels in America The Apple Tree Appropriate ArcadiaAssassinsAugust: Osage CountyAvenue QBeauty and the BeastBeetlejuiceA Behanding in SpokaneBengal Tiger at the Baghdad ZooBig FishBilly ElliotBlithe SpiritBloody Bloody Andrew JacksonBoeing BoeingBook of Mormon (Ben Platt)BoopBrian Stokes Mitchell Love/LifeThe Bridges of Madison County Bring It OnBuena Vista Social ClubBullets Over BroadwayCatch Me If You CanChicagoClybourne ParkCome From Away Company (2006)The CottageThe Country GirlThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime CurtainsCyranoDames at SeaThe Dancer's Life Death Becomes HerDeuceDirty Rotten ScoundrelsDisaster!Don't Dress for DinnerDriving Miss DaisyEnd of the RainbowExit the KingThe Farnsworth InventionFelaFiddler on the Roof (Molina)Finding NeverlandFloyd CollinsFrogsFrost/NixonGaryA Gentleman's Guide to Love and MurderThe Glass Menagerie (2014)God of CarnageGraceThe Great Comet of 1912The Great GatsbyGuys & DollsGypsy (Lupone)Gypsy (McDonald)Hadestown HairsprayHamilton Hands on a HardbodyHangmenHedwig and the Angry InchHello, DollyHighThe Homecoming How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Ratcliffe)The Importance of Being EarnestImpressionismThe InheritanceIt's Only A PlayJersey BoysJesus Christ SuperstarJohn Proctor Is The VillainKimberly AkimboKinky BootsThe King & IKing Charles IIILa BetrLa Cage Aux Folles (Hodge)Leap of FaithLend Me A TenorA Life in the TheatreThe Light in the PiazzaLion KingThe Little Dog LaughedA Little Night MusicLittle Shop of Horrors (Broadway)Little Shop of Horrors (Off Broadway)LoopedLove Letters Mamma MiaManilow on BroadwayMaybe Happy EndingMary PoppinsMatildaMean GirlsMemphis The Miracle WorkerA Moon for the MisbegottenMoulin RougeMovin' OutMrs Warren's ProfessionThe Mystery of Edwin DroodThe NapNext FallNext to NormalThe Normal HeartNovemberThe Odd CoupleOh, MaryOn the TownOnce On This IslandOperation MincemeatOrphansThe OutsidersPhantom of the OperaPippinPirates of Penzanxe (City Center)Present LaughterPriscilla Queen of the DesertThe ProducersRadio City Christmas SpectacularRelatively Speaking RentRock of AgesRockySchool of RockThe Scottsboro BoysShatner's WorldShrekSister ActSixSix Degrees of SeparationSlave PlaySomething RottenSondheim on SondheimSouth PacificSpamalot (Tim Curry)Speed the PlowSpider-man: Turn Off the DarkSpring Awakening (Deaf West)Sunday in the Park WithSunset Boulevard (Close)Sunset Boulevard Superior DonutsSwan Lake (City Center)Sweet CharitySylviaThat Championship SeasonTime Stands StillTootsieThe Boys (Met Opera)The UnderstudyUrinetownUrinetown (City Center 2025)Vanya and Sonia and Masha and SpikeA View from the Bridge (Van Hove)The VisitWaiting for Godot (Nathan Lane)WaitressWarhorse Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Letts)The Wedding SingerWest Side Story (Jeremy Jordan)WickedWishful DrinkingWonderland Xanadu Young FrankensteinOff Broadway:All in the TimingAltar Boyz Angels in America Around the World in 80 DaysThe Bald Soprano & The LessonBig BillBloody Bloody Andrew JacksonBob & Carol & Ted & Alice The Break of NoonCockConfessions of a Mormon BoyCookin'The Cripple of InishmaanCurvy WidowDie Mommie DieDisaster!DisenchantedThe Divine SisterEmojilandEvil Dead: The MusicalFatal Attraction: A Greek TragedyForbidden Broadway: Special Victims UnitThe ForeignerGroundedHeathersI Love You, You're Perfect, Now ChangeThe KidLittle Miss SunshineLittle Shop of HorrorsLives of the SaintsLucky GuyThe Merchant of Venice (Abraham)A Midsummer Night's DreamMurder for TwoThe Musical of Musicals: The MusicalThe Mystery of Irma VepNaked Boys SingingThe Normal HeartOld HatsPuppet Titus AndronicusRated P for ParenthoodRuthlessThe School for LiesScotland, PAToxic AvengerTribesThe Tribute ArtistThe Woodsman
Sold on eBay September 18th, 2023
Brent Carver "PARADE" Carolee Carmello / Jason Robert Brown '98 Preview Playbill
eBay This is a rare November 1998 preview playbill from the Original Broadway production of the ALFRED UHRY and JASON ROBERT BROWN musical "PARADE" which played the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City. (The production played 39 previews beginning November 12th, 1998, officially opened December 17th, 1998 and closed February 28th, 1999 after only 85 performances.) ..... The musical dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank, who was accused and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen year-old employee, Mary Phagan. The trial, sensationalized by the media, aroused some antisemitic tensions in Atlanta, Georgia. When Frank's death sentence was commuted to life in prison by the departing Governor of Georgia, John M. Slaton due to his detailed review of over 10,000 pages of testimony and possible problems with the trial, Leo Frank was transferred to a prison in Milledgeville, Georgia, where a lynching party seized and kidnapped him. Frank was taken to Phagan's hometown of Marietta, Georgia, where he was hanged from an oak tree ..... The musical starred BRENT CARVER as "Leo Frank" and CAROLEE CARMELLO as "Lucille Frank" and featured J. B. ADAMS, RAY ARANHA, RUFUS BONDS, Jr., DON CHASTAIN, JEFF EDGERTON, JOHN HICKOK, HERNDON LACKEY, KIRK McDONALD, JESSICA MOLASKEY, EVAN PAPPAS, DON STEPHENSON, PETER SAMUEL, J. C. MONTGOMERY, CHRISTY CARLSON ROMANO and JOHN LESLIE WOLFE ..... Side Note: Both the author, ALFRED UHRY and the composer, JASON ROBERT BROWN were honored with Tony Awards for "Best Book of a Musical" and "Best Original Musical Score" respectively ..... CREDITS: Book by ALFRED UHRY; Music and Lyrics by JASON ROBERT BROWN ("Parade", "Songs for a New World", "The Last 5 Years", "Urban Cowboy", "13", "Honeymoon in Vegas", "The Bridges of Madison County"); Sets designed by RICCARDO HERNANDEZ; Costumes designed by JUDITH DOLAN; Choreography by PATRICIA BIRCH; Directed by HAROLD PRINCE; Produced by LINCOLN CENTER THEATER in association with LIVENT (U.S.) INC. ..... DETAILS: The 80 page playbill measures 5 3/8" X 8 5/8" inches and includes full production credits, cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers, individual bios and head shots of each of the actors, bios of each member of the creative team and several pages of historical text with related photos ..... BONUS: Includes a two-page article on the production with a full color photo of the two stars as well as one of the author, composer and director ..... CONDITION: With the exception of edge chipping in the lower margin of the cover and tiny tears at the staples, this rare playbill is in excellent condition and will make a wonderful addition to the collection of any musical theatre aficionado or historian. This item will be carefully packaged in a protective, carded sleeve and backed by stiff cardboard.
Sold on eBay July 21st, 2024
*EDWIN BOOTH & HELENA MODJESKA RARE 1890 MERCHANT OF VENICE PROGRAM*
A rare large original January 1890 program for Edwin Booth and Helena Modjeska in The Merchant of Venice. Dimensions six and a half by three and a half inches, trimmed from a larger program with complete cast list. Mounted to a twelve by nine and a half inch Victorian album page with two unrelated programs. Edgewear and small loss to backing otherwise good.See Edwin Booth, Helena Modjeska, and the Booth family's extraordinary biographies below.Shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Credit cards accepted with Paypal. Inquiries always welcome. Please visit my other eBay items for more early theatre and historical autographs, photographs and programs and great singer, actor, and actress cabinet photos and CDV's.From Wikipedia:The Booth family was an English American theatrical family of the 19th century. Its most famous and well known members were Edwin Booth, one of the leading actors of his day, and John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.The patriarch was Junius Brutus Booth, a London-born lawyer's son who eventually became an actor after he attended a production of Othello at the Covent Garden theatre. The prospects of fame, fortune, and freedom were very appealing to young Booth, and he displayed remarkable talent from an early age, deciding on a career in the theatre by the age of 17. He performed roles in several small theaters throughout England, and joined a tour of the Low Countries in 1814, returning the following year to make his London debut.Booth abandoned his wife and their young son in 1821 and ran off to the United States with Mary Ann Holmes, a London flower girl. They settled on some 150 acres in Harford County near Baltimore and started a family; they had 10 children, six of whom survived to adulthood [1][2]Junius Sr. and Edwin toured in California during the Gold Rush.[citation needed] Edwin bought an interest in the Winter Garden Theatre at 667 Broadway in New York City together with his brother-in-law John Sleeper Clarke. The brothers John Wilkes, Edwin, and Junius Brutus, Jr. performed there in the play Julius Caesar at a benefit in 1864, the only time they were seen together on a stage, playing Mark Antony, Brutus, and Cassius, respectively Junius Brutus Booth (1796–1852) brought his mistress Mary Ann Holmes, who bore him 10 children, to the United States.He also wrote many letters in fits of drunken anger and madness to President Andrew Jackson threatening assassination. He requested that two prisoners who had been sentenced to death for piracy, named De Ruiz and De Soto, be pardoned, else: "I will cut your throat whilst you are sleeping." This letter would later be recanted by Junius, stating, "May god preserve General Jackson and this happy republic [4]Junius Brutus Booth Jr. (1821–1883) was married to Agnes Booth. Junius Jr. never achieved the same fame as his brothers, but his third wife Agnes was popular.Their son Sydney Barton Booth (1877–1937) was an actor well into the era of modern film [5]Edwin Thomas Booth (1833–1893) came to be the foremost American Shakespearean actor of his day. He founded The Players, a New York City actors' club which continues to the present day.Edwin's grandson Edwin Booth Grossman was a painter of some note.Asia Frigga Booth (1835–1888) married John Sleeper Clarke, an actor/comedian who was briefly imprisoned in the aftermath of the assassination. They then emigrated to Britain, where he became a successful theatre manager.Creston Clarke[6] and Wilfred Clarke,[7] sons of John and Asia, were noted actors in their day.John Wilkes Booth (1838–1865) was a popular young star in less serious fare than his brothers.A Confederate sympathizer during the American Civil War, during a play attended by Abraham Lincoln, Booth took advantage of his access to the theatre to invade the President's box and assassinate the President. He was killed 12 days later by Union soldier Boston CorbettEdwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 – June 7, 1893) was an American actor who toured throughout the United States and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays. In 1869, he founded Booth's Theatre in New York.[2] Some theatrical historians consider him the greatest American actor, and the greatest Prince Hamlet, of the 19th century.[3] His achievements are often overshadowed by his relationship with his younger brother, actor John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.Booth was born in Bel Air, Maryland, into the Anglo-American theatrical Booth family. He was the son of the famous actor, Junius Brutus Booth, an Englishman, who named Edwin after Edwin Forrest and Thomas Flynn, two of Junius' colleagues. He was the elder brother of John Wilkes Booth, himself a successful actor who gained notoriety as the assassin of President Lincoln.Nora Titone, in her book My Thoughts Be Bloody, recounts how the shame and ambition of Junius Brutus Booth's three actor sons, Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. (who never achieved the stage stardom of his two younger actor brothers), Edwin Booth, and John Wilkes Booth, spurred them to strive, as rivals, for achievement and acclaim—Edwin a Unionist, and John Wilkes, a Confederate and the assassin of Abraham Lincoln [4]CareerIn early appearances, Booth usually performed alongside his father, making his stage debut as Tressel or Tressil in Colley Cibber's version of Richard III in Boston on September 10, 1849. His first appearance in New York City was in the character of Wilford in The Iron Chest, which he played at the National Theatre in Chatham Street, on the 27th of September 1850. A year later, on the illness of the father, the son took his place in the character of Richard III.[5]After his father's death in 1852, Booth went on a worldwide tour, visiting Australia and Hawaii, and finally gaining acclaim of his own during an engagement in Sacramento, California, in 1856.[6]Before his brother assassinated Lincoln, Edwin had appeared with his two brothers, John Wilkes and Junius Brutus Booth Jr., in Julius Caesar in 1864.[7] John Wilkes played Marc Antony, Edwin played Brutus, and Junius played Cassius.[8] It was a benefit performance, and the only time that the three brothers appeared together on the same stage.[9] The funds were used to erect a statue of William Shakespeare that still stands in Central Park just south of the Promenade. Immediately afterwards, Edwin Booth began a production of Hamlet on the same stage, which came to be known as the "hundred nights Hamlet", setting a record that lasted until John Barrymore broke the record in 1922, playing the title character for 101 performances From 1863 to 1867, Booth managed the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, mostly staging Shakespearean tragedies. In 1863, he bought the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia [10]After John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Lincoln in April 1865, the infamy associated with the Booth name forced Edwin Booth to abandon the stage for many months. Edwin, who had been feuding with John Wilkes before the assassination, disowned him afterward, refusing to have John's name spoken in his house.[11] He made his return to the stage at the Winter Garden Theatre in January 1866, playing the title role in Hamlet,[6] which would eventually become his signature role.Acting styleEdwin's acting style was distinctly different from that of his father. While the senior Booth was, like his contemporaries Edmund Kean and William Charles Macready, strong and bombastic, favoring characters such as Richard III, Edwin played more naturalistically with a quiet, more thoughtful delivery, tailored to roles like Hamlet.Later lifeBooth was married to Mary Devlin from 1860 to 1863, the year of her death. They had one daughter, Edwina, born on December 9, 1861, in London. He later remarried, wedding his acting partner Mary McVicker in 1869, and became a widower again in 1881.Edwin Booth with daughter Edwina, circa 1864Portrait of Edwin Booth by John Singer Sargent, 1890, which hung at The Players clubhouse. Now in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.In 1869, Edwin acquired his brother John's body after repeatedly writing to President Andrew Johnson pleading for it. Johnson finally released the remains, and Edwin had them buried, unmarked, in the family plot at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore.In 1888, Booth founded The Players, a private club for performing, literary, and visual artists and their supporters, and dedicated his home on Gramercy Park to it.His final performance was, fittingly, in his signature role of Hamlet, in 1891 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.Robert Lincoln rescueEdwin Booth saved Abraham Lincoln's son,[12] Robert, from serious injury or even death. The incident occurred on a train platform in Jersey City, New Jersey. The exact date of the incident is uncertain, but it is believed to have taken place in late 1864 or early 1865. Robert Lincoln recalled the incident in a 1909 letter to Richard Watson Gilder, editor of The Century Magazine.The incident occurred while a group of passengers were late at night purchasing their sleeping car places from the conductor who stood on the station platform at the entrance of the car. The platform was about the height of the car floor, and there was of course a narrow space between the platform and the car body. There was some crowding, and I happened to be pressed by it against the car body while waiting my turn. In this situation the train began to move, and by the motion I was twisted off my feet, and had dropped somewhat, with feet downward, into the open space, and was personally helpless, when my coat collar was vigorously seized and I was quickly pulled up and out to a secure footing on the platform. Upon turning to thank my rescuer I saw it was Edwin Booth, whose face was of course well known to me, and I expressed my gratitude to him, and in doing so, called him by name.Booth did not know the identity of the man whose life he had saved until some months later, when he received a letter from a friend, Colonel Adam Badeau, who was an officer on the staff of General Ulysses S. Grant. Badeau had heard the story from Robert Lincoln, who had since joined the Union Army and was also serving on Grant's staff. In the letter, Badeau gave his compliments to Booth for the heroic deed. The fact that he had saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son was said to have been of some comfort to Edwin Booth following his brother's assassination of the president Statue of Booth as Hamlet, Gramercy Park by Edmond T. Quinn, circa 1916Booth's TheatreBooth's Theatre Playbill of his Richard III circa 1872In 1867, a fire damaged the Winter Garden Theatre, resulting in the building's subsequent demolition. Afterwards, Booth built his own theatre, an elaborate structure called Booth's Theatre in Manhattan, which opened on February 3, 1869, with a production of Romeo and Juliet starring Booth as Romeo, and Mary McVicker as Juliet. Elaborate productions followed, but the theatre never became a profitable or even stable financial venture. The panic of 1873 caused the final bankruptcy of Booth's Theatre in 1874. After the bankruptcy, Booth went on another worldwide tour, eventually regaining his fortune DeathEdwin Booth had a small stroke in 1891, which precipitated his decline. He suffered another stroke in April 1893 and died June 7, 1893, in his apartment in The Players clubhouse. He was buried next to his first wife at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His bedroom in the club has been kept untouched since his death.[13] The New York Times reported his death [14]Exhumation requestIn December 2010, descendants of Edwin Booth reported that they obtained permission to exhume the Shakespearean actor's body to obtain DNA samples to compare with a sample of his brother John's DNA to refute the rumor he had escaped after the assassination. However, Bree Harvey, a spokesperson from the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Edwin Booth is buried, denied reports that the family had contacted them and requested to exhume Edwin's body.[15] The family hopes to obtain DNA samples from artifacts belonging to John Wilkes, or from remains such as vertebrae stored at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Maryland [16][17] On March 30, 2013, museum spokesperson Carol Johnson announced that the family's request to extract DNA from the vertebrae had been rejected [18]DramatizationsA number of modern dramatizations have been made of Edwin Booth's life, on both stage and screen. One of the best known is the 1955 film Prince of Players written by Moss Hart, based loosely on the popular book of that name by Eleanor Ruggles. It was directed by Philip Dunne and stars Richard Burton and Raymond Massey as Edwin and Junius Brutus Booth, Sr., with Charles Bickford and Eva Le Gallienne, the latter of whom plays Gertrude to Burton's Hamlet. The film depicts events in Booth's life well before, and then surrounding, the assassination of Lincoln by Booth's younger brother.[19]The opening scenes of Prince of Players are very similar to scenes in the earlier 1946 John Ford western My Darling Clementine. In that movie, the character of Granville Thorndyke (as acted by Alan Mowbray) is an obvious nod to Booth's father Junius, and the scenes portray essentially the same sequence where the great actor has to be retrieved from a bar and dragged back to the theatre where he is overdue to give a performance in front of a restless audience [20][21]The Brothers BOOTH!, by W. Stuart McDowell, which focuses on the relationships of the three Booth brothers leading up to the assassination of Lincoln, was workshopped and given a series of staged readings featuring David Strathairn, David Dukes, Angela Goethals, Maryann Plunkett, and Stephen Lang at the New Harmony Project,[22] and at The Guthrie Theatre Lab in Minneapolis, and later presented in New York at the Players' Club, the Second Stage Theatre, and the Boston Athenaeum. It was given its first fully staged professional production at the Bristol Riverside Theatre outside Philadelphia in 1992 [23][24][25] A second play by the same name, The Brothers Booth, which focuses on "the world of the 1860s theatre and its leading family"[26] was written by Marshell Bradley and staged in New York at the Perry Street Theatre in 2004.Oliver Ingraham Lay: Edwin Booth as Hamlet, 1887Austin Pendleton's play, Booth, which depicts the early years of the brothers Edwin, Junius, and John Wilkes Booth and their father, was produced off Broadway at the York Theatre, starring Frank Langella as Junius Brutus Booth, Sr. In a review, the play was called "a psychodrama about the legendary theatrical family of the 19th century" by The New York Times.[27] Pendleton had adapted this version from his earlier work, Booth Is Back, produced at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, in the 1991-1992 season.The Tragedian, by playwright and actor Rodney Lee Rogers, is a one-man show about Booth that was produced by PURE Theatre of Charleston, South Carolina, in 2007. It was revived for inclusion in the Piccolo Spoleto Arts Festival in May and June 2008.[28]A play by Luigi Creatore called Error of the Moon played off-Broadway on Theatre Row in New York City from August 13 to October 10, 2010. The play is a fictionalized account of Booth's life, hinging on the personal, professional, and political tensions between brothers Edwin and John Wilkes, leading up to the assassination of Lincoln.[29]In 1959, the actor Robert McQueeney played Booth in the episode "The Man Who Loved Lincoln" on the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series, Colt .45, starring Wayde Preston as the fictitious undercover agent Christopher Colt, who in the story line is assigned to protect Booth from a death threat.[30]In 1960, the anthology series television series Death Valley Days broadcast "His Brother's Keeper", in which Booth visits a small town after the Lincoln assassination, with one of the town's influential citizens trying to have him run out of town.In 1966, Martin Landau played Edwin Booth in the episode "This Stage of Fools" of the NBC western television series, Branded, starring Chuck Connors as Jason McCord. In the story line, McCord takes a job as the bodyguard to the actor Edwin Booth, brother of the presidential assassin, John Wilkes Booth [31][32]In 2013, Will Forte played Edwin Booth in the "Washington, D.C." episode of the Comedy Central's series, Drunk History, created by Derek Waters.In 2014, Edwin Booth was played by Gordon Tanner in The Pinkertons episode, "The Play's the Thing" (S1:E3). In the episode, both the "Hundred nights Hamlet" and Edwin's rescue of Robert Lincoln are mentioned LegacyGrave of Edwin BoothBooth left a considerable estate upon his death. He left charitable bequests that furthered the development of the acting profession and the treatment of mental illness. He left bequests of $5,000 each (almost $150,000 in 2021 dollars) to the Actor's' Fund, the Actors' Association of Friendship of the City of New York (Edwin Forrest Lodge), The Actors' Association of Friendship of the City of Philadelphia (Shakespeare Lodge), the Asylum Fund of New York and the Home for Incurables (West Farms, New York).[33] Other examples of his legacy include:The Players still exists in its original clubhouse at 16 Gramercy Park South in Manhattan.[34] A statue of Booth as Hamlet, by Edmond T. Quinn, has been the centerpiece of the private Gramercy Park since 1916. It can be seen by the public through the south gate of the park.Booth left a few recordings of his voice preserved on wax cylinder. One of them can be heard on the Naxos Records set Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings and Other Miscellany.[35] Another place to hear his preserved voice is on the site shown here [3:34][36] Booth's voice is barely audible with all the surface noise, but what can be deciphered reveals it to have been rich and deep.Memorials of Booth can still be found around Bel Air, Maryland. In front of the courthouse is a fountain dedicated to his memory. Inside the post office is a portrait of him. Also, his family's home, Tudor Hall, still stands and was bought in 2006 by Harford County, Maryland, to become a museum.A chamber in Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is called "Booth's Amphitheatre" – so called because Booth entertained visitors there.The Springer Opera House in Columbus, Georgia, is said to be haunted by the ghost of Edwin Booth Broadway s Booth Theatre was the first, and remains the oldest, Broadway theatre to be named in honor of an actor.Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins mentions Edwin in "The Ballad of Booth" with the lyrics: "Your brother made you jealous, John/You couldn't fill his shoes."Helena Modrzejewska (Polish pronunciation: born Jadwiga Benda, 12 October 1840 – 8 April 1909), known professionally as Helena Modjeska, was a renowned Polish actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles.Helena Modjeska was born in Kraków, Poland, on 12 October 1840.[1][2] Her name was recorded at birth as Jadwiga Benda, but she was later baptized Helena Opid, being given her godfather's surname [1]Modrzejewska as Barbara Radziwi??ówna 1865The question of her origins is a complicated one. Modjeska's mother was Józefa (Misel) Benda, the widow of a prosperous Kraków merchant, Szymon Benda.[3] In her autobiography, Modjeska claimed that her father was a musician named Michael Opid.[4] While it is true that the Benda family did employ a music teacher named Michal Opid, who later stood as Helena's godfather, Opid was not the father of Józefa Benda's two youngest children [3]There is evidence to suggest that Helena and her older brother Adolf were the results of an affair between Józefa and Prince W?adys?aw Sanguszko, a wealthy and influential Polish nobleman.[1][3] Helena also had a younger sister, Josephine, and several half-brothers from Józefa's first marriage. Helena and Josephine were primarily raised by their great-aunt Teresa.Also glossed over in Modjeska's autobiography were the details concerning her first marriage, to her former guardian, Gustave Sinnmayer (known in Poland as Gustaw Zimajer). Gustave was an actor and the director of a second-rate provincial theater troupe.[5] The date of Modjeska's marriage to Gustave is uncertain. She discovered many years later that they had never been legally married, as he was still married to his first wife when they wed.[6] Together the couple had two children, a son Rudolf (later renamed Ralph Modjeski), and a daughter Marylka, who died in infancy [7]Gustaw Zimajer used the stage name "Gustaw Modrzejewski [8] It was the feminine version of this name that Modjeska adopted when she made her stage debut in 1861 as Helena Modrzejewska [9] Later, when acting abroad, she used a simplified version of her name ("Modjeska"), which was easier for English speaking audiences to pronounce [10]Modrzejewska as Adam Kazanowski in The Court of Prince W?adys?aw, 1867In her early Polish acting career, Modrzejewska played at Bochnia, Nowy S?cz, Przemy?l, Rzeszów and Brze?any. In 1862 she appeared for the first time in Lwów, playing in her first Romantic drama, as "Skierka" in Juliusz S?owacki's Balladyna. From 1863 she appeared at Stanis?awów and Czerniowce, in plays by S?owacki.In 1865 Zimajer tried to get her a contract with Viennese theaters, but the plan came to naught due to her poor knowledge of the German language. Later that year Helena left Zimajer, taking their son Rudolf, and returning to Kraków.[11] Once there she accepted a four-year theatrical engagement. In 1868 she began appearing in Warsaw; during her eight years there, she consolidated her status as a theater star. Her half-brothers Józef and Feliks Benda were also well regarded actors in Poland.An incident illustrates the circumstances under which Polish society then labored. At one of Modrzejewska's Warsaw performances, seventeen secondary school pupils presented her with a bouquet of flowers tied with a ribbon in the red-and-white Polish national colors. The pupils were accused by the Russian Imperial authorities of conducting a patriotic demonstration. They were expelled from their school and banned from admission to any other school. One of the pupils, Ignacy Neufeld, subsequently shot himself; Modrzejewska attended his funeral [12]Ch?apowski[edit]On September 12, 1868, Modjeska married a Polish nobleman, Karol Bo?enta Ch?apowski [1][13] Best known in America as "Count Bozenta," he was not a count. His family belonged to the untitled landed gentry (ziemia?stwo). In the United States he adopted the stage name "Count Bozenta" as a ploy to gain publicity. "Bozenta" was easier for an English speaking audience to pronounce than Ch?apowski [14]At the time of their marriage, Ch?apowski was employed as the editor of a liberal nationalist newspaper, Kraj (The Country), which was owned by Adam Sapieha and a Mr. Sammelson.[15] Modjeska wrote that their home "became the center of the artistic and literary world [of Kraków]." Poets, authors, politicians, artists, composers and other actors frequented Modjeska's salon [15]Emigration[edit]Modrzejewska in Alexandre Dumas, fils', Camille, 1878In July 1876, after spending more than a decade as the reigning diva of the Polish national theater, for reasons both personal and political, Modjeska and her husband chose to emigrate to the United States.[16]My husband's only desire was to take me away from my surroundings and give me perfect rest from my work ... Our friends used to talk about the new country, the new life, new scenery, and the possibility of settling down somewhere in the land of freedom, away from the daily vexations to which each Pole was exposed in Russian or Prussian Poland. Henryk Sienkiewicz was the first to advocate emigration. Little by little others followed him, and soon five of them expressed the desire to seek adventures in the jungles of the virgin land. My husband, seeing the eagerness of the young men, conceived the idea of forming a colony in California on the model of the Brook Farm. The project was received with acclamation [17]Once in America, Modjeska and her husband purchased a ranch near Anaheim, California. Julian Sypniewski, ?ucjan Paprowski, and Henryk Sienkiewicz (winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1905), were among the friends who had accompanied them to California. It was during this period that Sienkiewicz wrote his Charcoal Sketches (Szkice w?glem). Originally the artists Stanis?aw Witkiewicz (father of Stanis?aw Ignacy Witkiewicz) and Adam Chmielowski (the future St. Albert) were also to have come with Modjeska's group, but they changed their plans.Modjeska intended to abandon her career and envisioned herself living "a life of toil under the blue skies of California, among the hills, riding on horseback with a gun over my shoulder."[17] The reality proved less cinematic. None of the colonists knew the first thing about ranching or farming, and they could barely speak English.[18] The utopian experiment failed, the colonists went their separate ways, and Modjeska returned to the stage, reprising the Shakespearean roles that she had performed in Poland.[1][19] Perhaps the best account of daily life on the ranch is Theodore Payne's memoir, Life on the Modjeska Ranch in the Gay Nineties American career[edit]Modjeska ca. 1879Helena Modrzejewska. Portrait by Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, 1880.On 20 August 1877 Modjeska debuted at the California Theatre in San Francisco in an English version of Ernest Legouvé's Adrienne Lecouvreur. She was seen by theatrical agent Harry J. Sargent who signed her for a tour on the east coast where she made her New York debut.[20][21] She then spent three years abroad (1879–82), mainly in London, attempting to improve her English, before returning to the stage in America.[22] In 1880, she visited the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall and on hearing that the parish church of Ruan Minor was in need of an organ she collaborated with Mr J Forbes Robertson to put on a performance. Romeo and Juliet was performed on a temporary stage in the vicarage garden and watched by many local people. A resident of Penzance and soon to be, member of parliament for the St Ives constituency, Charles Campbell Ross played the part of Friar Laurence [23]Despite her accent and imperfect command of English, she achieved great success.[24] During her career, she played nine Shakespearean heroines, Marguerite Gautier in Camille, and Schiller's Maria Stuart. In 1883, the year she obtained American citizenship, she produced Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House in Louisville, Kentucky, the first Ibsen play staged in the United States. In the 1880s and 1890s, she had a reputation as the leading female interpreter of Shakespeare on the American stage.[25]In 1893 Modjeska was invited to speak to a women's conference at the Chicago World's Fair, and described the situation of Polish women in the Russian and Prussian-ruled parts of dismembered Poland. This led to a tsarist ban on her traveling in Russian territory [26]Modjeska suffered a stroke and partially was paralyzed in 1897, but recovered and soon returned to the stage, continuing to perform for several additional years [27]During her last stay in Poland, from 31 October 1902 to 28 April 1903, she appeared on the stage in Lwów, Pozna?, and her native Kraków.On 2 May 1905, she gave a jubilee performance in New York City. Then she toured for two years and ended her acting career, afterward only appearing sporadically in support of charitable causes.Modjeska died at Newport Beach, California on 8 April 1909, aged 68, from Bright's disease.[28] Her remains were sent to Kraków to be buried in the family plot at the Rakowicki Cemetery.Her autobiography Memories and Impressions of Helena Modjeska was published posthumously in 1910. A Polish translation ran the same year in the Kraków newspaper Czas (Time). The last Polish edition of the book appeared in 1957 Modrzejewska s son, Rudolf Modrzejewski (Ralph Modjeski), was a civil engineer who gained fame as a designer of bridges.
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A rare original February 1876 Booth's Theatre broadside for Julius Caesar, featuring Lawrence Barrett and E. L. Davenport. Barrett was among 19th century America's greatest actors, famed for his Shakespearean roles, for his partnership with Edwin Booth in the late 1880s and early 1890s, and for his close friendship and correspondence with George Armstrong Custer. Dimensions eleven and a half by four and a half inches. Laid down to backing with small tear otherwise good. Shipping discounts for buyers of multiple items. Credit cards accepted with Paypal. Inquiries always welcome. Please visit my other eBay items for more early theatre and historical autographs, broadsides, photographs and programs and great actor and actress cabinet photos and CDV's. From Wikipedia:Booth s Theatre was a theatre in New York built by actor Edwin Booth. Located on the southeast corner of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue, Booth's Theatre opened on February 3, 1869.The theatre featured a grand vestibule with Italian marble floors and a large statue of Edwin Booth's father, the Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth, by the sculptor Thomas Ridgeway Gould. The auditorium was similarly elaborate in its decor, and featured a large chandelier, as well as a stage that incorporated the most modern machinery in use at the time, such as hydraulic rams to raise and lower scenery, and stage lights that could be completely extinguished during the performance, a first in the United States.Despite the appearances by important talent of the times, Booth could not make the theatre a financially viable enterprise. It was sold in December 1881, and was converted into McCreery & Co. department store until 1965, when it was demolished to make room for a parking lot.HistoryIn 1869, Edwin Booth, then one of the world's most distinguished stage tragedians and arguably America's greatest Prince Hamlet, opened his theatre, Booth's Theatre, in Manhattan on the southeast corner of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue.Central to the identity of Booth's theatre was the stage background of Edwin Booth, who belonged to the Booth family dynasty, which ruled the American stage in the 19th century. It was actually touring with his father, Junius Brutus Booth, that gave Edwin his first break, first appearing as Tressel in Richard II in Boston in 1849.[1] After his father's death in 1852 Booth toured internationally visiting Australia and Hawaii and briefly settling in California before returning to the east coast. Edwin is perhaps best known for his "hundred nights of Hamlet" in which he played Hamlet for 101 consecutive performances, a record held until 1922.[2] Booth is also known for his relationship with his infamous brother, John Wilkes, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. After the tragedy, Edwin publicly disowned his brother [3]Booth had been drawn to the idea of erecting his own theatre, particularly after he purchased the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. Plans overtook Booth when a tragic fire of 1867 consumed The Winter Garden Theatre—Booth s usual performing home in New York—-and with it much of Booth's personal wardrobe. The new theatre was to be one of the finest of its time, called in the press "A fitting temple for the presentation of Shakespearean drama [4]Booth s Theatre remained Booth's new performing home for several years, during which time Booth and his elder brother Junius Brutus Booth Jr., presented productions of the classics and hosted guest artists, such as Joseph Jefferson in his popular Rip Van Winkle. Finally, due in part to bad management, Booth lost the theatre to bankruptcy in 1874, and "never again participated in theatrical management."[5] In 1883 the theatre was converted into a department store, which was demolished in 1965. Presently [when ] the land is occupied by a Best Buy electronics store ConstructionOn April 8, 1868, after the removal of several old structures and blasting out an unexpected "stone ledge" at the corner of Twenty Third and Sixth Avenue, Edwin Booth, after "Masonic observances", laid the cornerstone for his new theatre.[6] Designed by the architectural firm of Renwick and Sands[7] the theatre was made of granite in the Second Empire style, with an impressive front, iron-trimmed facing north on Twenty Third Street of one hundred and fifty feet in length.[8] An additional wing extending to Sixth Avenue to the west, housed construction shops, studios and additional rooms—one of which was reserved for Edwin Booth. North to south, the theatre was one hundred feet, and stood at a height of one hundred and twenty feet, topped with a mansard roof, including three towers. Under the side walk along Twenty Third Street was the carpenter's shop, as well as a boiler-room with a steam engine used to heat the theatre through extensive hot-air pipes. The entire theatre was heated and cooled with forced air.Several arched doors led to a grand vestibule, where a large statue of Edwin Booth's father, the great Shakespearean actor, Junius Brutus Booth, by the sculptor Thomas Ridgeway Gould, greeted the audience. The floor was Italian marble, the ceiling was covered with frescoes.[9] In the theatre, a large chandelier, lit by gas-jets and ignited by electricity, hung above the auditorium. Marble pillars, adorned with statues, surrounded the box seats. In the center, above the proscenium arch stood a statue of Shakespeare by the Italian sculptor Signor G. Turini. Portrait busts of David Garrick, Edmund Kean and other great actors adorned the proscenium arch.[10]The stage itself was equipped with the most modern stage machinery then in use. The deck of the stage had double-floors. Two spiral staircases at the rear corners of the stage led to four fly galleries. Scenery was raised and lowered by hydraulic rams under the stage.[11]These were but some of the innovations in the theatre that made the theatre an architectural marvel in New York. Others included one of New York's first sprinkler systems for fire prevention, and, backstage, sets of hydraulic rams were used to raise moving bridges and platforms to change scenery.In addition, stage lights—for the first time in America—could be completely extinguished both in the auditorium and on the stage during the performance through the use of an electric spark ignition system. This allowed crews to plunge the entire theatre—both stage and complete darkness during a performance of Booth's Hamlet [12]Booth s Theatre, modeled after the finest theatres of Europe, and using American inventiveness, was a marvel of technology and a palace of theatrical pleasure Opening nightBooth chose to open his new theatre with a sumptuous production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, starring leading actress Mary F. McVicker as Juliet and Booth as Romeo, supported by a "full and efficient company" of actors. The program also noted that "The tragedy will be produced in strict accordance with historical propriety, in every respect, following closely the text of Shakespeare [13]Opening night was called "a great event in theatrical circles" by the New York Times.[4] Seats for the opening performance were sold at public auction for a total of $10,000.The popular run of Romeo and Juliet lasted ten weeks, earning nearly sixty thousand dollars, then considered an exceptional triumph. Two years before Booth had played Hamlet to McVicker's Ophelia at the famous McVicker's Theatre in Chicago, leading to his invitation for her to play opposite Booth in New York. McVicker's performance at Booth's Theatre marked her New York stage debut. That same season she played Desdemona to Booth's Othello at Booth's Theatre, and, on May 29, 1869, made her farewell performance in that role. A little over a week later, Booth married McVicker, and then returned to acting at his theatre.[14]For five years—called "five brilliant but disastrous seasons" in the New York Booth struggled to make his theatre a profitable enterprise, but it was not to be. Despite his performing on the stage, and booking some of the leading talent at Booth's Theatre, such as his friend Joseph Jefferson, it was not possible to pay the bills. As William Winter, Booth's friend and eventual biographer wrote:"Booth was a dreamer; and in every part of his life as it was known to me during an intimacy extending over a period of about thirty years, I saw the operation of Hamlet's propensity to view all things as transitory and immaterial, and to let everything drift. He was happier as an actor than as a manager [15]Try as he might, Booth could not make his theatre into a viable business enterprise. Once again he turned to touring with his successful productions of Hamlet, Othello, and Richelieu, to raise funds he sent back to New York, but nothing could produce enough money to keep the doors of Booth's Theatre open.[16] He relied on the advice and "experience of others" to run the theatre, but it was not in his nature. The press, in writing of Booth's departure from managing his own theatre, suggested that "it is true that the frames have sometimes outshone the pictures," meaning that the spectacle of lavish sets and costumes at times upstaged the performances of the actors in Booth's productions, especially, apparently, the performances of the women.[17] Even when shows were financial successes, such as the revival of the popular The Little Detective and the hit drama Little Nell and the Marchioness both starring the renowned Charlotte Crabtree in 1871, the theatre was still in debt. Finally, in 1874, only five years after the triumphant opening Romeo and Juliet, Booth lost the theatre to bankruptcy, and "never again participated in theatrical management [18]ClosingAfter being sold by Booth, the theatre was owned by several different managers, including the theatrical impresarios Augustin Daly and Dion Boucicault Despite the appearances by important talent of the times, such as Dion Boucicault Jr., who made his stage début in his father's play, Louis XI, Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle, Polish born actress Helena Modjeska as Juliet, and the French-born "devine Sarah" – Sarah Bernhardt – who appeared in her acclaimed production of Adrienne Lecouveur in 1881, and despite successful runs of comedies, such as Bronson Howard's smash hit Love in the Green Room, and spectacular productions featuring lavish historical recreations such as Shakespeare's Henry V (see photo, left), the theatre could not sustain itself.[19] In 1882 Oedipus Rex was performed there to a sold-out audience which included Oscar Wilde, Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, his mistress Marion O'Shea Fortescue, the mother of Granville Roland Fortescue, and composer Joaquin Miller, but even such well regarded operas and elegant audiences couldn't revive the theater.Booth's Theatre ended as it began, with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The last performance at Booth's Theatre was played by the famed actress Helena Modjeska, portraying the role of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet in 1883. The production was given as a benefit performance (as was common in the era), for Andrew Boyd, beloved janitor of the building – a fitting farewell, perhaps, to one of New York's great theatres. After the production closed, the building was turned into a large department store.[20]On December 31, 1881, a headline in the New York Times read:BOOTH'S THEATRE SOLDTHE PLAY HOUSE TO BE MADE A DRY GOODS STOREBooth's Theatre was sold yesterday for $550,000, less than half its original cost. The building will be devoted by its new owners to business purposes, and it is probable that as early as next May the work of altering it will be begun, although it may be continued as a theatre for another year. It is rather a singular coincidence that one of the gentlemen interested in the present purchase of the property should be a gentlemen who sold the original site to Mr. Booth when he conceived of the idea of erecting a theatre that should be a fitting temple for the presentation of Shakespearean drama.[4]The building lived on as the McCreery & Co. department store, and was finally demolished in 1965 to make room for a parking lot.In December 1878, Booth wrote an open letter in The Christian Union, in which he observed:If the management of theatres could be denied to speculators, and placed in the hands of actors who value their reputation and respect their calling, the stage would at least afford healthy recreation, if not, indeed, a wholesome stimulus to the exercise of noble sentiments. But while the theatre is permitted to be a mere shop for gain,—pen to every huckster of immoral gim cracks —there is no other way to discriminate between the pure and base than through the experience of others.Yours truly,Edwin Booth,December, 1878.Lawrence Barrett (April 4, 1838 - March 20, 1891) was an American stage actor. He was born Lawrence Brannigan to Irish emigrant parents in Paterson, New Jersey. He made his first stage appearance at Detroit as Murad in The French Spy in 1853. In December 1856 he made his first New York appearance at the Chambers Street theatre as "Sir Thomas Clifford" in The Hunchback. Biography In 1858 he was in the repertory company at the Boston Museum. He served in the American Civil War as captain in Company B of the 28th Massachusetts Infantry regiment. However, he did not see action in any major battles. From 1867 to 1870, with John McCullough, he managed the California theatre, San Francisco. Among his many and varied parts may be mentioned Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Shylock, Richard III, Wolsey, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Richelieu, David Garrick, Hernani, Alfred Evelyn, Lanciotto in George Henry Bokers (1823 -1890) Francesca da Rimini, and Janies Harebell in The Man o' Airlie. He playedÃÆ €™Ãƒ à €š ¬Ã… ¡ÃƒÆ’à ‚¬Å¡Ãƒ €šÃ‚ Othello to Edwin Booth's Iago and Cassius to his Brutus. He acted in London in 1867, 1882, 1883 and 1884, his "Cardinal Richelieu" portrayal in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's drama being considered his best part. In 1889, he produced the first performance of The Duchess of Padua, retitling it Guido Ferranti and taking on the title role.
Sold on eBay September 19th, 2024
New ListingVintage Playbill - Lot of 100 Programs, Promos, Hits and Flops - See Full List
100 pieces of broadway memorabilia. Mostly Playbill programs with some others scattered throughout. All in good shape with some better than others. Some have very mild torn pages to some rougher pages. See full list for show titles and dates: Show Date A Chorus Line - Previews August 1975 A Christmas Carol 1998 A Christmas Carol 1998 A Doll’s House March 1975 A Little Night Music May 1973 A Little Night Music June 1973 A Little Night Music July 1973 A Little Night Music September 1973 A Little Night Music January 1974 An Evening with Jerry Herman July 1998 Angel Street December 1975 Ballroom December 1978 Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel May 1977 Bent January 1980 Bent January 1980 Bent January 1980 Bring Back Birdie March 1981 Camille 1974 Candide August 1975 Chemin de Fer November 1973 Chicago May 1977 Cyrano May 1973 Cyrano June 1973 Dancin’ April 1978 Disney Summer Magic Radio City Programs Lot of 2 1985 Equus November 1974 Follies November 1971 Follies March 2001 Follies (Equity Library Theatre) 1976 Grand Hotel - Previews October 1989 Grand Hotel - Previews October 1989 Gypsy - Angela Lansbury November 1974 Happy End June 1977 I Remember Mama June 1979 Into The Woods Promo Postcard Giant’s Leg 4x6" 1980 Irene April 1973 Jerome Robbins Broadway March 1989 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat April 1983 Lily Dale December 1986 Love Song 1976 M. Butterfly June 1988 Mack & Mabel October 1974 Mame July 1969 Man of La Mancha October 1977 Martin Guerre Program 10 Jul 96 Midwood Field Concert Bandshell Summer 1985 Mourning Becomes Electra November 1972 Neil Diamond October 1972 Nightclub Cantata 1977 On the Twentieth Century April 1978 Pacific Overtures February 1976 Pacific Overtures June 1976 Pacific Overtures - First Preview December 1975 Peg December 1983 Peg December 1983 Pippin November 1973 Pippin November 1973 Radio City Music Hall December 21, 1961 Radio City Music Hall Easter March 1976 Ragtime - Opening Month January 1998 Roza October 1987 Roza October 1987 Roza October 1987 Roza October 1987 Ruthless! June 1992 Sarava January 1979 Sarava February 1979 Say Goodnight Gracie January 1980 Seesaw May 1973 Seesaw August 1973 Sly Fox December 1976 Sly Fox June 1977 Smith - Opening Night May 19th 1973 The Big Love Opening Night March 3, 1991 The Big Love Opening Night - with Ticket Stub March 3, 1991 The Bridges of Madison County - Opening Month February 2014 The Broken Pitcher October 1981 The Diana Ross Show 1975 The Fantasticks 1978 The Good Times are Killing Me July 1991 The Great God Brown December 1972 The King and I January 1978 The Leaf People October 1975 The Little Foxes June 1981 The Little Foxes July 1981 The Odd Couple - Opening Night June 11, 1985 The Pajama Game - Opening Month December 1973 The Real Live Brady Bunch Game Show October 1991 The Real Live Brady Bunch Game Show November 1991 The Red Mill 1946 The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe & 2 Ticket Stubs September 19, 1985 The Wiz - Previews December 1974 Threepenny Opera April 1976 Threepenny Opera November 1976 Threepenny Opera November 1989 Threepenny Opera November 1989 Uncle Vanya July 1973 Words and Music May 1974 Working June 1978 Yentl The Yeshiva Boy Chelsea Theatre, Brooklyn Program - Original Cast 1974 Shipping is calculated by weight, speed preference and buyer destination Ships in 1-2 business days after payment is received, generally the next business day.Check out our other listings for tons of video games and memorabilia Payment is due at time of purchase. If you need extra time to pay for items, please ask prior to committing to buy and we will be happy to accommodate reasonable requests INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost. These charges are the buyer's responsibility and cannot be refunded in the case of returns.Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding or buying
Sold on eBay October 9th, 2024
Bridges Of Madison County Broadway Collectors Cushion and Opening Night Frame
These are one-of-a-kind collectibles for theater enthusiasts! A true gem for fans of the beloved Broadway musical “The Bridges of Madison County” by Jason Robert Brown. Ideal for collectors of entertainment memorabilia, especially those interested in theater history. It is a great conversation starter and a unique piece of decor for any home. Don't miss out on the opportunity to own this rare item!
Sold on eBay Mar 13, 2021
PLAYBILL- How to Succeed starring Darren Criss, Beau Bridges, Tammy Blanchard
PLAYBILL- How to Succeed starring Darren Criss, Beau Bridges, Tammy Blanchard. This is in excellent condition. Shipped with USPS First Class.
Sold on eBay Jan 12, 2021
PLAYBILL: "How to Succeed" starring Darren Criss, Beau Bridges, Tammy Blanchard
Tammy Blanchard. RARE to find this Playbill because Darren was only in the show for THREE WEEKS in between Daniel Radcliffe and Nick Jonas. Darren Criss. Beau Bridges. January, 2012. Christopher J Hanke.
Sold on eBay June 27th, 2024