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The Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon Collection was acquired by the Library of Congress in 1992 through a gift made by Gwen Verdon. The Collection consists of production, project and performance materials, including scripts and set designs; business and personal papers and correspondence; songbooks, printed music scores and choreographic notes; photographs, posters and scrapbooks; and audiovisual materials. While the print materials are held by the Music Division, the Collection's audio-visual materials are housed in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS). Prior to the gift, and since the death of Bob Fosse in 1987, Gwen Verdon served as the custodian of the Collection. Certain restrictions as to the use or copying of the materials in this collection may apply. Consult a Reference Librarian in the Music Division for further information. Approximate number of items: 54,840
Biographical SketchBorn in Chicago, Illinois, in 1927, Bob Fosse is known as one of musical theater's greatest choreographers and directors. After appearing as a dancer in such films as "Give A Girl A Break" and "Kiss Me Kate", both 1953, Fosse established himself as a choreographer in his first two Broadway shows, "The Pajama Game" (1954) and "Damn Yankees" (1955). His choreography includes such other classics as "New Girl in Town" (1957), "Redhead" (1959), "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (1960), "Chicago" (1975), and "Dancin'" (1977). Films directed and choreographed by Fosse include "Sweet Charity" (1966), "Pippin" (1972), "Cabaret" (1973) and "All That Jazz" (1979), a semi-autobiographical effort. Fosse appeared in and choreographed the film "The Little Prince" (1974). He also directed the films "Lenny" (1974) and "Star 80" (1983). In 1986, he directed and choreographed Big Deal, a Broadway production which he also wrote.Fosse's work earned him many awards including a Tony for "Pippin", an Oscar for "Cabaret" and an Emmy for "Liza with a Z", all in the same year, making him the first person ever to win the "triple crown" of the performing arts. He also captured the Tony Award for "Pajama Game", "Damn Yankees", "Redhead", "Little Me", "Sweet Charity", and "Dancin"', and won three Emmy Awards for his television special, "Liza with a Z". Other awards include a Drama Desk award for "Pippin" and a Donaldson Award for "Pajama Game". Gwen Verdon, born in Los Angeles, California, in 1925, began her career as a dancer and continued to play roles throughout her career that employed her extraordinary dancing talents. She made her Broadway debut in "Alive and Kicking" in 1950, and is best known for her work in the Broadway productions of "Can-Can" (1953), "Damn Yankees" (1955), "New Girl in Town" (1957), "Redhead" (1959), "Sweet Charity" (1966) and "Chicago" (1975). Film appearances have included "On the Riviera" (1951), "Meet Me After the Show" (1951), "David and Bathsheba" (1952), "Mississippi Gambler" (1953), "Damn Yankees" (1958), "Cocoon I" (1986), "Cotton Club" (1984), and "Cocoon II" (1988). Verdon has appeared in numerous television shows including "M*A*S*H", "Dear John", "Webster", and "Magnum PI", where she earned an Emmy award nomination. She was also a guest of the People's Republic of China, where she taught theater dance to the Beijing Ballet Company, and has worked as a consultant for revivals of several Fosse/Verdon shows. Verdon is the recipient of many awards for her work. Her performances in "Can-Can", "Damn Yankees", "New Girl in Town", and "Redhead" all earned her Tony Awards. Fosse and Verdon were married in 1960 and had one daughter, Nicole Fosse, also a professional dancer who appeared on Broadway in "Phantom of the Opera". Although separated, Fosse and Verdon remained close friends and collaborators until his death on the opening night of a revival of "Sweet Charity" at the National Theater in Washington, DC, in 1987.
Related Publications
Chandler, James Winston. "The Function of the Choreographer in the
Development of the Conceptual Musical: An Examination of the
Work of Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, and Michael Bennett on
Broadway Between 1944 and 1981". Ann Arbor, MI: UMI
Dissertation Services, 1993.
Gargaro, Kenneth Vance. "The Work of Bob Fosse and the
Choreographer-directors in the Translation of Musicals to the
Screen". Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International.
1980.
Gottfried, Martin. "All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob
Fosse". New York: Bantam Books. 1990.
Grubb, Kevin Boyd. "Razzle Dazzle: The Life and Work of Bob
Fosse". New York: St. Martin's Press. 1989.
Martin, Cheryl Annette. "Man on a Tightrope: The Dark Vision of
Bob Fosse." Master's thesis, University of Southern
California, 1985.
Prince, Harold. "Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-six Years in the
Theatre". New York: Dodd, Mead. 1974.
Sloan, Ronna Elaine. "Bob Fosse: An Analytic-critical Study".
Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International. 1983
Scope and Content NoteThe Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon Collection is an extensive collection of multi-format materials documenting the professional lives of two of America's most notable artists of the twentieth century. The collection spans both careers from their early appearances and projects through Fosse's last work.The collection consists of: production or project files; Fosse's personal and professional papers and general files, correspondence, appointment books, calendars and daily notes; career miscellany of Gwen Verdon; documentation of awards given to both Fosse and Verdon; scrapbooks belonging to Fosse and Verdon; photographs and slides; audio and visual recordings; and other miscellaneous materials. Please note: the Contents list is not an index. When searching the paper finding aid, all sections should be scanned by title. When using the electronic version of the finding aid, search by title throughout the entire document to locate all materials related to that title. The production and project files include music materials, correspondence, scripts, production materials, casting files, contracts, press reviews, newspaper clippings, programs, and other documentation. Arrangement is alphabetical by production name. Posters, handbills, artwork, printed music and music manuscripts, research materials, and selected large format photos are cross- referenced with the individual production files. Smaller format photos are arranged separately by title or topic. Though the production files are marked as either "Fosse" or "Verdon" only to identify the primary focus or credit; this does not preclude the involvement of both parties in a production or project. There are other titles listed in the career miscellany section and elsewhere that are not included in the project files. Fosse's personal papers and career miscellany include files on Fosse's family and early life, his career as a serviceman in the United States Navy, obituaries, personal tributes to Fosse, publicity information, and Fosse's own writings. The general files include miscellaneous contracts and project files, as well as general office files. General correspondence related to Bob Fosse consists of drafts and copies of letters from Fosse, dating from 1960 to 1987, which are arranged chronologically. Related materials include Fosse's appointment books and calendars, and daily notes which consist mainly of phone lists and daily calendar information. Material in the collection, aside from that which is found in the production files, pertaining specifically to Gwen Verdon is located in the Verdon: Career Miscellany series. Included are awards, documentation of public appearances and benefits pertaining to Fosse and Verdon, publicity materials, and other miscellaneous items. Scrapbooks belonging to both Fosse and Verdon which document their respective careers contain clippings, photographs and memorabilia, and are in very fragile condition. The series of photographic material consists of professional and personal images of Fosse and Verdon in the form of photographs, negatives, and slides. These items are listed within the series but are not cross-referenced in the production files to which they are related, or anywhere else within the finding aid. The audiovisual materials in the Collection include record albums, audio recording tapes, audio disc recordings, audio cassette tapes, compact discs, videocassettes and films. There are also WNET/13 film and videotape materials compiled during the production of a documentary on Bob Fosse, and related WNET research which includes press books and photos. These photos are not cross- referenced with the Photos files. All audiovisual materials are located in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS) of the Library of Congress and are subject to that Division's policies for use and reproduction. Oversized materials include posters, handbills, music sheets, photographs, art, set designs, costume sketches, and large format magazines and newspaper clippings. Materials pertaining to a specific show, or those which directly relate to either Fosse or Verdon are cross-referenced in the production files or the personal files. The Miscellaneous materials consist of a variety of scripts, playbills and programs; miscellaneous magazines, and a various books not related to Fosse or Verdon productions. These are not cross-referenced within the individual production files. Binders, covers, frames and other supports have been removed from most items because of their condition. Any identification they contained has been noted. Certain items of historical significance, such as Fosse's "Cabaret" script have been kept intact. Most covers have been stored separately at the end of the box numbered series (example: Box 1D, "All That Jazz" script covers). Please note: wherever possible, the original order of the materials has been maintained. Mary E. Edsall, Dance Archivist
Container List
Individual Production, Project, and Performance Files
ACTOR'S CHOICE: 'ROUND THE WONDROUS (Verdon)
Box 43A SCRIPT
"The Writings of Lewis Carroll," by David Novak;
read for WNDT/CH.13; reading script only; 61 pp.
ALICE (Verdon)
Box 43A PREMIERE
Souvenir program; invitation
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
ALIVE AND KICKING (Verdon)
Box 43A NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 43A PROGRAM
Playbill, Hershey Theatre, 1950
Box 43A MISCELLANEOUS
Playbill ad; 1 p. lyrics; ticket order blank
ALL THAT JAZZ (Fosse)
(FOSSE EDITING FILES)
[All the following files marked "Editing notes" contain handwritten
notes by Bob Fosse (and possibly assistants) on the editing of
particular scenes]
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Katie/Joe Bedroom, Sc. 38+"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Dan demonstrates song, Sc. 33"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Take Off (after "number")"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Victoria: breakdown, Sc. 42"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Rehearsal III, Joe walks out; Sc. 44A"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Roy/Leland/Tony, Sc. 45"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Take off, part I, Sc. 52"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Take off, transition from parts 1-2, Sc. 52"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Bob's notes for scene 52"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"1st rehearsal into menage"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Flashback, nightclub, Sc. 22+"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Any Seat rehearsal, Sc. 36AA"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Joe's apt. (Debbie), Sc. 13/15/17"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Will reading; Sc. 128"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Projection Room, Sc. 12"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Audition: lineup, producers, Murray,
Joe/Audrey/Michelle; Producers/Audrey, Joe/Audrey, Sc.
4/5/7/8/9/ (sic)"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"First cutting room, Sc. 11"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Audition, Sc. 4"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Morning wakeup"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Limbo, NOT USED"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Leslie Perry Review, Sc. 122"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Lead In: Everything Old is New Again"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Everything Old is New Again, Sc. 59"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"2nd O'Conner Flood, Sc. 129"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Corridor, surgery team & Audrey/Katie, Sc. 130"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Insurance/surgery, Sc. 134-141B"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Hospital hallucination number, Sc. 143" (including lyric
sheet with light cues)
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Fiorello's Restaurant, Sc. 145"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Heart attack after operation, Sc. 150/151/152"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Old lady dying, Sc. 168"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Bye Bye Life, Sc. 173"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Michelle scene (Joe in BA)"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Limbo - doctors, Sc. 127"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Corridor: Ann/Max/Rackmil, angiogram, Sc. 125/126"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Limbo: some people collect stamps, Sc. 82"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Lighting stage (Bill/John/Jules), Sc. 82"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Intercuts: Broadway Arts & hospital, Sc. 64-81"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Examining room, Sc. 63"
Box 3D Editing notes:
"Book reading - cabs, 1st hospital"
ALL THAT JAZZ
(CASTING FILES)
[NOTE: the casting files contain photo/resumes, letters from
applicants and agents, and occasional notes on applicants]
Box 4A CASTING: General
Box 4A CASTING: General
Box 4B CASTING: General
Box 4B CASTING: General
Box 4D CASTING: General, "rejects"
Box 4D CASTING: General, "rejects"
Box 4E CASTING: General
Box 4C CASTING: "Women"
Box 4C CASTING: "Women"
Box 4C CASTING: "Women"
Box 4E CASTING: General
Box 4E CASTING: General
Box 4E CASTING: General
Box 5A CASTING: "Strippers"
Box 5A CASTING: "Young girls"
Box 5A CASTING: "Old women"
Box 5A CASTING: "Cafeteria people"
Box 5A CASTING: "Dancers, Take Off with Us"
Box 5A CASTING: "Character women, nurses, 25-35"
Box 5A CASTING: "Jonathan"
Box 5A CASTING: "Character women, nurses, 18-25"
Box 5A CASTING: "Character women over 35"
Box 5A CASTING: "Character men, 20-30"
Box 5A CASTING: "Boys"
Box 5B CASTING: "Men, 40-55"
Box 5B CASTING: "People to see"
Box 5B CASTING: "Men, 30-40"
Box 5B CASTING: "Studs"
Box 5B CASTING: Miscellaneous
Also contains audition schedules, contact lists
Box 5B CASTING: Fosse notes
Grey clip folder marked "Casting - ATJ - Fosse;"
audition schedules, notes, few photo/resumes,
suggestions from agents, character lists with
possible actors, extensive handwritten notes by Bob
Fosse
Box 5C CASTING: Fosse folder
White clip folder, including cast list,
photo/resumes,audition schedules and notes,
calendar pages, cast deal memos, film storage
inventory, set dressing inventory, casting notes,
publicity for South America, contact sheets for
cast and crew,shooting schedules, etc.
Box 5B SELECTED CAST
Resumes and photos, tagged with names, of those
actors and actresses selected for film
ALL THAT JAZZ
(GENERAL FILES)
Box 5C DEAL MEMOS
Cast deal memos, 1978; shooting schedule, #4
Box 5C CONTACT SHEETS
For ATJ AND DANCIN', staff, crew, locations
Box 5C TITLES
Including photos of graphics for "directed by BF"
Box 5C PUBLICITY
Cannes Film Festival statement; Columbia Pictures
preliminary production information, including bios
of Bob Fosse, motion picture stars, and crew;
miscellaneous, e.g. air dates for Ann Reinking
appearances
Box 6A TECH CREW RESUMES
Box 5C PRODUCTION MISCELLANEOUS
Memos, miscellaneous invoices re: Fosse personal
expenses; snapshot on set; 1976 Syosset Musical
Workshop Tribute to Fosse; "Tommy McCarthy post-
production schedule;" miscellaneous correspondence,
Fosse and Michael Shurtleff, 1976; 2 interesting
letters on casting leads between Shurtleff and
Fosse, 1978; 3/11/77 2 pp. letter (notable), from
Shurtleff to Bob Fosse, explaining the story of Joe
Gideon from his perspective; Columbia Pictures
correspondence re: marketing/publicity staff
introductions; inventories pricing cameras,
electrical supplies, Art Dept., wardrobe, etc.;
Giuseppe Rotunno letter 1978 to Fosse
Box 5D PRESS BOOK: Cannes
Large press clippings book, French, re: Palm d'Or,
Cannes
Box 5C BRAZIL/ARGENTINA PUBLICITY TOUR
Very miscellaneous notes
Box 6A BUDGET
Budget, undated, with ICM memo: "This is the one
we're using"; preliminary budgets, 5/6/77 and
5/9/77; delay cost estimates, 7/5/78 to 7/17/78
Box 5C FILM STORAGE INVENTORY
Box 6A FOREIGN
Updates on foreign film results
Box 6A MUSIC
Music rights and costs, revised, 1979 by scene; Bob
Fosse handwritten notes on music needed for film
Box 6A POSSIBLE CREW
Resumes for costume designers, PAs, asst.
directors, etc.; staff and crew contact list
Box 6A PRELIMINARY NOTES, FOSSE
Fosse file, including scene list, locations/sets,
script pages, quotes, possible dialogue, audition
schedules and notes; 1976 miscellaneous notes, from
friends and colleagues; extensive random notes,
e.g.: "Notes on latter part of ATJ, 6/19/76; list
of "possible events" in film; 1 script page,
listing dances and timings
Box 6A LEGAL/FINANCIAL
Letters re: credits on paid ads, 1978;
correspondence re: Richard Dreyfuss' breach of
contract; question of Paramount payment, 1977;
correspondence between DGA and Columbia Pictures on
credits billing
Box 6B MAGAZINE ARTICLES
CUE, 2/1/80: "The Importance of Being Roy," by
Cynthia Heimel; SCREEN, 5/17/80: "The Million
Dollar Backlot," by Sue Emmett and "The Tireless
Perfectionist," by David Aldredge, and "Cannes
Festival" report; PEOPLE, 3/3/90: "After three
coronaries and ical surgery, Bob Fosse puts his
heart and soul into ALL THAT JAZZ," by Barbara
Rowes; AFTER DARK, 2/80: "Fosse Reflects On Fosse,"
by Kenneth L. Geist (2 copies); PLAYBOY, 9/80:
"Interview: Roy Scheider"
Box 6B MAGAZINE ARTICLES
PLAYBOY, 3/80: "Movies;" AMERICAN FILM, 11/79:
"Life as a Long Rehearsal," by Bernard Drew (3
copies); LE NOUVEAU FILM FRANCAISE, 5/17/80: Cannes
- ALL THAT JAZZ report
Box 6B MAGAZINE ARTICLES
LIFE, 11/79: "Fosse's Ego Trip," by Chris Chase;
THE OBSERVER, 6/29/89: "Work, Women - and ALL THAT
JAZZ," by Goodman/Bygrave
Box 6B MAGAZINE ARTICLES
SUNDAY TIMES (London), "I Wanna Be a Dancin' Man"
(2 copies); NEWSWEEK, 12/24/79: "Dance of Death,"
by Jack Kroll (2 copies); MD: "Films" review
Box 6B PRESS REVIEWS
This category includes transcripts of radio and
television coverage, as well as print reviews
Box 6B PRESS REVIEWS
Box 6B BRAZIL/ARGENTINA PRESS
Box 6C NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 6C FOSSE: DANCE/MUSIC NOTES, MISCELLANEOUS
Few pages of notes (not Fosse) on ALL THAT JAZZ
dance; couple song sheets, Bob Fosse lyrics and
notes
Boxes 7C MUSIC
-7D
"Emile Charlap" envelope marked: "Allan Heim,
production parts, music" consisting of ozalid
arrangements of music for the film by Ralph Burns.
Some loose music material
Box 85G MISCELLANEOUS MUSIC
Box 6B PUBLICITY MATERIALS
Large format brochure: "For your consideration...
Academy Awards". One in color, one black and
white; inserts for trade magazines
Item 97A ALL THAT JAZZ POSTER
33x48 black and white German poster
ALL THAT JAZZ - PHOTOS
Box 7A PHOTOS
Josh Weiner's ALL THAT JAZZ contact sheet
Box 86A PHOTOS
12x19 color photo, Ann Reinking alone; 16x19 color
photo, Ann Reinking dancing (male dancer in
background)
Box 85B PHOTOS
Several miscellaneous large format casting photos
ALL THAT JAZZ - SCRIPTS
[NOTE: identifications such as "Director's final draft," or
"rehearsal draft," are taken directly from the scripts themselves,
as are dates. Scripts may be duplicates. The terms "annotated,"
"notations," "markings" refer not only to commentary written on the
scripts, but also any cuts, revisions, dialogue changes, etc., that
have been marked on a particular script. Covers have been removed
for preservation concerns.]
Box 1A Screenplay, 8/3/76, green cover, blue dot
133 pp.; with revisions; unmarked
Box 1A Screenplay, 8/3/76, blue cover, blue dot
Marked "1st draft, Bob Fosse's script;" 133 pp.;
annotated
Box 1C Screenplay, 8/3/76, gold cover, blue dot
Marked "uncorrected 1st draft;" 133 pp. with
revisions; unmarked
Box 1C Screenplay, 8/3/76, brown cover
Marked # 15, 133 pp. with revised pages; very few
annotations
Box 1A Screenplay, revised, 10/1/76
126 pp.; unmarked
Box 1A Screenplay, revised, 10/1/76
Marked #5; 126 pp., unmarked; 1 page of notes
Box 1B Screenplay, revised, 10/1/76, black vinyl cover
126 pp.; few markings
Box 1B Screenplay, revised, 10/1/76, black vinyl cover
126 pp; unmarked
15 DUPLICATES of above, all in black vinyl covers
Box 1B Duplicates marked # 9 - 14
Box 1C Duplicates marked #16 - 21
Box 2A Duplicates marked #22 - 24
Box 2A Screenplay, revised, 10/1/76
Marked # 13; 126 pp; no annotations
Box 2A Screenplay, revised, 10/1/76
Marked # 13; 126 pp; several deletions
Box 2A Screenplay, revised, 10/1/76, black vinyl cover
126 pp.; few markings
Box 2A Screenplay, revised, 4/14/77
Marked # 11; 103 pp.; no annotation
Box 2A Screenplay, revised, 4/14/77
103 pp.; unmarked
Box 2B Screenplay, revised, 4/14/77, green vinyl cover
103 pp.; unmarked
Box 2B Screenplay, revised, 4/14/77, green vinyl cover
103 pp.; unmarked
Box 2B Screenplay, revised, 4/14/77, green vinyl cover
103 pp.; unmarked
Box 2B Screenplay, revised, 5/26/78
Marked # 32; 130 pp. with revisions; no annotation
Box 2B Screenplay, 6/26/78
Marked "Vicki, extra copy;" revised pages, 131
pp.; some annotation
Box 2B Screenplay, 6/26/78, black vinyl cover
revised pages, few annotations
Box 2D Director's script, 3/9/79, black 3 ring binder
Marked "ALL THAT JAZZ, 3/9/79, final lined script,
Bob Fosse;" continuity script
Box 2C Fosse script, 6/26/78
Original folder marked "Fosse's script;" 128 pp.
with revisions; heavily annotated; numerous loose
pages and other paper: revised crew and staff
lists, billing, "multiple camera days," script
notes, dancer list, revised staff and crew, Joe
Gideon character analysis by Paddy Chayevsky,
hospital scenes, music list, scene's list, cast
list. See box list for specific items.
Box 3A Script, undated
104 pp.; some annotation; staff and crew list
4/28/78; revised pages up to 5/16/78
Box 3A Script, undated
124 pp.; unmarked
Box 3A Script, undated
124 pp,; annotated
Box 3B Script, 2nd draft
From file marked "2nd draft, Fosse;" Bob Fosse and
other handwritten annotation: very extensive
changes; 150 pp.
Box 3B Fosse notebooks
Green composition notebook marked "Firebird -Rock,
ALL THAT JAZZ 1;" music and dance notes
Black composition notebook, unmarked, only 1 page
of notes and a couple clippings
Box 3B "1st script meeting, Fosse - Aurthur (sic), 7/1/76"
Typed notes from meeting; notes from Paddy
Chayevsky, 6/1/76
Box 3B Revised screenplay pages
150 pp.; very miscellaneous annotated drafts and
revisions
Box 3B "Script pages that have been retyped"
Old script pages, heavily annotated, some
handwritten notes
Box 3C Script draft
Handwritten
Box 3C Script draft
Mainly handwritten
Box 3C Script draft
Mainly handwritten; note: 46-48 seems to be written
by someone other than Bob Fosse
Box 3C "Script pages that have been retyped"
Annotated
Box 3C "Script, old pages, first draft"
Few annotations
Box 3C "Script, Bob Aurthur's old pages"
Annotated
Box 3C Revised script, 4/14/77
Marked #4; 103 pp.; no annotation
BELLS ARE RINGING (Fosse)
Box 43A PROGRAM
Shubert Theatre, July 1957
Box 43A LEGAL: CONTRACTS
8/2/56 Fosse agreement with Comden, Green, Styne
(original and photocopy); Bob Fosse and Theatre
Guild, choreography agreement; 10/27/56 Jerome
Robbins and Bob Fosse, for choreographic
collaboration; Tams-Witmark Music Library, 8/23/57;
7/15/57 British rights and royalties; 2/16/59, LA
Civic Light Opera, play rights and interests;
several letters regarding percentages and
miscellaneous
BIG DEAL (Fosse)
Box 8D PLAYBILLS
May 1986, Broadway Theatre (20 copies)
Box 8D PLAYBILLS
May 1986, Broadway Theatre (20 copies)
Box 8D PLAYBILLS, assorted
April 1986, Broadway Theatre (2 copies);June 1986,
Broadway Theatre; Feb. 1986, Shubert Theatre (3 copies);
March 1986, Shubert Theatre; PANORAMA (Boston weekly
guide) 2/10-23/86 (2 copies); Playbill, Jack Lawrence
Theatre, 4/86 (article on BIG DEAL)
Box 8C MAGAZINE REVIEWS
DANCE MAGAZINE, 7/86: "Fosse's Follies" by Kevin
Grubb; NEW YORK Magazine, 4/7/86: "Bob Fosse's New
BIG DEAL," by Kevin Kelly (3 copies); NEWSWEEK,
4/21/86: "Broadway Boogie Woogie," by Jack Kroll
Box 8C MAGAZINE REVIEWS
TIME, 4/21/86: "Slick, Sassy, Borrowed and Blue,"
by Wm. A. Henry III; VANITY FAIR, 4/86: "Glossy
Fosse," by Sylviane Gold; DANCE MAGAZINE, 8/86:
"Fosse and His Followers," by Kevin Grubb
Box 8A TECH NOTES, Shubert, Boston
All from March, with Bob Fosse notes
Box 8A TECH NOTES, Shubert, Boston
February and March, with Bob Fosse notes
Box 8A TECH NOTES, Broadway
April, some Bob Fosse notes
Box 8A TECH NOTES, Miscellaneous
Box 8A TECH NOTES, Miscellaneous
Box 8A TECH NOTES, Miscellaneous
Box 8B STAGE MANAGERS REPORTS
1986, very few
Box 8B BIG DEAL FILM SHOOT
Film shooting schedule, 1985; script pages for
scene to be shot
Box 8B BIG DEAL RUNNING ORDER
Running order, 1/20/86 (2 copies); annotated by Bob
Fosse, and a story board
Box 8B RESEARCH
News clippings, postcards, FDR Inaugural address,
1933; list of 1930s movie titles
Box 8B ACTOR'S EQUITY
1985 correspondence re: guidelines and regulations
Box 8B SCRIPT NOTES: Herb Gardner
Herb Gardner's notes (and transcript) on script;
also includes long memo from Bob Fosse's secretary,
dated 4/7; company phone list; dressing room list
Box 8B PRESS REVIEWS
This category includes transcripts of radio and
television coverage, as well as print reviews
Box 8C NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 8B CORRESPONDENCE, 1983: BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET
Italian film; correspondence re: rights acquisition
for Big Deal on Madonna Street: involves Stuart
Ostrow, Allen Deutsch, Bob Fosse, Giovanna Cau;
correspondence re: Peter Allen on music/lyrics
matters
Box 8B APPLICANTS FOR BOOK AND MUSIC
Applications, photo/resumes, correspondence
Box 8B CORRESPONDENCE, personal
Re: BIG DEAL: people's responses to show,
telegrams, letters; opening night correspondence
Box 8B CONTACT SHEETS
For company
Box 9B CASTING
10/23/85 auditions with Howard Feuer at Minskoff:
photo/resumes, memos, audition schedules, notes,
contact sheets, recommendations, character
assignments, etc.
Box 9B CASTING
Miscellaneous photo/resumes
Box 9B CASTING: "Possible YES, "A" file rejects"
Miscellaneous photo/resumes
Box 9B CASTING: "Finals 11/22/85"
Miscellaneous photo/resumes
Box 9B CASTING: audition cards
Box 9B CASTING: "Callbacks, Fri., 11/22/85"
Audition cards, photo/resumes, schedules, contact
sheets
Box 9B CASTING: "Finals, "B" file photo/resumes"
Box 9B CASTING: "Finals, "NO," photo/resumes"
Box 9B CASTING
General photo/resumes, letters
Box 9B CASTING: "#3, women outs"
Audition cards, Bob Fosse notes
Box 9B CASTING: "Polaroids and "A" file photo/resumes"
Box 8B PRODUCTION MISCELLANEOUS, including technical crew and
cast
Talent list for production budget; BIG DEAL reading
cast list, 1981; casting correspondence with Howard
Feuer; script assignments; film shoot/lyrics/dance
notes; Herb Gardner's 2nd verse of WHO's YR. LITTLE
WHOZIS?
Box 8B PRODUCTION CORRESPONDENCE
3/19/86 letter from Gerry Schoenfeld, Chairman of
the Board, Shubert Organization, to Bob Fosse
detailing their suggestions for changes, etc. in
show, 3 pp.
Box 9A LEGAL/FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1969-86
1968, financial and rights agreements with writers,
producers, director, including Italian movie rights
correspondence; correspondence re contracts: Bob
Fosse - director/choreographer; copyright search
report, correspondence with David Begelman and Sam
Cohn; including some miscellaneous such as theatre
charges, Bob Fosse
Box 9A LEGAL: CONTRACTS (#1)
Bob Fosse contracts and drafts: production contract
with Shuberts; director services; choreography;
Riff Productions (executive producer services);
letter agreement; and explanatory letters between
Bob Fosse and ICM
Box 9A LEGAL: CONTRACTS (#2)
Production contract with Shuberts (duplicate);
memos re: Bob Fosse contracts; Dramatists Guild
correspondence; various contract revisions;
material on royalty participation; other
correspondence on various payments and advances
between Bob Fosse, ICM, et al
Box 8B CORRESPONDENCE: PUBLICITY
Correspondence with Bert Fink of Fred Nathan Public
Relations, and Lee Gross, re: publicity schedules
for BIG DEAL; some miscellaneous
Box 9A "DAILY CUTS & CHANGES"
February 14-21
Box 9A SCRIPT REVISIONS
Revised script pages with actor's assignments;
extensive files
Box 9A BOWS
Box 9A CORRESPONDENCE: Pete Hamill
Miscellaneous articles Hamill sent Bob Fosse for
possible BIG DEAL use
BIG DEAL MUSIC RESEARCH
[All from box marked same; titles in quotes are from original
folders]
Box 12A LYRICS" , green 3 ring binder
Lyrics with some annotations
Box 12A "SONG TITLES", blue 3 ring binder
Song titles with notes; correspondence with ASCAP
and ICM re: song rights; partial list of publishers
Box 12D "SONG TITLES, 20's - 30's - 40's"
Box 12A "BIG DEAL LYRICS"
Some annotation; information on Minskoff Theatre
rehearsal studios; description of main BIG DEAL
characters and several script pages
Box 12A "BIG DEAL SONGS"
Lyrics, some annotation
Box 12B "LYRIC SHEETS"
Some annotation
Box 12B MISCELLANEOUS SHEET MUSIC
Words and music; 1 page of lyric notes
Box 12B MISCELLANEOUS SHEET MUSIC
Same as above
Box 12C "SHEET MUSIC"
Box 12C SONG TITLES
Annotated; 1920-29; 1930-39
Box 12C "TUNES"
Box 12D "TUNES"
Box 12D "TUNES"
Box 12D "TUNES"
Box 12D "LYRICS"
Box 12D "LYRICS"
SONG BOOKS
Box 12E "70 Songs: 1920-40," Home Library Series
"The Swing Era: World's Greatest Hits of the 20's & 30's"
"STAR DUST and 40 Golden Era Hits"
"Great Songs of the 30's"
"First Time Ever: 650 Outstanding Songs"
"The Golden Era of Nostalgia Music, Vol. 4"
"Swing & the Big Band Era," Great Songs of the Century
Series
"Songs from the Golden Eras: 1930-49"
"1001 Jumbo Song Book"
BIG DEAL, MOUNTED PHOTOGRAPHS
[All shots of cast and scenes from production]
Box 96F 20x29, color, mounted on cardboard, man dancing with
shadow of a dollar sign
Box 95A 29x64, color, mounted on cardboard
Box 95B 64x29, color, mounted on cardboard
Box 95C 64x29 color, mounted on cardboard
Box 96B 43x29 color, mounted on cardboard
Box 96C 43x29 color, mounted on cardboard
Box 96D 48x21 color, mounted on cardboard
Box 96E 48x31 color, mounted on cardboard
BIG DEAL, SET MODEL
Box 98 36" L x 25" H x 28"W, model of set
BIG DEAL - SCRIPTS
[NOTE: identifications such as "Director's final draft," or
"rehearsal draft," are taken directly from the scripts themselves,
as are dates. Scripts may be duplicates. The terms "annotated,"
"notations," "markings" refer not only to commentary written on the
scripts, but also any cuts, revisions, dialogue changes, etc., that
have been marked on a particular script. Covers have been removed.]
Box 66A Script, 1958 film, red cover
Translated from Italian movie directed by
Mario Monicelli, unmarked
Box 66A Script, early, red clip notebook
Undated, early annotated draft
Box 66A Script, 1st draft, 4/5/69
Inside marked by Bob Fosse: "Before selection of
composer; 111 pp.; annotated with revisions and
deletions
Box 66A Script, 1st draft, 7/1/69, black vinyl cover
166 pp.; unmarked
Box 66A Script, original
Marked "original;" undated, 157 pp.; some
annotations; cut-up, taped-up copy
Box 66A Script, early pages
50 pp. revised scenes; little annotation
Box 66A Screenplay, 1st draft - old pages
100 pp., miscellaneous; few annotations
Box 66A Script notes and pages
Several memos, Bob Fosse to David Picker, United
Artists, discussing script revisions; reactions to
readings of BIG DEAL (Robert Aurthur, David Shaw);
Paddy Chayevsky's notes; Bob Fosse correspondence
with Ray Stark; Bob Fosse handwritten notes
Box 66A Script, early drafts
Bob Fosse handwritten and typed notes, ideas,
drafts, very miscellaneous; fragile
Box 66B Script, 6/17/85
Note on title page, "June 17, 1985, Prepared for a
reading;" 137 pp., few revisions and deletions
Box 66B Rehearsal script, 12/85, black vinyl cover
133 pp.; unmarked
Box 66B Rehearsal script, 12/85, black vinyl cover
133 pp.; unmarked
Box 10A Rehearsal script, 12/85, master
This was marked, "Master rehearsal script,
12/18/85, sent to Studio Duplicating Services;" few
changes, deletions, additions; DRAFT; 137 pp.
Box 10A Rehearsal script, 12/85, master
Marked, "Master, 12/18/85, annotated; 137 pp.
Box 10B Rehearsal script, 12/85, Bob Fosse master, black paper 3
ring binder
With contact sheet, set and costume diagrams, light
cues, etc.; annotated by Bob Fosse; 132 pp. with
revisions; dance notes ; marked "Bob Fosse"
Box 10B Rehearsal script, 12/85, 3 ring black vinyl binder
Marked "Cathy Nicholas" on title page; tabbed
binder with calendar appointments, cues, contact
sheets, running order, technical shift plot,
production and rehearsal schedules, music, sound
effects, props; annotations; Bob Fosse banking
list; material on television commercial; tech
notes, Bob Fosse program biography
Box 10A Production script, 5/24/86
Marked "Master/Final" on original cover; corrected
copy, with dance diagrams; 133 pp.
Box 10B Rehearsal script, Bob Fosse, black vinyl 3 ring binder
Marked "B. Fosse, BIG DEAL old script; "extensively
annotated version of 6/17/85 script; has alternate
endings, calendar with Bob Fosse notes; photocopies
of stage plan
Box 10B Casting - sets, etc. notebook, Bob Fosse, blue vinyl 3
ring binder
Marked "Bob Fosse, casting - sets - costumes -
music - old pages - miscellaneous schedules - BIG
DEAL; including contact sheets, photo/resumes,
casting and audition information
Box 10B Script, purple vinyl cover
Early version of script; 89 pp.
Box 66B Fosse notebook
Composition book with a few pages of Bob Fosse
handwritten notes
Box 66B 1st draft, working script
Undated; 159 pp.; with list of possible numbers,
main characters; annotated - primarily cuts and
additions
Box 66B 1st draft, working script
Same as above, though both seem to be originals
Box 66B First draft 7/1/69
126 pp.; some annotation
Box 66B Script - Reading
Marked same; 157 pp.; annotated; includes list of
actors and notes on roles to be read for
Box 66B Script changes
Marked same; legal pad pages, paste ups and
handwritten pages; this is a partial script draft
in longhand
Box 66C Working Manuscript (1 of 2)
Marked same; extensively revised pages, annotated,
numerous handwritten draft pages
Box 66C Working Manuscript (2 of 2)
Same as above
Box 11B Fosse Notebook - "Ideas - Notes"
Marked same on cover; Mead composition notebook;
script and dance notes, etc., handwritten, not
extensive
Box 11B Fosse Notebook - "BIG DEAL - Act I"
Mead composition notebook, tabbed with song titles;
dance and music notes for several songs
Box 11B Fosse Notebook - "BIG DEAL - ACT II"
Mead composition notebook, tabbed with song titles;
dance and music notes for several songs
Box 11A Rehearsal script, 12/85, black vinyl cover
133 pp.; unmarked
Box 11A 1st draft screenplay, 7/1/69, black vinyl cover
166 pp.; very few deletions
Box 11A 1st draft screenplay, 7/1/69, black vinyl cover
166 pp.; annotated, mainly 1st act
Box 11C Combined stage reading and screenplay, black clip binder
118 pp.; unmarked
Box 11C Combined stage reading and screenplay, gold ICM paper
cover
118 pp.; unmarked
Box 11C Combined stage reading and screenplay, gold ICM paper
cover
118 pp.; unmarked
Box 11C Combined stage reading and screenplay, gold ICM paper
cover
118 pp.; unmarked
Box 11C Combined stage reading and screenplay, gold ICM paper
cover
118 pp.; annotated
Box 11C Combined stage reading and screenplay, gold ICM paper
cover
118 pp.; unmarked
Box 11C Combined stage reading and screenplay, gold ICM cover
Title page marked: "June 17, 1985, prepared for a
reading;" 137 pp.; some highlighted dialogue
Box 11C Script, "screen-stage combo", blue vinyl 3 ring binder
Marked same on cover; 157 pp.; very marked up;
undated
Box 11C Script, black 3 ring binder
Undated; 137 pp.; including "musical program"
sheets, musical breakdown by character; very few
notes, some revised pages.
Box 11A SIDES, red 3 ring binder
Marked same; contains tabbed script pages for
various characters
Box 11A SIDES/LYRICS, green 3 ring binder
Marked SIDES on cover and LYRICS on spine; contains
script pages with music/sound effect notes
Box 10A REVISED SCRIPT PAGES
Revised script pages, by scene
BURNT OFFERINGS (Fosse)
Box 13C CASTING
Photo/resumes; agency client lists
Box 13C CASTING
Photo/resumes; agency client lists
Box 13C CORRESPONDENCE
Bob Fosse handwritten drafts; miscellaneous
correspondence re: acquiring a house for the set;
memo to Larry Turman re: Barbara Streisand casting;
various memos, letters, progress reports, casting
suggestions, script discussions between Bob Fosse
and Turman of 20th Century-Fox, 1970's
Box 14D BUDGET
Production budget, 1970
Box 14D FINANCIAL: Fosse personal
Bob Fosse's CA travel expenses: hotel, airfare,
personal miscellaneous; few notes on BURNT
OFFERINGS' costs
Box 14D CASTING, including memos (1 of 2)
Photo/resumes and correspondence from prospective
actors and agents; Turman and Andrea Brandt memos
on casting; Bob Fosse notes on readings; interview
schedules with notes; lists of candidates and
possibilities; extensive
Box 14D CASTING, including memos (2 of 2)
Continuation of above file
Box 14D MISCELLANEOUS
Several Bob Fosse handwritten notes on costs,
locations, etc.; address list
BURNT OFFERINGS - SCRIPTS
Box 13A Screenplay, revised, orange paper cover
117 pp.; unmarked
Box 13A Screenplay, revised, orange paper cover
117 pp.; unmarked
Box 13A Screenplay, revised, orange paper cover
117 pp.; unmarked
Box 13A Screenplay, revised, orange paper cover
117 pp.; unmarked; has "sex operation" written in
pencil on title page
Box 13A Screenplay, revised, orange paper cover
115 pp.
Box 13A Screenplay, revised
Marked "Turman Notes" on cover; 117 pp.; annotation
by Lawrence Turman
Box 13A Screenplay, revised, yellow CMA paper cover
105 pp.; few annotations
Box 13B Screenplay, revised, brown spring binder
117 pp.; unmarked
Box 13B Screenplay
"BURNT OFFERINGS or How I Spent Our Summer;" "CBS
comments," 5/6/70, 3 pp. in front; 133 pp.; heavily
annotated, plus characters, possible cuts, notes on
art and set directors, and "movies to see"
Box 13A Screenplay, black paper cover
"BURNT OFFERINGS or How I Spent Our Summer;" 133
pp.; unmarked
Box 13B Screenplay, "rewrite", black spring binder
Cover marked "rewrite"; shooting script; 109
pp.;annotated
Box 13B Script pages
Annotated, cuts and dialogue changes; 35 pp.
Box 13B Script revisions, 5/12/70
Box 13B Script revisions, 5/12/70
duplicate
Box 13B Script revisions, 5/12/70
duplicate
Box 13B Script revisions, 5/12/70
duplicate
Box 13B "Script rewrites, 9-10/70"
20 pp.; few markings; letter from Robert Marasco,
11/20/70 re: script changes
Box 14D Fosse script notes
20 pp. handwritten; 1 p. typed Paddy Chayevsky
notes; 20th Century-Fox outline notes, 1969
CABARET (Fosse)
Box 16E MAGAZINE REVIEWS
NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 1972: "Best of Both Worlds," by
Judith Crist; L'UOMO VOGUE, June/July 1973: "Dal
Teatro al CABARET," "Il Volo Di Michael York," and
"Bob Fosse;" AFTER DARK, Feb. 1972: "Maybe This
Time - a photo preview of CABARET," by Neil
Applebaum; CHAPLIN 116, No.5 1972: "CABARET," by
Torsten Manns
Box 16E MAGAZINE REVIEWS
TIME, Feb. 28, 1972: "Liza - Fire, Air and a Touch
of Anguish," by Gerald Clarke (4 copies)
Box 16E MAGAZINE REVIEWS
NEWSWEEK, Feb. 28, 1972: "Liza Minnelli: A Star Is
Born," by S. K. Oberbeck (2 copies); TIME, April 9,
1973: " Hollywood's Revenge" (on CABARET Oscars);
LIFE, Feb. 4, 1972: "Liza" (2 copies)
Box 16F PRESS REVIEWS
Including radio and television transcripts,
magazine clips and photocopies of newspaper
clippings, etc.
Box 16F NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 16A UNIT LISTS
Box 16A LOCATION MEMOS, 1971
Location and set research
Box 16B CY FEUER
Correspondence from envelope marked "Cy Feuer,"
containing Bob Fosse's insurance application, Bob
Fosse hand-written notes and letter to Martin re:
production problems (pertaining to overheard Feuer
phone call); Cy Feuer correspondence, 1970-71, re:
script and score
Box 16B CASTING: Dancers, Germany
Audition schedules, memos, notes, lists of dancers
Box 16A COSTUMES
Costume/character/production number lists, 1971;
wardrobe memos
Box 16D LYRICS
Shooting and editing notes, and timing for these
lyrics, extensively annotated; "Cabaret," "Mein
Herr"
Box 16D LYRICS
Editing and shooting notes, "Maybe This Time," and
"Two Ladies"
Box 16D LYRICS
Lyric sheets, music notes, "Wilkommen," and
"Wilkommen Finale"
Box 16D LYRICS
Music notes, editing notes, "Tomorrow Belongs to
Me"
Box 16D LYRICS
Music notes, choreography notes, "If You Could See
Her Now," and "Money"
Box 16B SET DESIGNS
Set plot and memos, plus blueprint designs for
various sets
Box 16B PREVIEW CARDS
For 1972 Los Angeles and Anaheim previews
Box 16A RESEARCH, GERMANY
Postcards and photos for location, set and costume
research: Munich, Berlin, Hamburg
Box 16B CONTRACTS
Bob Fosse contract, 1970, and correspondence;
handwritten notes by Bob Fosse
Box 16B BUDGETS
German budgets, including formal 1970 complete
budget; CABARET costume count; ABC
interdepartmental memos, 1971 re: production
representatives and budget, associate producer
assignments; employment letter, unit publicist,
budget and shooting schedule for period vehicles;
memos on added costs, sets, mechanicals
Box 16A MEMORANDA, German Office
1971, miscellaneous informational office memos, re:
rehearsal rooms, expenses, staff/crew hiring;
preproduction research on photos and films;
information on dancers; cast and crew flight
schedules, etc.
Box 16B SHOOTING SCHEDULES
Breakdown sheets, based on 10/22/70 script
Box 16C CASTING
Memos, resumes, letters, photos
Box 16D SONGS AND NOTES
From file marked "Songs," annotated, revised lyric
sheets; extensive Bob Fosse drafts of lyrics
Box 16B FOSSE NOTES
"CABARET Ideas" notebook, with handwritten notes,
including cinematography and editing
Box 16B PREMIERE PROGRAM
Includes ad cut, and Spanish ad
Box 16B FOREIGN STAGE PRODUCTIONS
Programs: Theater An Der Wien, 1970-71; Det Danske
Teater, 1969-70
Box 16B FINANCIAL, Fosse personal expenses
London, Germany bills and receipts for hotels,
travel, meals, etc.; memos to Cy Feuer re: living
expenses, etc.
Box 16B CORRESPONDENCE, re: film crew and staff
1970 memos, correspondence and resumes, re:
cameramen, costume designers, director of
photography, editors, and so on; includes Bob Fosse
handwritten interview notes and Robert Surtees
correspondence
Box 16B CORRESPONDENCE, Fosse personal
Miscellaneous memos, Bob Fosse notes;
correspondence with Surtees, John Kobal on books,
hiring, etc.; pamphlet of CABARET sketches "It had
been a big pleasure to work for you... Ladies group
sextette;" miscellaneous banking, etc.
Box 16B LEGAL/FINANCIAL
1973-83: legal correspondence and statements,
including ABC's financial statements on CABARET;
1971 Writers Guild correspondence re: credit
arbitration; contractual payment schedules,
residuals, etc.
Box 16A - 16B
PRODUCTION MISCELLANEOUS
German vocabulary list; fact sheet on Munich,
flight schedules, Germany; hotel lists, contact
sheets; ABC letter, 1971 on editing schedule; G.
Unsworth, cameraman memo on filming concerns;
period vehicle/location lists; cast start/finish
schedule; London schedule; Germany brochure; Bob
Fosse "To Do" handwritten memo for Europe; Bob
Fosse handwritten note on Surtees; other
miscellaneous information and notes
Box 16A EDITING MISCELLANEOUS
Sequence breakdown/synopsis 7/11/90; musical
numbers and spots, with timing, 6/25/70
Box 16B SCRIPT NOTES (from friends)
From file marked "Friends' notes after reading
script," including comments from Neil Simon, Bob
Aurthur,Gwen Verdon; 10/6/70 letter from Cy Feuer
to W.E. Dodd (Allied Artists' president) on changes
in first draft screenplay suggested by Dodd; Bob
Fosse's script notes, typed and handwritten
Box 16B DIALOGUE REVISIONS
Notes on various script pages, much in Bob Fosse's
hand
Box 16B SCRIPT MISCELLANEOUS
Sequence breakdowns, musical numbers, locations,
and appropriate script pages
Box 16C CASTING
Letters, photo/resumes, correspondence, audition
schedules, memos
Box 85B PRESS CLIPPINGS BOOK
Post-Academy Awards; large format, 12x16, including
quotes, photos, other press
Box 85B CABARET PRESS
Extensive press reviews, all photocopies; 1972
Box 85F CABARET POSTERS
Color, Italian, 40x55, (1); Color, 27x41, (3
copies)
CABARET - SCRIPTS
[NOTE: identifications such as "Director's final draft," or
"rehearsal draft," are taken directly from the scripts themselves,
as are dates. Scripts may be duplicates. The terms "annotated,"
"notations," "markings" refer not only to commentary written on the
scripts, but also any cuts, revisions, dialogue changes, etc., that
have been marked on a particular script.]
Box 15A Script, 1st draft, blue vinyl cover
Marked # 30; 129 pp.; no annotations
Box 15A Script, 1st draft revised, blue vinyl cover
Marked # 81; 129 pp.; no annotations
Box 15A Script, 1st draft revised
Marked # 82; 129 pp.; few annotations
Box 15A Script, 1st draft revised, "Rewrite as of 12/1"
Marked " # 20; "Rewrite as of 12/1;" 129 pp. with
sequence breakdown and footage count; photocopied
and original deletions, dialogue additions, etc.
Box 15A Script (partial), revised pages
100 pp., with Bob Fosse annotations
Box 15A Script, 1st draft (partial), revisions
Photocopied and original Bob Fosse annotations;
revisions; 57 pp.
Box 15A "Old pages from Fosse script"
Marked "Old stuff from Fosse script; 100 pp.; some
annotation by Bob Fosse
Box 15B Script draft, 3/6/70
102 pp., some annotation
Box 15B Script (partial), with revisions
Revised pages; 100 pp., with Bob Fosse annotations
Box 15C Final draft, 2/15/71, black spring binder
Marked "Bob Fosse," # 7; this is a shooting script,
with camera directions and setups, dialogue
additions and changes, handwritten annotations
Box 15C Bob Fosse Editing Notes, grey 3 ring binder
Marked "final draft, 15 Feb., 1971," and "script
notes, Trudy von Trotha;" with shooting and editing
information: soundtrack, camera, footage, etc.
CALL ME MISTER (Fosse)
Box 43A LEGAL
1946 Actors Equity contract, Bob Fosse
CAN-CAN (Verdon)
Box 43A PROGRAMS
4 different undated souvenir programs
Box 43A MAGAZINE REVIEWS
VOGUE, 10/15/53: "See the Pretty Petticoat;" TOPS,
4/54: "Tops in Theatre;" METROPOLITAN HOST Theatre
review, 5/16/53; SATURDAY REVIEW, 5/23/53: "Who
Threw the Overalls in Mr. Porter's Bouilla-
baisse," by Henry Hewes
Box 43A NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 86D PRESS, Fragile
Fragile magazines (complete), magazine pages, and
newspaper clippings, bound to matte board, from:
A) CAN-CAN, 1953-54
B) CAN-CAN, 1953-54
C) CAN-CAN, pages from single fragile
scrapbook
D) CAN-CAN
Box 86A CAN-CAN ILLUSTRATION
Milton Marx caricature on illustration board,
13x18; black and white
CHICAGO (Fosse and Verdon)
Box 18A RESEARCH: The TRIBUNE and Chicago journalism
Book excerpts, photocopies, re: Chicago TRIBUNE in
1928, Chicago journalism, historical events in
Chicago, e.g. hangings, etc.
Box 18A RESEARCH: 1920-30
Photocopies of newspapers, 1922-23, on journalism
and crime
Box 18A RESEARCH: Beulah Annin
Articles on Beulah Annin and a few other
characters: cover sheets (listing specific stage
characters) and clippings pertaining to the actual
person who was the basis for the character; also,
notes on meetings with researchers
Box 18A RESEARCH: 1920's
Police files, newspaper clippings
Box 18A RESEARCH: Annin's police files and trial transcript
50 pp., including a letter from Ian Shearn,
researcher
Box 18A RESEARCH: Annin reportage
Cover letter from Alison Price, researcher, and
miscellaneous correspondence with researchers;
excerpts from news-clippings, trial transcripts and
reportage, 80 pp., including "Gene Siskel" research
Box 18G MAGAZINE REVIEWS
AFTERDARK, 6/75: "Gwen Verdon and CHICAGO: The
Reincarnation of Roxie Hart," by Clarke Taylor (3
copies); PEOPLE, 6/23/75: "ON STAGE: Separated but
still mated professionally, Gwen Verdon hoofs for
her ex;" CENTRE STAGE, 9-10/77: "Bob Fosse: From
Dancer to Director," by Lawrence O'Toole
Box 18G MAGAZINE REVIEWS
CUE, 7/7-13/75; CUE, 6/16-22/75: "All About Evil,"
by Marilyn Stasio; DANCE Magazine, 11/75: "Bob
Fosse's CHICAGO: Roxie's Razzle Dazzle and All That
Jazz," by Richard Philp; FOOTLIGHTS, 6/78: "Ladies
of the Evening: Gwen Verdon, Portrait by Peter
Michael Carlisle" (same, Chita Rivera, Portrait) (3
copies); VOGUE, 9/75: "People Are Talking About..,
CHICAGO, That Razzle Dazzle Musical," by Leo Lerman
Box 18F PROGRAMS
Playbill, Forrest Theatre, 1975 (autographed to Bob
Fosse from Paul Solen); playbill, 46th St. Theatre,
5/75; Stagebill (Chicago, IL) 4/78 (4 copies);
Playbills, 46th St. Theatre: 7/75, 6/77, 8/75,
3/77; Playbill, Colonial Theatre, 9/77
Box 18F PROGRAMS, international productions
Program and handbill: Teatro El Nacional, Buenos
Aires, 1977; programs only for the following:
Greece, 1982; Aarhus Theatre, 1976; Theater in
Freiburg, 1981; Abo Svenska Teater, Finland, 1976;
Teater Arena, Ghent, Belgium, 1980-81; Operett
Szinhaz, Hungary; Stadsteatern, 3/11/76 (European
premiere); Helsingin Kaupungin Teater (and
handbill); Det Danske Teater, 1976-77; Hamburger
Thalia Theater, 1977; Riksteatern, Sweden, 1976;
handbill: Arena Teater, Ghent, Belgium; handbill
and program: Ungdommens Teater, 1977
Box 18F PROGRAMS
The Hanna Theatre, Cleveland, 1978; Harrah's
Marina, Atlantic City, 1985; University of Akron,
Ohio program, autographed to Bob Fosse by Arlene
Fontana
Box 18F PROGRAM, 1927 production
From 2/21/27 play CHICAGO by Maurine Watkins,
staged by George Abbott, autographed by George
Abbott
Box 18C STAGE MANAGERS' REPORTS, 1975-78
Box 18D MUSIC
For "It," " Funny Honey," "Roxie," " Razzle
Dazzle," "We Both Reached for the Gun," "Loopin' on
the Loop," "Me & My Baby," "My Own Best Friend"
Box 19B PRESS REVIEWS, miscellaneous productions
Box 19B PRESS REVIEWS, foreign productions
Box 19B PRESS REVIEWS, 1973
Box 19B PRESS REVIEWS, 1975
Box 19B NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, 1975
Box 19B PRESS REVIEWS, 1977
Box 19B PRESS REVIEWS, 1978
Box 19B PRESS REVIEWS, 1978
Box 19B NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, 1978
Box 19B PRESS REVIEWS, 1979
Box 19B PRESS REVIEWS, 1985
Box 18C TECH NOTES, undated
Box 18B CASTING, 1974-75
Correspondence with Michael Shurtleff; audition
schedules; character lists; callback sheets;
photo/resumes and letters; audition lists with Bob
Fosse notes
Box 18B CASTING
Photo/resumes; audition cards; Bob Fosse notes
Box 18B CASTING, 1976-77
See above
Box 18B CASTING
Photo/resumes; undated correspondence
Box 18C TELEVISION COMMERCIALS
1975 correspondence re: commercial spots, plus
television schedule
Box 18C REHEARSAL AND PRODUCTION SCHEDULES
1974 and undated; including contact lists
Box 18C CORRESPONDENCE AND SCHEDULES, 1978
A few 1978 promotional schedules for Verdon and
Rivera
Box 18C LEGAL/FINANCIAL
1974 correspondence re: Bob Fosse production
contacts; royalty agreements and correspondence
about reductions in royalties, 1974-76; 1974
prospectus for CHICAGO Company; Verdon's 9/74
agreement with CHICAGO Co.; closing notice; file
covers 1974-82, but material is sparse after 1976
Box 18C FINANCIAL, 1974-79
Financial statements and budgets, 1974-79,
including estimated production costs, 1974, and
weekly operating budgets; assorted financial
statements for 1975, 1977
Box 18C CORRESPONDENCE, miscellaneous
Several theatre-goers' complaints
Box 18C CORRESPONDENCE, re: script
Fred Ebb's notes on script reviews, undated;
4/23/78 letter re: script reviews, with Bob Fosse
marginal notes
Box 18E PLAYSCRIPT
French's musical library publication of CHICAGO
script (3 copies)
Box 19B CALENDAR, 1986
"Hirschfeld's Broadway," including CHICAGO
caricature; CHICAGO publicity card
Box 17C CHICAGO (Watkins)
Playscript of Maurine Watkins play; photocopied
press clippings from original (Watkins) production
Items 97C, 97K
POSTERS AND HANDBILLS
Black and white, 17x24 photo of trade ad for film
(1); 16x27 1/2 color lobby poster from Det Danske
Teater (1); 41x59 color poster, 46th Street Theatre
Box 93B HANDBILL, Framed
14x21 color handbill, Abo Svenska Theatre, in clear
plastic modular frame
Box 86A HANDBILLS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Single matte folder:
Handbill, color, 14x19, Alexander Theatre,
1977; Handbill, 16 1/2x23 1/2, color, Teater
Arena; Poster, 20x27 1/2 color, Operett
Szinhaz Drawing (reproduction), Verdon
dancing, by Mark Cote (2, same)
loose:
Caricature, on illustration board, by Mark
Cote; this is an original; there are copies
elsewhere
Box 85F SKETCH
12x15 pencil drawing by Graff, 1978, of Ann
Reinking and Liza Minnelli as Roxie Hart; mattted
in 20x23 frame
Box 86A PHOTOS
15x19, mounted black and white photos, both by
Murray Laden, one of Verdon, one of Verdon and
Chita Rivera
Box 87A FRAMED POSTER
16x20, color, 46th St. Theatre
CHICAGO - SCRIPTS
[NOTE: identifications such as "Director's final draft," or
"rehearsal draft," are taken directly from the scripts themselves,
as are dates. Scripts may be duplicates. The terms "annotated,"
"notations," "markings" refer not only to commentary written on the
scripts, but also any cuts, revisions, dialogue changes, etc., that
have been marked on a particular script. Covers have been
removed.]
Box 17A Script, 1st draft
Marked # 39, "1st draft, 8/3/73; no annotations;
136 pp.
Box 17A Script, 1st draft, blue vinyl cover
Marked # 7, "1st draft, 8/3/73; no annotations; 136
pp.
Box 17A Script, 1st draft, blue vinyl cover
Marked # 40; "1st draft, 8/13/73 (?);" 136 pp.; no
annotations
Box 17A Script, black vinyl cover
Undated; no annotations; 106 pp. plus property list
Box 17A Script, black vinyl cover
Undated; no annotations; 106 pp. plus property list
Box 17A Script, black vinyl cover
106 pp. plus property list; annotated, with
handwritten dance notes on final page
Box 17A Rehearsal script, black spring binder marked "Gwen
Verdon," inside red binder
Marked # 26, "Rehearsal script, 10/21/74;" 134+
pp.; much handwritten notation, mainly 1st Act
Box 17B Rehearsal script, black spring binder
Marked "10/21/74;" handwritten notation, including
dance notes, etc.; 136+ pp.
Box 17B Rehearsal script, black clip binder
Marked 10/21/74; 71 pp., 1st Act only; unmarked
Box 17B Playscript, Watkins, wood-grain vinyl clip binder
"CHICAGO, A Play in 3 Acts," by Maurine Watkins;
103+ pp., including property plot, electrical plot,
sketches, annotations
Box 17B Script pages
Both Act I and II; 150+ pp.; some handwritten notes
Box 17B Script pages
Some revisions dating 3/8/75; handwritten notations
and changes
Box 17B Script
150 pp.; from folder marked "Script corrections,
4/7/75; annotated
Box 17B Script
98+ pp., marked "Script corrections;" has felt
marker and pencil notation
Box 17B "Old script pages"
Very assorted pages, including entire handwritten
pages; typed "outline;" important file, heavily
annotated
Box 17C Script
Marked # 99, "1st draft, 8/3/73;" 132 pp.; unmarked
Box 19A Script, brown vinyl 3 ring binder
Director's script, including rehearsal and
production schedules 2/24/75; tabbed by scenes;
with revisions and notations
Box 17C Playscript, Watkins
CHICAGO, by Maurine Watkins, 1927 (Alfred A.
Knopf); see also playscript in paper files, listed
elsewhere
AT MBRS RECORDING
Phono record,"CHICAGO Surprise 1975 - Happy
Holidays from Peter Howard"
Box 19A Script, Gwen Verdon
From discarded 3 ring binder; contains script,
revised pages, personal notes, clippings, etc.;
heavily annotated by Verdon
Box 17C Script, Gwen Verdon, corrected copy, black vinyl cover
Marked on title page: "Gwen Verdon corrected copy,
as of 1/20/78;" 106 pp.; some annotation
Box 17C Script, Act I
Assorted pages, Act I, with list of "small changes"
Box 17C Playscript, Watkins
CHICAGO, by Maurine Watkins
CHILDREN! CHILDREN! (Verdon)
Box 43A Script, revised 12/71, blue spring binder
Cover: Gwen Verdon imprint; marked "Revised,
12/71;" 95 pp.; extensively annotated
Box 43A Script miscellany, belongs with above script
Loose pages originally with above script, including
pages of script changes, many memo pad pages of
dialogue in Verdon's hand and others'; couple
letters re: script changes
Box 43C 2 sheets of music
Box 43A Script, revised 12/71
Marked same; 92 pp.; very few markings
Box 43C NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 43A MAGAZINE REVIEWS
NEW YORK, 3/16/72: mention in "Best Bets"
Box 43A PROGRAMS
Playbills: Ritz Theatre, 2/72 (6 copies); Ritz
Theatre souvenir programs (4)
COCOON (AND COCOON: The Return) (Verdon)
Box 43A NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 43A PRESS REVIEWS
This category includes transcripts of radio and
television coverage, as well as print reviews
Box 43A MAGAZINE REVIEWS
NIGHT LIFE, 6/85: "Back on the Screen in This
Summer's COCOON: Gwen Verdon," by Jane Waldman (2
copies); GOLDEN YEARS, 11/88: "COCOON: The Return"
Box 43A PREMIERE PROGRAM
THE CONQUERING HERO (Fosse)
Box 43B Script, 1st draft
Marked #4, and "Robert Linden" on cover; title:
"The Hero;" these are two scripts taped together,
1st and 2nd acts; 78 pp. each act; few annotations
Box 43B CONTRACTS, 1960-61
Bob Fosse correspondence with MSC Artists; Bob
Fosse contract; correspondence with Producer's
Theatre; agreements re: rights to the Preston
Sturges property; MBPC (minimum basic production
contract) involving authorship; 4/6/60 Fosse letter
to Robert Freyer and Lawrence Carr outlining his
complaints about their professional relationships
(photocopy); miscellaneous; extensive file
Box 43B FOSSE NOTES
Notes on GOTCHA Ballet, War Ballet and others;
sketch for narrative of ballet; script page
excerpts, annotated; handwritten
choreography/music/dialogue notes by Bob Fosse -
Fosse's working notes; original folder title:
"Notes and Ballet narration (some scenes),
suggestions by Gelbart for campaign."
Box 43B LEGAL/ARBITRATION
Newspaper clippings on arbitration; legal papers on
R. Fosse vs Producers Theatre, Inc. 1960-61,
regarding Bob Fosse choreography; correspondence,
exhibits; 8/28/61 notice of award by American
Arbitration Association; Arbitrator's award - 6
cents - on note card, plus news clipping on award
Box 43B PROGRAM
National Theatre, 11/60
Box 43B FOSSE NOTEBOOK
Small (5x7) notebook containing handwritten notes,
"Hero" (and other)
Box 57C MUSIC
Music for "The Campaign"
THE COTTON CLUB (Verdon)
Box 43B PREMIERE PROGRAM
DAMN YANKEES (stage) (Fosse and Verdon)
Box 43B PROGRAMS
46th Street Theatre Playbill, 5/55, 5/56; 2
souvenir programs
Box 43B LEGAL
Bob Fosse choreography contract, with draft
material
Box 43B MAGAZINE REVIEWS
SATURDAY REVIEW, 5/21/55: "A Frank Marriedwell
Story," by Henry Hewes; NEWSWEEK, 5/16/55: "The
Bases Loaded;" TIME, 5/16/55: "New Musical in
Manhattan" (2 copies); THEATRE ARTS, 11/56: "The
Complete Text of DAMN YANKEES;" VOGUE, 5/15/55:
"People Are Talking About..."
Box 43B NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 57C MUSIC
Music sheets for "Who's Got the Pain," "Brains and
Talent"
Box 86D PRESS, fragile
Fragile magazines (complete), magazine pages, and
newspaper clippings, bound to matte board, from:
DAMN YANKEES, pages from single fragile
scrapbook
DAMN YANKEES, 1955: magazines; 1974: clippings
DAMN YANKEES, 1955: clippings
DAMN YANKEES, 1955: clippings
Box 86D LOOSE:
VARIETY, 5/11/55: "Baseball B.O. Poison," page
one
BILLBOARD, 5/14/55
Box 86A PHOTOS, matte folder:
15x 19 1/2 black and white photo of Verdon in
"Whatever Lola Wants" costume (damaged)
Box 93A POSTERS:
Framed poster, 15x23, color, original, Verdon in
baseball shirt, 46th St. Theatre
Box 93A Framed poster, 15x23, color, original, Verdon in
"Whatever Lola Wants" costume, 46th St. Theatre
Box 86A MISCELLANEOUS
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED montage of magazine photos of
Verdon in baseball uniform, 16x19
DAMN YANKEES (film)
Box 43B LEGAL
1957 contract, Warner Bros. and Gwen Verdon; 1958
contract, Bob Fosse and Warner Bros.; contract
notes; single letter re: use of choreography in
another production
Box 43B NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 43B AD CUTS, 2
Box 86A AD CUTS, 3, single matte folder
DAMN YANKEES (1974 revival)
Box 43B PROGRAMS
Arie Crown Music Theatre, Chicago, undated and
1972, multiple copies
Box 43B NEWS CLIPPINGS
Box 43C PRESS REVIEWS
This category includes transcripts of radio and
television coverage, as well as print reviews
Box 43C PRESS, Fragile
Fragile clippings, bound to matte board, from: DAMN
YANKEES, 1974: clippings, bound with 1955 magazines
DANCE ME A SONG (Fosse)
Box 43B NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 43B PROGRAM
Royale Theatre Playbill, 1/1950
DANCIN' (Fosse)
Box 85F HANDBILLS
2 handbills, 14x22, full color, Broadhurst Theatre
(1 on cardboard)
Box 97D POSTERS AND AD CUTS
Foreign DANCIN' posters: 15x22, color, Palais de
Congres, Paris; 16x23, color, Theatre Mogador,
Paris; 13 x 27 1/2 (not illustrated, handbill),
Teatro Comunale Bologna; 27x39, color, Teatro
Petruzzelli, 1983
Box 85A 2 sheets of ad cuts (mildewed)
THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (Verdon)
[Note: Verdon appeared on 7 episodes of The Danny Kaye Show between
1963 and 1965]
Box 43C NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, 1965
Box 43B MAGAZINE REVIEWS
DANCE Magazine, 11/64: "Turn on TV"
Box 43B LEGAL
Notes and 1 p. correspondence on contract draft
THE DINAH SHORE SHOW
Box 43B LEGAL
1959 contract, Bob Fosse choreography for "Erbie
Fitch's Twitch", from REDHEAD
ENDINGS (Fosse)
[Note: Title of the film is referred to both as ENDING and ENDINGS]
Boxes 14C CASTING
-14D
photo/resumes
Box 14C CASTING - "Possible people to see in NY"
photo/resumes
Box 14C CASTING - "People seen in NY"
photo/resumes
Box 14C CASTING - "People seen in CA"
photo/resumes
Box 14C CASTING - "People who have been seen"
photo/resumes
Box 14B CASTING - Fosse audition notes, blue cover notebook
Bob Fosse's notebook; has audition schedules, notes
on characters and actors; extensive
Box 14C CASTING - "CA"
Interview schedules and notes
Box 14C CASTING - "NY"
Interview schedules and notes
Box 14B FOSSE NOTEBOOK
Composition book marked "Ending;" contains notes by
Bob Fosse (handwritten) and others; plus clipping
on the book ENDING, loose news clippings on
hospices; Pete Hamill and Herb Gardner notes on
ENDING script; transcript of notes for film called
DYING; documentary shot list; Stuart Ostrow notes
on script; Robert Alan Aurthur's article, "Thoughts
on the Death of My Father"
Box 14B RESEARCH
Magazine clippings on book ENDING by Hilma
Wolitzer, on death, disease, dying; notes on the
movie DYING; brochures on hospitals and medical
centers; medical reports on myeloma disease;
questionnaires for physicians, including that of
8/26/76 meeting with physician in E. Hampton on
dying and ethics; outline/synopsis of ENDING by
script reader; notes on stages of death; clippings
on cancer treatments
Box 14B LEGAL, 1974-76
Correspondence re: agreement with Hilda Wolitzer;
R. A. Aurthur's agreement, 10/74 and revisions
(including memos to Ostrow on this); draft and
memos on Ostrow/Fosse agreement, 1975; CPA letter
to Ostrow on taxes
Box 14D PRODUCTION SCHEDULE AND BUDGET
2/5/76 shooting schedule and preliminary production
budget; cover memo, Steve Kesten
Box 14B PRODUCTION MISCELLANY
Script record; photo/resumes; letters; notes on
crew applicants
ENDING - SCRIPTS
[NOTE: identifications such as "Director's final draft," or
"rehearsal draft," are taken directly from the scripts themselves,
as are dates. Scripts may be duplicates. The terms "annotated,"
"notations," "markings" refer not only to commentary written on the
scripts, but also any cuts, revisions, dialogue changes, etc., that
have been marked on a particular script]
[NOTE: initial scripts were titled ENDING; the revisions and final
are titled ENDINGS]
Box 13D Screenplay, 2nd draft revisions
Marked "9/4/75, 9/11/75;" 129 pp.; some annotation,
cuts, additions, etc.; ENDINGS
Box 13D Screenplay
Marked "9/4/75, 9/11/75;" 129 pp.; ENDINGS; partial
script carbon, not annotated, plus miscellaneous
heavily annotated revised pages; Bob Fosse/Aurthur
(?) notes on script; letter to Ostrow and Bob Fosse
from Aurthur (?), 1975, on script; documentary shot
list with revisions; Aurthur's (?) outline and
notes for meeting with Bob Fosse, 12/18/74; other
noted dated 12/75; this file contains extensive
material
Box 13D Screenplay, 2nd draft
Marked "94/75, 9/11/75," ENDINGS; 136 pp.;
photocopy with few markings
Box 13C Screenplay revisions
100 pp.; extensive revisions
Box 13D Screenplay, 11/11/75
Marked ENDING; 103 pp.; few changes, several loose
pages; photocopy
Box 14A Screenplay, 12/1/75
Marked #20; 105 pp.; few markings
Box 14A Screenplay, 12/1/75
Marked #6; 105 pp.; unmarked
Box 14A Screenplay, 12/1/75
Marked #2; 105 pp.; unmarked
Box 14A Screenplay, 12/1/75, purple cover
Marked #21; 105 pp.; unmarked except for Bob Fosse
notes on title page
Box 14A Screenplay, 2nd draft, pink folder
Seems to be 2 separate scripts; 1 = 132 pp.; 2 =
marked "2nd draft," is only 44 pp.; few annotations
on both
FUNNY GIRL (Fosse)
Box 44A Script, 9/6/63, yellow paper cover
36 pp.; unmarked
Box 44A Script, 9/6/63, yellow paper cover
36 pp.; unmarked
Box 44A Script, revised
Incomplete, mainly Act II; revised pages; unmarked;
undated; 36 pp.
Box 44A Script, Act II, blue and white paper cover
38 pp; unmarked
Box 44A Script, red paper cover
Acts I and II; 84 pp.; undated; some annotation,
Act II
Box 44A Script, 6/19/63, black cover
Act I only; 52 pp.; extensive annotations in Bob
Fosse's hand
Box 44A Script, Act I
Act I only; 22 pp.; revised pages dated 9/6/63;
unmarked
Box 44A "Script pages, old 2nd Act"
Annotated
Box 44A "Script pages, Act II revisions
Annotated
Box 44A Music
Music/song plot, that is, breakdown of songs by Act
and breakdown of numbers by characters; song
outline Act II; lyrics with notes
Box 44A "Ideas - old scenes - untyped lyrics, and some
correspondence"
From folder marked same; also includes old plot
synopsis
Box 44A "Extra lyrics"
From folder marked same; also, breakdown of numbers
by characters
Box 44A SET DESIGNS
Box 44A CASTING
One page audition schedule and notes; 2
photo/resumes
Box 44A CORRESPONDENCE
Bob Fosse handwritten 3 pp. letter draft, re: his
withdrawal from show; telegram 9/17/63 Ray Stark to
Bob Fosse re: same
Box 44A LEGAL
8/63 draft of Bob Fosse director/choreographer
agreement, with pages of notes; material on Bob
Fosse withdrawal, 9/63, from show, including
agreement, associated correspondence, and newspaper
clipping
Box 44A PROGRAM
Souvenir program; telegram re: premiere party
cancellation
THE GARRY MOORE SHOW (CBS TV)
(Fosse and Verdon)
Box 44A LEGAL
Fosse contract for dancing
Box 44A LEGAL
Verdon's appearance contract, CBS TV, 1965; 1963
correspondence, including draft agreement on JIMMY
DEAN SHOW (she turned this show down)
Box 57C MUSIC
THE GIRL I LEFT HOME FOR (Verdon)
Box 57C MUSIC, Miscellaneous
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS
WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
(Fosse)
Box 44E PROGRAMS
46th Street Theatre Playbill, 11/5/62; souvenir
program
Box 44C NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, New York
Box 44C NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, Philadelphia
Box 44C NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, general
Box 44C Script, blue vinyl cover
Undated; 131 pp; Bob Fosse notes on staging, songs,
etc.
Box 44C Script
Marked "Bob Fosse #33 revised;" undated; 151 pp.;
with property list, costume plot; prop plot; light
and music cues; not annotated
Box 44C FINANCIAL, 1 of 2
Correspondence 1964-75, extensive; this is material
related to financial matters, primarily
negotiations and payments to Bob Fosse for US and
international productions of HOW TO SUCCEED; also
including some box office statements, NYC 1964 and
London Company; some Feuer/Martin correspondence
re: royalties and disagreements
Box 44C FINANCIAL, 2 of 2
Continuation of above
Box 44C PRESS REVIEWS
Including press book, 1961
Box 44C MISCELLANEOUS
Several rehearsal schedules for national company
Box 93A POSTER
Framed poster, 15x23, color, 46th St. Theatre
KISS ME KATE (Fosse)
Box 44C NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 44C FINANCIAL
One royalty statement, 2/18/65
LEGS (Verdon)
Box 44C NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 85F MISCELLANEOUS
11x14 poster board thank you card from LEGS cast to
Gwen Verdon
LENNY (Fosse) - PAPER
Box 20A CASTING - various male roles
photo/resumes
Box 20A CASTING - "Honey"
Bob Fosse notes and memos discussing various
actresses; casting suggestions from Juliet Taylor
Casting; interview/auditions schedules and notes;
polaroids, photo/resumes; correspondence - 1973;
extensive file
Box 20A CASTING - "Honey"
photo/resumes; polaroids
Box 20A CASTING - "Honey"
photo/resumes; polaroids; memos and letters
Box 20A CASTING - "Lenny"
photo/resumes; polaroids; memos and letters
Box 20A CASTING - general files
call back lists, 12/73; cast breakdown lists
11/20/73; memo, 12/3/73 on "dates and suggested
cast deals;" casting lists, McDermont Talent
Agency; audition notes, including Florida casting;
correspondence, Michael Shurtleff; resumes: crew
and cast; many casting suggestions and Bob Fosse
notes
Box 20A CREW LISTS
Box 20A MUSIC
Correspondence re: musical director/composer;
Herbie Hancock package; music: "Yesterday"
(Beatles)
Box 20B SCHEDULES: pre-production, shooting
Interiors list/by scene; shooting schedule 1/18/74;
preproduction: Dustin Hoffman and Valerie Perrine;
memo re: Geoffrey Unsworth; travel schedule; memo
re: Miami location survey
Box 20A CREW RESUMES
Resumes for positions of costume designer, art
director, production designer, production manager,
production assistants, film editor; agency
personnel lists; Bob Fosse notes
Box 20B LOCATIONS
Location lists: interiors/exteriors, clubs; memos;
Bob Fosse lists
Box 22A RESEARCH (A)
Note: these may be part of Lawrence Schiller
research. The Schiller list is filed in "Research -
Schiller (1 of 6)"
Photocopies of newspaper and magazine articles on
Lenny Bruce, including Albert Goldman's writing;
photocopies of book excerpts (including Paul
Krasner's autobiography, HOW A SATIRICAL EDITOR...)
with notes; SATURDAY REVIEW le, 1972; NEW YORKER,
1969; PLAYBOY, 1960's, etc.
Box 22A RESEARCH (B)
Note: these may be part of Lawrence Schiller
research. The Schiller list is filed in "Research -
Schiller (1 of 6)"
Additional photocopied clippings, 1959-72
Box 22A RESEARCH (C)
Note: these may be part of Lawrence Schiller
research. The Schiller list is filed in "Research -
Schiller (1 of 6)"
8x10 photo of Lenny Bruce billboard; Albert Goldman
articles, 1963-64 on Lenny Bruce; annotated
article,"Lenny and a Mother's Love," by Arthur
Bell; miscellaneous, including someone's notes on
Bruce and on the Schiller interviews; list of Lenny
Bruce tapes (2 copies)
Box 22A RESEARCH: court proceedings
Court proceedings, obscenity trials: summaries,
transcripts, and associated papers from 1956-
Box 22A RESEARCH: Lawrence Schiller (1 of 6)
The following 6 files are transcripts of interviews
done by Schiller, and documentation collected for
the book LENNY BRUCE (by Albert Goldman, "based on
the journalism of Lawrence Schiller). File # 1 of 6
contains a list explaining the interviewees'
relationship to Bruce, as well as the additional
documentation
Box 22A RESEARCH: Lawrence Schiller (2 of 6)
Box 22A RESEARCH: Lawrence Schiller (3 of 6)
Box 22A RESEARCH: Lawrence Schiller (4 of 6)
Box 22A RESEARCH: Lawrence Schiller (5 of 6)
Box 22A RESEARCH: Lawrence Schiller (6 of 6)
Box 20B FINANCIAL
Correspondence re: accounting, Movielab, 1974;
correspondence between David Licht and United
Artists re: United Artists' methods of billing and
payment on LENNY; LENNY financial statements,
5/29/76
Box 20B LEGAL: contracts
1973-78; 1974: film credit negotiations, title
layouts, correspondence re: profit distribution;
1973: Bob Fosse director's contract; Bob
Fosse/United Artists "financing and sale
agreements" re: LENNY, 1978
Box 20B LENNY (play) REVIEWS
Reviews of the O'Horgan-directed production of the
play LENNY
Box 20B CORRESPONDENCE
Letters from and promotional piece on Sally Marr
(Bruce's mother); 12/21/73 letter to Hoffman from
"Gloria," with information on Lenny Bruce;
correspondence re: appropriate research sources for
Bob Fosse and Dustin Hoffman; several long
letters, 1973, from Marvin Worth, 20th Century Fox
re: Marvin Worth's reaction to LENNY script (these
have Bob Fosse's marginal notes), and personal note
from Marvin Worth to Bob Fosse; note, from Julian
Barry to Bob Fosse; 1974: Worth at 20th Century-Fox
re: marketing exploitation of film (and photocopy
of same, with Bob Fosse's marginal notes
Box 20B PRODUCTION MISCELLANEOUS
Several personal letters re: casting; Miami street
map; several phone call lists and memos from Bob
Fosse's secretary; script record; screening guest
list with screening notes; cast/crew hiring
miscellany; list of office expenses, including
small billings; extras list, LA party; Bob Fosse
itinerary for 6/4/74
Box 22C NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Contains newspaper clippings only
Box 22C PRESS REVIEWS
This category includes transcripts of radio and
television coverage, as well as print reviews
Box 22A MAGAZINES
"Stamp Help Out! And Other Short Stories" by Lenny
Bruce: paperback publication
Box 22C MAGAZINES
NEW YORK, 12/16/74: "Bob Fosse Off His Toes," by
Paul Gardner (2 copies); NEW YORK, 1973: "The Real
Lenny Bruce is Alive and Well in Brooklyn," by
Albert Goldman; TIME, 12/16/74: "People" section
note on Valerie Perrine
Box 22C MAGAZINES
PEOPLE, 12/23/74: "After Talking Dirty in LENNY,
Dustin Hoffman Tries Directing," by Richard
Meryman; PEOPLE, 12/2/74: "Valerie Perrine of
LENNY, the Sex Goddess of the '70's," by Jim
Watters; NEW TIMES, 12/13/74: "The Irresistible
Rise of Lenny Bruce," by Frank Rich; FILMMAKERS
NEWSLETTER, Feb/75: "The Making of LENNY: An
Interview with Bob Fosse," (3 copies)
Box 20B MAGAZINES
VILLAGE VOICE, 11/21/74: "Will the Real Lenny Bruce
Please Stand Up," by Andrew Sarris; NEW YORK,
9/6/71: "Tonight at the Blue Angel: Lenny Bruce,"
by Albert Goldman
Box 22C MISCELLANEOUS CLIPPINGS (for research)
Newspaper and magazine clippings
Box 23D RESEARCH SLIDES
2 boxes of research slides for porno districts,
Boston
Box 86D PRESS, Oversized
NEW YORK NEWS Magazine, 1/26/75, (LENNY) "Valerie
Perrine: I'm No Grace Kelly," by Bob Lardine
Box 85F POSTERS
LENNY, black and white poster, 27x41, (2 copies)
Box 93A ADS, Framed
Framed black and white VARIETY page, 16x20, "Bob
Fosse, Best Director for LENNY"
Box 87A Framed 23x18 double page spread United Artists magazine
advertisement, listing Oscar nominations for LENNY, black
and white
Box 23E MISCELLANEOUS
5 1/2 x 7 1/2 framed drawing of Lenny Bruce
LENNY - SCRIPTS
[NOTE: identifications such as "Director's final draft," or
"rehearsal draft," are taken directly from the scripts themselves,
as are dates. Scripts may be duplicates. The terms "annotated,"
"notations," "markings" refer not only to commentary written on the
scripts, but also any cuts, revisions, dialogue changes, etc., that
have been marked on a particular script]
Box 21A Screenplay, 1st draft
72 pp.; final pages: "some obligatory scenes"
Box 21A Screenplay, 1st draft
72 pp.; contains a small amount of handwritten
annotation (Bob Fosse and Julian Barry?)
Box 21A Screenplay, 1st draft, maroon vinyl cover
72 pp.; small amount of handwritten annotation
Box 21A Screenplay, July 26, 1973, black 3-ring binder
140 pp.; with heavy annotation, including cuts,
revisions, dialogue changes; Bob Fosse?
Box 21A Screenplay, 7/26/73
Marked "working script," 143 pp.; few annotations
(Bob Fosse)
Box 21A Screenplay, 7/26/73, red vinyl cover
Marked #7; 143 pp., few annotations
Box 21A Screenplay, 7/26/73
Marked # 13; 143 pp.; no annotations; pages missing
Box 21A Screenplay, 7/26/73
Marked # 31; 143 pp.; no annotations
Box 21B Screenplay, 7/26/73
143 pp.; no annotations
Box 21B Screenplay, 7/26/73
143 pp.; no annotations
Box 21B Screenplay, 7/26/73, red vinyl cover
143 pp.; no annotations
Box 21B Screenplay, 7/26/73, red vinyl cover
143 pp.; no annotations
Box 21B Screenplay, 7/26/73, red vinyl cover
143 pp.; no annotations
Box 21C Screenplay, 7/26/73, black spring binder
143 pp.; with revised pages; includes Bob Fosse
annotations, e.g. dialogue additions
Box 21C Screenplay, rehearsal draft, 12/8/73, black vinyl cover
128 pp.; no annotations
Box 21C Screenplay, Director's final draft, 1/5/74, black spring
binder
Cover marked "Fosse," inside page marked "Fosse
#1," annotated by Bob Fosse, including dialogue
changes, revised pages; 135 pp., with alternate
endings
Box 20C Screenplay, "old pages"
copy of first draft, 250 pp. with revised pages,
cuts, etc. from various script versions; both
originals and photocopies; many annotations,
including Bob Fosse and Julian Barry
Box 20C Screenplay, "old pages"
copy of first draft, 150-200 pp. with revised
pages, cuts, etc. from various script versions;
both originals and photocopies; many annotations,
including Bob Fosse and Julian Barry
Box 20C Screenplay, "old pages"
copy of first draft, 150-200 pp. with revised
pages, cuts, etc. from various script versions;
both originals and photocopies; many annotations,
including Bob Fosse and Julian Barry
Box 20C Screenplay, miscellaneous pages
100 pp.; annotated, including Bob Fosse and Julian
Barry notes
Box 20D Screenplay, miscellaneous pages
100-150 pp.; few annotations
Box 20C Screenplay materials
Very miscellaneous; 35-50 pp., including script
corrections and changes, a few editing notes, 1974;
script memos, 1973, David Picker to Bob Fosse;
script #4 revisions, etc.
Box 21C Fosse notebook
Composition notebook, with Bob Fosse handwritten
notes
Box 20D "Old script pages" (1)
Assorted; some annotations
Box 20D "Old script pages" (2)
Assorted; some annotations
Box 20D "Old script pages" (3)
Assorted; some annotations
Box 20D "Old script pages" (4)
Assorted; no annotations
Box 23A "Master script - Nick Sgarro", binder
Dated 1/5/74; marked "master script - Nick Sgarro"
on front page; 128 pp., including timing, notes,
with few annotations. Sgarro was script
supervisor.
Box 23A Screenplay, 7/26/73, maroon vinyl cover
143 pp.; no annotations
Box 23A Screenplay, 7/26/73, maroon vinyl cover
143 pp.; no annotations
Box 23A Screenplay, rehearsal draft, 12/8/73, black vinyl cover
128 pp.; no annotations
Box 23A Screenplay, rehearsal draft, 12/8/73, black vinyl cover
128 pp.; no annotations
Box 23B Screenplay, rehearsal draft, 12/8/73, black vinyl cover
128 pp.; no annotations
Box 23B Screenplay, revised rehearsal draft, 12/8/73
Marked "revisions up to date 1/2/74;" label on
black vinyl cover was "revised rehearsal draft,
1/2/74;" 128 pp. with revisions
Box 21C Fosse notebook
Box 23B Screenplay, first draft, maroon vinyl cover
72 pp.; very few notations
Box 23B Screenplay, revised draft, 11/13/70
120 pp.; grey paper cover marked: "No. 1;" unmarked
Box 23B Screenplay, first draft, 3/30/70, green paper cover
142 pp.; unmarked
Box 23B Screenplay
Marked both "#1" and "No. 3"on title page; 105 pp.;
unmarked
Box 23C Screenplay
Marked "Script No. 4" on title page, with Julian
Barry notes (photocopied) on title page; 105 pp.
with notation (photocopy)
Box 23C Screenplay, work in progress
Marked "work in progress" on title page, with
handwritten note to Bob Fosse signed "Julian;" 52
pp.; unmarked
Box 23C Screenplay
105+ pp. with revised pages; unmarked
Box 23C Screenplay, revised 2nd draft, 8/3/70
Marked "production # 8895" on yellow paper cover;
124 pp.; unmarked
Box 23C Screenplay, 2nd draft, 5/19/70, green paper cover
149 pp.; unmarked
LITTLE ME (Fosse)
Box 44E NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 44D PRESS REVIEWS
Box 44C Script, 8/71, black vinyl cover
Marked # 21; 130 pp.; unmarked
Box 44D PROGRAM
Playbill, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 1/7/63
Box 44D MAGAZINE REVIEWS
THEATRE ARTS, 11/62: "The Seven Caesars," by
Richard and Betsy Gehman; THEATRE ARTS, 5/63, on
Tony Nominations; NEWSWEEK, 11/26/62 (cover): "Sid
Caesar: The Many Faces of LITTLE ME;" "Conquest of
the 7 Caesars," by Richard Lemon; DANCE Magazine,
6/63: "Lament for Broadway," by Leo Lerman
Box 44C FINANCIAL
1963-65, assorted royalty statements and associated
correspondence; 1963 financial statement for Hot
Spot Venture (LITTLE ME?)
Box 44C CASTING
Audition schedules and notes, callbacks, 1962
Box 44D FOSSE NOTEBOOK
Composition notebook, with handwritten notes,
including dance notes, production list; also legal
pad pages with notes on dances, stage business,
etc.
Boxes 44C LEGAL
-44D
1964 licensing agreement with Tams Witmark; Bob
Fosse's co-director and choreographer agreements,
various drafts, one signed, related correspondence
and notes; royalty agreements; agreements on
soundtrack album rights; Letter of Instructions;
British licensing agreements; agreement for the
original cast album with RCA; material on proposed
tour, etc.
Boxes 44C LEGAL
-44D
Continuation of #9
Box 93A POSTERS
Framed poster, 15x23, original, color, Lunt-
Fontanne Theatre
Artist's design paste-up, by Paul Bacon, 20x28
THE LITTLE PRINCE (Fosse)
Box 44D MAGAZINE REVIEWS
VARIETY, Japan, 1985 (2 different issues); SIGHT &
SOUND, Summer 1973 (cover)
Box 44E PRESS REVIEWS
Box 44E NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 44D PRODUCTION MISCELLANEOUS
Unit list, editing notes
LIZA WITH A Z (Fosse)
Box 45A NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 45A Script
Tabbed production script, with lyrics, props,
timing, etc.; annotated by Bob Fosse
Box 45A Script, 1st draft, 5/27/71
27 pp.; few notes
Box 45A FINANCIAL
Budget, LIZA WITH A Z account
Box 45A FOSSE NOTEBOOK
Composition notebook marked "LIZA TV" with dance
notes, music and lyric notes, etc.; not very
extensive
Box 45A CORRESPONDENCE
1 fan letter, 1973
LOVE LETTERS (Verdon)
Box 45A CORRESPONDENCE
Letter, 1990, from producer
THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT (Fosse)
Box 45A MADWOMAN: MISCELLANEOUS
[Note: this is a project Bob Fosse began work on;
Jerry Alden cover letter and "concept, MADWOMAN of
CHAILLOT musical version 8/3/62;" outline; Bob
Fosse notes; producing manager's contract, Bob
Fosse and the Dramatists Guild, with letter 5/20/59
attached]
MAGNUM, PI (Verdon)
Box 45A Script, bound leather
Cover embossed "Resolutions" and Gwen Verdon;
dedication to Gwen Verdon from Tom Selleck,
"Thanks, 'mom';" 236 pp.; production date, 2/5/88
Box 45A NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER (Verdon)
Box 45A NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
1 clipping with attached note
Box 86A MISCELLANEOUS
color advertisement from magazine, 9 1/2 x 12 1/2
MY SISTER EILEEN (Fosse)
Box 45A Script, bound leather
Embossed cover "MY SISTER EILEEN, BOB FOSSE;"
revised final draft screenplay, 10/4/54; frontpiece
8x10 black and white photo of Janet Leigh and Bob
Fosse, and 2nd inset 8x10 black and white photo of
3-shot with Bob Fosse; 218 pp.
Box 45A SONG SHEET
NEW GIRL IN TOWN (Fosse and Verdon)
Box 44E NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 45B PROGRAMS
Playbill, 46th St. Theatre, 10/57
Box 45B FINANCIAL/LEGAL
1 letter 1/13/58 concerning royalty agreement on
possibly closing show; 9/27/56 Bob Fosse
choreography contract; 9/28/57 "summary statement
of receipts and disbursements;" 3/1/58 and 2/22/58
weekly financial statements
Box 57B MUSIC
Music sheets for "Ven I Valse"
Box 85B MISCELLANEOUS
Costume Sketch (1) Gwen Verdon, for NEW GIRL IN
TOWN
Box 93A POSTER
Framed poster, damaged, tape; 15x23, Oscar Liebman,
artist, color, 46th St. Theatre
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (Fosse)
Box 45B Script, 3/9/64
123 pp.; some annotation
Box 45B CASTING
Cast breakdown; audition schedule and notes, 1964;
note: some of this seemed to include LITTLE ME and
PLEASURES AND PALACES material
Box 45B LEGAL
1963 correspondence re: contracts; Bob Fosse draft
director/choreographer contract with attached
correspondence, notes, revisions, etc.
Box 45B FOSSE NOTEBOOK
Composition notebook marked "Clear Day & Odd
Ideas," including dance notes and character notes
ONCE UPON AN EASTERTIME (Verdon)
Box 45B NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Note: show air date of 4/18/54, CBS
THE PAJAMA GAME (Fosse)
(Various stage productions and film version)
Box 45B CONTRACTS
Warner Bros. and Bob Fosse 1956 choreography
contract for motion picture; 1973 revival
choreography agreement; 1954 choreography agreement
for the play; MGM 1954 letter re: Bob Fosse's being
under contract to MGM when he left to do the play;
Bob Fosse letter to Jean Dalrymple re: reproduction
of Bob Fosse choreography in Lincoln Center
production; Bob Fosse letter, 1957 on summer stock
use of his choreography
Box 45B PROGRAMS
PlaybillS: Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 12/73; St. James
Theatre, 8/55; souvenir program
Box 45B NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box 45B REVIVAL, 1973
7/73 letter to Sam Cohn re: percentages to be paid
in revival
Box 93A PAJAMA GAME
Framed poster, 15x23, color, Peter Arno design, St.
James Theatre
PAL JOEY (Fosse)
(Various Productions)
Box 45C SCRIPT, black paper cover
Undated; 78 pp.; fragile; very few markings
Box 45C SCRIPT, REVIVAL 1952, black cover
78 pp.; "Bob Fosse" written on title page; few
markings
Box 45B SCRIPT, REVIVAL 1952
78 pp.; no annotation
Box 45B O'HARA STORY
Photocopy of John O'Hara's PAL JOEY short story
Box 45C PROGRAMS
Roosevelt Playhouse, Miami (1 original, 4
photocopies); Playbills, City Center 5/27/63 (Bob
Fosse) (2 copies); City Center 5/29/61 (3 copies);
souvenir programs, City Center (Bob Fosse) (4
copies)
Box 45C LIBRETTO AND LYRICS
2 photocopies of Random House publication, 1952
Box 45C NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, 1961-63
Box 45C CONTRACT, 1963
City Center choreography agreement; standard Actors
Equity agreement
Box 45C CONTRACT, 1955
Bob Fosse, Actors Equity contract
Box 45C PRESS REVIEWS
Box 45C FOSSE: CHOREOGRAPHY NOTES
Handwritten, 6 pp.
Box 45C VOCAL SCORE
Published by Chappell & Co., Inc
Box 93A POSTERS
Framed poster, black and white photo, 10x14 (photo
size), of Viveca Lindfors and Fosse, by Alice
Jeffrey, 1965; in 17x21 frame
Item 96A 20x40 Foamcore mounted photo of Fosse young, in
robe
LE PETITE CAFE (Fosse)
Box 45C SCRIPT
2 very fragile pages, and 2 photocopies of a play
Bob Fosse wrote as a child
PIPPIN (Fosse)
Box 24E MUSIC
"Spread a Little Sunshine" (2); "Magic To Do"
Box 25C PLAYBILLS
Imperial Theatre: 1973: March, April, May, June;
Imperial Theatre: April 1976, December 1975,
October 1972 (2); Program, Kennedy Center,
September 1972
Box 25D MAGAZINE REVIEWS
THE NEW YORKER, Nov. 4, 1974: "Carolingian Razzle
Dazzle," by Brendan Gill (2 copies); TIME, Nov. 6,
1972: "Medieval Hippie," by T.E. Kalem (2)
Box 25D MAGAZINE REVIEWS
NEWSWEEK, Nov. 6, 1972, "Charley's Kid," by Jack
Kroll; LIFE, Nov. 17, 1972, "Happy Reign for
PIPPIN" (2 copies)
Box 25C SONGBOOK
PIPPIN "vocal selection"
Box 25D PRESS REVIEWS - 1972
Including radio and television transcripts,
magazine clips and photocopies of newspaper
clippings, etc.
Box 25D NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS - 1972
Newspaper clips only
Box 25D PRESS REVIEWS - 1978, Los Angeles
Including radio and television transcripts,
magazine clips and photocopies of newspaper
clippings, etc.
Box 25D PRESS, Miscellaneous - 1973-82
Newspaper clippings
Box 25D NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS - 1975
Box 25D PRESS REVIEWS - 1986
Including radio and television transcripts,
magazine clips and photocopies of newspaper
clippings, etc.
Box 25D NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS - 1972
Box 25D PRESS REVIEWS - 1978, Los Angeles
Including radio and television transcripts,
magazine clips and photocopies of newspaper
clippings, etc.
Box 25D PRESS REVIEWS - 1972
Including radio and television transcripts,
magazine clips and photocopies of newspaper
clippings, etc.
Box 25A LEGAL/FINANCIAL
Bob Fosse contract, 3/3/72, with Stuart Ostrow;
legal correspondence, 197--72; prospectus, the
PIPPIN Co., 4/10/72; Limited Partnership Agreement,
PIPPIN Co., draft; 9/12/73, correspondence and
briefs, Schwartz-Ostrow (Alvin Deutsch is attorney
for Ostrow); 1973: pension and welfare payments,
London agreement; 1973-76: royalties information;
1974: TOFT, Lincoln Center agreement; 1971: draft,
Bob Fosse authors; 1971: contract draft for
direction/choreography
Box 24C DEPOSITION: Grove Entertainment vs. PIPPIN/Ostrow
313 pp. deposition of Bob Fosse, 5/13/76
Box 24C STUART OSTROW FOUNDATION, 1973-81 (1)
This material was boxed with PIPPIN. Primarily
1970's material: correspondence, theatre fact
sheets (Williamstown, Goodspeed, St. Clements),
Board of Directors' papers, fundraising, Musical
Theatre Lab (Kennedy Center) papers, budgets,
reports, hiring information, script lists, etc.
Box 24C STUART OSTROW FOUNDATION, 1973-81 (2)
Same as above
Box 24C STUART OSTROW FOUNDATION, 1973-81 (3)
Same as above
Box 25A RESEARCH
Photocopied book excerpts, including "Musical
Instruments of the Medieval Age"
Box 25B CASTING
Correspondence, Stuart Ostrow, Michael Shurtleff,
Bob Fosse, 1972-73; audition schedules, recall
lists, casting cards, etc.
Box 25B CASTING
Same as above; 1971-77
Box 25B CASTING
Same as above; plus polaroids
Box 25A STAGE MANAGER'S REPORTS, 1977
January- May 1977, December 1976
Box 25A TECH NOTES
For 2/3/76 and undated performances; 6/13/74 letter
from Bob Fosse to cast
Box 25A PIPPIN COMPANY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
11/30/75, 12/28/75
Box 24C OSTROW FOUNDATION FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Not related to PIPPIN; dated 1974, 75, 76, 78
Box 25A SHEEHAN TELE-SCENES (1)
Same as 27 below
Box 25A SHEEHAN TELE-SCENES (2)
Concerning television production; contact
sheet/cast list; 1981-82 correspondence between
David Sheehan and Bob Fosse, plus related
correspondence (e.g. DGA) including: production
concept, proposed production schedule, notes (not
Bob Fosse) on arrangements, terms, editing; 2/1/81
contract for options to PIPPIN (Hirson/Schwartz);
3/26/81 copy of final agreement Sheehan Tele-
Scenes/Hillard Elkins Organization (executive
producer); PIPPIN post-production editing schedule;
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER press; extensive Fosse notes;
program for Hamilton Place production of PIPPIN;
miscellany
Box 25C FAMILY HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Handbill ads for 1981 release of THE PIPPIN; 2 news
clippings re: auction of PIPPIN videotape rights,
and settlement between MCPS Video Industries vs.
David Sheehan Tele-scenes
Box 25A CORRESPONDENCE, including Opening Night, 1972
9/11/72 opening night: telegrams, personal notes,
also on subsequent performances
Box 25A VIENNA PRODUCTION
1973 correspondence re: Theater An Der Wein
production
Box 25A LAS VEGAS REVIEW
1973 draft agreement re: show
Box 25A PIPPIN PRODUCTION MISCELLANEOUS, 1971-75
1971 correspondence Bob Fosse to Ostrow; various
cast lists; set budget 8/7/72; stage moves for
cast; 12/29/71 tentative production schedule; lists
on characters, costume changes, set elements;
production schedule, London, 1973; Bob Fosse
memorial for Irene Ryan; correspondence 1977, Alvin
Deutsch and Bob Fosse re: revised script; 1973
Ostrow to Bob Fosse on PIPPIN motion picture; 1977
Deutsch to Bob Fosse on National Road tour, plus
travel schedule; memos on PIPPIN television
commercial and costs; job requests; Bob Fosse notes
on PIPPIN
Box 85F PIPPIN Poster and Art
Color poster, 41 x 64 1/2; photo montage of color
snapshots of cast members, 21 x 18 1/2, on suede
leather backing, handmade
Box 93A POSTERS
Framed poster, 15x23, color, Opera House at the
Kennedy Center
Framed poster, black and white, 16x22, Box 87B with
press quotes
PIPPIN - SCRIPTS
[NOTE: identifications such as "Director's final draft," or
"rehearsal draft," are taken directly from the scripts themselves,
as are dates. Scripts may be duplicates. The terms "annotated,"
"notations," "markings" refer not only to commentary written on the
scripts, but also any cuts, revisions, dialogue changes, etc., that
have been marked on a particular script.]
Box 24A SCRIPT (REVISED)
Undated; marked # 26; with revisions dated 2/27/72;
some handwritten Bob Fosse annotation; 103 pp.
Box 24A SCRIPT, blue vinyl cover
Undated; 107 pp.; no annotations
Box 24A SCRIPT, blue vinyl cover
Undated; marked # 6; 107 pp.; no annotations
Box 24A REHEARSAL SCRIPT, 8/7/72, blue vinyl cover
Marked # 2, "Bob Fosse" written on title page;
contains revisions dated 8/22, 9/10; annotations by
Bob Fosse (and other), and diagram/sketches
Box 24A PRODUCTION SCRIPT, 10/23/72, blue vinyl cover
Marked "authorized version;" 96 pp. no annotation
Box 24A PRODUCTION SCRIPT, 10/23/72, blue vinyl cover
96 pp. no annotation
Box 24A PRODUCTION SCRIPT, 10/23/72
Marked "authorized version;" 96 pp. no annotation
Box 24A PRODUCTION SCRIPT, 10/23/72
Marked "authorized version;" 96 pp. no annotation
Box 24B PRODUCTION SCRIPT, 10/23/72
Marked "authorized version;" 96 pp.; with extensive
original and photocopied annotations; this would
seem to contain Bob Fosse's notes upon seeing the
play with an audience
Box 24B REHEARSAL SCRIPT, 8/7/72, red spring cover
Marked # 43, "Copy revised" and "Bob Fosse;" with
numerous revised pages, some original (not Bob
Fosse) and photocopied changes
Box 24B PRODUCTION SCRIPT, 4/1/76, black vinyl cover
Marked "authorized version;" 96 pp. no annotation
Box 24B SCRIPT REVISIONS
200+ revised script pages; handwritten annotations;
very miscellaneous
Box 24B SCRIPT PAGES AND REVISIONS
Early version with revisions and handwritten
annotations; pages marked "rough draft"; some of
this is from Roger Hirson and includes a note to
Bob Fosse from Roger Hirson on changes.
Box 24B SCRIPT REVISIONS
Assorted pages of script revisions; few
annotations; Bob Fosse note at front
Box 24B SCRIPT REVISIONS
More pages, multiple dates, some annotation
Box 24B PRODUCTION SCRIPT, 4/1/74
96 pp.; unmarked
PLEASURES AND PALACES (Fosse)
Box 46A PROGRAMS
Souvenir program
Box 46A NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Including coverage of Bob Fosse's lawsuit on
choreography
Box 46A SCRIPT, 1/25/65
Marked "Bob Fosse;" extensively annotated
Box 46A FOSSE'S NOTEBOOK
With handwritten dance notes, etc.
Box 46A COSTUMES
Copies of Wittop's design sketches; costume
research from file marked "Fashions & Costumes"
Box 46A SCRIPT PAGES
Partial script, lots of revisions and annotation;
lyric sheets; note to Bob Fosse re: understudies
Box 46A CASTING
Audition schedules and notes (some of these marked
"Ex-Lover"; this was the original title)
Box 46A LEGAL/FINANCIAL
1964 draft contract and notes, Bob Fosse
director/choreographer; agreements with Music
Theatre International over net profits; many Jack
Perlman notes (Jack Perlman was Bob Fosse's
attorney); 1965 assistant choreographer contracts;
royalty and box office correspondence; proposed
Detroit production schedule
Box 85F POSTER
Color lithograph, 14x22, Fisher Theatre, Detroit
THE RED MILL (Verdon)
Box 58B PROGRAM
Souvenir program, 1940, Victor Herbert's THE RED
MILL, featuring the Broadbent Ballet Dancers, with
Gwen Verdon
REDHEAD (Fosse and Verdon)
Box 46B SCRIPT, red vinyl cover
Undated; 113 pp.; some annotation (Gwen Verdon's
copy?); list of musical numbers, lyrics
Box 46B NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, Philadelphia
Box 46B NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, New York and Washington, D.C.
Box 46B SONGSHEETS
"I Feel Merely Marvelous," "The Right Finger of My
Left Hand;"
Box 46B PROGRAMS
Playbills: 46th St. Theatre, 2/2/59 (2 copies),
1959, 5/18/59; Shubert Theatre, 3/60, 4/60;
National Theatre 1958 (59?); Shubert, Philadelphia;
Shubert, New Haven, 12/27/58 ( |