Theatre Program collection, 1868-1989 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Theatre Program collection, 1868-1989

Predominant Dates:1893-1985

ID: 02/Theater Programs

Primary Creator: Theatre Department

Extent: 28.5 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: Arrangement is by location, then name of theatre and date. Souvenir programs in Series 3 are arranged alphbetically bu production title.

Date Acquired: 00/00/2005

Subjects: Concerts--Illinois--Chicago, Concerts--New York (N.Y.), Theater, Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources, Theater -- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Sources, Theater -- United States -- History -- Pictorial works, Theater -- United States -- History -- Sources, Theaters

Forms of Material: Advertising fliers, Broadsides, Concert programs, Playbills, Theater programs

Languages: English

Concerts--Illinois--Chicago
Concerts--New York (N.Y.)
Theater
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources
Theater -- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Sources
Theater -- United States -- History -- Pictorial works
Theater -- United States -- History -- Sources
Theaters

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Acquisition Source: Theatre Department

Acquisition Method: Transfer of materials from the Theatre Department to the University Library.

Related Materials: Alyene Westall Prehn Theatre Program Collection (#36). Theatrical Print Collection (#37). Theater Programs, (University Archives Record Series Number: 12/11/804).

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Box and Folder Listing

Series 3: Souvenir Programs

Box 37: Abbey Theatre Players - Duke Ellington

Folder 1: A - An, 1921, 1930-1931

The Abbey Theatre Players; Benefit Actor's Fund; Angel Street

Item 1: The Abbey Theatre Players

Item 2: Benefit Actors' Fund, 1921

Item 3: Benefit Actors' Fund, 1930

Item 4: Actors' Fund, 1931

50th Year Annual Benefit Jubilee Performance

Item 5: Angel Street

Laraine Day; Gregory Peck

Folder 2: ANTA Album (various theatres), 1950-1951, 1955

Item 1: Ziegfeld Theatre - January 29, 1950

(copy 1)

Item 2: Ziegfeld Theatre - January 29, 1950

(copy 2)

Item 3: Ziegfeld Theatre - May 6, 1951

(copy 1)

Item 4: Adelphi Theatre - March 28, 1955

Folder 3: Al - Am

Item 1: Alive and Kicking

David burns, Lenore Lonergan, Jack Cole and his Dancers

Item 2: The American Way

Fredric March

Item 3: Amphitryon 38

Alfred Lunt; Lynn Fontanne

Folder 4: Ba - Br

Item 1: Balieff's "Chauve Souris", 1925

Item 2: Balieff's "Chauve-Souris of Moscow"

Item 3: Blossom Time

(1 of 2)

Item 4: Blossom Time

(2 of 2)

Item 5: Brigadoon

Folder 5: Ca - Ch

Item 1: Call Me Madam

Elaine Stritch; Kent Smith

Item 2: Call Me Mister

Betty Kean; Carl Reiner; Alan Dreeben; Buddy Hackett

Item 3: Candle in the Wind

Helen Hayes; directed by Alfred Lunt

Item 4: Carmen Jones, 1945

Billy Rose production

Item 5: Cats

brochure printed in England

Folder 6: Cornell, Katharine

Item 1: Katharine Cornell - A Gallery of Stage Portraits

Saint Joan on the cover

Item 2: Katharine Cornell - Stage Portraits

Jennifer Dubedat in "The Doctor's Dilemma" on the cover

Item 3: Katharine Cornell - Stage Portraits

Linda in "No Time for Comedy" on the cover; (copy 1)

Item 4: Katharine Cornell - Stage Portraits

Linda in "No Time for Comedy"; (copy 2)

Folder 7: D - E

Item 1: A Tribute to Jan DeGaetani, 1992

Kathryn Bache Miller Theatre; performers include: Renee Fleming, William Sharp, Dawn Upshaw

Item 2: The Deputy

Rolf Hochhuth (author)

Item 3: Earl Carroll Theatre, New York, 1920

W.C. Fields; Ray Dooley; Joe Frisco; Dorothy Knapp.  Earl Carroll Vanities

Item 4: Earl Carroll Theatre, 1929

Leon Errol; Fanny Brice; Lionel Atwill in "Fioretta."

Item 5: Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra

Box 38: Friars Silver Jubilee Frolic - Lute Song

Folder 1: Friars - Granz, Norman

Item 1: Friars Silver Jubilee Frolic - November 24, 1929

Majestic Theatre (NYC);

Item 2: Le Gallienne Productions, circa 1933

Romeo and Juliet with Eva Gallienne and Richard Waring; Alice in Wonderland with Josephine Hutchinson

Item 3: George White's Scandals

"The Birth of the Blues"; "Tweet Tweet"; "The Black Bottom"

Item 4: Norman Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic, circa 1947

Bill Harris; Flip Phillips; Hank Jones; Ray Brown; Coleman Hawkins; Howard McGhee; Helen Humes

Folder 2: H

Item 1: Hamlet, 1946-1947

Maurice Evans, Doris Lloyd, Miles Malleson, Henry Edwards, Emmett Rogers, Pamela Conroy, Philip Foster

Item 2: Hamlet

"in its entirety;" directed by Margaret Webster; presented by Maurice Evans

Item 3: Harriet

Helen Hayes, Elia Kazan, Gilbert Miller

Item 4: Henry V (film)

Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Renee Asherson, Esmond Knight

Item 5: Hello, Dolly

Carol Channing, David Merrick, David Burns, Eileen Brennan, Charles Nelson Reilly, Gower Champion

Item 6: Hello, Dolly

Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Emily Yancy, David Merrick, Gower Champion

Item 7: Houdini

Item 8: Hot Mikado, 1939

Bill Robinson, Robert Parrish, Michael Todd; Hall of Music New York World's Fair

Folder 3: I

Item 1: I Married an Angel

Dennis King, Vera Zorina, Vivienne Segal, Walter Slezak, Audrey Christie, Charles Walters, George Balanchine, Dwight Deere Wiman

Item 2: Idiot's Delight

Theatre Guild; Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne

Item 3: Irene

Debbie Reynolds, Ruth Warrick, Monte Markham, Patsy Kelly, George S. Irving

Folder 4: J

Item 1: Jamaica

Lena Horne, Ricardo Montalban, Josephine Premice, Ossie Davis, David Merrick

Item 2: Jane Eyre

Katharine Hepburn; Theatre Guild of New York

Item 3: Julius Caesar, 1927

The Players Sixth Annual Classic Revival; New Amsterdam Theatre; Basil Rathbone, Tyrone Power

Folder 5: K

Item 1: The King and I

Patricia Morison, Leonard Graves, Terry Saunders, John van Druten, Jerome Robbins

Item 2: King Richard II

Maurice Evans; includes newspaper clippings

Item 3: Kiss the Boys Goodbye

Lucia Lull; directed by Antoinette Perry

Item 4: Knickerbocker Holiday, circa 1939

Walter Huston, Richard Kollmar, Mark Smith, Jeanne Madden, Ray Middleton; music by Kurt Weill; The Playwright's Company; playbill from Grand Opera House (Chicago) included

Folder 6: Lambs Farm Annual Public Gambol at the Metropolitan, 1929-31

Folder 7: Li - Lu

Item 1: Life with Father

Dorothy Gish, Louis Calhern; Oscar Serlin; Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse; Bretaigne Windust

Item 2: The Little Foxes

Tallulah Bankhead, Patricia Collinge, Frank Conroy, Dan Duryea, Charles Dingle, Carl Benton Reid

Item 3: The Little Minister, 1899

Maude Adams; J.M. Barrie

Item 4: Lost in the Stars

Todd Duncan, Guy Spaull, Julian Mayfield, Leon Bibb, Warren Colemanm Inez Matthews; Kurt Weill; The Playwright's Company

Item 5: Lute Song

Yul Brynner, James MacColl, Augustin Duncan, Marian Leeds, Dorothy Beattie, Dolly Haas, Louis Hector; John Houseman; Yeichi Nimura; Eugene Kusmiak

Box 39: Macbeth - Whoopee!

Folder 1: Ma - Med

Item 1: Macbeth

Maurice Evans, Judith Anderson; Lehman Engel; (copy 1)

Item 2: Macbeth, circa 1942

Maurice Evans, Judith Anderson; Lehman Engel; (copy 2); playbill from Erlanger Theatre (Chicago) included

Item 3: The Magic Show, circa 1970s

Kenley Players; Doug Henning; Robert Carello, Tudi Roach, Donna Lee Marshall, Betsey Cassell, Robin Wesley, Richard Sabellico, Duane Bodin, Richard Balestrino, Les Johnson, W.P. Dremak; Stephen Schwartz

Item 4: Make Mine Manhattan

Bert Lahr, David Burns, Jack Albertson, Jean Jones, Lou Wills, Jr, Mary Ann Niles, Bob Fosse, Earl William; Richard Lewine; Hassard Short

Item 5: Medea

Judith Anderson, Henry Brandon, Hilda Vaughn, Mary Servoss, Bruce Gordon, Frederic Worlock; Robinson Jeffers; (copy 1)

Item 6: Medea, circa 1949

Judith Anderson, Henry Brandon, Hilda Vaughn, Mary Servoss, Bruce Gordon, Frederic Worlock; Robinson Jeffers; (copy 2); includes playbill Shubert Theatre (Boston, 1949)

Item 7: The Medium and The Telephone

The Ballet Society; Chandler Cowles, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Edith Lutyens; Gian-Carlo Menotti; Marie Poers; photos by Richard Avedon

Folder 2: Mer - Mos

Item 1: The Merry Widow

(2 copies); Shubert Production; Rowland Leigh, Randolph Carter; Franz Lehar

Item 2: The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Theatre Guild Shakespeare Company; Charles Coburn, Jessie Royce Landis, Romney Brent, Gina Malo, David Powell, Charles Francis

Item 3: Milestones and The Little Father of the Wilderness, 1930

The Players Ninth Annual Revival; Empire Theatre (New York)

Item 4: Military Tournament, 1930

The Army Relief Society; Military Tournament for Army Relief (Governors Island, New York Harbor)

Item 5: The Most Happy Fella

Frank Loesser; Robert Weede, Richard Torigi, Jo Sullivan, Art Lund, Helon Blo Unt, Keith Kaldenberg, Mona Paulee, Arthur Rubin, Rico Froehlich, Ralph Farnworth, Ken Ayers, Lee Cass; Anton Coppola; includes playbill from Riviera and Shubert Theatres (Detroit, MI)

Folder 3: O

Item 1: O Mistress Mine

The Theatre Guild; Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Dick Van Patten, Ann Lee, Esther Mitchell, Eva Leonard-Boyne, Marie Paxton

Item 2: Oklahoma!

(2 copies); The Theatre Guild National Company; Agnes de Mille; Harry Stockwell, David Burns, Mary Marlo, Lou Polan, Evelyn, Pamela Britton, Walter Donahue, Sonia Wojcikowska, Dave Mallen

Item 3: Othello

Paul Robeson, Jose Ferrer, Uta Hagan, Edith King, Ralph Clanton, Francis Compton, Ronald Bishop, Don Keefer, Nan McFarland, Louis Lytton, Frederic Downs; Tom Bennett

Folder 4: P

Item 1: Anna Pavlova 1881 - 1931, 1956

Program marking 25th anniversary of the death of Pavlova

Item 2: The Pleasure of His Company and Forty Carats, 1972

Paper Mill Playhouse (NJ); Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Samuel Taylor, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Jen Nelson

Item 3: Porgy and Bess

Blevins Davis, Robert Breen; Alexander Smallens; Eva Jessye; Cab Calloway, LeVern Hutcherson, Leontyne Price, Urylee leonardos, Leslie Scott

Item 4: Porgy and Bess, 1964

Starlight Theatre (Swope Park, Kansas City); Cab Calloway, Andrew Frierson, Martha Flowers, Barbara Smith Conrad, Leonard Parker, Edward Pierson, Loretta Fowlkes, Helen Dowdy, Carol Brice, Joseph Attles; Ella Gerber

Folder 5: Romeo and Juliet

Item 1: Romeo and Juliet

Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Dame May Whitty

Folder 6: S

Item 1: Shenandoah

John Cullum, Donna Theodore, Penelope Milford, Joel Higgins, Ted Agress, Gordon Halliday; Philip Rose

Item 2: Show Boat

Jones Beach Marine Theatre; Guy Lombardo; Paul Hartman, Helena Bliss, David Atkinson, Hal Leroy, Gloria Hamilton, Marie Foster, William C. Smith, Helen Dowdy, Helen Raymond, Geoffrey Holder; Lee Sherman

Item 3: South Pacific, circa 1952

Martha Wright, George Britton, Myron McCormick, William Tabbert, Martin Wolfson, Juanita Hall, Irma Sandre, Albert Popwell, Musa Williams; Salvatore Dell'Isola; 2 ticket stubs from Majestic Theatre included with program

Item 4: South Pacific

Mary martin, Ezio Pinza, Myron McCormick, Juanita Hall, William Tabbert, Betta St. John, Martin Wolfson, Archie Savage; Salvatore Dell'Isola

Item 5: Springtime for Henry

Edward Everett Horton, Sally McMorrow, Gordon Richards, Barbara Brown, Marjorie Lord

Item 6: The Student Prince in Heidelberg

Sigmund Romberg; Watson Barratt

Item 7: Susan and God

Gertrude Lawrence, Paul McGrath, Natalie Schafer, Eleanor Audley, Douglas Gilmore, Edith Atwater, Nancy Coleman; John Golden

Folder 7: T

Item 1: The Teahouse of the August Moon

Larry Parks, Thomas Coley, Don Lochner, Reiko Sato, John Alexander, Tura Nakamura, Eileen Nakamura; Peter Larkin; Noel Taylor; Yuki Shimoda; Dai-Keong Lee; Billy Matthews

Item 2: Tobacco Road, circa 1934

Anthony Brown; James Barton

Item 3: Tovarich

Eugenie Leontovich, McKay Morris; Robert Sherwood; Jacques Deval

Item 4: Twelfth Night

Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans; Margaret Webster; The Theatre Guild; full cast listed

Item 5: Twelfth Night

Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans; Margaret Webster; The Theatre Guild

Item 6: The Two Mrs. Carrolls

Elisabeth Bergner, Joel Ashley

Folder 8: U - V

Item 1: Up in Central Park

Wilbur Evans, Russ Brown, Malcolm Lee Beggs, Betty Bruce, Maureen Cannon, Paul Reed, Earl MacVeigh, Lillias MacLellan, Walter Burke, Guy Standing, Jr., Gloria Folland

Item 2: Victoria Regina

Helen Hayes, Werner Bateman, Abraham Sofaer

Folder 9: W

Item 1: Watch on the Rhine

Lillian Hellman; Lucille Watson,Paul Lukas, Mady Christians; Herman Shumlin

Item 2: What Makes Sammy Run?

Steve Lawrence, Sally Ann Howes, Robert Alda, Bernice Massi, Barry Newman, Arny Freeman, Richard France, Stuart Unger, Diaan Ainslee, Mace Barrett, Ralph Stantley, Edward McNally, Walter Klavun; Abe Burrows

Item 3: Where's Charley?, circa 1948

Ray Bolger, Byron Palmer, Allyn Ann McLerie, Doretta Morrow, Horace Cooper, Jane Lawrence, Paul England; George Balanchine; Frank Loesser; ticket stub included from Forrest Theatre 1948

Item 4: Winged Victory

Presented by the "U.S. Army Air Forces;" directed by Moss Hart; (1 of 2 copies for same program but different program layouts; cover is predominantly blue)

Item 5: Winged Victory

Presented by the "U.S. Army Air Forces;" directed by Moss Hart; (1 of 2 copies for same program but different program layouts; cover is red, white and blue)

Item 6: Whoopee!

Charles Repole, Bob Allen, Beth Austin, Peter Boyden, Garrett M. Brown, Catherine Cox, Leonard Drum, Franc Luz, Vic Polizos, Bill Rowley, J. Kevin Scannell, Carol Swarbrick; Goodspeed Opera House